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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1917.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE T
Objection Is made by some per
sons to the proposed arming and pro
tection of American ships against at
tack by German submarines in the
barred zone on the ground that the
United States has also denounced the
allied blockade of Germany as illegal,
and that strict neutrality requires the
same protection to American ships
bound for German ports against seiz
ure by the allies. Senator Jones dwelt
n this point when he said in the de
bate on the armed neutrality bill:
This bill does not say anything about
any special country having committed acts,
but It says the ships of any country mak
ing an unlawful attack upon our ships. It
lioids out to our merchantmen that they
will be protected against the unlawful at
tacks by any country.
Mr. President, Germany Is not the only
country that has closed the high seas to
American ships. Great Britain has closed
and denied to our ships the right to travel
upon certain portions of the high seas. She
lias not sunk any of our ships. Why? Be
cause they have not gone there. They have
not braved her power. That is why, and
the only reason why she has not done It.
"Why do not our merchant ships insist npon
going to Germany?
Our ships do not attempt to run the
British blockade because it is effective.
Germany does not even call her naval
operations a blockade, but only warns
ships that, if they enter a certain
barred zone, they will be attacked. If
Germany did call these operations a
blockade, neutrals would be under no
obligation to respect it, for it Is not
effective. Insurance rates on ships
entering the barred zone are only 9
or 10 per cent, which Implies that
the chances are about ten to one that
they will not be sunk.
But our State Department has dis
puted the legality of the British block
ade in some respects, and it is there
fore contended that our Government
should arm ships to resist capture by
British cruisers and 6hould use the
, Fame instrumentalities to protect them
e gainst the British as are to be used
against the Germans. Why is this not
Contemplated ?
In the first place, the United States
lias not disputed the general legality
nor effectiveness of the British block
ade; we have only denied that cer
tain methods of its enforcement are
illegal. As to almost all of these
points. Great Britain refers lis to
precedents established by the United
Mates during the Civil War, to which
Great Britain then assented. Hence
they are disputed questions of law af
fecting property rights, such as we
are bound by our general arbitration
treaty to submit to arbitration. If
that did not bind us, the Bryan peace
treaty would. Resistance to capture
of ships would be an act of war, and
the Bryan treaty forbids the United
Mates and Great Britain to resort to
war until, after failure of diplomatic
negotiations, a year has been devoted
to inquiry by a commission and to
efforts at amicable settlement upon
the basis of its findings. Cur dispute
with Germany concerns not only prop
erty rights hut human life, and Is
therefore not arbitrable. Even if It
were, we have no arbitration treaty
with Germany, and no Bryan peace
treaty has been made with that power.
The question then arises whether the
points in dispute between the United
Mates and Great Britain are so se
rious as to justify us in iemorlng the
treaties and in defending our ships
by armed force. The blockade is
effective, but Is conducted at long
range instead of br maintaining a pa
trol close off the coast, as was for
merly the practice. Change in char
acter of ships and weapons of war
i'nd in methods of coast defense have
brought change in methods of block
ade, resulting in sanction of blockade
at long range. For example, in the
Civil War our ships went as far as
1000 miles from shore to seize blockade-runners,
one British ship Being
captured as far away as the Cape
Verde Islands. In the Crimean War
Riga was blockaded by a single vessel
stationed in a narrow channel 120
miles distant.
The United States has complained
that ships are seized on suspicion and
taken out of their course to British
ports for search. The British reply
that the size of modern ships renders
Fearch at sea impracticable and dan-
perous to the ship itself, especially
when submarines are at large. They
refer us to the case of the British ship
Adela, which was captured on July 7,
3 862, and sent to Key West by Com
mander Frailey, of the Quaker City,
who reported:
I did not examine her hold, being under
the Impression at that time that T had no
authority to open her hatches, but, having
a suspicion of her character, 1 deemed it my
duty to send her Into port and hand her over
to judicial authority for examination.
Another American protest relates to
the capture of ships bound for ports
of neutral countries contiguous to
Germany on the ground that the ulti
mate destination of their cargoes Is
German. .. This brings up the rule of
continuous voyage and ultimate desti
nation, which was laid down by our
Supreme Court when the Civil War
was In progress. It was held that a
cargo 6arried to- a neutral port, where
there was no market for it or when
the ultimate destination was a block
aded port, was lawful prize. In the
case of the Magicienne, captured on
the way to Matamoras. Hex., with
a cargo held to be destined for the
rebels in Texas, this rule was applied
to goods carried part way across neu
tral land, which Is a parallel with the
ease of goods going through Holland
to Germany.
One innovation In blockade methods
which lias been adopted by the allies
is the practice of rationing neutrals,
that is, limiting their imports of goods
to their own normal consumption in
peace time and regarding all excess
as destined for Germany and therefore
liable to seizure. Holland, Denmark
and Norway have eubmitted to this
rule, but there has been serious fric
tion between Britain and Sweden. Our
b
trade has suffered by it, and we may
make a good case against it.
The strorrgest point in the American
case against the blockade, is the fact
that it has not been made effective in
the Baltic Sea between Germany and
the Scandinavian countries, yet It Is
enforced against ships coming from
countries which do not border on the
Baltic. It is defended by Britain with
the plea that "the passage of com
merce to a blockaded area across a
land frontier or across an Inland sea
has never been held to interfere with
the effectiveness of a blockade." But
this plea can hardly apply to a sea
on which several countries front, and
it seems to be dictated by the danger
of sending ships through the straits
to enforce the blockade of the Ger
man Baltic ports.
Secretary Lansing has also pro
tested against British search of the
mails. particularly the method of its
enforcement. Mail steamers are taken
far from their course into port, de
tained there till their mails are landed,
the mails are censored and sent on by
another ship after vexatious delay. The
right to search mail for contraband
is recognized, though it was not exer
cised for many years until the prac
tice of sending merchandise and hos
tile propaganda by mail became gen
eral. The American protest relates
to the manner, not to the fact, of Its
exercise.
There Is reason to believe that, when
the war is over, theJnlted States will
have a stiff bill of damages for Great
Britain to settle, but if we wait till
then we shall only follow the Civil
War precedent set by Britain. Several
British ships were condemned by our
lower courts, but their decision was
reversed by the Supreme Court after
the war had been over for a year, and
Britain waited.
Hence the reasons for acting dif
ferently toward Britain and Germany
are' that their cases are not parallel.
Britain enforces an effective blo'ckade
and, though we maintain that it Is
tainted with illegality, only property
rights are involved; they will not suf
fer seriously by delay and. In any
event, we are debarred from a resort
to force by the arbitration and the
Bryan treaties. Germany's so-called
blockade is not effective, it plainly
violates the first principles of law and
humanity and we cannot brook delay
in obtaining a remedy, for every day's
delay may cost life, which cannot be
restored, nor are our hands tied by
arbitration and Bryan treaties. There
is a wide difference.
HIS ALIBIS.
The alibi of Senator Lane, in his
first great failure to support the Presi
dent in the German crisis, consisted
in the more or less persuasive plea
that he had gone out on the Senate
veranda to take the night air, and
they locked the door on him, and he
couldn't get back. But he would have
voted no, he says. The Senator's ex
planation of the vote he didn't cast is
as unconvincing as some of the votes
he casts.
If we get the Senator's viewpoint
of the occurrences in the Senate last
Sunday, it is that he was present and
voting, and talking, but he didn't know
what he was voting on or talking
about.
"I was unable," he says, "to procure
the original document from the com
mittee, so .did not know, nor do I
know, what it contained. It disap
peared before the debate upon its con
tents, for what reason I do not under
stand." It does riot appear, however, that if
he had known what was in the reso
lution, the muddled Senator would
have voted aye; for he had an amend
ment which would have fixed every
thing all 'right. If only he could have
offered It. He might as well have
been enjoying the moonshine from the
portico.
Meanwhile, let us hope the Senator
Will expose the wicked conspiracy pf
the Senate to prevent him from ascer
taining the contents of a document
under consideration. For there must
have been a plot to keep him in the
dark. How else can it be explained
that a Senator who has. been on the
job for four years doesn't know the
way from the smoking porch into the
Senate and cannot exercise his consti
tutional right to rise in his seat and
ask to be informed what is going on?
NO LOAVES OR FISHES
Petroleum V. Nasby Is dead, but not
forgotten. A real service to the litera
ture of the civil service will be per
formed if some enterprising medium
will communicate with the spirit of
the departed postmaster of Confed
erate X Roads, and get his views
on the order of the Postmaster-General
placing offices of the first, second
and third class under the civil service.
Have the spoilsmen no rights? Are
there to be no plums for the faithful
political worker? What is a post
office job for if it Is not for the bene
fit of the henchman who saves the
country every four years?
Apparently, it is designed that the
applicant for the postmastership of
New York or of Portland must stand
an examination. Just as it la now, with
Cathlamet or Svenson. One may easily
imagine the consternation of Tam
many Hall or of the Jackson Club of
Portland. Or of the Democratic ma
chine, which has other ideas about
Frank Myers' job.
Tet no one except the politicians is
able to give a plausible reason why
efficiency should not be the rule in
postoffice appointments. So far as the
public is concerned, if Postmaster
Myers is the best man for the job, he
should have it, and keep it, no mat
ter what are his politics. But the
old practice is to give it to the man
and now perhaps the woman who is
closest to his Congressman. It is a
wonder the postoffice as an institu
tion has survived,
Possibly President Wilson has in
augurated the new scheme of non
political appointments to please the
Republicans, whose support in Con
grets he courts. If that is so, we
will not refrain from saying that it
Is the only time he has shown the
slightest consideration for the mem
bers of the party which is opposed to
him and his party, but which Btands
loyally by him in every real National
emergency.
rsECDO-rsrciioLoar.
Psychoanalysis, lately the plaything
of enterprising and pretentious psy
chologists, now promises to enter the
list of cults and special mental, moral
and physical first aids. From a yellow
supplement sensation it has lately de
veloped into an imposing and ponder
ous new science calculated to do vast
things for poor, weak mankind.
A New York woman is its high
priestess and she has written the in
evitable book, which lays the founda
tion of the new "science." The public
is brought into touch with its alluring
potentialities through, the medium of
free press notices spread broadcast by
a prominent metropolitan publishing
house. We are solemnly Informed that
all cults heretofore based on sugges-
tion and the power of mind over mat
ter "are futile meanderings, idle grop
ings, into the great realm of psycho-,
analysis. The new science Is the real
thing. By its aid one may know the
soul secrets of his neighbor as well as
of himself. Knowing one's own short
comings as well as those of one's as
sociates is an obvious advantage. It
permits one to Investigate and Influ
ence those Instinctive forces lying be
low the threshold of consciousness, as
the press agent eloquently puts it.
Doubtless, neurotic and mentally de
ranged persons could find more or less
of interest "to therri in the subject
perhaps some benefit. Being victims
of suggestion, they would succumb
temporarily to the suggestive Influ
ences of a "psychoanalyistess." But
there is room for strong suspicion that
when a person who has escaped world
ly success seeks that desirable bless
ing by a psychoanalytical voyage into
the realm of the subconscious with the
purpose of influencing from well-defined
courses strong, instinctive forces,
the hopelessness of the case is only
rendered more certain. Psychology"!
is a worthy subject and the psychol
ogists have added vastly to the world's
store, but we are inclined to be darkly
suspicious of super, hyper and pseudo
psychologists. ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT.
A more or less long-suffering public
arises once more to ask about a griev
ance against which it has often
rebelled fruitlessly. We refer to
the questionable right of a prima donna
to indulge In a fit of temperament, so
called, on the eve of an important en
gagement and so disappoint the public
which has paid good money into the
box office to hear her sing. Portland
has had sue an experience time and
again. The recent refusal of Maggie
Teyte and Riccardo Martin to appear
in Faust, on the last night of the
operatic season, is said to have been
duo to the 'familiar complaint tem
perament. Has any artist the right
to disappoint a good-natured public
merely to gratify a personal whim?
The public has every right to see the
best of which an operatic organization
is capable. In no circumstances should
an individual star stand as an obstacle
between the audience and the enjoy
ment of its art.
If we are to make the art of the
theater, and more particularly of the
opera, better from day to day, and if.
those who are in the producing side
of the businer- are ever to attain
the slightest measure of perfection, it
can be only when It is rendered im
possible for a star to play fast and
loose with the good will of an audi
ence. That audience is justified in
asking' if Maggie Teyte and Mr. Martin
have lost their manners and if they
have forgotten the plain dictates of
good breeding, to say nothing of the
demands of common sense.
It is essentially the purpose of the
artist to create illusion, in so far as his
talents allow, and he simulates to a
more or less perfect degree the at
tributes of the characters that fall to
his lot. It is a curious thing, then,
that after he has made use of all
his abilities to attain this end, he will
often, by a single rude action, delib
erately destroy the atmosphere so
carefully built up, and do it, apparent
ly, for no purpose other than the
gratification of his own vanity. Ar
tistic temperament is an almost, uni
versal habit nowadays among folk of
the theater, but it is ironically note
worthy that the star of the first rank,
whose work is stamped throughout
with the imprint of genuine art, is
more highly susceptible to the inroads
of the disease than the little singer
in the chorus who needs the money
every week. It is a cheap, tawdry
method of gratifying an inflated ego.
An especially heavy wave of artistic
temperament has flung the career of
many an artist on the rocks. Fritzl
Scheff, once the idol of a public which
flocked to see her, no matter what
her vehicle, has artlstio-tempera-mented
herself almost out of any at
tention. Kmma Trentini has disap
pointed her public so often that man
agers are afraid to risk booking her.
It is a positive fact in the operatic
world that managers spend half their
days on their knees beseeching the
stars to "please go on for the perform
ance." Any impulse that prompts an
artist to break with his public er with
the manager who gave him his op
portunities is liable to be a career-
breaking one. Temperament is pos
sibly the trade wind on the ocean of
an artist's life. It Is certainly his
governing force, but when it is al
lowed to run amuck it falls far short
of what we interpret as the spirit of
the contract.
'IN TEN MIXCTFS.
The ten-mlnutes-a-day fad lias been
revived by a New York philanthropist
evidently intent on performing some
service that would balance the goodly
work of Chicago patriots in the hiriug-
after-4 5 crusade. People are urged
to put' in ten minutes a day in some
worky work. It will be recalled at
once that this simple plan was ad
vanced by some of our fathers as a
certain avenue to health, wealth and
wisdom. Even as drops of water, con
stantly repeating contact with the lrard
surface of a stone, ultimately wear
away that stubborn resistance, so the
daily repetition of ten minutes' appli
cation would wear away the brittle en
durance of ignorance and failure.
Ten minutes a day, we are told, will
convert the muscles of ft sardine into
those of a Sandow. It will replace
clumsy mentality with a mind trained
and polished to literary and artistic
niceties. Ten minutes a day spent on
the encyclopaedia eventually should
bring the mind in touch with th
whole range of human knowledge. Of
course the fate of tho man who set
upon this mission and was interrupted
after mastering all subjects under "a"
and "b" must not be lost sight of.
He was an intellectual wizard on such
subjects as alectoridea and could tell
all about binturong and antirrhimum
without a moment's hesitation. But
ask him to describe the composition
of concrete or the functions of the
comitia and he was lost.
The man who wields dumbbells
for ten minutes ought to have bulging
biceps in course of time, but if called
upon to perform an hour of manual
labor he would be a sorry spectacle
at the conclusion of his penanc
The ten-minutes-a-day literateur will
quote ably from Dante or Shelley with
out knowing for certain whether those
gentlemen were Grecian sheepherders
or Cretan plutocrats.
One thing is certain, however. The
ten-minutes-a-day man will learn
.more than he might have known had
he neglected to form this worthy habit,
whether he utilizes the ten minutes
In studying stock quotations or Na
poleon's tactics. But if he has such
a craving for lore, why not put in an
hour or two hours on some useful
subject. At any rate, he should be
careful not to let the ten-mlnutes-a-day
habit turn In the wrong direction
If it is to be ten minutes a day, it
must be ten minutes in addition to
time normally spent in labor and not
ten minutes pilfered from working
hours. The only man who can hope
to gain the slightest benefit from the
ten-minutes habit is the one who adds
that period to the ten hours devoted
ordinarily to the business of keeping
busy each day.
WOMAN'S OPPOBTtTNITT.
' In those peaceful days of a few years
ago the young women of France had
one. grievance among others which
pained them exceedingly. They were
rarely, if ever, permitted to enter the
profession .of teaching. School posi
tions, both primary and advanced,
were firmly retained by male peda
gogues and women teachers were as
rare in Franc as women jurists in
America. v
Witness a record of the mighty
change that has been wrought. Fif
teen thousand women have been added
to the teaching forces of France. They
have invaded the faculties of all
schools except the great universities.
In those institutions the classes have
been reduced by enlistment to a mere
handful, and the ancient teachers, too
old and feeble for any order of mili
tary service, keep tho colleges alive.
But in all other schools the women are
directing: the education of the young,
and are doing so to the complete
satisfaction of all concerned, we are
told.
Here was another case where wom
an needed but the trial in order to
prove her worth. She has) done the
same thing in England and Germany,
where she has made good in trades
and professions. Women have been
described as the greatest sufferers
from the war In Europe. Perhaps so,
so far as individual sorrow goes. But
the tragedy is not a total loss to them.
and ultimately the sex will find itself
tree irom me letters or 01a traditions
and customs which once held women
back as inferiors.
For the first time in many years,
it Is now estimated that American In
dians actually are increasing in num
bers. This is due, however, not to an
Increasing birth rate, but rather, to
important progress made in teaching
them about the care of infants. Only
a decade ago three out of every five
Indian babies born were doomed to
die before they reached the age of 5.
This was because of lack of care at
birth, ignorance of the fundamental
laws of feeding, children's maladies of
various kinds and diseases inherited
from their parents. Lack of accurate
vital statistics of the Indians of long
ago prevents comparisons worth while,
but it is clear that even if the high
death rate was due in part to condi
tions imposed by white men. it was
only a simple duty by way of recom
pense to point the way to improve
ment. This has been done with effect,
it would seem, and the turning point
has been reached that has taken the
Indian at last from the list of "van
ishing races."
A New- York magistrate decides a
wife has right to take money from her
husband's pockets while he sleeps if
he does not provide enough funds for
the household. This gives legal sanc
tion to a custom that has prevailed
since Adam put a hip pocket in his
Summer suit and Eve found it.
If any clew points to foul play in
the case of Buxton, missing from For
est Grove, the city should be combed.
Incidentally, it can be said that Port
land is now big enough to register all
evil-doers of high and low degree.
The fury of public condemnation
quickly reduced the "group of wilful
men" In the Senate from twelve to
three." Public opinion has not only
the will but the power to conquer.
Why does not Carranza buy some
tank cars to chase the Villistas? Henry
Ford might have pacifist scruples
about supplying them, but others are
not so particular.
If Senator Lane should revise his
speech as radically as he has revised
his attitude on the armed neutrality
filibuster, he may emerge as a full
blown militarist.
What woe there is among the faith
ful at the prospect that they must
prove their efficiency as postmasters
rather than .as politicians in order to
hold their jobs. .
It is not the dog's fault that he is
without a license tag, but it is his
fate to suffer. ' A decent dog loses
his self-respect after a ride in the
catcher's cart-
Many a boy, enthusiastic now, will
have to be "licked" to keep his garden
going until the crops are gathered.
In that diffidence he "takes after"
his father.
Nerve tonic was an appropriate ar
ticle for German spies to sell. Though
they are examples of its effects, they
may at times have needed their own
medicine.
Chief Tumbremaa had good cause to
be bewildered when he landed in
America, but probably he would have
felt quite at home if he had gone to
Europe.
Just now home rule for Ireland Is
an agitation. After the war she will
get it. There is possibility of intrigue
at the bottom of the present disturb
ance.
A more appropriate sentence for
Private Scharfenberg would have been
that which was Imposed on "The Man
Without a Country."
Cuba haa proved stability as a re
public and therefore its title to inde
pendence by suppressing a revolution
without aid.
The Irish controversy ia fast getting
back to the point where it stood when
the home-rule bill was passed.
Those Germans going into Mexico
at the rate of 100 a day are leaving
the skillet for the firebox.
Zeppelin did his best for his coun
try, which is more than can be said
for a lot of Americans.
People who a while back were yell
ing about a deficiency in rainfall are
getting theirs "now.
Mrs. Wilson ia not the only woman
in the land who must get along with
the old furniture.
To be defendant in a suit for aliena
tion shows a man has some standing
in the community.
The brickmakers, too, throw a brick
at the dozen copperheads.
Gomes cannot tret over his rebel
ways.
How to Keep Well.
By Dr. W. A. Evans.
Onestlnnit wertlTient n livrlene. sanitation
and prevention of disease, if matters of
erai interest, will be answerea in mil vui
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. Evans wilt not make diagnosis
or prescribe for individual diseases. Re
Quetts for such services cannot be answered.
(Copyright. 1916. by Dr. XV. A. Evans.
Published by arrangement with the. Chicago
Tribune.)
BOILS.
The old method of treating bolls waa
based on the theory that bolls were
due to impurities in the blood. The
system was attempting to throw the
Impurities off through the skin. In
consequence the treatment, of bolls
proceeded along two lines. First, so
called blood purifiers were taken in
ternally. Most of these blood purifiers
were decoctions of weeds and herbs
and had no effect in any direction.
Iodide of potassium was also given.
I presume it was used because It was
known to cause boils Sometimes. The
hair of the dog was good for the bite.
The next step in treatment founded
on the same theory, consisted in put
tiny on a poultice to draw out the
poison. If several bolls came around
the original boll, so much the better,
since it proved that there was much
matter to be worked out.
The present theory is that boils re
sult from infection from without. The
Cocci bore through the skin somewhat
as does the Itch. The Internal machin
ery fights the Invaders in a way that
may or may not be effective. Just
what this statement means will be
shown by illustration later. Based
upon this change In theory the method
of treating bolls has been changed.
This is tho way Bowen treats boils:
The patient takes a tepid bath twice a
day. The entire body. Including the
scalp, is scrubbed with soap and water.
The skin is dried with a clean, sterile
tow.-L Then the whole surface of the
skin is again bathed, this time with a
saturated solution of boric acid, to
which a few drops of camphor water
has been added. Next the skin is al
lowed to dry. Then the boll or boils
are dressed with the following oint
ment: Borle acid one dram; precipi
tated sulphur, one dram; carbolated
petrolatum, one ounce. Tills is left on
until the next bath hour.
Every stitch of linen worn next the
skin is changed once or twice a day.
The outer clothing Is kept as clean as
possible. In bad cases the bed cloth
ing and the night robes are changed
once a day.
If the patient's occupation is respon
sible for his bolls, some change must
be made. For instance, men who sub
merge their arms in grease as a part
of their work frequently develop bolls
on their forearms. If the grease 1
occasionally sterilized by heat, or it
is kept clean,, the workers do not de
velop bolls. Such a workman should
either sterilize the grease In which he
works, or he should keep it clean, or
he should change his job.
It Is a tar cry from the above method
of keeping" the skin around a boll
soggy, hot and filthy from the use of
hot linseed poultices.
There are certain conditions in
which there is not the normal resist
ance to bacterial Invasion through the
skin, and in which boils are prone to
develop. For instance, for some reason
not understood, diabetics are prone to
carbuncles and; boils. So marked Is
this tendency that a' person who has
carbuncles and repeated crops of bolls
should have his urine examined for
sugar. In addition, he will do well to
stop eating sugars, sweets, desserts,
bread and potatoes.
DIGESTION IS rOOIL
Mrs. A. B. P. writes: "What shall I
feed my baby? He Is 2 months old and
was thin when born. If I put much
more water in his milk than one-half
It does not seem to satisfy him, and
If I put In cream it physics him too
much. The cow whose milk he takes
was fresh last July. Does tho cow's
feed affect tho baby? She Is fed
mostly on alfalfa hay and corn, but
had been having a daily feed of stock
tonic. Tho baby's stools are green
most of the time. Is this a bad sign?
What shall I use for baby's sore
mouth?"
REPLY.
Tho fact that your baby has green stools
and loose bowels Is proof that his digestion
Is not good. You should change his feed.
It Is too bad that he Is not at the breast.
Feed htm not less than six and not more
than seven times a day. Give four and
one-half ounces at a feeding. Weigh him
Give him one and one-half ounces of milk
a day for each pound of his weight. Add
enough wars- to bring the total quantity
of food up to 29 ounces. -Add one ounce
of malt sugar or malt food. It la not prob
able that the cow's food Is affecting the
baby harmfully. The probability is that
tho dilution haa not been proper.
No Danger to Baby.
Mrs. J. B. O. writes: "(1) Is there
any danger of 'marking or otherwise
Injuring a baby by having dentist
work done in the second month of
pregnancy? (2) Can a boy of 10 who
has had a bronchial cous;h since 3
years old bo cured? What is tho best
treatment? Is there danger of his
lungs being weakened therefrom? (3)
What causes a child to Jerk and talk in
Its sleep?"
REPLY.
1. No.
2. Probably. Tho chances are that he has
bronchletlc cavities. If so. cure will de
pend upon his having tho earo of good phy
slclans. If you mean to ask as to the dan
ger from tuberculosis. I do not think there
Is any proof that children with chronic
bronchitis aro unduly subject to consump
tion.
a. Ths causes are many. Among them are
nervousness, lack of poise, worms, the eat
lng of meat, especially for supper.
Whooping; Congb. Dangrronii,
Mrs. J. W. writes: "(1) I have three
children from 15 months to 5 years old
and they all have whooping cough. Is
It harmless? (2) What kind of medi
cine should I give to them? (S) How
long will it last?
REPLY.
1. It Is not harmless. Many thousands of
children dls from whooping courh each
yee.r. It Is one of the most dangerous dis
eases to which babies are subject.
2. They will do Just as well without
medicine. Keep them In bed so long as
they are feverish. When the fever subsides
the children should te allowed to get up.
3. The fever stage lasts about one week.
The whooping may be kept up for two
months or more. Tho disease usually ceases
to be contagious In four to six weeks. Borne
scientific experiments Indicate that it Is
not contagious for oven that length of
time.
Profit on ale of Suarar.
ELLENSBURG, Wash.. March 7. (To
the Editor.) A purchases a sack of
FUgar for $4 and sells it at once for $8.
What is the per cent of profit In the
transaction, assuming there is no cost
of doing business?
MAX E: WILSON.
A'b profit on his Investment is $4,
or 100 par cent on the purchase price.
HALF MAST FOR THIRTEEN DAYS
Veteran's Flag Mourns Existence of
JVef arloua Baker's Dozen.
CANBY Or.. March 7. (To the Edi
tor.) I am a veteran of the Civil War
and a member of Mead Post of the
Grand Army of the Republic, at Ore
iron City, Oregon. I voted for Abraham
Lincoln In his second campaign for the
Presidency; and have never since voted
for a President on any .other ticket
than that' of the Republican.
As a pioneer of the Pacific North
west since 1852 I have seen and known
many good men in both state and
church, and a number in both who were
not the most desirable kind of citi
zens, and a few who were of desperate
and dangerous characters, but I think
the most Inexcusable and cowardly un-
Amerlcanlsm I have ever known came
to the limelight of public recognition
in the closing hours of the late session
of the American Congress, wherein a
dozen plus one a baker's dozen, if
you will not only defied but defeated
tho American Congress, and the great
American Nation as well, by as perfidi
ous, pestilential and unpatriotic prac
tice as could be well hatched in Hades.
I possess a flagstaff of mv own se
lection from te wood, and of m v make.
and erection. Tho lower third of its
length I have painted red. the middle,
or second third of Its length I have
painted white, and the upper or third
one-third length I have painted a sky
blue red, white and blue. When The
Oregonlan brought mo tho news of
this National and world-wide disaster
I ran my stars and stripes to half mast
and rested Old Glory in the center of
the staffs blue area, and pensively
said. "You will go up to the place of
mourning and of sorrow for 13 con
secutive days a day each for the now
immortal American filibusters, and
daily thus will I in sorrow and ehame-
facedness remember them by name.
f ig-uretiveiy speaking, with "tears in
my eyesr" for their folly and with
sand in my craw v for the elimination
of their kind from official relations.
Every patriot ought to own a flag
and on an occasion like this, if it ever
again occurs, put it at half-mast for
an Impressive time. When a dozen men
can perfidiously rule a Congress and a
nation it s about time to change the
rules by which such shameless conni
vance can bo had and thus do away
with tho nefarious practice.
A. J. JOS1-.XIN.
PCTTIXO SLAG IN MELTING POT
Hyphenated Press Trying to Prevent
Americanization of Forelsrn-born.
PORTLAND. March 8. (To tho Ed
itor.) In reading your comments on
tho Indefensible conduct of Senator
Lane I noticed with concern and dis
gust how the Oregon German Daily
rallies to the support of that precious
pack of misguided legislators who have
placed the President of the United
States In a queer position before the
world.
The left-handed patriotism of the
German-American papers is becoming
more and more obnoxious to all true
Americans, particularly their antago
nistic attitude to our Government and
their cry of "No war with Germany,"
when, as Is known to all, the reaon is
not so much love for the United States
as it Is their deep concern for the fate
of Germany. These papers seem to be
callous to the fact that we are very
close to war, and while their utter
ances may be not actually seditious
they are paving the road which leads
in the direction of sedition.
It seems to me that if America is
the melting pot of Nations, the melting
process might be allowed to continue
undisturbed without dumping in such
unfusible slag as the hyphenated press
is trying to make out of our citizens of
foreign birth. For the time is coming
(if It Is not already here) when our
foreign-born must cease looking back
ward to the land of their fathers and
look to America as the land of their
children and their children's children.
And it will become their duty to safe
guard that heritage with a loyal de
votion to our common cause.
"Yours for a thoroughly united United
States. THEEON E. LYON.
MB. LANE'S STAND IS DEFENDED.
Sllverion Minister Says Oreacon Senator
Deserves Thanks,
SILVEHTON, Or., March 7. (To the
Editor.) As a citizen. of Oregon I wish
to thank Senator Lane for the cour
ageous stand he took In the United
States Senate on the armed neutrality
Mil. It Is n crises like this that the
Nation's chosen representatives can
show their real worth by bravely dar
lng to stand for the common public
good In the face of tremendous oppo
sition and calumniation.
Many loyal American citizens are not
only puzzled, but surprised, disappoint
ed and startled, at the very thought of
our National Senate favoring the plac
ing of unlimited powers in the hands
of one man in a crisis like this; and
that even without first allowing Con
press sufficient time for adequate dis
cussion. With regard to the loud condemna
tion of Senator Lane by the Portland
City Council, as reported in the Port
land papers of March 5. I simply wish
to. say that the worthy council must
not be regarded as speaking for the
state of Oregon. There are others,
though less nolay and there are many
of them, too who thoroughly disagree
with them, and who heartily thank
Senator Lane for his sane and manly
stand. Tours for peace.
F. C. ROS ELAND.
Pastor St. John's Church, Silverton,
Oregon.
UNITED FftOXT OUR ONLY SAFETY.
Attitude of Self-Acclaimed Pacifists
Likely to Get La Into War.
PORTLAND, March . (To the Ed
itor.) Such letters as that or Fr.
Gregory you can afford to Ignore. He
Is a rabid anglophobe.
Men like Lane and Gregory make me
thinkof the words in the song "Just
Before the Battle Mother":
Tell ths traitors all around us
That their cruel words wo know
N In every battle kill our soldiers
By the aid they give the Xoa.
Our battle has been, and still Is, a
supreme effort to keep out of war by
proving to our possible enemy that the
Nation is united in Its resolve to defend
ItsJ rights.
The words and actions of men like
these create the opposite impression
and Conviction, and are just the way to
Involve us in the war.
The time now is when the Govern
ment needs, and is entitled to. the un
qualified support of every citizen.
C. B. PTE.
Bachelor la Defined.
PORTLAND, Or, March 8. (To the
Editor.) I have read the article "50-50
Matrimony," by A Bachelor Man. A
bachelor la one of those substitutes
you call man shifts ail responsibili
ties on to woman, goes through life
with duty forgotten and love denied.
There is also a letter by Allen L.
Lambert on the same subject. There
is no question but he ia the same
specie as A Bachelor Man.
GEORGIA BLAIR.
481 East Thirty-seventh, North.
Klarrlage After Divorce.
PORTLAND, March 9. (To the Ed
itor.) 1. Mention states where one can
marry under six months after being di
vorced. 2. If one is divorced in-Washington
can one come ta Oregon and
marry under six months?"
A SUBSCRIBER.
1. One cannot legally marry in any
state within six months If divorced in
other atate which prohibits it. i. No.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Tears Ago.
From Tho Oregonlan of March 9. 1392.
The Behrlng Sea Arbitration treaty
reached the Senate yesterday. There
is general feeling of disappointment
growing out of Salisbury's refusal to
a renewal of the modus Vivendi.
Seattle, Wash. Tho Democrats made
a clean sweep of the city election yes
terday, taking the offices now held
oy itepuoncans. Konald, the Demo
cratic candidate for mayor, has a good
safe lead.
,
Attorney F. B. Jolly and Mrs. .Tnllv
leave this morning for a visit at the
home of his father. Rev. William Jolly,
of Hillsboro.
Miss Maud Cooper, daughter of J. S.
Cooper, banker at Independence, was
hurt when alighting from a train re
cently. '
A reception will be tendered Mrs.
M. S. Huston, of Dei Moines, by the
Taylor Street Church members this
evening.
Dr. Josephl is noted for being a very
cool and collected man under the most
trying circumstances, and this trait
was well shown yesterday morning.
He was crossing the Morrison street
bridge in a buggy. At tho East end
of the bridge the floor Is torn up on
one side so teams cannot pass each
other. The doctor drove into this nar
row place and met an electric car.
There was no way for him to get out
of the way. The motorman brought
his car to a stop, but made no move
to back his car, and stood glaring at
the doctor. The latter coolly took an
Oregonian out of his pocket and began
reading without saying a word. The
motorman glared harder than ever, but
seeing he was beaten, backed his car
and the doctor drove on.
Half a Century Aro.
From The Oregonlan of March 9, 1S6T.
New Tork. It is reported that Spain
intends to seize the Island of Chiloo
and place 10, 008- men thero and renew
tho war on Chile, using ironclads and
to establish a naval base near Monte
video. Toronto, March 8. It Is understood
that orders have been Issued to put
2000 volunteers in readiness for Im
mediate service on the frontier. It
is presumed the authorities are appre
hensive of tho Fenians.
Tho incorporators of the Oregon City
Oil Company are Messrs. E. Barclay,
George Larocque, William Barlow,
John II. Moore, George Marshall, Sam
uel L Stevens and D. M. McKenney.
A party of gay and frail young
ladles were out larking in a carriag
on Thursday evening. llriving up to
the stable where they had procured
their turnout, they suddenly found an
other turn out, as a result of an at
tempted technical flourish by "the frail
driver. Tho Jolly party at once dis
covered themselves in the mud and
one of them got out with a faoo more
thickly and darkly painted than is
wont. The carriage was, also, worsted.
REVIVAL OF OLD ADAM'S EXCUSE
Writer Scored for II lam in it Men's Dere
liction on Mothern' Training
PORTLAND, March 8. (To the Edi
tor.) I notice on the editorial page a
letter entitled "50-60 Matrimony." It is
written by some caveman, who has not
advanced far from Adam's time. Adam
laid his sin of disobedience to "the
woman thou gavest me." This modern
coward is putting the blame on his
mother.
I wonder if his mother, or any other
mother, ever told her son that it was
necessary for him to "sow wild oats"
for the good of .his health. How many
men are living as their mothers, raised
them to live? Why don't these. moral
cowards marry the women they sow
the wild oats with? The women are
Just as good as they are.
The reason that writer thinks there
is such a shortnee of pood women in
the world is very likely because he
has found good women entirely too
tame for his amusement. He" says "our
women are not what they should be."
Very likely not. The Insipid fellow who
would blame his mother for his idiotic
Ideas would not find anyone ",n they
should be." Here's hoping someone
will capture this pretty sissy before
he is spoiled further by some woman
who la "not what she should be."
A BACHELOR MAID.
Country Behind President.
PORTLAND. March 8. (To the Edi
tor.) I highly approve the editorial In
this morning's Oregonlan regarding tho
unpatriotic and cowardly action of Sen
ator La Toilette and his associates who
held up the vote on the armed ship
neutrality bill, refusing to allow it to
come to a vote, when they were well
aware that Contrress was almost unan
imous for this bill and the Nation was
almost unanimously behind the Presi
dent in his policy of dealing with the
German submarine warfare.
1 believe that all the tivlo societies
of this city ami every citizen should
follow the suggestion of The Orego
niau's editorial.
I am simply writing a line, not en
tirely on my own behalf, but also for
my neighbors; for 1 have heard on
every hand approval of the course of
The Oregonlan and bo far not a word of
censure. H. THOMPSON.
24 Morgan building.
Korrlnc City to Pay.
WESTON, Or.. March 6. (To the Ed
itor.) t. A claims if a city bonds itself
and defaults in payinar interest or prin
cipal, the bondholders can hold all tho
real estate in the city, li claims they
can only hold tho revenue of tho city,
such as taxes and all other Income.
Which is right? 2. In playing cribbasre
if the last card played.ends in 15 or ai
does it count two or threo holes? 3. In
runs like 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, can It be played
like thia 2, 6, 4, 3, 6 and called a run?
J. W.
1. The only way to force payment of
Interest defaulted by a city is to man
damus the city to levy a tax to pay tho
Interest.
2. When 15 It is three holes; when 31
It Is two. .
3. Yes.
Barred From Citizenship.
PORTLAND, March 8. (To the Edi
tor.) Please state just what national
ities aro eligible for citizenship of tho
United States. J- D. M.
The naturalization of Chinese is ex
pressly prohibited by law. Section
2169 of the U. S. Revised Statutoa
limits naturalization to free white per
sons and to aliens of African nativity
or descent. Under this section tho
various courts have denied naturaliza
tion to Afghans, a Fiji Islander, Hin
dus, Indians, Japanese, Malays, includ
ing a native of Burma, and membera
of the Asiatic races.
Indian Reservations in Oregon.
CLATS1CANIE. March 7. (To the Ed
itor.) -Please publish the names and
location of the Indian reservations In
Oregon and oblige.
CHESTER DOllRR.
The Klamath reservation is in Klam
ath County and includes a small corner
of Lake County. The Umatilla reserva
tion la wholly within Umatilla County.
Tho Warm Springs reservation U in
Southern Wasco and Northern Jeffer
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