8 THE MORXIXG OREGONIAX, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1917. PORIXAXD, OREGON. ''. Entered at Portland (Oregon) Postoffloe as second-class mall matter. Subscription rates invariably In advance: (By Mail.) Iaily. Sunday Included, one year $3.00 Ijally, Sunriay Included, six months ..... 4.23 Ially, Sunday included, three months ... 2.23 Ially, Sunday Included, one month ..... ."5 Iaily. without Sunday, one year 6.00 Oatly. without Sunday, three months ... 1.75 X'aily, without Sunday, one month ...... .60 Weekly, one year l.SO Sunda. one year 2.50 Sunday and v eekly ................... 3.30 (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year 9.00 Daily, Bunda!, included, one month TS How to Remit Send postofClce money order, exrress order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk. Give postofflcs address in full, including county and state. I'ostaice Rates 12 to 16 pages, 1 cent; 18 to pMKts. 2 cents; 84 to 48 pages, 3 cents; - AO to 0 pages, 4 cents; t2 to 74 pages. 5 cents; 78 to t2 pages, tj cents. Foelgn post age double rates Kastern Business Office Verree A Conk lln, Brunswl-.-k building. New York; Verree A Gonklln, Stenger building, Chicago. San f-rancisco representative. R. J. Bidwell, 742 Market street. PORTLAND, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1918. NOT A WATCH FT'l, WAITER. On this anniversary day of an. historic American victory at arms, dedicated by custom to the memory of a great President, let it not be forgotten that the most signal service he rendered t6 the American people as President was his courageous and effective resistance to the dangerous and too popular-doctrine of nullification. The Southern idea, represented by the secessionists, Calhoun and Hayne, wasthat the states were sovereign and had the right to resist the operation of any Federal law ox act which they considered an invasion of their consti tutional rights. i The Kentucky Resolutions (1798) declared that the Union was merely a compact between the states, and that every state had a right to Judge for Itself the measure of its powers as dis tinct from the National authority. The Virginia Resolutions 1799) added that "a nullification by these sovereignties (the states) of all unau thorized acts done under color of that instrument (the Federal Constitution) Is the rightful remedy." We have had more than one appreciative indorse ment during the past four years of these notable resolutions, from the President of the United States. In 1832, the state of South Carolina undertook to carry the theory of nulli fication into practical effect by an or dinance which declared the tariff acts of Congress null and void. It was promulgated officially that if the Fed eral Government undertook to lnforce the tariff, or coerce the state. South Carolina would proceed to organize a separate government forthwith. Civil war was Inevitable. President Jackson met the crisis with vigor and determination. He issued a proclama tion solemnly warning the people of South Carolina of the consequences of their seditious act. He made ade quate military preparation. The United States troops were ordered to Charleston. The nullifiers were star tled and dismayed; and they yielded. It is a mattr worthy of patriotic conjecture, on this eighth day of Janu ary, what would have been the subse quent course of events In the United States, and particularly what South Carolina and other states, in sympathy with the nullifiers, would have done, if President Jackson had followed the line of easiest procedure, and adopted a policy of watchful waiting. TTOAT GERMANY MIGHT HAVE WOS. The war is pronounced a great blunder on the part of Germany by the New York Evening Post, because, according to The New Europe, the empire was in a fair way to obtain by treaty in 1914 all that could be ob tained were peace made at this time. Britain, France and Russia were then seeking an agreement with Germany regarding German colonies and legiti mate outlets for German trade in Turkey. The Post says that treaties are understood to have been actually drawn, and it quotes The New Europe as epitomizing their stipulations as drawn from the writings of several authorities, British, French, German and American. Germany was to have been recog nized as the sole concessionaire of the Bagdad Railroad, and France and Britain were to have bound them selves to build no competing lines. Germany was to have been given a good part of the French Congo, with "a sort of right of pre-emption over the Belgian Congo." In return, France was to have been given the French speaking portions of Lorraine, in cluding Metz; Luxemburg was to have been joined with Belgium in a customs union, and Britain and Rus sia were to have had territorial and political concessions. This arrange ment is said to have been ready for Germany's acceptance when the war began. But Germany desired far more than this, and It gave little more in the near East than Germany already had, while the proposed agreement obliged the Kaiser to give up something which he valued highly. Turkey was already under German domination and the Bagdad Railroad was already half finished by German capital. Germany might well expect to keep what It al ready had In Turkey without binding Itself not to take more, and could ex pect to prevent its rivals from ob taining any concessions. It wished to make an open road to the Aegean c Sea by pushing Austrian power to Saloniki, and thus to form direct con nection with Turkey. It was neces sary that this be done before Serbia and Greece had recovered from the drain of the Balkan wars, had consoli dated their alliance, had drawn Rou mania into it or had become recon ciled with Bulgaria. German ambi tion in the East did not stop at Bag dad. . . , It extended Into Persia, which Russia and Britain were then divid ing between them, and regarded that country as the stepping-stone to India. Through a Turkish alliance, Germany aimed at a revival of Mohammedanism as a militant force to undermine the British Empire. It had designs on T-gypt and the abortive war of the Sultan of Darfur on the British in the Soudan was the result of German schemes in Central Africa. The Chauvinists, who then shaped German policy, far from surrendering any part of Lorraine, desired not only the adjoining French iron district of Briey, but the coal and Iron of Belgium and Northeast France, and of Russian Po land. . By stripping their neighbors of coal and iron, they hoped to render the latter powerless for war and to establish German domination firmly In Europe. These were splendid dreams ,which far surpassed anything which the entente powers would willingly concede. The German chiefs may well have regarded the large concessions which the latter were ready to make without firing a shot as a measure of the ease with which much more could be obtained by war. If Germany were now to obtain the terms of .peace which the Berlin government is reported to be ready to offer, it would be better off if it had accepted the terms which the entente powers were ready to make in 1914. If the empire regained its col onies' in exchange for the evacuation of France and Belgium, it would still have the occupied ' Russian territory and Balkan states to bargain with. It might still hold out for a' kingdom of Poland under German tutelage, giving up only part of the proposed grand duchyof Lithuania In return for the Austrian territory which Rus sia has occupied. That would still leave the Teutons supreme in the Balkan peninsula, and any arrange ment regarding that area would have to take cognizance of this fact. Russia might be allowed to keep Armenia without endangering Turko-German power at Bagdad, from which the British army is still more than 100 miles distant. ' Britain would not give up Lower Mesopotamia as' long as the Turkish wedge remained in Persia, and then might hold it as a sphere of in fluence, but might be compensated elsewhere for withdrawal. Were Germany to make peace on the basis of the present military map, it would be much better off as re gards both territory and opportunity for commercial expansion, than It would have been by accepting the allies' offer in 1914, but the gains would not suffice to compensate for the immense flood of blood and treas ure which it has poured ,out. Yet when one considers how magnificent were the dreams of -world-empire and by how narrow a margin they may have failed of realization, one cannot condemn them as utterly impracti cable. They were worthy of an Alex ander, a Caesar or a Napoleon. HOME OR J ATI.? The esteemed New York Times, be ing far removed from the Oregon bat tle between wets and drys, may be pardoned the following: Oregon, we believe, has changed from limited to "bone-dry" prohibition, but the disinterested obcerver who has been told and la willing to believe that prohibition has worked well in that state finds himself not a little puzzled when the Mayor of so con siderable a city as the Oregonlan Astoria, a Mayor -lately elected by a vote of 1800 to 600, says at a mass meeting: . "If a man Is arrested for intoxication, and the officer doesn't take him home to his family, but takes him to Jail, then the officer had better look for another Job there and then." The liberality and economio wtedom of the Mayor's sentiment may be applauded by sociologists, but it throws st queer light on the severity of prohibition in his city. Oregon Is not bone-dry. Not yet. The voters have merely approved the principle. It now remains for the Legislature to put It Into effect if it can. ' There may be some question, too, as to the approval that would be given by sociologists to Mayor Harley's promise. The source of immediate supply is the home; that is, if the law is obeyed and nearly everybody asserts that it is rarely violated. In other words, it is unlawful to have intoxicating liquors anywhere but in a dwelling. So, to take the intoxicated person home is to take him back to the bottle, provid ed he has not already emptied it. The saloon, to which it was once the custom to return the drunken man, is gone from Oregon. There is no place for drunkards but home or jail. Probably many of them would prefer the ministrations of the jailor to those they would receive at home. But these are only fleeting thoughts. We are not condemning the views of Astoria's Mayor. We are not a sociologist. MOW BIO IS THE LOSS' There is a wide discrepancy between figures published by The Oregonlan as the sum wasted by gasoline users in Oregon because of the specific gravity test and figures given on the same item this week by the Oregon Voter. Mr. Chapman discusses the subject also In a communication published to day. The Oregonlan's figures were pre sented only as an estimate, after in quiring at a proper source of such in formation. So were Mr.. Chapman's without a doubt. Yet The Oregonian gives the waste at 8250,000 in 1916. and the Oregon Voter makes It $1,737,- 500. The higher figure is approximately that given The Oregonian by one of the large oil companies, which report- ea a consumption of 3,4 50,000 barrels of 50 gallons each in Oregon in 1916. At one cent a gallon, which is added to all gasoline sold in Oregon because of the worthless specific gravity test, it appeared that $1,725,000 was annual ly thrown away. But such consumption of gasoline seemed so "high that The Oregonian was in doubt as to the accuracy of the estimate. It made another re quest for figures from the same com pany and got back the same estimate. Then it applied to two other compan ies for estimates, and both were so far below the first company's estimate that it was apparent a mistake had oc curred somewhere. That more than 172,000,000 gallons of gasoline are consumed In Oregon yearly Is incredible. It is a low esti mate that 75 percent of the gasoline is used by automobiles. There are about 83,000 automobiles In Oregon. At that rate they would consume somewhere near ten gallons of gaso line a day, and at an average of ten miles to the gallon, would travel 36, 500 miles a year. That would also mean that each car Is wearing out five or six sets of tires a year, and that the average auto owner is on the go from morning till night every day. Whatever the true figures, they are high enough. Oregon gasoline con sumers have been forced to squander hundreds of thousands of dollars In the last four years by the ill-advised gasoline test law. UK LP FOR THE IRRIGATOR. Action of the Oregon Irrigation Con gress shows that it fully feallzes that progress In irrigation depends on fi nancing. Much aid was given by Mr. Keating by explaining what the bond buyer demands and by what means California has been able to market bonds. The irrigator can derive help from arnerrdments to the state law which will make it conform to that of California, but he needs further aid in raising funds to equip, stock and de velop his farm. Apparently both the Federal rural credit law and the state constitutional amendment do not permit loans on farms against which there is a lien for irrigation, for both require first mort gage securities. The law which is to be passed by the Legislature putting the amendment in effect may provide relief without contravening the consti tution if it can lawfully be provided that loans may be made subject to the lien for bonds, where water has ac tually been delivered to the land and where interest and installments' of the principal due on bonds have been promptly paid. Success of an irrigator is mainly contingent on his ability to secure capital with which to make a good start. The chief obstacle to "sale of bonds would be removed if the Government were to back them with its guaranty. It is not necessary for this purpose that the district should hand over the work of construction to the Reclama tion Bureau. Approval of .the plans and estimates by the bureau, with suf ficient supervision by ito Insure that they woJd be carried out, should suf fice. In this respect the Jones bill is to be preferred to; the Chamberlain Smith bill, as the latter would take the matter entirely out -of 'the district's hands. ' The bureau Has burdened the set tlers with costs far exceeding the original estimates in so many cases that there Is justifiable hesitation to place construction unreservedly in its hands. NO ROOM FOR A THTKD PEX. The third sex has been brought to the front again by Dr. Bertha Van Hoosen, of Chicago. It is to chal lenge the male sex in every activity of life except parenthood. Though it. is to be composed of those who have suppressed their sexual Instincts, it is to be recruited only from the female sex. Since' neither Vhe" nor "she" can be fitly applied to members or this third sex, we presume the neuter pronoun "It" is to be used in speaking of it Slnce members of this new sex are to. suppress their sex instincts, why should it Include only persons femi nine in physical structure? Men sup press sex, as witness celibate priests and monks. Then why not admit them? Presumably the Intent is to set apart a class which is feminine in all respects except the craving for hus band and children. By the same rule persons who are male In physique but who are celibate and desire neither wife nor offspring should be, set apart as a fourth sex. . If we are to call bachelor girls a sex, why not equally distinguish males wh"o by the " same rule should be called "old maid boys?" Such women never can be a sex, for the condition of their existence forbids their perpetuation. Their ranks can only be recruited from among the ranks of the female sex, by selection of the abnormal, hence by being classed as of the third Bex they would be classed as merely abnormal . women.' Yet they would not be marked out as persons who had sacrificed their nat ural instincts to a lofty purpose, such as religious celibates espouse. They would merely set the gratification of some ambition, the pursuit of some oareer, above performance of woman's normal functions. Only a perverted society would do honor to such an ar tificial sex. The proposed artificial category would do a great Wrong, because it would confuse those women who set themselves apart for noble service to mankind with those who remain soli tary for purely selfish reasons,', A woman who devotes herself to accu mulation of a fortune by building up a big business is not fit to be mentioned in the same category with a woman like Jane Addams. The latter's ma ternal instincts are not suppressed; they are broadened beyond the rearing of a family of her own to embrace thousands of the poor and unfor tunate. As much may be said of Frances Willard, Florence Nightin gale and others, who remained in the highest sense womanly, though they never were wives and mothers. They would have scorned the suggestion of being members of a third sex. The after-effects of war are likely to prove the present time peculiarly inopportune for invention . of more sexes than nature provided. The sadly depleted population of Europe and the bright fire of patriotism which the war has set alight is more likely to make every right-minded woman de light in the opportunity to become a wife and mother and do her part In restoring the shrunken nation for which she has suffered. In such a nation the woman who is denied that opportunity is likely to be regarded with pity, while she who rejects it may well be looked upon with con tempt. AT TTIK EVD OF ITS STRING. Of no less importance than the other questions which crowd for ac tion by Congress at the present short session is that of reorganizing the Na tional finances. By the happy-go-lucky practice of spending what it likes and then finding the money to spend. Congress hs swelled our an nual outgo to a total which is esti mated by Representative Rainey to reach 11,655.000,000 in the fiscal year 1918. This sum exceeds that which the London Economist estimates as the budget of any of the belligerent nations if the war should end a year from March 1, though the enormous interest and sinking fund-charge for the war debt is included. The esti mate for Russia Is the highest 81, 600,000,000 but that is $55,000,000 less than that for the United States, while the estimates for other leading nations are: Great Britain, $1,200, 000,000; Germany, $1,800,000,000; Austria-Hungary, $1,400,000,000. Our expenditures in jeace threaten to ex ceed those of these nations after they shall have gone through three and a half years of the most tremendous war in history. Plain common sense dictates a thor ough overhauling of our entire system of revenue and expenditure. The first essential is that all unnecessary sources of expense be cut off, the next that the cost of necessary gov ernmental work be reduced to the actual value, of . the eervice rendered. But Congress proposes to spend $45, 000,000 on draining private land ' in the Mississippi Valley, $28,000,000 or $30,000,060 in erecting buildings in small towns, and villages and $10,000, 000 in starting'new river and harbor projects, besides $30,000,000 in carry ing on projects that have already been started. When the Government faces the prospect of a deficit that is estimated anywhere from $230,000, 000 to $300,000,000, all of these ex penditures except the last should be cut off, and that exception could be materially reduced without damage to or suspension of useful work. This time of financial stress is, how ever, chosen for a horizontal increase of civil service Employes, who num ber nearly half a million. The House has already passed a bill granting the Increase to those at the capital, and contemplates like action on behalf of all others throughout the country. Thus a further $60,000,000 would be expended. The average salary of employes In Washington is $1200 a year, while the latest reliable statistics place the average annual earnings of employes in factories and stores at $519, and of farmers. Including-their entire families, at less than $600. All of the recent advances In wages and in the value of farm produce, taken In conjunction with the advance in the cost of living for salaried men, would not suffice to make up this difference. Any change should take the course of rooting out the drones, incom petents and superannuated, pensioning off those of long service, and paying higher salaries to & smaller number of competent persons in their places. Probably this change would go far to ward saving that $300,000,000" a year which the late Senator Aldrich said, a business man could save on Govern ment expenses. - But Congress even refuses to cut off the miserably petty graft of $250,000 for free seeds. Though Congress has .very definite ideas as to what it should spend, it has very vague ideas as to where it is to get the money. Restoration of the Payne-Aldrlch tariff is impossible, and, if it were possible, the limit of revenue which can be raised from cus toms is placed at $350,000,000. Spread of prohibition is diminishing the reve nue which can be obtained from taxes on liquor. The tax on large incomes is already as high as that which" any civilized nation has Imposed In peace, and reduction of exempted incomes as low as $1000 would cause an outcry before which the pork grabbers would shrink, and it would not raise the enormous sum needed. . Stamp taxes are-a petty exaction which angers the. people and-would reallze'the relative ly trifling sum of $33,000.000. . In his search for new sources of revenue. Representatives. Rainey, of the ways and means committee, draws' back from some because they are utterly inadequate, from others because Con gress dare not use them for fear of popular wrath. Congress is in the position of a spend-' thrift who Is at the end of his 'String. So long as those expenditures which are unavoidable and those which its prodigality dictates kept within the limits of the indirect taxes derived from the tariff, and from internal taxes on such luxuries liquor and tobacco. It could go its way unhindered by pub lic criticism. . So long as no need for a large and efficient army and navy seemed imminent, it could use our de fenses as a means of extracting 'pork from the treasury. Its wastefulness has now exceeded tie. bounds of those taxes which the people pay without complaining because they pay uncon sciously. It is now compelled to dig deeper and deeper into the pocket of each citizen. At the same time it is called upon to give us real defense for the great sums paid for that purpose sums equal to those which have enabled Germany to perform military wonders. It does not know how to comply with the latter demand, for it only knows how to waste. It shrinks tremblingly and guiltily from impos ing more direct taxes, for it fears that the people will turn upon it. Popular wrath may not arise while the people are so prosperous that they hardly miss the money, but the wasters in control of the Government dread what may happen when the sting of depres sion causes the people to consider where each one of their diminished dollars is going. As when . reckless management drives a railroad into the hands of a receiver, a reorganization committee takes hold, so the time is coming when a like situation will put riew men with radically new ideas in charge of the Nation's finances. The strange story of Rasputin's rule over the Czar may, when fully told, explain events in Russia which have seemed inexplicable. His assassination seems at first sight to have cleared the way for the Liberals to gain that influence with the Czar which would help greatly in' democratizing Russia, but there is always the danger that a man who is so susceptible to. such in fluences as the Cza has proved to be may fall under the spell of another Rasputin. The mystery attached to the case of the girl who leaped from a Salem hotel window and remained uncon scious for many days is solved by her explanation that she was so shocked at finding herself in a hotel room with a young man at an unseasonable hour she sought the most ready way to leave. This statement is satisfactory all around and the matter is dropped. The Kaiser admits to his troops that he is fighting against destruction of Germany, and no German will stand for that. Under that consideration, there can be no peace this year. Alcohol is becoming the goat for all human ills. It causes so many deadly diseases that man must be a particu larly tough animal to have survived so many generations of alcoholism. ,. "Pitiless publicity" has at last been turned on the Administration, and we shall perhaps learn whether any of its members have been flirting with the war-brides. , Ashland, which, keeps a record on tramps, finds she entertained 9890 in 1916. -This is a burden that should not exist, but a remedy is not visible. A Harvard professor has been placed on the Tariff Commission, which fits into the belief that a Democratic tariff is a theory and not a fact. If most men who have hallucina tions knew they would be sent to the asylum there would be a remarkable number of self-cures. Another bunch of National Design ers says men's waists will be higher next Fall and Winter, but "it can't be done" on some men. The murder mystery at Philadelphia is developing into the' same old man-and-woman affair about which there is little mystery. . Now they would supplement the Adamson law, but they cannot supple ment the election result, "Bunk" has its limitations. Every day or two there is announce ment of the sinking of a Norwegian steamship, yet Norway finds profit in neutrality. Why cannot an eclipse of the moon be pulled off in August, when the Oregon sky Is clear and early rising a pleasure? Dealers say shoes are higher, and certainly some of the tops are, but there is little complaint. Pierce hangs out the "Welcome" sign for the soldiers, with decorations worth $2,000,000. The Oregon men who put the "pep" in mint will soon meet in Albany. t The new coins look so good that everybody wants a lot of them. Those frogs at Rldgefield are "soon-ers."- 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 thla col umn. Where space will not permit or the subject la not suitable letters will be per sonally answered, subject to proper limita tions and where stsmped addressed envelope Is lnolosed. Dr. Evans will not make dlagaoels or prescribe for individual diseases. Re quests for such services cannot be answered. (Copyright. 1916. by lr. ' W. A. Evans. Published by arrangement with the Chicago Tribune.) MEDICAL. PHILOSOPHY OP BENJA MIN FRANKLIN. DIALOGUE between Franklin and the gout October 23. 1780. Franklin Eh! O! Eh!. What have I done to merit these cruel sufferings? Gout Many things. You have eaten and drunk too freely and too much in dulged those legs of yours In their In dolence - Franltlin Who Is It that accuses me.? Gout It is I. even I, the gout. Franklin What! My enemy In per son? Gout No, not your enemy. Franklin I repeat It; my enemy; for you wonld not only torment my body to death, but .ruin my good name; you re proach me as a glutton and a tippler; now all the world that knows me well allows that I am neither the one nor the other. . Goufe The world may think as it pleases; it Is always complaisant to Itself and sometimes to Its friends; but I well know that the quantity of meat and drink proper for a man who takes a reasonable degree of exercise would be too much for another who never takes any. How Franklin solved the high cost of living is. told in his autobiography. When 16 years of age he read a book by Tryon advocating an exclusively verse table diet. "I made myself acquainted with Try on's method of preparing dishes and then proposed to my brother that if he would give me weekly half the money he paid for my board I would board myself. He Instantly agreed to it, and I presently found that I could save half of what he paid me," he said. "In 1746 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of 4 years, by the smallpox, taken in the common way. I long regretted, and I still regret, that I had not given it to him by Inoculation. Franklin more than once advocated Inoculation, the method of vaccination then in vogue. He gave some good advice on malaria as well. In 1750 he wrote to the Rev. Samuel Johnson: "If you have not been used to the fever and ague, let me give you one caution. Don't imagine yourself thoroughly cured and bo omit the uvse of the bark too soon." He wrote on seasickness in 1767: "If ever you go to sea take my advjee and live sparingly a day or two beforehand. The siokneBs. if any, will be lighter ana sooner over." To William Franklin (1772) he wrote: "The resolution you have taken to use more exercise is extremely proper, and I hope you will steadily perform it. It is of the greatest importance to prevent diseases, since the euro of them by physic Is so precarious. ... The dumbbell Is another exercise of the lat' ter compendious kind." To Dr. Barbeau Dubourg he wrote "The exercise of swimming Is one of the most healthy and agreeable in the world. In 1773 he wrote to Le Roy: "Our physicians have begun to discover that fresh air is good for people in the smallpox and other fevers. I hope in time they will find out that if does no harm to people in health." About this time. Franklin prepared notes for an essay on colds and fresh air. The fol lowing are a few extracts frdm the notes taken for this essay: "People think they get cold by com lng out of such hot rooms; they get tnem Dy being in. "Most follies arise from full feeding.' ".Scarce any air abroad is so un wholesome as air In a close room often breathed." "Costiveness occasions colds." "A general service to redeem people from the slavish fear of getting cold by showing them when the danger Is not. and that where it Is, it is in their power to avoid it. Remedy for Lip Sueklnsr. Dr. T. W. B. furnishes the following method for preventing a child from sucking its lower lip. Stick a piece of adhesive plaster to the skin of the lower lip, beglnniner Just below the vermillion border. Pull on the adhesive strip so that the lip - rolls outward slightly. Carry the strip over and under the chin. Fasten It, Leave on for sev eral days (about six). Remove with benzine. Reapply If necessary. Continue to reapply until the habit Is broken (say six weeks). . Outdoor Sleeping. A. M. J. writes: "My little girl is sleeping on an outdoor porch with southern exposure, with awnings to shield from rain. On her hammock mat tress I have a rubber sheet, then a Kernwood sleeping bug (wool), with sheet inside, and over that two wool blankets Incased In a cotton blanket for cleanliness, and over all a rubber blanket in the daytime. At night we put the rubber blanket on hooks, so there Is circulation of .air to prevent sweating. She wears outing flannel pa jamas, a wrapper, hocks, and wool hood with cape to hold it down under wrapper. In your Judgment Is that the proper way to clothe and wrap her for W inter weather? It Is Impossible for me to bring her bed clothes In daytime. Do you think they will collect damp ness? They feel dry to the touch even on rainy days, and occasionally I bring them in to thoroughly dry them. As I am asthmatlcal I cannot go out to bring them in daily, so she would have to sleep Indoors. I am particularly anx ious for her to sleep out, so as to strengthen her lungs, so she will not get asthma, and I find her general health Is better out there, anyway. RBPLT. You sre proceeding: properly. Sunllrht and air will take care of dampness under All ordinary circumstances. Liquor Still Available. PORTLAND. Jan. 7. (To the Editor.) There seems to be some difference of opinion as to the right to purchase liquor from mall order houses under present conditions. The writer has always understood that It is permissible to order liquor (every 28 days until the Legislature passes an act and until said act be comes effective. As there Is no desire to violate the law, and as The Orego nian is generally well Informed on matters of public policy, I take the lib erty of asking for Information, If the same Is available. CITIZEN. The bone-dry amendment is not en- forclble until the Legislature provides penalties and other essentials of going legislation. "Wlae Bride Is She). London Tit-Bits. "Now." said the bridegroom to the bride, when they returned from their honeymoon trip, "let us have a clear understanding before we settle down to married life. Are you the president or the vice-president of the society?" "I want to be neither president nor vice-president." she answered. "I will be content with a subordinate position. "What position is that, my dear?" "Treasurer." Plea of a Lover. Boston Transcript. Her Dad Of course you have heard my daughter sing. Suitor Tes. sir; but I should like to have her in spite of that. GOOD WORDS FOR THE OREGOMAX Annual la Praised by Newspapers of Oregon aad Washington. Seattle Argus. That was an exceedingly beautiful holiday edition of the Portland Ore gonian. published on Monday. All Others Excelled. Cottage Grove Sentinel. Of all the manv srnnri Now Vanr'a editions, that of The-Oregonlan was probably the most creditable. rrevloss Efforts Excelled. ' Bend Daily Press. The New Year's number of The Ore gonlan Is one of the best ever pro duced by that paper. Northwest Well Covered. Albany Democrat. The Oregonian annual is a good one. Made up in the" form which has char acterized it for many years, it covers the Northwest field in a striking man ner, speaking for the great resources of this country. Stat Will Derive Benefit. Astorlan. The New Tear's edition of The Ore gonlan proved up to the standard in all respects. It Is an All-Oregon edi tion and the stats at lares will re ceive much good advertising from its circulation broadcast over the Nation. i Sustained Goodness Is Marvel. La Grande Observer. How The Oregonlan year In and year out manages to put out an annual wnich not only keeps up to the high standard maintained in the past but surpasses it each year Is one of the marvels of the newspaper business. The secret is careful work and preparation oy ins editorial and art staff. Good Things for Northwest. Chehalis (Wash.) Bee-Nufrjtet, The annual New Year's edition of the Portland Oregonian comes to our desk this week equal to the usual high standard of that publication. The special edition should find its way into the homes of thousands in the East, where it should do much good in at tracting attention to the resources, of tno Northwest. Cause for Congratulations. Catholic Sentinel, Portland. The DllhHlthr ft t Vl Xtwnlno- . - v ' ' CTOnian are tn h rnnprnt-ilut sir. their splendid New Y'ear number. As a mercantile guiae to western Oregon iuB maSTaZine section 1 llnsnrniasAH The story of the great resources of wrcn, oi me proaucts of rarm and toresi, river and ractory is told by experts. The illustrations merit es pecial, notice. Beats All Every Day. Mentesano (Wash.) Call. The annual edition of The Oregonian tnis year Is the best ever put out by that splendid newspaper. It will cer tainly put a spirit of optimism into the heart of the greatest dyspeptic in tne lana. isy the way. The Oreironian in our estimation, is the best dally newspaper we have ever read and we have been so located at various times that we have read the dailies of St. Louis, Kansas City. Omaha. Salt Lake City, San Francisco. Spokane and Se attle, and of the dailies published in these cities not one comes up to The oregonian. HOW MICH GAS CSED IX OREGOXt FIsTures on Motor Fuel Consumption Show Startling Discrepancy. PORTLAND. Jan. 7. (To the Editor.) It is to be hoped the Legislature will adopt yor recommendation for the re peal of th-e law requiring a useless and costly test of gasoline in Oregon. Your editorial in today's Oregonian sizes the situation up sensibly. Your statistics, however, are startling In comparison with figures obtained by myseit irom supposedly authentic sources Indicating a gasoline consume lion nearly seven times the amount indicated by you. If my authority is correct, the extra cost to Orearon of this foolish law is over $1,500,000 in stead of the $250,000 a year estimated by you a waste which is large enough. I he ngures furnished by my author ity are borne out by the statistics of the Merchants Exchange, to the effect that o. 190. 410 barrels approximately (2BO.ouo.000 gallons) of oils were Im ported by ship into Portland during 1916. Much also came into Oregon by rail for locomotive fuel consumption. Deducting reports of quantities used by the gas company for gas manufac ture, by buildings for heating purposes, by industrial plants for fuel purposes and by railroads for fuel; also deduct ing reports of oils other than gasoline shlrped by rail out of Oregon, there still remains a total of 150.000,000 to 173,000.000 gallons unaccounted for. a quantity equal . to the gasoline con sumption reported to me. In Oregon there are 900 garages and 100 gasoline distributing stations not connected with garages. According to your figures, each garage or station would only dispense an average of 60 gallons of gasoWno a day a profit of only 60 cents, or $1 a day. Your flirures also presume an average mileage of 15 miles a day, or 5000 miles a year, for the average of Oregon's 35,000 autos and auto trucks. It may be the mileage and gas con sumption Is as small as that, but tak lng into consideration the mileaee cov ered by Jitneys, delivery trucks and touring earq. the average would see to be low. Probably the truth Is somewhere be twen the big figures given by my au thority and the small figures quoted by yourself. The subject Is interest ing, and I trust The Oregonian will pursue It further, so as to give some Idea of the volume of the gasoline and oil business, and the waste due to the 191S law which Imposed so expensive and useles a test. C C "CHAPMAN. OLDER MAX GETS AXD HOLDS JOB Though 112. Ho Give . Satisfaction at " Ltong Honrs and Hard Work. PORTLAND. Jan. 7. (To the Editor.) "Wanted, night watchman, between 45 and 50 -years of sge, some hours' Janitor work each night. $60. Applv at 1 P. M. Portland Trust Building, room 7." This advertisement appeared In The Oregonlan a few years ago. When the clock struck 1 that day nearly a hun dred men were crowded In the corridor. Most all were In the prime of life. I was there, aged 59. and I had waited since noon. I would have applied at 6 A. M. had not the advertisement said 1 P. M. But at 1 o'clock the door opened and the employment bureau's superintend ent told us that his Junior partner had hired the first applicant at 10 o'clock, a young man of 23, who was too anx ious to wait till called. Some of us older men grumbled, say ing that we had complied with the terms of the advertisement, which he had violated, but no use. The young partner had hired his choice over the protest of his older associate and it must go. We all had to go, too. How ever, I handed in my address and rec ommendations. But, again tho youth probably found something better, .as he never showed up again, and I was called by telephone that night to go on duty. I got the job as watchman at the bank and have held It three years. There are 13 hours a day, including about six to eight hours Janitor work, sawing' wood and making the morning fires. I like the place and expect to stay with it. The young man felt the call of the wild and went his way. The boss says that I can have the situation so long as I do the- work as well as now. s ,. What's the matter with tlno old man? NOT AFRAID TO WORK. In Other Days. Half a Century Ago. From Tha Oregonlan, January S, 1667. Washington. Thad Stevens is pre paring several measures to be lntro ducea on the reassembling of Congress. They look to radical changes in the executive and Judicial departments. H. G.' Struve, editor of the Vancouver Register, denies the Walla Walla Statesman's report that ho is a candi date for Congress. The Toung Men's Law Association has elected S. A. Moreland. president; R. S. Bybee. vice-president; R. F. Hen- sill, secretary, and Lafayette Lane, treasurer. A new lodge of Oddfellofs. to bs known as Hassalo Lodge, No. 14. was instituted Monday evening by William Morton. There are 18 charter mem bers. Jacob Stltzel. Joseph Bachman and C. Bills are among the officers. George E. Cola, who was a passen ger on the Pacific, was recently ap pointed Governor of Washington Ter ritory, vice Pickering, removed, we are told on good authority. Twenty-five Years Ago. Prom The Oreronlan. January 8. 1892. Columbus. Ohio. Tho Republicans of Ohio have spoken and John Sher man Is to succeed himself in the Unit ed States Senate. Foraker. ex-Governor, is defeated, but even in defeat his leadership excites admiration of his opponents, and he is tonight more than ever the idol of the young Repub licans. Washington. Senator and Mrs. Doiph entertained the President and Mrs. Harrison at dinner last night. Miss Ella Kelly, who has been spend ing the holidays at her country home near Arlington, has returned. A. H. Johnson, meat dealer, whose advertisement has been running in The Oregonian for 40 years, ordered the "ad" discontinued yesterday, as he has quit business. Among the members of the Tammany Society elected as delegates to the state convention of Democratic Soci ties are J. N. Teal. Sanderson Reed, Frederick V. Holman. W. D. Fenton. Henry Blackmail and Ben L. Norden. Miss A. F. Jeffrey. M. D.. of Cleve land. Ohio, who has been visiting her cousin. Hon. Jeff Myers, in Linn Coun ty, will locate in this state permanent ly. Dr. Jeffrey practiced in Ohio sev eral years. PIANIST VICTIM OF DISCOIRTESV Conversation Cauallr Mars Selections Requested aad Encored. PORTLAND. Jan. .6. (To the Edi tor?) Why are pianists asked (and even urged) to play for lectures and like entertainments? Being myself a pianist I am earnestly seeking the rea son, for the audience, except for a few stray listeners, takes the first note of a piano solo as a ttignal for animated conversation, using the greatest pos sible number of words containing the letter "s." An eminent musical critic Is credited with the statement that it requires a higher grade of intellect to interpret as well as to appreciate instrumental music than for singing, as the singer has the medium of words to assist him, while the pianist has but his tinners and the violinist hus bow with which to convey his message, and. therefore, it requires great concentra tion on the part of the player to en able him to tell his tone story. But the audience which listens attentively" to a song will converse diligently to the strains of th piano or violin, thus seriously hindering the artist in his ' work. Then when the number' is fin ished they applaud heartily, persist ently demanding an encore, which, if granted, allows conversation to resume. Nor Is this behavior confined to pub lic affairs, for even In the homes of our friends we are subjected to the same exasperating treatment, though we may be playing the "favorite" com position they have requested. Is this to be attributed to ignorance or simply had manners? Why do they ssk us to play fusuallv rratis) for their entertainment and then deny us the courtesy of a hear ing? A RECENT VICTIM. SMALL PROFIT IX RABBIT PELT Harney Resident Sn?s Hatter's Prlee for Skins la Not Attractive. RILEY. Or.. Jan. 4. (To the Editor.) I noticed in an arUvie in The Ore gonlan that Mr. tMntiott believes he has a ready market for rabbit pelts and that he is offered from-15 to 18 cents per pound. I hope Mj Sinnott will come out here tn Harney County and catch all tie rabbits there are at IS to IS cents per pound for their pelts. Perhaps lie enn make money at it. When a person sells his pelts at 15 to 18 cents per pound delivered tn St. Loui it takf a man with capital, ns he has to buy his ammunition and traps and snares, to say nothing of overalls and shoes that a person wears out on rock and sage brush. No man can make enough to pay for all of those things and eell his rabbit scalps at 15 to 18 cents per pound delivered at St. Louis. We have a bounty here on jack rab bits for their earsand scalp from the ear down to the nose, at 5 cents per pound. We kill quite a few, so if we kill the rabbit for bounty we have him. but even then It does not pay to skin him for the scalp at 15 to 18 cents per pound delivered. I had eight scalps and they weighed one "round for the eight ecalps. That would not bring two cents per pound clear, after delivering them. So there fore I say It is not a homesteader's nor a poor man's job. He can't make both ends meet. He has to have a little capital to help him. But I wish Mr. Sinnott good luck. A. J. B OC KH OLD. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR NEEDED Mr. Schnabel Advocates Creation of Ap pointive Office. PORTLAND, Jan. 7. (To the Editor.) I advocate enactment of a law pro viding for the appointment of a public administrator, at least In counties of over 50,000 inhabitants, the appoint ment to be made by the Governor, and the appointee not being a coroner or a deputy coroner, for the following rea sons, among others: . In a city of this size many persons die without leaving friends or relative's in the state, leaving property and in terests to be looked after. Again, n public administrator would have no self interest to subserve. It would be preferable to have the Governor of the state select a man of experience and In tegrity to administer upon the estates of such persons than to have private Individuals, whose experience and in tegrity may never have been inquired into, have themselves appointed ad ministrators of such fstaWs, which In many instances are exceedingly valu able. This' Is not a novel question. It has arisen in other Jurisdictions and the Legislatures of many of the other states In their wisdom have enacted laws providing for the 'appointment of a public administrator to perform these duties. Oregon would do well to emu late their system and example In this respect. CHAS. J. SCHNABEL. Suspicious of It. Life. "It Is unnecessary to go over all that ground. The principle is as old as the hille and has always been accepted by everybody." "Exactly. And that is just what makes me suspicious of it."