10 T1TE MORNING OKEGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCII 7, 1917. rOBTUKD, OREGON. Entered at Portland (Oregon) Potofflco as second-class mall roattar. Subscription rates Invariably in ad vane : (Br Mail.) Dally. Sunday Included, on year (8 00 Dally. Sunday included, six months ..... 4.25 X)ally, Sunday Included, three months 2.-5 Dftlly, Sunday Included, one mODtb ..... .T5 X'aily. without Sunday, one year 6.00 3 'ally, without Sunday, three months 1.75 J"ally, without Sunday, one month ...... .80 Weekly, one year 1.B0 Funday, one year 2.50 Sunday and Weekly 8.00 (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year B.OO Xally, Sunday Included one month ...... .75 How to Remit Send postof flee money trder, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk. Give postofflce address In full. Including county and state. Postage Rates 12 to 14 paces, 1 cent; 38 to pages. 2 cents; 84 to 48 pases, 3 cents; CO to 60 pages. 4 cents; 63 to 76 pages. 6 cents; 78 to pagea. - 6 cents. Foreign postage double rates. Eastern Business Offices Verree St Conk lin, Brunswick building. New York; Verree fc Conklln. Steger building, Chicago; San Francisco representative, K. J. Bidwell, 74 Market street. PORTLAND, WEDXESDAI, MARCH 7, 1917. , INDIAN UETHOD8. Prom a super-pacifist contributor, whose name in kindness we withhold, The Oregonlan has received this strange effusion: The writer recently heard of a new party which differs from that of the pro-British patriots and also from that of the pro-German pacifists. It Is called the pro-American party. Its pledge or platform Is worthy of wide publicity and reads something like this: a "Believing that progress has never been triads except through the courage and Ideals of the fighting minority; that K has ever been the policy of corrupt politicians to place alt power In one man's hand and thus control that man; that It is better to follow the light than the leader who may turn from the light, we. pro-American cltl cens of these United States, cherishing with our patriotism a love for all humanity, stand on record as upholding and willing to de lend with our lives the principles of liberty, equality and Justice on which this Gov ernment is founded. And we further be lieve that, according to those principles, war should be declared, except in case of Invasion, only by a referendum of the peo ple." A pro-American party? Is the pa triot who will not fight for his country, unless he is driven to fight, your true pro-American? Such a pro-American wants a referendum. So did the In dians, the original pro-Americans. No Indian carried his loyalty to his chief or tribe beyond the point where he retained the right to fight or quit or run away. Just as he pleased: There was always a referendum before the Indians went to war, and always a referendum before they would go into battle. The chieftain was always in danger of desertion, dispersion and de feat, but he had no power of coercion or discipline over his followers. The measure of their fealty was his popu larity. That is the Jtind of leadership and government and society the In dians had. Tour pacifist who is shouting for a referendum before he fights for his country except for Invasion would thus Indianize the country. But why except invasions? Perhaps such a country wouldn't be worth saving. Why not determine that by referen dum, too? Would the referendum pacifists who talk so much for brotherhood and hu manity and fraternity, and do so little for them oxcept talk, really be willing to fight for a country not worth sav ing "my country, right or wrong" but unwilling to fight for the rights of humanity? That is exactly where their Indian methods would land them. SENATOR LANE'S REASONS. Let us analyze the reasons given by Senator Lane for opposing the armed neutrality bill. He said the United States must ex ert itself , only in the event Germany or some other nation attempts an in vasion of our territory. Every Amer ican ship is American territory, hence every attack on an American ship is an invasion of our territory. Every attack on an American citizen who is going about his lawful business where he has a right to be is an attack on the American Nation, for the Nation is simply the aggregate of its mem bers. The Senator said that no other na tion would come to our aid if we be came involved in war. The question Is not one of going to the aid of any of the warring nations; it is one of defending ourselves against attack. If our action in so doing should inci dentally aid the enemies of Germany, the fault would be Germany's for at tacking us. "Now it seems that we are hunting new enemies," said the Senator. On the contrary, a new enemy has hunted us, and is trying to hunt us off the sea. "We have taken every chance of putting our toes under the heels of nations with which we are supposed to be friendly," says he. Our citizens were going about their lawful business, exercising the rights which all neu tral nations have exercised in time of war, and the Kaiser put his heel on our toes. "I do not think we have any neu tral right to load ships with ammuni tion with which to kill Germans and then go Inside the war zone Germany has marked out," Is the opinion of this great authority on international law. We are exercising a right plainly rec ognized by international law, a right which Germany exercised during the Spanish war. the Boar war and the Balkan wars. International law per mits no belligerent to mark out a barred zone, and expressly forbids sink ing ships without warning, without visit and search and without providing for the safety of passengers and crew. The Senator gave utterance to these brave sentiments: It is not good sense for us to keep In truding ourselves inside the barred son a It is a matter of common sense to keep out of there and not go hunting their periscopes no get snot at. No, when Germany commands, Americans should get off the sea, even off the earth! The piffling, pusillani mous character nf Spnotrtr T.ornD finnln? In t?iA maai:ii e- 11. 1. 1 1 s . to represent Oregon and to participate jo legislation lor toe XMatlon s interest. One of the most powerful agencies In drawing tighter the bonds of f riend ehlp which have long joined France and the United States will be the work of the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris. In the year 1916 this organ ization treated in its three hospitals over 6100 cases of acute surgery and lias transported over 135,000 patients in its 250 ambulances around Paris and in the field, besides large quan tlties of hospital supplies. Methods and organization have so much lm. proved that the death rate among pa. tlents was reduced from 4.46 per cent In 1915 to 2.31 per cent in 1916. The hospitals have gained such a reputa tion for successful treatment of severe complicated fractures, nerve injuries and disfigurement of the face and jaws that distinguished surgeons from aU over tikej world visit lt The ma. jority of the surgeons and nurses are Americana. Several wards and many beds have been endowed by cities, towns and wealthy donors in the United States. THE GREASE OF DISLOYALTY. The following epistle has been re ceived from one of Portland's most violent pacifists: PORTLAND, Or., March 8. To the Edi tor.) Though the leopard shammed to change his spots at the last Presidential election, be appears now fiercer than ever for human blood. Discontinue at once to send ma - that paper. If my subscription still continues, kindly hand rest of money over to a fund for the liberation of Greece, but don't send me the paper till your fever has gone down. The cartoon of today. Is the work of a knave. FH. GREGORY, 784 E. 11th st. The instructions of the displeased father have been complied with, ex cept as to the contribution for the liberation of Greece. The shoe is on the other foot. Father Gregory owes two months' subscription. The last Is not said to discredit Father Gregory's financial methods but to -clear the decks. The Orego nian expects to expend much more than $J.60 for the liberation of grease. It will do Its part toward sweating the disloyalty out of pacifists, native or foreign-born, be they United States Senators, college professors or Catholic priests. MINORITY, AGAIN RULES. Fifteen faculty members of Reed College have, in their private capacity as citizens, sent to President Wilson the following telegram: We wish to express our appreciation of your wise leadership in the present crisis and pledge our entire support of whatever I measure may oe found necessary for the National welfare. We profoundly regret the action of Senator Lane, of Oregon, yesterday and we are urg ing him to do his utmost for ths modifi cation of the rules of the Senate that you have recommended. t A similar message, with the sig natures of the same fifteen loyal American teachers and guides of young men and women, was also dispatched to Senator Lane. The signers of both are: M. C. dishing, N. F. Coleman, F. A, Bacon, Kelley Rees. A. A. Nolton, H. B. Torrey, Maida Rosslter, F. L. Griffin. W. F. Ogburn, H. S. Marion, W. C. Morgan, Kleanor Row land. Bertha Stuart, C. S. Botsford and H. B. Hastings. We repeat here, for the purpose of doing exact justice by giving the put 11c a clear understanding of the atti tude of Reed College and its faculty, the following message sent last-week: HonWable Harry Lane, United States Senator: The undersigned members of the faculty and student body of Keed College believe that our Nation can best serve the durable welfare of mankind by continuing patient efforts in the present crisis to re tain the good will of all nations. We be lieve that our greatest interests in Europe cannot be sorved securely, or highest honor protected by resort to war. The signers were W. T. Foster, pres ident, and N. F. Coleman, J. K. Hart, R. D. Leigh and J. J. Stahl, faculty members. But one signature appears on both messages. We are to assume that the latter message, designed to encourage Senator Lane in his maudlin, ignorant and mischievous pacifism, defeating the wise and patriotic plan of Presi dent Wilson for an armed neutrality, is the official expression of Reed Col lege. It is another glaring illustration of the rule of the minority. THRIFT AND ROADS. The Corvallis Gazette-Times pub lishes a letter from Robert Wylie, of Lewisburg, Or., which is a heart-to-heart talk from one practical farmer to other farmers on the ' subject of good roads and the $6,000,000 bond ing proposal. Mr. Wylie embellishes with homely Illustrations that which noted advo cates of thrift have already said. The theme is that indebtedness, within one's means to pay, is sound business, if It be for a permanent and useful investment. Mr. Wylie, In early days, borrowed money at 10 per cent to pay for drain tile and made 100 per cent on the in vestment. "You bonded yourself to pay for your land, didn't you?" he asks of other farmers. "Corvallis bonded itself for a mountain water system. Is there anyone today who is sorry such a step was taken?" "How many are there who have had their streets and sidewalks paved who would go back to the old conditions before the paving era for what it cost? These are the words of a man who knows the value of credit rightly em ployed. Probably if- Oregon had bonded itself earlier for construction of good roads, less would have been expended for frills and fancies. That is the theory of thrift-indebtedness. One employs his resources in paying for things that are of lasting value and benefit and postpones acquirement of luxuries and ornaments until the returns from the investment are avail able. It is s theory, as Mr. . Wylie says. that "applies only to those things that are of a permanent nature, invest ments that give some show of returns for the money put into them, and would not apply at all to automobiles. fine raiment and other things that we might not have use for." The issue, therefore. Is: "Are roads such a permanent, ' profit-yielding In vestment?" Does anybody deny that they are? KING POTATO. World-wide shortage "of the potato crop is regarded as a general calamity, yet less than two centuries ago the tuber was not even mentioned in the Complete Gardener. Having been first taken from Peru to Spain early in the sixteenth century, under the name of the batata, from "Virginia to Ireland by Hawkins, the slave trader, in 1565 and to England by Sir Francis Drake in 1585; it was at first cultivated In Europe only as a curiosity. When its food value was first realized it was given chiefly to cattle and hogs, but in 1663 the Royal Society of Lon don began to encourage its cultivation with the idea that it might become food for the poor. when grain crops failed. Ireland was first among European countries to undertake Its general cul tivation, and it has since become the staple food of the Iiish, acquiring the name Irish potato to distinguish it from its cousin, the sweet potato, of which the negro is fondest. It did not become important on the conti nent of Europe until the middle of the eighteenth century, nor in France and Germany until the close of that cen tury, though those are now two of the world's greatest potato-growing countries. Information is lacking as to when the tuber became important among North American field crops. Although most cultivated in the tem perate zone, the potato is a native of the mountainous districts of tropical and subtropical America from Chile to Mexico where it had been, used as food before white men discovered America. The potato owes its popularity as food chiefly to Its large percentage of carbohydrates 18.4 per cent for it contains only 2.2 per cent of protein, also to the fact that 90 per cent of its nutritive material is digestible. It is thus an admirable complement to meat, which is high in protein, ani there is good reason for the popular meal of meat and potatoes. Carbo hydrates are useful in supplying the body with energy, which may explain the Irishman's love for both potatoes and fighting. The comparatively recent Introduc tion of the potato to a chief place in our diet is one among several exam ples of an article hitherto unknown developing into a necessity. Another ta the sugar beet, the saccharine con tents of which were not discovered until 1747 but which is now Europe's chief source of sugar. The discovery was made by Margraff, of the Ber lin Academy of Sciences, but means of extracting the sugar were not invented till half a century later by Achard, a pupil of Margraff. As the naval blockade of Europe growing out of the Napoleonic wars almost cut off the Imported supply of cane sugar, Na poleon stimulated beet culture in France and the Prussian government pursued the same policy, causing its rapid extension. SEED TESTING. A careful testing of seeds is of the utmost importance, and another an nual warning has been sent out by the Government. Farmers are urged not to put untested seed Into the soil. The products may be nil. Many crop fail ures last year were laid at the doors of Improper seeding processes. ' Too many farmers gave their seeds the once-over, and decided that seed tests were a needless waste of time- The victims of the unhappy method, of course, will not make the same mis take this year, but scores who failed to get squeezed last .season are, cer tain to take chance after chance until one year they will be stricken with the curse of barren fields. The mere fact that seeds have a wholesome appearance ic not enough. They should be properly and fully tested for germination. The farmer who has not learned how to do this should lose no time in asking the Federal'Department of Agriculture or his state experiment station for infor mation and direction. It may be the means of forestalling partial or com plete crop failure. As to the gardeners, It is high sea son for them to make a study of the varieties they 'will use in their gar dens this year. What are the soil and weather conditions peculiar to the "locality? What vegetables are best adapted to those conditions or what hybrids will do the best? A number of hybrids have been evolved which are peculiarly adapter! to vary ing climatic conditions. If the farmer and gardener will work out these pre liminaries to a successful year he may proceed a little later with his planting with the certain conviction that he has made the right start. Thereafter, given ordinary care, his fields and gar dens cannot help -but flourish under the conditions provided by Oregon cli mate. A PROFESSION OF THE FUTURE. It was stated In dispatches a few days ago that Holland bankers were handicapped In the execution of cer tain ambitious plans for extension of trade with South America, not by lack of capital, for they have that in abundance, but by Inability to obtain men skilled in the particular kind of work required. Now the Department of Commerce has announced that it will start on July 1 next a foreign trade employment bureau, for the purpose of putting men and employ ers in touch with each other in con nection with the trade - expansion movement in the United States.- There is in America, as well as in Holland and other countries, a serious, dearth of qualified employes. At a time when the surplus capital of the coun try is enormous, enterprise halts be cause of the human factor, and for no other reason. Dr. Edward Ewing Pratt,N director of the foreign trade bureau, said at the recent trade convention at Pitts burg that in spite of the fact that manufacturers and bankers seem to be alive to the necessities of the sit uation, the colleges and universities have not done their part. They are still not awake to the need in the everyday business vyorld or to the op portunity for service that lies imme diately before their. It is not enough for a college to point out that it has a foreign-language course, or that it teaches commercial geography or the history of South America. Even a general course on foreign trade is not enough. For there is a special tech nique of foreign trade, and it must be mastered if we are- to get any where. This technique Is one of the coming professions, and one that will bring rewards. Without having attracted much public notice, American manufactur ers have been making real improve ments In recent months. American methods used to be a joke in South and Central America. Disregard of the real wants of prospective custom ers was typical of us once, but not now. We no longer ship warming pans to the tropics, or pack goods In half-ton containers to ports where they must be carried ashore on the backs of natives and transported to the Interior on pack animals. Our system of credit information has im proved immensely. We are estab lishing selling agencies, and conform ing to the custom of the countries as to payments. We are solving some of the intricate "problems of foreign exchange. This much has been done within a few years mostly since the beginning of the European war. Now it seems as If we were to be brought to a halt for a time for lack of man-power. These vast enter prises Involve much detail and require many men to work them out. The permanency of our. trade therefore depends on what the young men of the country do about it. AMERICAN INVENTIVE GENTCS. Thomas Edison, greatest of invent ors, has gone into seclusion in his laboratories and report has It that he is working on some important inven tion designed for use in naval warfare, needless to say for use of the Amer ican. Navy first of all. No intimation of the nature of his work has been let slip and all persons approaching his workshop are - excluded by armed guards. It may be a device for ex plodlng the magazines of battleships by electricity, a iona dream of inventors, or it may be some wonderful new gun designed to outrange the monster 17 inch naval guns that some European 6uperdreadnoughts are said to boast At any rate, it Is safe to assume that something worth while Is holding the interest and genius of Edison and there la pomfort in the thought that he has set himself to tasks associated wi& National defense. It has been admitted In Europe that American inventive genius is un equaled. Our Inventors take up where our military and naval delinquencies leave off. In event of war they would be an Immense asset to the Nation. Turn Tankee Ingenuity whole-heartedly into the business of war and devices of defense and destruction more hor rible and more wonderful than any yet devised are certain to be the prod uct. - Gauging American inventive gen ius with that of Europe, it is reason able to believe that, driven by neces sity, we could outstrip poison gases, trench tanks, liquid fire, 45 centimeter mortars and all the other demons of the European battlefield. Of course, Inventions have not great ly altered the course of conflict in Europe. They have little more than Increased the life .toll. Battles, in fact, have returned to primitive intensity; or, rather, have outstripped that. It is man against man, waves of men against waves of men. The charge on a trench is successful only If the toll in men is. paid. European Inventors really have produced nothing especial ly new or startling. Their greatest engines of destruction are merely elaborations of old models. Their greatest mediums of modern transpor tation sprang from American minds. What American inventors might do, put to that necessity which Is the mother of invention, no one can fore cast. At any rate, they are the one tangible comfort we are able to turn to as the war clouds loom fclacker. Our inventors are the only efficient instrumentalities for early service) in event of a great war. Military service has been represented as a great National burden to Germany by its opponents, but Colonel F. N. Maude, of the British army, quoted Sir Joseph JWhitworth, a British manufac turer, as having said fifty years ago that military training added 84 cents a week to the earning capacity of a laborer and extended his working pe riod five years, because of the knowl edge he had acquired as to methods of effective co-operative work and the best means of retaining his health and strength. Writing In 1870, Colonel Maude estimated that military train ing had thus added $35,000,000,000 to the wealth of Germany in the preced ing thirty years at a cost of $6,600, 000,000, or nearly five and a half for one. Aside from everything else. It pays as a national business investment. The Sheriff of Washington County wjll feel like an Iconoclast when he destroys the 6000 gallons of wine some or it sixteen years old seized at the plant of the old Mountain wine- maker a few months ago. A "dry" law is Inexorable and the wine must go, but it is a pity it connot legally be given to hospitals and other Insti tutions wherein It will do much good. Some day somebody will write a poem in prose to fit the caption, "When Jimmie Woodworth Comes Home," for Portland was the place of his early activities and here he learned the rudiments to fit him for handling the business of a great rail way, and it is to this city his heart turns In the stress of work for the welcome that awaits him. Husbands and wives who take on new mates as fast as the courts- and the six-months' limit allow have no conception- of the beautiful live of men and women together for more than a half century and ending with passing to the beyond within a few days of each other. It isn't in, them. A good means of defense for ships carrying fuel oil might be a hose and nozzle with a powerful pump, which would shoot a stream of the fluid at the crew of any submarine which showed Itself. . That would smooth down some of the German gutturals. There Is nothing that will take the place. of the potato as an article of food-, and people should eat them while they can be obtained. Any other course is foolish. If they cost more, curtail elsewhere. There was nothing distressingly unanimous In the vote to give Oregon City a paid fire department 277 to 275. It shows a healthy interest in the matter, altogether different from the usual fixed affair. Are the courts squeamish about trying a youth whose car killed a woman, solely on account of his age? Ils not many years since a youth was hanged for murder that followed a hold-up. Confronted with the Job of pro visioning their new line on the Ancre, General Halg's men no doubt vie with the, most enthusiastic pleasure-seeker in their advocacy of good roads. The stampede among the -Senators who did not sign the' round robin to get cover or to explain shows which way public opinion trends, on the armed neutrality filibuster. ' Count von Bernstorff runs some risk of being counted out for letting Zimmermann's plot leak out. Com pared with this leak, that which Law son discovered was a trifle. Secretary Daniels would better not suspend the eight-hour law on Navy contracts. Sixteen.hours in two shifts or the whole twenty-four in three will produce much result. The Supreme Court refuses to re open the Diggs-Carmlnetti case, and the sooner the young men go to jail the sooner the nasty affair- will be closed. Tom Marshall had an affair of his own Inauguration day, something like the can that kept up with the dog as it clattered down the street. Some person is responsible for let ting Raymond Abst, a boy of 17. drive the auto which killed Mrs. Green. He should not escape punishment. The bakers' dozen of copperheads unintentionally did the country a serv ice. They made us rally round -the flag. . , The war will certainly end when the belligerents have borrowed all the money in the world. The way the clergymen rally to the war plan is an example to the laymen Inclined to slacker. China will not enter the war with out an understanding as . to the quid pro queue. Is there a side of leather big: enough for a medal for Lane? Bring home all Americans and go ahead. 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 letters will be per sonally answered, subject to proper limita tions and where stamped addressed envelope Is inclosed. Dr. Bvam will not make diagnosis or prescribe for individual diseases. Re quests for such services cannot be answered. (Copyright. 116, by Dr. W. A, Evans. Published by arrangement with the Chicago Tribune.) - GELATIN. Gelatin has not yet found its place as a food. . A better knowledge of it and more confidence in it will greatly increase the um of it. It stands mid way between thl proteins used to repair the albuminous tissues of the body and the fats and carbohydrates used to furnish heat and energjr. It Is free from the objections to meat. It Is not diffi cult to digest. It does not throw theJ nutritions) balance out of order. It does not produce gout or any other so called urlo acid disease. It does not throw a heavy burden on .the kidneys. It has long been the custom to feed gelatin to sick persons. The custom Is well founded. The sick persons would be better off still if they had twice as much gelatin as they get. Protein foods alone can repair the waste in albumi nous tissue. Gelatin is a near albumin. While it cannot fully repair waste it can do the next bet thing It can "fepare the albuminous tissues, such as muscle, brain, liver and others, from wearing down unduly or burning up In excess. Street says in the Modern Hospital: Gelatin is probably the moat efficient protein sparer known, being able to save from destruction about half Its weight of protein. It is easily digested In the stomach and has the advantage of fixing considerable acid during the digestive process. It is accordingly of service in oases of hypersecretion of acid in the stomach. Here we have, then, an easily digested, palatable food, capable of making much heat and able to burn in such a way as to spare the essential structures of .the body. Why is it, then, that gelatins have not made great headway, as foods? There are several reasons. In the first place, they are not marketed on a proper commercial basis. The little square -boxes In which it usually is sold are playthings. 2"oo much of the cost goes into the package and other costs of selling. The Jelly powders mix some flavor. They furnish a way of selling sugar at several times the proper price for sugar. Gelatin is made from parts of the animal not otherwise used for food pur poses. It should be marketed on a straight sale basis at a low price per pound as compared with meat. It is not so marketed. Another reason for the slowness of the growth of gelatin is a widespread distrust of It and of its method of manufacture. Gelatin is nothing but a clean glue or, to put it the other way, glue is nothing but dirty gelatin. Many people are afraid to eat gelatin for fear that it Is made the glue way or side by side with glue. A simple test for gelatin as distin guished from glue Is that given by Parry. When gelatin Is soaked for four hours In cold water and then heated it should not yield an offensive odor. Technically, we say gelatin Is rich in gluten, glue in glucose. Try Deep Breathing;. J.'- C. writes: "What Is the best way to keep the feet warm? It has been my misfortune ever since I was born to have cold feet and no remedy which I have faithfully tried has seemed to overcome the difficulty. For over one year or until I had to cease it because of the beginning of rheumatism I bathed each morning in cold water with the thought that by this method I would be able to Increase the circulation and so rid myself of this trouble. I now take a tepid bath every morning. As I have known of others who are troubled in like manner, I believe this will be of general interest." reply. The best way to keep the feet warm la to -wear woolen . socks. Under appropriate circumstances slippers made from sheepskin with wool on can be worn. To warai the feet when they are cold deep breathing is effective. Ten or 20 forced Inspirations and expirations, breathing to the fullest capacity, will warm the feet and hands. A dally cold bath followed by vigorous rubbing is an ex cellent training against cold feet. There Is nothing better. There la no medicine now known that is of service. Death by Poison. Mourner writes: "(1) If strychnine causes death, how can one tell what the victim died of? (2) Will one bloat after such a death f (3) How soon after eat ing It would one take sick and how long would he suffer? (4) Are symptoms like acute'lndlgestlon? (5) Is it possible for a doctor to be mistaken in sauch a case?" REPLY. 1. A physiolan can form a fairly depend able opinion from the history of the symp toms. An analyst can prove, the presence of strychnine in the atomaeh contents by chem ical examinations and by "trying it" with a guinea pig. 2 and 6. Tea 8. Tepends on the dose and whether or not the stomach wm empty. Generally the symptoms of strychnine poisoning appear In a few mlnutea 4. Very Utile. Mens Is O. K. Mrs. B. B. S. writes: "The accepted breakfast with us la grapefruit, then oat meal with cream and sugar, then a meat. An acid followed by cream amounts to putting an acid in crearrk Do you consider this a healthful diet?" REPLY. Yea . Don't Chance Doctors. H. J. C. writes: "What In your opin ion would be the best thing to do to wards a cure for locomotor ataxia? I have had treatment during the last year as followst Salvarsan, oner- treatment: cacodylate. of soda; mercurialized serum containing bichloride of mercury (Inter spinal); gualcnonlde, and chlorium sul phate. v I have taken these treatments from as many different doctors. My case of locomotor ataxia developed something over a year ago." REPLY. " My first advice Is to stick to one doctor. Five a year is a waste of time, money, and perhaps, opportunity. Put yourself under the direction of a good man and follow his di rections. None of the remedies enumerated is of much service. You are beyond that stage. Had you taken the most effective of them 20 years ago you would be all right now, but you axe much too late for them. What you now need Is training In new use of certain muscles and nerves with Inci dental medicine as occasion requires. This j slaw, ana toftUwv . mrsiixiATiov of ia is his hoie Mr. Cram "Would Have Disloyal Sena tors Brought to Knees. PORTLAND, March 6. (To the Edi tor.) I cannot refrain from protesting against the disgraceful scene present ed in the United States Senate when 1J men who call themselves American citizens deliberately tied the bands of our Chief Exeoutlve and held this great Nation up to the acorn of the world. The red American blood within me, which comes from ancestors on both sides who fought in the Revolution and from a father who was an officer in the Civil War. bolls every time I think of the disgrace that has been given to this country by a dozen poli ticians who pride themselves in placing politics above Americanism. But. as disgraceful as was that scene yesterday, it Is no more so than was that presented Saturday when the Senator from Missouri, in a nuhilrt speech, deliberately betrayed military secrets of the United States Govern ment. If a private American citizen had been caught secretly giving this information to Germany, he would to day be under arrest and denounced as a traitor to his country. If It Is a crime for a private citizen to divulge such Information secretly is it any less a crime for a United States Senator to divulge it publicly, especially when that Senator represents one of the greatest German cities in the country? President Wilson was re-elected on the slogan: "He kept us out of war." Now that he has been re-elected, has he suddenly changed and desires to get us into war? No. Not by any means. President Wilson has put up with in sults to the American flag, the Ameri can Nation and to the American public. He has submitted, not without protest, to the destruction of American lives and American commerce. He has. In deed, been long suffering and as a re sult has been generally condemned by the American public, but the more pa tience he has shown the more aggres sive has become the German Govern ment until his American manhood has finally asserted itself and he has de termined to put a stop to it, even to the point of armed resistance. He appeals to Congress tor the power to protect American lives and property, and Con gress rallies to his support by an al most overwhelming majority when in steps a little band of 12 disgraceful politicians who, under the rules of the Senate are able to keep from him this power and bring disgrace to the Amer ican Nation. I sincerely hope a way will be found to brinr the Senator from Wisconsin and his followers. Including the Sena tor from this fair state, to their knees asking forgiveness from this great Nation. F. B. CRAM, Member Missouri Commandery Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. The Vanished Cowboys. By James Barton Adams. .But scattered samples now remain In these progressive years of riders who o'er hill and plain punched the erratic steers. The knights of eaddle and of rope, the reckless, daring bands, have vanished from the Western Blope as ranchers fenced the lands. The leather chaps no longer greet our eyes in old cow towns; the cowboy remnants that we meet are togged in hand-me-downs. No longer does the wild "wah-hoo!" ring out from vocal flues from riders primed with mountain dew and other brands of booze. The jingling spurs no longer Jlng on street and avenue; they've gone with their metallic ring to scenes and pastures new. The punchers now are scattered o'er this great U. S. of A. from the Atlantic's frothy shore to San Diego Bay. They yet clothespin the peppery bronee. the six-gun draw and shoot, but do It for the golden plunks so-called all evil root. They do not chase the frisky steer as when In cattleland, nor hides of helpless calflets sear with heated Iron brand, but chase the madeup out laws through the dark defiles and glades, the acting desperadoes who have stolen rancher maids. With deadly six-times guns In hand blank cartridges they fire until the reckless outlaw band dramatlc'ly expire, and many packed their riding clothes In warbags and In trunks and drifted to the Wild West shows to bust- the bounding bronks. The pasteboard wads from hot-mouthed guns they fire In bogus rage at Uncle Sammy's red skin sons who chase the flying stage, and in the t winkling!-of an eye they strew the battle sward with forms of red who fight and die for ten a week and board, the while the reel-fed cam era drinks in the tragic scenes to bo displayed in vivid way upon ten thou sand screens. DANGERS IX NEW LEGAL TENDER Misuses or Potato Likely Now That It i Supplants Money. CORVALLIS, Or., March 6. (To the Editor.) Now that potatoes are con sidered legal tender it seems quite In order to warn the public against ao ceptlng imitations or counterfeits. Nu merous uses and misuses will doubtless be made of our new money, now that it Is on an equal footing with the eagle. Since no longer will the unscrupulous be able to slip buttons Into the collec tion box at church, he will no doubt be detected slipping his smallest sun burnt potatoes slyly into the. contribu tion basket. Little Willie will come home from church, having spent his little potato for candy Instead of giv ing it to the Lord. blot machines will have to be re vised, now that the potato has taken the place of the penny and nickel. Weighing machines wlfl' doubtless read. "Your correct weight, one po tato." At amusement parks one will be able to see the sign, "Shoot the Chutes, two potatoes," etc It will very likely be considered bad form to try to pass ''plugged potatoes on the streetcar conductor. W. VERNON. '- Patriotic Service 'Rendered. ALBANY, Or.. March 5. (To the Ed itor.) Please accept my congratula tions upon your splendid editorial en titled "Let Oregon Declare Itself," March 6, 1917. You have made a clear statement of our National crisis and submitted an Irrefutable brief in support of our country's position. You have gone be yond party lines and voiced the united sentiment of the patriotic peopJe of this great state. In this editorial you have rendered a patriotic service to the people of this state and to the Nation itself. MARK V. WEATHERFORD. Chautauquaa. CORVALLIS, Qr.. March 5. (To the Editor.) Where is the Ellison-White Chautauqua Company located and what is the address that will establish com munication with this system? Is the Ellison-White the only Chautauqua system on the Pacific Coast SUBSCRIBER. Ellison-White Chautauqua Cystem. 410 Lumber Exchange. Portland, Or. Gladstone Chautauqua, Oregon City. Oregon. Recall for Lane. EUGENE. Or.. March 5. (To the Editor.) Can our Oregon recall law be applied on this man Benedict Harry Lane? JOHN HUNZICKER. Probably Oregon could hold an elec tion and vote Lane out. but whether the United States Senate or courts would admit the right of the state to shorten a Senator's term, which Is fixed by Federal Constitution, is un-terUU. In Other Days Half a Centory Ago. From The Oregonlan of March T. 1S88. Florence, March 4. Garibaldi promises to go . to Crete to aid the Insurgents. Professor Cardlnell and his pupils will give a soiree tonight at Oro Flno HalL Dr. Robert Newell, familiarly known almost since Oregon was settled as Bob Newell, came down on the Alert yesterday en route to Idaho. Ha came to Oregon In 1S40. and was more or less engaged In the first efforts to or- ganize a iocal civil government. The owners of fast horses were im proving the splendid weather of yes terday by trotting oat their nags for airing and exercise. They made First street pretty lively during a part of the afternoon. Parties at The Dalles have made ar rangements for supplying that town with Ice the coming Summer from the Ice cave near Mount Adams. Paris, March 4. Strikes for high wages among the operatives of France are very frequent. The trouble is traceable to the increased cost of food. Twenty-five Tears Ago. From The Oregonlan of March T, 1892. Berlin. March 6. Mark Twain and wife have left for the South. Hia daughters will remain In Berlin to complete their musical education. San Antonio, March 6. Jay Gould arrived here this evening. He will leave for Mexico probably tomorrow. Bicycles were out in force yesterday and made a racetrack of Washington street. There were single and double bicycles, safety bicycles and unsafe bicycles and they were racing with the electric cars, with buggies and with one another. Such a lovely Spring day as yester day is not to be enjoyed In the East ern states till the middle of May and it would be almost impossible to make a resident of that region believe that we have such weather here early in March. Everybody was abroad enjoy ing the bright sunshine and balmy air. The water ' committee Is going quietly abead with preparations for bringing Bull Run water into the city and some of these days will have things In readiness for beginning the work of laying the big mains. FIRM WORDS AWAKENING PEOPLES Seriousness of National Situation la Heine Made Known. PORTLAND, March 6. (To the Edi tor.) I read with pleasure your many editorials since oiw trouble with Ger many overfher ruthless and inhuman taking of human lives on the seas and last our break with that nation. I must say your paper is doing a great service in the cause of justice in putting before its readers those able editorials. Would that there were more papers as fearless as The Oregonian and more aa bold as Dan Malarkey in expressing their convictions. But your pen and the voice of those who are not afraid reaches and awakens many who are only as yet partially awake to the seriousness of the situation. May you continue to point the way to duty for all who are trying to evade the issue. C. O. RUSSELL. Dangerous Sicnbonrd Still Stands. FAIRVIEW. Or.. March 6. (To the Editor.) I wish to draw the attention of the public to the fact that the bill board near Llnneman Junction, so largely responsible for the tragedy of a few weeks ago, is still doing business at the old stand. It is not alone the loss of a very dear friend, owing to the incident, that prompts the writing of this letter, but the knowledge that the sentiments of the whole surrounding community are embodied therein. We resemble a big family out here, and the loss of one of our members in so sad a manner touches each of us very nearly. For Lilly Luscher be longed to us all. How long is this signboard menace to remain? Must we wait until a member of some official's family is cut down or injured in the same manner? Is it out of place to cry "Safety First"? It would appear that common de cency would have suggested to the property owners, or the signboard firm, the instant removal of an obstacle the presence of which has lead to such an unfortunate disaster. RICHARD CAYZER. Loyalty Teat Proposed. MEDFORD. Or.. March 4. (To the Editor.) Mayor Albee's stand in In dorsing the President's view of the trouble with Germany is the only stand that genuine Americans can take and he is to be congratulated in taking that view. Moreover. I would suggest that In every school or public place of educa tion every pupil should be marched past the "Star Spangled Banner" and asked to salute it. and if they or any of them refuse to do so, then the cause of their refusal be ascertained if pos sible. If it be found that their parents are to blame, then such steps as may be possible be taken to find out if their parents ere genuine citizens of Hie uniicu oiaica, If they are not citizens, then they should be deported, - as the United Statea Is not the place for anyone who is not in full accord with the Govern ment In this crisis. W. M. FORDE. Mr. McNulty Incorrectly (tooted.' PORTLAND. March 6. (To the Edi tor.) Your otherwise verycorrect and excellent report of my address before the Hibernians of this city contained one report, in parenthesis, in which it was stated that I said that the "British were the only people who had not be come purely American" through their naturalization. My speech was typewritten and the words, here mentioned were not given at all; the report was, in this item of course, a mistake. What a pure Ameri can is, is something over which most people will disagree and the very Idea given by the words is not In harmony with any of my Ideas. JOHN M'NULTY. Toes Should Be Shifted. SPRINGFIELD. Or., March 6. (To the Editor.) Please accept the thanks of one "Constant Reader" for your edi- torial today. "Let Oregon Declare Itself." It is my opinion that you express the ideas of the great majority of our people. Many of us are just plain, com mon Americans and we are entirely un able to draw the lines as fine as our Senator. Harry Lan, Kindly suggest to us, from time to time, that it might be well to shift, at the earliest possible moment, his toga to Republican shoulders. R. L. KIRK. Lesnlng Posts Needed. PORTLAND. March 6. (To the Edi tor.) Being a resident of the city of Portland for the past 20 years, and having the interest of our city at heart, I would like to suggest that in addi tion to all the other improvements be ing made for the benefit of the citi zens, the city put up "leaning posts' for the overworked young men. In thte way girls and women will be able to avoid the invariable "Pardon me, please." when posting their mail. Personally, I have walked past half a dozen boxes before finding one free fjrom the leaning young man. A.-M, ft,