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lO THE MORNING OREGOXIAN. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1917. Eije (Drcgxmfcm PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland (Oregon) Postoffice as second-class mall matter. Subscription rates Invariably In advance: (By Mail.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year $8.00 Daily, Sunday Included, six months ... .. 4 25 Daily. Sunday Included, three months ... 2.25 Daily. .Sunday Included, one month. 75 Daily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, three months ... 173 Daily, without Sunday, one month ..... Weekly, one year 1.50 Sunday, on year , 2.60 Bunday and "Weekly .50 (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year 9.00 Daily, bunday Included, one month 75 How to Remit send postoffice money order, express order or personal check on your local bank, stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk. Give postoffice address In full. Including; county and state. . Portage Kates 12 to 18 pages, 1 cent: 18 to 32 pages, 2 cents; 34 to 43 pages, 3 cents; 60 to 60 pages, 4 cents: 62 to 78 pages, 6 cents: 78 to 82 pages, 6 cents. Foreign post ago double rates. Eaitern Business Office Veree & Conk Un, Brunswick building. New York: Verree Conklin. Steger building, Chicago. San Jrancisco representative, R. 3. Bldwell, 742 Market street. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY", JAN. 24, 1917. NATIONAL. WASTERS. Secretary Redfield spoke plainly to the members of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce recently, when he said that the people of the United States were becoming more and more entitled to be called "I. W. W.," to which he gave the novel interpreta tion, "Industrial Wasters of the World." People of the Pacific Coast will be especially interested in his figures because he mentioned timber as a conspicuous example. He said that In the country aa a whole 65 per cent of every tree is wasted in the process of turning it into lumber. There is no accurate way of estimat ing the amount of waste caused by failure to make use of "down timber" before it has rotted on the ground. Knorraous quantities of scrap lumber, not suitable for full-length boards, are put to no use whatever. The Secre tary's remarks upon the annual waste by forest fires are more or less fa miliar to all. but they will bear em phasis, although in this respect we are improving as the country is waking up to the value of fire protection. The amount of waste connected with the lumber industry alone is enormous, but it probably does not compare with the total of our waste in other, though individually less important, lines. The Boston Transcript comments on the annual practice of the police of New York and probably of other large cities of assembling all the re volvers, knives, burglars' tools and other confiscated contraband and tow ing them on a barge out to sea, where In accordance with the law they are dumped overboard and lost forever. There was this year a great cargo of this material. There were tons of steel of the finest quality, together with other metals bronze, nickel, brass and silver that would have been worth something if put into the melt ing pot, where destruction would have been complete enough to satisfy the law against possession of the weapons of nefarious industry, and at the same time legitimate industry would have been the gainer. The police are not to blame, for machinery for conversion of this material into harmless ingots is not established, and the police are concerned only with carrying out the law as it stands. Still, the system is wasteful, and as such it is wrong. There is another minor form of waste in the enforcement of the so called dry laws in some states. Great quantities of alcoholic liquor seized in raids are poured out into gutters, when the material would be valuable for industrial purposes for the alcohol it contains and the law would be just as well vindicated if some efficient denaturant were used to render the liquor non-potable and it were then devoted to mechanical use. But we are not organized to take care of our waste materials, and so they are de stroyed. because that is the "easiest way." One appealing feature of waste pre vention is that it does not necessarily imply stinginess. The really stingy man is the one who begrudges neces sary expenditures and who resorts to cheese paring rather than sensible conservation. Some men who are most liberal in the conduct of their larger affairs are most careful in see ing to it that the industry yields every penny that ought to be coming out of it. , In fact, the careful manufacturer is in the better position to be liberal in matters of wages and other things. because he will have the money with which to practice liberality. Employes who fail to co-operate with their em ployers in preventing little wastes are standing in their own light Wastefulness is especially a handi cap, as Mr. Redfield has said, when we come into competition with busi ness rivals who are more thrifty than we. We may not know just where and why they are able to undersell us in the markets of the world, but chances are it is because they make a profit out of the very things that we neglect Vasted effort, wasted material are going to be big items in the future in the race for the business of the world. THE TROCBLE ABOUT EGGS. Prices of eggs in England are being depressed at the expense of consumers in the United States. London had been paying from 90 cents to $1.14 a dozen when a shipment of 15,000,000 dozen from the United States and Egypt sent the quotation down to 60 cents, and it was then said that another shipment of 20,000,000 dozen from America was expected soon, uncertainty as to the time of its arrival, however, tending to hold the market against a further immediate slump. At the same time it is said that English firms have made contracts in the United States for several million dozen eggs a week, which will have a tendency to keep down the number put in storage next season and may therefore have a still more far-reach ing effect upon prices in America for several months to come. - The housewives' boycott appears to have been short lived and eggs that were not quickly snapped up at home have found a ready foreign market. indicating that as to this commodity, at least, the laws of supply and de tnand have operated without undue hindrance. ' All of this goes to show that the American people are helping to pay for Europe's war. People across the Atlantic stop working to fight, begin buying abnormal quantities of what we produce, and we must pay more for everything we eat and wear. That is one of the consequences of rapid means of communication "and of our . means of preserving food. Prices in all countries have been equalized . by more even distribution of the supply, but when war 4islocates the machinery of production, the same means enable the fighting nations to deprive the peaceful nations of a, large part of their supply. Before steamships and refrigeration made transport of eggs across the Atlantic feasible,' eggs re mained cheap in the United States, though Europe fought for twenty years. The same' is true of fruit, vegetables and other perishable goods. Rapid transit is a blessing to all nations in times of peace and to fight ing nations in times of war, "but dur ing the latter times it compels the peaceful to bear, a larger share of the burden which was formerly placed on those which fight. ' WHAT'S THE ANSWER? The state of California has in its National Guard a squadron of cavalry and four batteries of field artillery. They are not now in the field. The United States Government has stationed at San Diego, doing peace ful and agreeable garrison duty, two battalions of infantry. The state of Oregon has in Congress member who is chairman of the Senate committee on military affairs and who presumably' has unusual in fluence with the War Department. Yet Oregon's one field battery and one cavalry company are retained on the Mexican border to protect the state of California or to fight fleas or to gratify somebody's desire to see unfortunate men squirm, or for some other reason, while 25,000 more Guardsmen are sent home. The Oregon troop and battery were among the first, if not the first, on the border. Other cavalry and other batteries sent later have been home for weeks. The Oregon guardsmen have no duties to perform except to wait watchfully at $15 per wait. why cannot California do its own police work? Or why cannot the regulars at San Diego be transferred from their soft berths? Is Senator Chamberlain doing any thing or is he content that Oregon troops be made the goat of the mys terious displeasure of the War De partment? THE COST OF BEING GOVERNED. "It costs something to be governed," says the Supreme Court in upholding the "blue-sky" laws. It is well to bear that in mind when we are in clined to chafe at paying taxes. It is then timely to reflect how much more it would cost to have no government. Those who lived in the vigilante days of California and Montana can tell, and they are the staunchest uphold ers, of law and order to this day. Laws to prevent dishonest business impose a burden on honest business. but they also confer benefits. It is surely much more difficult to sell good securities in a market that is flooded with wildcat stock than when the latter is driven out of the mar ket by law. When the blue-sky stock dealer is abroad, much greater pains are required to establish the reputa tion of good securities, for the wild catter generates suspicion which ex tends to good and bad alike. The taxes and fees collected from legiti mate corporations pay for making their lives more secure, as other taxes give the citizen security against bur glars" and murderers. Blue-sky laws are worth their cost to those whom they tax. But government may cost more than t is worth. We have good authority for the statement that the Govern ment costs at least $300,000,000 a year more than we should pay. It would cost still less if it were to leave un done many things which it does but which could be done better by private enterprise. Regulation of corporations is not one of these things. Cor porations are created by the states and the United States, and it is proper that their creators see that they do not abuse or exceed the pow ers with which they are endowed. DELINQUENT TAX PUBLICATION. A repeated charge that the news papers of Oregon are the patrons, and beneficiaries of graft in the publica tion of delinquent tax lists has been made by a Portland paper, the Jour nal, which has set out to secure repeal of the present law authorizing publi cation anct1 the substitution of notice to delinquents by postal cards. Why not by the town crier? The present law requires publica tion in Multnomah County in' "news papers" of 10,000 or more circulation, and the District Attorney has inter preted the statute to mean all papers able to qualify. Undoubtedly it is wasteful and unnecessary to print the list in four newspapers. But it is sound policy and true economy to give public notice that taxes on cer tain properties are delinquent and not to follow a plan of mere private no tice to the owners. It cannot reasonably be contended that the only duty the county has when the delinquent property- is to be offered for sale is to drop a note in .he mails to the man or woman who has failed in his payments. Pub lication of the delinquent list is i most important step in the process leading to sale of the property. It would appear to be desirable, for obvious reasons, to have that fact well known. Moreover, knowledge that one's property will be advertised for non-payment of taxes is a direct incentive to prompt payment. We be lieve any experienced tax collector will give his testimony to that effect. Assertion by a newspaper that ad vertisement, or publication, in a pub lie journal is without value is a strange thing, and may be set down to sheer aberration or perversity of mind, or a jealous and spiteful purpose to withhold such publications from other newspapers, at any cost to itself. For the public and for newspapers in general. The Oregonian insists that publication on their pages is far more effective and profitable than any un certain process of private notification through the malls or otherwise. No newspaper is justified in charging the state or county more than its cus tomary commercial rates for public business; and insofar as such charges have been made by any paper, they are excessive and dishonest, and may appropriately be denounced as graft. But we do not think that it is dis honorable or unworthy for journals as a class to seek the public business on the same terms as private busi ness: and we do not think that pub lishers or editors who regard their pages as sound media for publication of public notices of any kind are grafters. We think rather more of such a newspaper than of the otherS kind which discredits its own pro fession and discounts its own service to its readers and to the public by preferring postal-card publicity to newspaper publicity. The Legislature ought not to be dragooned into hasty or costly action in this business. ' Let there be due consideration of the question op its broad merits. There ought to be pub licity of delinquent tax lists, on fair terms, and it ought to be uniform in method and reasonable in cost. If it is worth while to a county to take the best means of avoiding ' general delinquencies, and of making the most satisfactory and expeditious disposi tion of such properties after delin quency, it will not abandon the pres ent scheme of public notice. THE RIGHT TO BE AMUSED. It is well said that the law is a liv ing thing. Our constitutions. Federal and state, and our statutes innumer able, big. little and medium-sized, all breathe the spirit of growth. We are no longer bound by the dead prece dents of a past that is gone. Our hopes, our aspirations, our longings for bet ter things, and prettier things, and sometimes for useless things, are all embodied in the outgivings of our legislators and the decisions of our courts. Only a few years ago a husband and father who provided pretty well for his family in the way of necessaries of life, such as food, clothing a,nd shelter, and meanwhile laid by some thing for a rainy day, was regarded a useful citizen. At any rate, the courts would not have stepped in to interfere with him. It is different now.' A judge in the state of New York has granted to a complaining wife a decree of separation they do not have divorces except for a single cause in New York because her hus band had not taken her to the theater in five years. This judge, imbued with the spirit of the "living law," finds that whatever may have been the conditions of bygone days, times have so changed that life without its motion pictures may be regarded as intolerable." Of course no woman must be subjected to that which can not be borne. A couple of hundred years ago a husband would have been punished, for beating his wife if the stick ho used were thicker than his thumb. But we progress. The more refined cruelties are also barred now. Theater tickets are among the ln- dispensables of life as indispensable, for example, as silk stockings and nourishing food. A motion-picture man has compiled figures showing that one out of seven of the population attends some motion-picture show every day in the year, on the average. Half the people of some cities see a show on Sunday. The New York judge knows which side his bread is buttered on. He will come up for re-election one day, and he is not going to fly in the face of so important a political element in the community as the movie vote. THE INTERNA!, STRIFE IN RUSSIA. Appointment of Prince Golitzin as Premier is a victory for the bureau cracy in its contest with the people for control of the Russian govern-1 merit. It was brought about by what are called in the Duma "the dark forces" the monk Rasputin and his like, the Germanophlle court, the bureaucracy and the other reaction aries, who would rather see Russia defeated with themselves in control than see the empire fight on under the guidance of the Duma. When General Trepoff was ap pointed Premier, it seemed that the Duma had won. That body, aided by various social organizations, had been working for prosecution of the war, when Sturmer, a Germanophile. became Premier and began system atically paving the way for a separate peace. His methods are described by Isaac Don Levine in the New York Times. He fought the social organ izations which were building up the army, muzzled the press, caused the circulation of stories which would in spire hatred of the allies and printed proclamations containing false infor mation favorable to Germany.. His policy caused a union of parties in the Duma which had been considered ir reconcilable. When the attack on him began on November 14 the Progressive block, constituting the majority, passed a resolution demanding the resigna tion of the Cabinet and was supported by the leaders of the Conservatives, by the Council of the empire, which is the bulwark of the autocracy, and by the Congress of Nobility, represent ing the great landlords and the oldest families. That evening Sturmer pro posed to the Cabinet that the Duma be dissolved, but had only one sup porter. Had not Protopopoff. Min ister of the Interior, arrived too late, he would have had two. He then de cided to act alone in obtaining the Czar's signature to the decree, but for eight days he was prevented from having an audience- During that pe riod the Ministers of War and Marine appeared before the Duma and an nounced the army's desire to co-op erate with the people in prosecuting the war. While Sturmer was on his way to see the Czar, he was met by a messenger with the decree retiring him and appointing Trepoff. Trepoff is not a Liberal, but he would co-operate with the Duma and the social organizations in working for victory. These forces were ready to support him and were backed by Franco-British diplomacy, but the "dark forces" returned to the attack. They insisted on the retention of Pro topopoff, and he was not only kept in office but given added authority in defiance of the Duma's demands for his dismissal. Sazonoff, ex-Minister for Foreign Affairs, was sum moned by the Czar and his reappoint ment was expected, but did not come. As a staunch pro-ally, he would have been acceptable, but the people were satisfied with Pokrovsky, who was ap pointed, for he is pro-ally and Pro gressive. The "dark forces" then sent Rasputin to the Czar to turn him to a separate peace, but he failed, for the Czar was at General Headquarters, surrounded by army officers who fa vor fighting to the end. Then followed the assassination of Rasputin, which was hailed with joy by the people, but it proved the oc casion of victory for their enemies. Trepoff showed his leanings toward the popular side by lifting the censor ship on publicity as to Rasputin's per sonality, and he did not prosecute the assassins. Suddenly he was dismissed. and for the time the reactionary, pro German element is in control. The new Premier, Prince Golitzin, is de scribed by Mr. Levine as "more of a literary man than a politician, de stined to play the role of a puppet in the hands of the court circle" and to be "used by the dark forces as a tool." He is called "the nominal Prime Minister" in Petrograd, while Protopopoff is called "the real power behind the throne." Golitzin has de clared against reform and has dis missed Count Ignatieff, the most liberal member of the Cabinet, and has replaced him with an arch-reactionary. The bureaucrats probably reason that yielding to the Duma now would lead to steady increase of popular power until they would be completely overthrown. Their inclination to a separate peace implies that they would rather accept defeat for Russia than for themselves. Their sympathies are naturally with the militarist party in Germany and Austria, and a triple al liance of the three Emperors would be more to their taste than the pres ent alliance with the democratic states of Western Europe. The central pow ers could afford to make liberal terms in order to buy off . Russia and be left free to deal with their other enemies. But what would the army do? It is not the army of 1914, officered by aristocrats who are in full sympathy with the bureaucracy and ready to do its will. That army almost dis appeared in 1915. It has been sup planted by a new army, drawn direct ly from a nation enthusiastic for war and officered very largely by men drawn from the liberal middle class, men who fraternize with their sol diers and imbue them with liberal sentiments. It is possible that this army, while holding the Teutons at bay with one hand, would crush the "dark forces" and force a. constitu tional government on the Czar. The struggle in Russia has only begun, and on its result may hang the result of the war. Estimates made recently that bad colds alone cost the people of the country $10,000,000 a year through lost time and other incidental ex penses suggest a form of conservation that is measurably within the reach of all, especially at this season when colds are so prevalent. There is an other factor of loss whlch is not in cluded in the estimate, and "that is the poorer work done by the victim while he is "coming down" and before he is compelled to stay away from his work. . This in the aggregate is also very large. The possibilities of pre venting a large part of this waste are within the reach of all, by adopting obvious precautions, such as avoid ance of Infection when other mem bers of the family are ill, providing plenty of fresh air in the living and sleeping rooms and seeing to it that houses are not overheated. The last item suggests automatically another way of reducing the high cost of living, since investigators have come to the conclusion that too much fuel is used by most of us, and that many "colds" are the direct result of going from too warm rooms into, the cold, damp outside air. The United States Government has no desire to change the color of the paper money in common use in this country, and for this reason has taken the trouble to obtain the consent of some of the belligerent nations of Europe to the importation of certain rare colors employed in the printing of bank notes. The stir created in iVe-trade circles, however, has been shown to have been quite out of pro portion to the importance of the is sue, since the amount consumed is quite small in proportion to the entire consumption of colors of various kinds and it is said that it would not be profitable for any manufacturer to make them when the demand Is so small, and the colors are not used in any other industry and are not likely to be. Meanwhile some progress has been made in the manufacture of other coal-tar dyes in the United States, as is shown by the fact that in 1916 nearly 20,000 tons were sold in the open market. The United States is the largest producer and consumer of coke in the world, which gives it one advantage in the manufacture of dyes. Some smart Yankee farmers are accused of giving the state of Massa chusetts short measure, in selling a site for a school for the feeble-minded. The state paid for 8 88 acres, but sur veyors found only 619 acres. The Attorney-General accepted old records without surveys and the commission paid on that basis. The commission was abolished, and a new one, estab lished under a consolidation scheme, discovered the shortage, but -nothing will be done to recover the excess pay ment. That is the fruit of having too many commissions. The war may settle down to com petitive bidding between the Germans and the allies for the aid of Russia. The promise of Constantinople was made known by Trepoff to unite the nation for war and to defeat the bureaucratic peace party. It is now Germany's turn to make a more at tractive bid. By prolonging the com petition Russia might come off better, though defeated, than if victory had been. won. The life of a man who puts up at a cheap hotel is as valuable to him as is that of the guest of a first-class hostelry. If it cannot be safeguarded it Is up to the officers of the law to do something before the man is burned to death. There is much to be said in favor of the daylight-saving bill, but there is not much to be said In favor of people who can only rise early by making the alarm' clock tell them a lie every morning. Organized labor through the Ameri can Federation approves tho proposal to push the clocks ahead an hour May 1 for the five warm months. This will give longer motoring time for the barons of the workshop. The-1 half-million women making munitions in England are earning and handling money of their own and will not easily drop into second place in the family when the war is over and they are out of jobs. Several lobbies are pulling against each other at Salem, in spite of all that has been said against lobbyists. As long as here are Legislatures there will be lobbyists, by whatever name they may be called. While the Honorable Myers, P. M, finds a journey to Washington neces sary, the Honorable Milt Miller, the only serene Democrat in the vineyard, stays - on the job for the full eight hours a day. Joseph Supple is late in getting into the ocean shipbuilding business, but he is an old hand with river boats rand with steamers for Puget Sound. The Northern Pacific Railroad might put skates on its cars to get them over the ice of Madison River. An Ohio man has demonstrated how cheaply one can live, but wisely he arranged first for hjs funeral. Bethlehem Steel is dividing:$30,000, 000, and It cannot be said to be spelled with an "a," either. Poor old Chris Evans finds the way of the transgressor is over the hill to the poorhouse. Britain is calling the boys of 18, and they are the scrappy lads. A united wrons. 'country press" cannot be How to Keep Well By Dr. W. A. Evan. Questions pertinent to- hygiene, sanitation and prevention of disease, if matters of gen eral intfreet. will be- answered In this col umn. Where apace will not permit or tna subject is not suitable letters will be per sonally answered, subject to proper limita tions and where stamped addressed envelope is Inclosed. Dr. Evsos will not make diagnosis or prescribe- for individual diseases. Re quests for such services cannot bs answered. (Copyright, 191U. by Dr. W. A. Evans. Published, by arrangement with, tho Chicago Tribune.) PrRB WATER ON SHIPS. A BOUT 10 years ago Dr. Cobb called attention to the fact that fresh water sailors had more than their share of typhoid fever. He ascribed this to the objectionable method of taking water by snips. Either they Oiled their tanks with water known to be polluted, or else they waited until they got Into clean water to fill their tanks, but pumped the clean water through polluted seacocks and water pipes. Agitation for control of the water supply of ships plying fresh water wag started by the Lake Michigan water commission in 1909. Prior to that time no traveler was gate unless he had the habits of a camel filled up on water before he started and then went dry while on boats and trains. To 'drink water on a fresh-water boat is not safe yet, but it is becoming so. Cobb. Williams and Letton say that much the safest and best method of purifying water for fresh-water boats is the use of stllto of the type used on all salt-water boats. The Investigators did not find any fresh-water boat that used the still system. The next best method is a properly regulated apparatus for pasteurizing water. Thirteen samples were ' taken from laks vessels making use of heat treatment. All were free from colon bacilli. The third best method was proper sterilization by means of violet rays. Two hundred and forty samples were taken from vessels using this method. lity-rour and three-tenths per cent was free from bacillus colL Although many of the ships are equipped with this method of water sterilization, the results were not good because of faulty operation. Treatment with bleaching powder and with liquid chlorine were also found to kill the bacteria, but in oper ation the method did not work well. Complaints of chlorine taste were fre quent., am methods of mixing: were bad. About . 20 vessels were found equipped with eand filters. These fil ters were found extremely unsatisfac tory. Probably the bes; of all methods is that required by the Toronto authori ties. All boats calling at Toronto are required to fill, their drinking water tanks from the city mains. Owners and operators of boats ply Ing fresh waters can get this bulletin from- the public, health service. The title is Drinking Water on Interstate Carriers," by Cobb. Williams and Let ton. The public can drink water on res lar passenger lake boats with mod erate safety. The danger Is, say, 10 per cent greater than from drinking Chi cago water. The public had better not drink water on freight lake boats with out llrst learning that it is safe. The probability is that it will not be. Since the new regulations went into effect It Is safe to drink water on any passen ger train anywhere. Diet for Diabetes. Mrs. A. W.C. writes: "Will you srive me a list of the foods a man of 45, who has diabetes, can eat? What chance has a patient of this age for recovery The patient is a train conductor and has always been a man of good habits." Reply. , It Is easier to say what he cannot eat. H cannot eat ordinary breads, desserts, sugar. sweets, and potatoes. This, however. Is not enough Information on which to base a diet for diabetes. I have given such a diet sev eral times. I suggest that you get Hill' small book entitled, "The Starvation Treat ment for Diabetes." It gives diet lists and other detailed Inaruetlons. Tuberculosis Symptoms. R. E. P. writes. "What are the symp toms of " tuberculosis, especially the first stage? (2) Is it contagious from tho beginning?" Reply. 1. A tendency to become tired without suf ficient provocation, slight pallor, alight loss of weight, temperature low In the morning slightly above normal tn the afternoon. slight cough. These symptoms are enough to excite suspicion and call for a physical examination and a sputum analysis. 2. No. Drink Milk. A mother writes: "1. Have Dr. Holt'e book on care of infants, but noticed you gave some one an address in Wash ington, D. C. where they could writ for booklet which would be of help in taking care of infant. Please publis the address again. Also my baby ( boy 10 weeks old and breast fed) seems to be hungry most of the time. My milk does not seem to be scant, but does appear watery that is, sort of poor looking. Baby does not refuse it but seems irritable at times. .2. Please advise how I can tell if my milk is good or not. What appearance must it have to be poor? It seems to have' a lot o water and baby passes lots of urine, Reply. 1. Children's Bureau, Department of La bor, Washington. D. C, many state boards of health, and some city boards now give away baby books. 2. It appears that your milk is not nutri tious enough. There Is no way to be cerajti except to have It analyzed at some privat laboratory. Drink less water; drink milk instead. This will better the quality your milk. of Treatment of Sprains. W. C W. writes: "In case of a wrist badly sprained in consequence of a vlo lent fall, what Is the true wisdom about exercise of the Injured member? Should the wrist be exercised even at the ex pense of considerable pain? How soon after the injury would you advise com menclng the exercise? Tho accident occurred eome 10 or 12 days ago and the wrist is considerably swollen still, though steadily growing less and less painful. Much relief from the first has been obtained by plunging the arm u to the elbow in water as hot as could be borne." Reply. A sprained Joint should be carefully -amlned to be certain that no fracture present. It should b covered by wet com presses. Within three days gentla massage and passive motion should be begun. Th exercise should be so skillfully and. care fully done aa to reduce pain to the mini mum. This can be done. BILL, SAID TO HAVE NO TEETH Mr. Schubel Criticises Ad Club Meas ure snd Defends House Bill. PORTLAND. Jan. 2S. (To the Edi tor.) I have been asked by several business houses is this city to take cognizance of the article appearing on page 4 of Tho Oregonian this morn ing concerning "Two Ad Bills Rivals" and that one now pending at Salem is backed by the Ad Club to take tne place of the present one which is dif ficult to enforce. I am familiar with the proposed bill which the Ad Club seeks to enact, as being a reproduction of the famous 1ms law about which so much has been said in and out of place. I have copy of the proposed law known as Senate bill No. 116, and am free to state publicly that the proposed law not a copy of the approved Nlras law. If you would have the time, space and inclination, the "deadly parallel" would, upon careful reading, become apparent. The carefully guarded state ments appearing In the article, made by W. B. Shlvely, attorney for the Ad Club, is that the bill proposed by a very large number of business houses in this city "would be very difficult to secure conviction under Wcauas of provision that a guilty intent to de fraud on the part of the advertiser must be proved." Since when has it become the policy 1 the law to make easy convictions for crimes? When has the law ceased to deem the accused innocent until he proven guilty? The statement that the Ad Club's proposed bill is the ssme as the Kims bill is misleading. The very fact that some members or uie Ad Club find it necessary to re-enact law in lieu of the existing statute is an admission that the present laws are Ineffectual. The Item referred to warns the puo- IIo not to sign the petition or indorse the proposed California statute. ine Ad Club have not seen fit to publish their oroDOsed law. The leading busi ness houses of this community wno ava indorsed the California law. ana those having the proposed measurer in charge, are willing to take the public Into their confidence. Tho "copy" of the Ad Club's proposed law is not a copy. It purposely leaves out a very Important provision, thai is. oi tne peo ple "knowingly" violating tne law. etc In other words, tne sting 10 ura of the law, and the entire statute is like the play of "Hamlef wun nan"" eft out. The Dill introauceu m House was prepared by Mr. Woodhead. president of the National Ad Club. Mr. Woodhead is editor of the Sunset Maga zine, and resides on this Coast, at Oak land, Cal. I dare say he is in pretty close touch with the needs of the pub lic on this Coast at least. The law was lntroaucea. ana i workable one, and has so been proved in the state of California. It Is fair, treats all alike, plays no favorites, and discloses no ulterior motives such as Senate bill llfi glaringly shows. If any people interested have any sug gestions to make either one way or the other. I am sure that part of the public having this bill in charge, as well as the legislative committee wno win uo it tm for consideration, will gladly lend an ear and have an open discussion. CtlAS. J. ra.x -- u. MERCEXARIES GRAB INITIATIVE Brownell BUI Would Free Direct leg islation. Says Sir.- I.evxellliut. MILWAUKIE. Or.. Jan. 23. (To tho Editor.) Tho account or tne puouc hearing on the various oms auocuus .v.- initiative and referendum before the legislative committee, appearing ln Th Oreeonian January 19, states that Mr. TJ'Ren says it costs fully $1000 to initiate a measure and that tho Brownell bill (H. B. 89) should bo raised from $500 fee to $1000. inis geunc mnn 1AR nreed with Mr. Cordon to support Houso bill 67. which does not make It any easier to inmate) meo-owi rni- lawmakers should have a care In actinir unon his advice, since tne creation of an initiating trust tods out nrru-tit law of its virtue, Even now Mr. U'ren. his lieutenants and profes- innal circulators are trying to control tho initiating of measures. Tho price for circulating petitions oerore women voted and the largo vote for Supreme Judge at the last state election, which has about doubled the number of slgn , moulred. was in the past from $800 to $1500, according to tne popularity nf tlm measure. Could it Be that nir. U'Ren and others wish to increase tne difficulty of Initiating measures in or der to demand a higher price? Should tho Lesrislaturo pass the Brownell bill it will free the initiative from the mercenaries who now have it almost in their control. This Dill pro vides that money now paid to the cir culators of petitions would be paid to th. rnt and would remove the incen tive' to fraud. Tho money so paid would be applied to tho cost of printing and mailing of, tho election pamphlets. This bill deprives the. people or no rights under the present law; It is only an additional metnoa wuereuy xiieu-a-ures may bo proposed. Mr. Brownell. who fathers the Din Introduced tho original direct legisla tion bill In tho Oregon Senate in 1901 and it is largely duo to his efforts that wo have the present law. He has never received tho credit and recognition due him for this work, except in Clackamas County, the birthplace of tho law. House bill 89 is a sensible and meri torious bill and should be adopted. S. V. LEWELL1.N6. Population of New York. TOPPENISH. Wash., Jan. 22. (To the Editor.) (1) Kindly give tho present population of New York City compared with London, also on what census or estimate these figures are based. (2) Will tho World s Almanac tor 1916 or 1917 give this information. (1) New Tork City, Including all boroughs, on December 2, 1915. had a population of 5,253.885, according to the census of Police Department; accord ing to New York state census, 1915. the population was 5.006.484. making the estimated population of Greater New York, including Westchester and New Jersey suburbs. 7,500.000. Population of registration London in 1911 was 4.522,964. and with metropolitan and city police districts (Greater London), 7.252.963. (2) Yes. . Lincoln's Famous Remark. 1LWACO, Wash., Jan. 22. (To the Editor.) (1) Kindly give the full name and address of Mr. For J. the au tomobile and peace magnate. (2) To settle a doubt, did Abraham Lincoln say, "All people can be fooled part of the time" or "Part of the people can be fooled all the timer' DISTANT READER. (1) Henry Ford, office Woodward avenue. Highland Park (Detroit) Mich. (2) "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot, fool all of the people all of the time" Is .a remark attributed to Lincoln. It does not appear In any of his formal docu ments. Lease on Railroad Bridge. SALEM. Or Jan. 22. (To the Ed ttor.) Please tell me whether or not the O.-WR. & N. Company Is leasing any bridge property to your county or city and what property it is and what is th consideration; i. w. G. What is commonly known as the Steel or Harriman bridge spanning the Willamette at Portland is owned by the O.-W. R. & N. Company. Trams use lower deck and the upper deck is leased to Multnomah County a rental of 48.867.SS a year. In Other Days Half si Century As. From The Oregonian of January 24. 1887. On Monday a man calling- himself Murphy was arrested at The Dalles for passing bogus gold dust. He was committed to await the action of tho grand jury. Portlanders enjoyed themselves yes terday in the good old-fashioned way of whacking each other with snow balls. "Whoever ventured upon tho street was pelted. From street corners, from doorways and from housetops the balls flew in. every di rection, hitting all manner of people. crashing now a window, then smashing a plug tile. The enterprising citizens of the) flourishing town of McMinnvillo are to have a semi-weekly mail. Tho Union convention of Washington Territory V.MU be held at Vancouver on the Sixteenth of April instead of tho Eighteenth, as heretofore) published. Corvallis is said to be rapidly im proving. Many new buildii.gs are go Ing up In the town. Twenty-flTe Years ' As. From Tho Oregonian of January 24. 1802. At the matlneo today of the Marquam Grand that splendid spectacular piece, "Michael Strogoff, the Courier of tho Czar," will begin its second week. Thursday afternoon tho rarlors of the Hotel Portland were 'filled with, enthusiastic and representative ladies who met to organize a Woman's World Pair Society of Portland, which will represent tho woman's work of our city and state At the great Columbian Exposition. Tho city was enveloped in a foar all day yesterday which last evening be came so dense that it put Londoners In mind oc home. Persons riding on street cars could hardly discern tho outlines of buildings along the street. Washington. Jan. 23. The statement that an ultimatum has been sent to Chile is now a recognized fact. Presi dent Harrison Is awaiting with great impatience unties response to our de mand as to whether she proposes to apologize and make reparation for tho Santiago affair. There still remains over 12000 to be subscribed for tho appearance here at tne Marquam Grand Opera Houso next month of lime, Adeline. Pattl and her company. LAW WOULD E.VO PETITION FRAUD Mr. Stevens Comes to Support of Brownell Kee Bill. PORTLAND. Jan. 2S. (To th Kdl- tor.) Tho bill Introduced by Mr. Brownell in tho lower houso at Salem simplifying the method of initiative petitions should have the support of every legislator. We have had here tofore all manner of bungling mistakes, of forged signatures, of wholesale man ufacturing of names from residences where none existed and a. hundred nrt one blunders intentional and otherwise rolsted on tho voter. Tho Brownell bill goes direct to the point, does away with tho necesstiy of circulating peti tions, removes the temptation to for gery and wholesale padding, and in every way leaves nothing to fraud, and error. In justice to Mr. Brownell it must bo conceded even by his enemies that he was the first man to introduce di rect legislation in tho Oregon Legis lature when it seemed that Its puta tive father had disowned it and that he (Mr. Brownell) has since worked for its retention and perfection. Tho bill he now sponsors In my opinion will, when carefully cosidered, meet the ap proval of all intelligent voters. It la to write out the proposed measure, fll it with tho Secretary of State, deposit 1500. which will cover all expenses of printing, and does away with examina tions, comparing of names, criminal ac tion on the part of name solicitors. Jobs for district prosecuting attorneys, etc. No labor union, grange, lodge, as sociation or corporation of any kind but has an eqnal right under tho bill should it become a law. Mr. ITRen thinks $1000 would be bet ter than $500. Surely not for a labor union or grange. I am satisfied that even Mr. U'Ren. If he- will give Mr. Brownell's measure the same thought and consideration that he has some of his own proposals single tax for In stance will see tho measure In tho same light that I do. J. D. STEVENS. Circuit Judges In Oregon. PORTLAND. Jan. 23. (To the Edi tor.) (1) How many Circuit Judges In tho state of Oregon? (2) How many new circuits or districts were created by the Legislature two years ago? (3) What counties are embraced in each circuit? (4) Was a bill Intro duced in the present session reducing salaries of judges from $4000 to $3600. and if came to a vote, please give vote In detail if possible. H. (1) Twenty-five. " (2) The 1915 Legislature created tho Fourteenth. Eighteenth. Nineteenth and Twentieth Judicial districts. (3) First. Jackson and Josephine; Second, Benton, Coos, Curry, Douglas. Lane, Lincoln; three judges: Third. Linn and Marion, two Judges; Fourth, Multnomah, six Judges; Fifth, Clacka- as; Sixth, Morrow and Umatilla; Sev enth, Hood River and Wasco; Eighth, Baker: Ninth. Grant. Harney and Mal heur; Tenth. Union and Wallowa; Elev enth, Gilliam, Sherman and Wheeler; Twelfth. Polk -and Yamhill; Thirteenth, Klamath; Fourteenth. Lake: Eigh teenth. Crook, Jefferson and Deschutes: Nineteenth, Tillamook and Washington; Twentieth. Clatsop and Columbia. There are no Seventeenth. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Judicial districts. (4) S. B. 13. by Senator J. C. Smith. reduces salary of Circuit Judges to $3600. The Senate. January 13. re ferred it to the committee on revision of laws, after that committee had unanimously reported unfavorably on tho bllL The committee Is instructed to Investigate tho practicability of modifying It to fit only those judges whoso duties are light. Orlarln of "Bar Sinister." PORTLAND. Jan. 23. (To tho Edi tor.) Your editorial headed "Tho Bar Sinister" makes me ask authority for thi caption. I ask simply for infor mation. I cannot trace it, althqugh I know it has been used ever since I can remember, and I am no Spring chicken. In fact long ago I remember to have read two books under the title of "Tho Bar Sinister." In heraldry I don't believe you can find it, but you find "IJend Sinister" (or band), which is used in relation to bastardy, the very subject on which you are writing, which shows the di rection the bend or band is drawn on the escutcheon or shield. As this title has been ueied so long and so often. I am anxious for light on the subject. K. M. In heraldry the bar sinister Is an honorable ordinary. It Is a horizontal striDo crossing the shield (In any posi tion except in fesse or In chief) and oc cupying one-fifth or less of tho field. Bend sinister in heraldry Is known also as baton and is a mark of Illegitimacy. Probably "bar sinister" derived its present-day popular meaning from errone ous understanding of tho heraldic yni bol so designated.