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T1TE MORNING OKEGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCII 7, 1917.
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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,