Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, April 06, 1917, Image 10

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Newspaper Page Text( lO THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY APRIL 6, 1917. PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland (Oregon) Postofflea as second-claas mall matter. Subscription rates Invariably In advance. (By Mail.) Eally, Sunday Included, one year $8.00 rally, Sunday Included, six months ?? Dally, Sunday Included, three months. . 2-- rally, Sunday Included, one month 75 laily, without Sunday, one year o O; Dally, without Sunday, three monthi... 15 Tally. without Sunday, one month -J?" Weekly, one year l Sunday, one year 2.DO Sunday and Weekly 8.60 (By Carlrer.) Jtly. Sunday Included, one year 8.00 Sally, Sunday Included, one month 73 How to Remit Send postofflce money erder, expreu order or personal check, on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk. Give poetoKlce ad dress In full. Including county and state. Postage Rates 12 to 16 pages. 1 cent; 38 to 82 pages, 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages, 8 cants; SO to 60 pages, 4 cents; 62 to 76 pages. 5 cents; 78 to 82 pages, 6 cents. For eign postage double rates. Eastern Business Office Verree A Conk Itn, Brunswick building. New York; Verree A Conklin. Steger building, Chicago; Ban Francisoo representative, R. J. Bidwell. 742 Market street. POBTLAKD, FRIDAY. APRIL 6, 117. THE IB ENTIRE CASE. Six Senators pretend that they bet ter express the opinion of the Amer ican people on the question of war with Germany than do the eighty-two Senators who voted for a declaration of war. These six maintain that their Judgment on the question is sound and that the Judgment of the eighty-two is unsound. Upon what grounds do they claim to be wiser, more honest and more patriotic than the great major ity? These are their reasons and the answer to each one: 1. Ninety per cent of tha people do not want war. Of course they do not. We will go further by saying that 100 per cent do not want war. But we have war against our will. Germany Is making war on us. The" question la not whether the American people want war but whether, when Germany na1 -wwrnv. ... m tAir nHTI o- In 2. The demand for war springs from This is an outright He. Neither the munition manufacturers nor any other interest could subsidize the American newspapers, if they wished. The only newspapers In this country that have been subsidized are certain pro-German - newspapers, which have un doubtedly received subsidies from an alien government now engaged In Tnnklnp vtraj' rrt Tn TTnltprl Rtnt TriA unsubsldized nress of the United .laics, wuiw mriu Luciuuea a.iL xiews- papers -that are not In the pay of Ger- 3 De guilty or the monstrous charge .-10 a m,a ao1ma 1 1iat i a -nrtmla Wration would be so corrupt, so easily deceived or so Indifferent to its own welfare that rule by the people would be a proved failure. Such a charge is not an Indictment of the newspapers alone; It is in indictment of democ racy itself. 8. The United ' States shotrfd not make war on Germany tn resistance to the sub marine blockade unless it makes war also on Great Britain In resistance to the blockade f the German coast. This fa tr. V trtn nn rllftf Inrrlnn should be drawn between a nation which indiscriminately slaughters non- :uuiuauuiis wjlijuul 1 1" ;n Li igr age or 3ex and a nation which scrupulously -espects human life in its blockade -operations. By its submarine war the tierman government sets its own law 1 ,'hnvfl fh lflw nf nntlrma' It vlnlntoa .hose principles of humanity which .. rn th fAlinilatlnn all lanr rm cir, - " " , w. at of barbarians; it also violates an ' ..press treaty with this country, the "'dlng force of which It recognized y two years ago. Its so-called ;i)ikade is bo ineffective as to have no claim to recognition, and the small m n n dii nf (to aninoca la 1 1 1 n 1 1 n tTiA lawless, nnd Inrmmnn m tVi nH n f its attempted enforcement. The Brit ish blockade involves no sacrifice of lives of non-combatants and is thor oughly effective. The United States has denied that some of Its methods are legal, but this question concerns only property rights and we are bound by the arbitration treaty and by the Bryan peace treaty to settle such dis putes without war. There is no Justi fication for us to make war on Great Britain. ' 4. Great Britain refused to obey the Declaration of London, governing maritime war, while Germany offered to observe it. The Declaration was not ratified by Great Britain or the United States, and therefore was not binding on any of the signatories. Soon after the war began, the United States announced that it would hold the Declaration not to be in operation. Great Britain en tered the war in fulfillment of a treaty obligation, and has observed The Hague treaties relating to the conduct of war. Germany has flagrantly vio lated those treaties: also the treaty by which It guaranteed the neutrality of Belrium; also the Prussian-American treaty of 1828. Germany has set at naught the laws of God and man. and is in no position to call any other nation to account for ignoring an un ratified agreement. S. Great Britain endeavors by Its block' ede to defeat the German people by starva tion, and Germany Is Justified in resorting to any means to defend herself, and in re taliating by attempting the starvation of Great Britain. Admiral von Tlrpltz, then head of the German navy, was the first to an nounce a war of starvation in an in terview with Karl von Wiegand in December, 1914. Germany first treated food as contraband by sinking the American . ship George F. Frye with a capJ of une&t in January, 1915. cysr any first began a war of starva .'M proclaiming a submarine '- ', ' ---ie of British seas to take effect - 'ry 6 1910. cniain repnea Dy . " . 'MlnW a blockade of Germany .: ''S'l to take effect March IS, . ' .ye dates go to show that Ger ' ; .':? Bt adopted starvation as a T - am ,4 oa rn vmis.'h " f - "ledlcine. r' . . he case of those men, call- -' t- jelves Amet leans, lovers of . ' ' ,"iud it consistent with their , 3 to hold back the hand of a ' , who would strike back at Hss murderers of our fellow !Ita weakness is pitiful and " 1 nto'L-a it n a nnn an, nl M - i 1 ... ' 5 'standing the greater expen J war of the entente allies . 4-ed with those of the central 1 is pointed out by a writer - s Work that the per capita uch less in the case of the ;. ' '' irhls is based upon a calcula- r Jhe expenses of the entente I now around $76,000,000. a day and those of the central powers around 840,000,000. This Is at the ap proximate rate of 19 cents a day per capita for the allied countries of Eu rope and Asia, exclusive of their col onies, and of 26 cents a day for the central powers. If the colonies are included in the figures, the per capita becomes 9 cents for the entente and 24 cents for the central powers. In cluding colonies in both instances, the total cost of two und two-thirds years of war has been $63 per capita for the allies and $173 per capita for the cen tral powers. The difference In total expenditure in favor of the central powers is due largely to the fact that they made preparations In peace times, when preparation was cheap. ASHAMED. There never was a good reason why Harry Lane should have been elected United States Senator. He has given more than one reason why he should not have been elected. Now lately he has furnished the supreme reason, by doing the thing that the people, knowing him, might have expected him to do. - Next to being ashamed of Harry Lane for what he has done, tn this solemn hour, to give aid and comfort to the public enemy abroad and to his sympathizers in our midst, the people of Oregon are ashamed of themselves for having sent Lan to tha United States Senate. MORE DISLOYALTY. The Oregonian feels that it has a duty to say that a treasonable cam paign of audacious slander against the American flag, the American cause, the American people and the Ameri can Government continues to be waged by the Oregon Deutsche Zeltung. For example, this quotation (in English, April 4): "War Is not against the German people. but against their government." From War Daily's editorial. It Is well enough to veneer the bitter and accusing facts with such inane remarks as this one, it serves to deaden the warning voice of conscience. But It is a foolish act of self-deception. We know better, govern ment Is an abstraction, it cannot bleed, suf fer, starve or die. It Is the human flesh and blood, the men of Germany that we re solve to kill, the women that we resolve to torture in mind and starve in body, the children that we propose to stunt, dwarf and ramisn, it is the German nation that we propose to load with the yoke of slavery by perpetuating upon them a war debt that will reduce them to the state of peonage. If the above is not r. charge that our real purpose In going to 'war (after two years of inexcusable and intolerable war on us by Germany) is to kill German men, torture and starve German women, stunt, dwarf and famish German children, and impose upon the German nation a yoke of slavery, what is itT Here is another (April 8): If the crowned heads of this republic. If the black fraternity of the war press, if the steel and munition barons, and the pro-English propagandists, and the shark-faced war maniacs like Roosevelt, if these would state to the public the Issues fairly and consult the people's wishes, then there would1 be no war. Even now If the men and women of America could cast a ballot on the question umerririea. Dy me Dullles or the war party, there would be no war. But the "crowned heads" of America are for war and there will be war, also a hereafter and a reckon ing. t There will indeed be a hereafter and a reckoning. It will be well for spurious Americans who abuse the lib erty they sought when they fled from Prussianism and who defile the asy lum which a freedom-loving people have granted them, to reflect that there may be a limit to American tol erance and forbearance. There is a distinct growth of im patience with this ugly little traitor. We deliberately advise more patience, and say to the citizens who have writ ten to The Oregonian urging physical repression that there are lawful ways to meet the case, and they should be, and doubtless will be, adopted. But what a sorrow and humiliation that this sheet, the mouthpiece of the pub lic enemy, should pretend to voice the feeling of citizens of German birth and ancestry, 99 per cent loyal. One purpose of The Oregonian in calling attention to the conduct and expres sions of the alien-language and alien hearted paper Is to repudiate Its as sumption to speak for them. DOES TUB NEW LINE HOLD? Advance of the French and British to the suburbs on three sides of St. Quentln conveys the impression that the German retreat has not proceeded according to programme and that the retiring army has been driven farther back than Von Hlndenburg Intended that it should go voluntarily. St. Quentln Is an important manufactur ing city of about 60,000 people, hav ing great steel works and sugar fac tories, which would be of great value to the Germans. It is on the right bank of the Somme at its Junction with the St. Quentln Canal, which unites the Somme to the Scheldt, and with the Crozat Canal, which Joins the Somme with the Oise. It is also the meeting place of five great military roads. The French have also closed -in on La Fere to the west and north and have pushed up within about twelve miles on the south. This town is a fortress occupying on. island in the River Oise near its confluence with the Serre. The French threaten it from Vendeull, four miles north, and have penetrated on the southwest through the Coucy forest to the foot of the densely wooded St. Gobain plateau, which consists of about 10,000 acres, rising eighty to 200 feet above and between the Oise and Aillette riv ers, and are also attacking Anizy, south of the plateau. If they should occupy this area, they would hold one of the approaches to the exeat fort. ress of Laon, southeast of La Fere, and would threaten the latter town on three sides. It Is not probable that the Germans contemplated retiring east of St. Quentin and La Fere, for by so doing they would yield an important Indus trial and strateglo point in the former city, also a strongly defensive position on the St. Gobain plateau, covering Laon. If their Intention was to straighten their line by cuttln out the elbow around Noyon and by making it run southeast from Arras, they could do so by making the Hlnden burg line run west of those points, The circumstances Indicate that this line has already been broken by the allies, who have followed up the Ger mans more closely than the latter thought possible. The Germans did their utmost to delay the allies' pursuit by blowing up the roads and blocking them with trees, thus obstructing the movement of heavy artillery and supplies. But correspondents who have traversed the evacuated territory with the allied ar mies remark on the amazing speed with which the advancing allies have filled in the gaps in the roads, planked them, cleared away the obstructions and brought up thir heavy guns. They have thus kept close on the heels of the Germans, have broken the resist ano of the rearguard and may have come in contact with the mn'n bodies. If they should have broken through the new line at any point, they would be in an advantageous position to make another danereroua nalle.nt. and to force a further retirement. MB. STEEN'S CHANCE. Mr. Steen, of Lebanon, or there abouts, is a type. He is one of the suspicious group who think poorly of men in the public service, and look always for mercenary motives. To the Steens it is especially inconceiv able that anyone could give of his time, money and ability to the state for nothing. We are not able other wise to account for the serious charges against Mr. S. Benson and Mr. John B. Teon, leading to the recent suit for damages for libel unless, of course. Mr. Steen is in possession of facts of which The Oregonian and the public are unaware. If it is true that Mr. Benson is the same Benson that has achieved Nation-wide notoriety through extensive land-fraud operations and If it is true that Mr. Benson and Mr. Teon are shareholders in the Warren Construc tion Company, and thus profit directly through their road-paving propa ganda, that fact will doubtless appear in the trial of the libel case at Albany. Mr. Steen and his friends owe It to the public to uncover every circumstance connected with the relations between the paving concern, or any paving concern, and the two Multnomah County road evangelists. If Yeon and Benson are Kraft ere which The Oregonian has never be lieved it is among those who are willing to believe, if it is believable. It may be hoped that everyone who has, or thinks he has, any information on this interesting subject will ap pear at Albany to give his testimony. Meanwhile we trust that the public will suspend Judgment as to Steen, who may be quite willing to right a wrong if he has done a wrong and also as to Mr. Benson and Mr. Teon, who have much to lose if Steen, or those who told Steen what he gave out as his own, is able to make good. A "PLANT AN ACIIK ARMY." In line with the movement to en courage the growing of more food. which has gained substantial headway everywhere, Marsden G. Scott, presi dent of the International Typograph ical Union, has come forward with the suggestion that while we are about It, it would be a good plan to plant gar dens also for the benefit of the fam ilies of the soldiers and sailors who have been called to the flag. He ob serves that in our National emergency there Is an earnest desire on the part of all but a few to be helpful. Many are too old to serve in the Army or the Navy. Many others are not quali fied as orators, and, anyhow, oratory is going to be at a discount. Action will be wanted, not words. The heads of the Government will be overbur dened with advice. But Mr. Scott says that there is still a way in which all can make themselves useful. His plan is for the "home guard" to organize at once a "plant an acre for the wives and kiddies' club in every community in which land is available for the purpose and there are few in which there will not be such land. Owners of acreage are expected to co operate, of course. Men, women and children would be eligible to member ship In the clubs. "Instead of solicit ing contributions to buy a bushel of potatoes," Mr. Scott suggests, "ask for contributions and volunteers to plant and cultivate an acre of potatoes. beans, onions, turnips, beets any vegetables which are not quickly per ishable. . Equipment is inexpensive. compared with results. An hour a day even an hour a week of work by each member, where the club mem bership Is large will accomplish won ders. Mr. Scott writes from Indianapolis. It is quite evident that the possibil ities of the food situation have taken a strong hold on the people of the East and Middle West. It is his Idea that It should be extended to every part of the country where there are land and hands to work it. Europe has taught the world the lesson that food is all-important. The only ques tion is whether the world will profit in time or not. Spring is already here. In a few weeks it will be too late. HOPE FOB THE PRISONEB. There is a comforting note of op timism in the April number of Good Words, a magazine published in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta as the "official organ" of the inmates of that institution. Tho writpr nf Yta sr-tilf himself an inmate, who jefers to his! fellow-prisoners as "comrades," holds no brief for the unrepentant and no grouch against society. He does not whine that the world is in league to keep good men down. He does not encourage the spirit of demanding a place for the releasee- convict above that of the man who has served no prison sentence. What he does do is emphasize the fact that the man him self is responsible for his success, and that if he is to get ahead in the world he must waste no time railing against conditions but meet them as they are and resolve to overcome them. Read ing what he says is like harking back to- the good old days when it was con sidered a virtue to conquer adversity instead of crying about it. He recites the adventures of four of the "comrades" after their release. One of them, bearing a reputation among secret service men as too dan gerous an "expert" to remain at large, was rearrested on an old charge as he was leaving prison, but actually succeeded in convincing the author ities that he deserved another chance. He got it. Good Words attributes his subsequent success to realization of fact that the talents he possessed among them good address and an act ive mind were really in demand in honest avenues of employment. He made good as soon as this was duly impressed upon him. Another example cited is that of a man whose downfall was the result of what the convict-writer calls "the out ward and visible signs of the inwardly lazy man." He had fallen into crime because crime seemed to be the easy way. He made a good citizen after he gained his freedom, because he was made to understand that laziness Is a drug in the markets of the world. He went to work, and that was all there was about it. He even established a reputation as a "hustler," and that is a compliment to a man in any modern community. He did not find the world leagued against him partly, no doubt, because ho did not waste much time brooding over that phase of the sub ject. He simply hustled his way into a living of his own. Another man almost proved a fail ure because on his first attempt he found employment that was uncon genial to him. He won because he had the nerve to break away from the Job, even at a considerable sacrifice of sal ary in the beginning, and to start at the bottom in a business for which he was really fitted. Eventually he won, and, being no longer a misfit, he is happy, as well as comparatively pros perous. The writer, who, if he profits by hla own observations, we are sure will make a success when his turn comes to taste freedom, again, stresses the necessity for individual effort on the part of the prisoner himself. He de clares that "it can be done." He adds that "many doors are open to the man leaving prison." but that the door leading to greatest success is labeled "push." It Is not bad advice for men out of prison: for those who have a handicap to overcome, it is the best that could be given. It leads not only to material success but to the broader success that goes Tith complete mas tery of a difficult situation. It is Just fifty years this month since the first wood-pulp paper in the United States was manufactured, and it would be difficult to estimate the benefit this has conferred upon the world, for it was a step in the dis semination of knowledge, particularly current news. Just as was the inven tion of movable types and the print ing press. It will be remembered by many still living with what care every rag was saved to be converted' into paper, and how the paper, after it had served its purpose at the printer's, was carefully put aside for wrap ping parcels. Those were days of au tomatically Imposed thrift, which were followed by disregard of econ omies so widespread that already after only half a century we are confronted by a prospect of serious shortage of supply of the new raw material. Just as the supply of rags In the '60s would not have sufficed for growing needs, so it appears that soon there will not be enough wood pulp to go around. But- we have grown so ac customed to finding substitutes when we had to have them that the world Is not alarmed. The great economy to be effected by building wooden In preference to steel ships is Indicated by the estimate of the Shipping Board that wooden ships can be produced for $76 to $100 per ton of capacity, while steel ships cost $200. At a conference between the board and R. H. Downman, president of the National Lumber Manufactur ers' Association, it was stated that 1000 large wooden ships can be built for $200,000,000, that Canada already has contracts for that amount and that the capacity of- the United States is Infinitely greater. Maine can build fifty at a time, the Pacifio Coast has sixty-eight under way and can vastly increase its production, while the Gulf Coast and Great Lakes have large ca pacity. When put to It, North Amer ica can turn out ships much faster than submarines can sink them, and, if all ships are armed, the danger to the U-boats will be doubled. . The appeal of Sir Arthur Lee to British farmers to "work every hour from daybreak to dark weekday and Sunday for the next few weeks" would be good counsel to the farmers of the United States. A great deal may depend on the "work done in planting time, and in a few weeks it will be too late. The explanation of the Hlndenburg retreat made to the people at home that it is made to shorten the line seems oddly to have overlooked the circumstance that the line is being shortened for the entente at the same time. Senator Warren's decision to retire from public life in order to enjoy a period of rest and recreation will sur prise those -folks who have an idea that the politician has a picnic The sane Fourth of July idea need not necessarily go by the board this year. There are plenty of ways of showing patriotism that are better than shooting firecrackers. The patriotic mass meeting is still the fashion, but the citizen who worked until sundown in the home garden has -a pretty good excuse for non-attendance. There are all sorts of boneheads, but the ivory premium belongs to the man who wants to open the prisons for recruiting the Army and Navy. The woman who was knocked un conscious by a falling ladder a day or two ago will hold to a bit of prac tical superstition hereafter. Grand Idea to put women on the council of defense. The sex bears its share of the real burden of war. Edenbower! What an appropriate place to raise a flag over! It is re dolent of the spirit of home. With 2, 000. 000 young men in the Army, the girls must develop the base ball bug this Summer. Stone may warm up when he hears that the steamship Mlssourlan was sunk without warning. Tough on the old fellows who can not go; but they can help suppress disloyalty at home. A law is not needed to punish dese cration of the flag. The people will attend to that. Tour German neighbor has been a good fellow in times past and this is not his" doing. The alphabet helped Borah to lead the Republican Senators voting with Wilson. There's no North, nor South. Amer icans are all on the same side this time. Facing a possible world shortage of food, everybody must eat the crusts." An American stranded in Turkey is the quintessence of hard luck. Jess Willard at least has set an ex ample for Les Darcy to follow. Experience counts, even when ac quired, in the Salvation Army. Richard Deich is the kind of man of whom they make Majors. Tou can have ten times three bil lions, Woodrow. Lots of room in an army of 2,000,000. No embalmed beef 1a this war. How to Keep Well. By Dr. W. .aw Etui, Question nertlsent te hvalena. sanitation and prevention of disease. If matters of gen eral Interest, will be answered In this col umn. Where space will not permit or mo subject la not suitable letters will be per sonally answered, sublect to oroDcr limita tions and where stamped addressed envelope Is Inclosed. Dr. Evans will not make diagnosis or prescribe for Individual dlseasea Re quests for such services cannot be answered. tcopyrlght. 11. by Dr. W. A, jsvans. Published by arrangement with tha Chicago Tribune.) . MEASLES. MEASLES is another disease of the Springtime. The number of cases throughout the country can be expect ed to Increase slowly during this month and to come to a halt as the weather gets warm - in the Spring. Measles Is the most contagions of all human diseases, comparing favorably. or unfavorably, with foot and mouth dlseasea in cattle. Like smallpox. there is practically no natural im munity to It. Every one who has not had it is susceptible to it and a few who have had it catch it a second time. It is spread by those who have It. It Is doubtful if there is any spreading by convalescents, carriers, contacts. books, or by milk. The virus is con tained in the secretions of the nose and throat. Usually the person who has been exposed gets sick about seven days after the exposure. The onset may be delayed to the 14th day. but that is the limit. The first symptom la an ordinary coryza with reddening of the eyes. The lids are swollen at the margin and red. If the mouth is examined at this time It is probable that Kopltk's spots will be found on the membrane lining the cheeks and Inside the mouth generally. The spots at first are reddish with a bluish white center and are somewhat larger than a large pinhead in size. These spots often can be aeen for a day or two before the coryza and sore eyes develop. The case Is contagious from the first appearance of Koplik's spots. In Minnesota, and perhaps In other states, now in the face of an epidemic of measles the teacher examines the mouth of each pupil each morning for Kopllk's spots. This is advantageous on account of the violent contagious ness of measles in tha early stages be fore the eruption on the skin develops. Generally on the first day of the dis ease a hard, hacking cough develops. If fever is suspected and the tempera ture la taken It la generally found that it does not go over 101. Some cases come on with a slight fever. On the second day the fever subsides and the patient thinks he la not gotg to have measles. On the third day hia fever begins to mount again. The eruption of measles usually be gins on the forehead. The fever rises to Its highest as the eruption beglna to appear and then it gradually sub sides tn uncomplicated casea The erup tion spreads rather quickly to the en tire body. At the beginning the eruption is coarse, red, and elevated, quite differ ent from the fine pinpoint dots in red blush of scarlet fever. In a short while the elevated red patches run together, although islets of white skin can usual ly be seen. About the sixth day the temperature returns to normal. By about the eighth day the eruption has faded. The great danger In measles lies in the complications. Of these pneumonia Is much the most serious. Lemoaf Balance Acid Fools, W. C R. writes: "(1) What are the medicinal properties of lemons and how la the best way to use them to get the beat effectsT (2) Have heard that the Juice of a lemon with salt in a glasa of water before breakfast la good to ward off malaria. Is this trueT (3) Are lemons good for rheumatism? (4) Have heard that it will not do to eat bananas and fish. Is this trueT (6) Is there any way for a layman to tell a malaria carrying mosquito from the harmless kind? (6) Is there any way to arrest the Infection after the moa qulto has bitten one?" REPLY. lv Lemons axe of great service as an anti scorbutic Persona who eat heavily of meats. eggs, mflk. and other add producing foods need to eat lemons and other alkali pro ducing foods as a balance. That Is about all that can be said of the medicinal prop erties of lemons. 2-3-4. No. s. Anophelene mosquitoes stand with the body nearly at right angles to the surface on which they stand. - This is about as good a sign as you can go by, but it is not of great service. a Quinine Is more effective after the bite and before the development of chills than during the chills. Dye May Be Can sc. J. A. writes: "Where can I take a fur scarf to have it examined and analyzed for disease? What Is the ap proximate coat of such an examination? A black lynx scarf caused an eczema on my daughter's neck and it took about three weeks of strenuous treat roent to eure It. I wore the scarf last Friday and immediately had a rad streak around my neck, accompanied by severe burning and itching. After my daughter's experience I took, the scarf to the manager of the fur depart ment where it was purchased, but he said there was absolutely nothing the matter with the scarf; that all their skins were thoroughly examined and tested both before they were made up and afterwards, and that there must have been something the matter with the young lady's neck before she wore the scarf. REPLY. I do not know where to tell you to go. Perhaps the laboratory of the State Factory Inspectors office can help you. It Is rea sonably certain that the trouble la due to dyes used on the furs. Such effect Is far from being unheard of. In addition to let ters about furs and neckpieces, we have had a good many letters complaining of akin eruptions due to dyes used in stockings. X.neln Will Help, lira H. B. writes: "What shall I do or what medicine shall I take to stop the horrible 'change of life' flashes that are slowly driving me insane?" REPLY. Have your physician give you lutein hypo dermlcally or by mouth the former method preferred. You must help yourself. You do yourself harm by losing your poise and speaking of horrible flashes and going in sane. Daughters of American Revolution. GERVAIS, Or, April 8. ,(To the Ed itor.) Kindly inform me through your paper how I may Join the Daughters of the American Revolution. I think I am qualified, but do not know the steps to be taken. MRS. S. M. CUTS FORTH. Apply to Mrs. H- J. Wllklns, 47 East Forty-sixth street North, Portland, Or. Ichabod. John GreeKleat Whittlcr. (Dedicated to the Shameful Six.) So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore! The glory from his gray hairs gone Korevermoret Revile him not the Tempter hath A snare for all; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath. Befit his fall I O dumb be passion's stormy rage. When he who might Have lighted up and led his age Falls bade in night., Scorn! would the angels laugh to mark A bright soul driven. Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark. From hope and heaven! Let not the land once proud of him Insult him now. Nor brand with deeper shame his dim. Dishonored brow; But let Its humbled sons, instead. From sea to lake. A long lament, as for the dead,' In sadness make. Of all we loved and honored, naught Bave power remains A fallen angel's pride of thought. Still strong in chains. All else Is gone; from those great eyea The soul has fled. When faith Is lost, when honor dies. The man is dead! Then, pay the reverence of old days To his dead fame; Walk backward, with averted gaze. And hide the ahamel BEWARE WRATH OF PATIENT MAN President's Address Reminds Corre spondent of Biblical 8 ay Inc. DALLAS, Or April 4. (To the Edi tor.) A correspondent from this city tells The Oregonian what "peace at any price" means and, among other things, he Bays It means "break the old Liberty Bell Into pieces, mads of It medals and. Instead of the inscription. 'Proclaim lib erty through the world and to all the Inhabitants thereof.' put on the medals that other and nobler sentiment, 'I am a sissy,' and place them on our boys. It will not require much effort to do all these things." Indeed, and indeed! Tour correspond ent Is sarcastic, severely, patriotically sarcastic, but his severity Is Justified by the facts when we see men who wear the Senatorial toga holding up the law-making and war-declaring power of the United States in this mo ment of National crisis. In an age more crude than our own, but among a peo ple as patriotic aa oureelves, these re calcitrant and pacifist Senators would have been hurled from the Tarplan Rock by an indignant and outraged people, but the ballots of their mis represented constituency will see to it in the not distant future that these misguided men will no longer have an opportunity to say or do anything to cause the American people to hang their heads In shame. President Wilson has been severely criticised as having been overpatlent and forbearing In the face of a great world conflict. I do not presume to say whether he has oeen overforbearlng or not. but I em quite sure that his ringing message to the Congress the other day will go down in history as one of Americas great state papers, a slogan for human liberty the world over. It Is an uplifting and masterful appeal for Ideal democracy, and It rings with the courage of outraged National honor, which makes one re call the Biblical saying. "Keware the wrath of a patient man. J. T. FORD. STKANTNO OB" MONROE DOCTRJJrB! Employment of Troops on Foreign Service Not Touched Upon. PORTLAND, April 8. (To the Ed itor.) Can the United States send sol diers taking the regular Army oath to Europe or any other part of the earth outside of North and South America? Would not this be contrary to rulea laid down by the Monroe Doctrine? M. J. F. The Monroe Doctrine has no bearing upon the question whether United States troops shall be employed outside of North and South America or not. As a matter of fact, they have been so era ployed, as in the case of the Boxer re bellion In China. The Monroe uocinne. briefly summarized, la a declaration that the United Statea would regara any effort on the part of European powers to extend their system or gov ernment to this hemisphere as oange ous to' our peace and safety. Secretary of State Olney, in 1905, interpreted this doctrine further in the Venezuelan boundary dispute, holding that it did not "prevent any Luropean power dl rectly Interested from enforcing obli gations, or from inflicting merited punishment for breach of them." The irlet of the doctrine la opposition to rur ther establishment by European gov ernments of colonies or dependencies In the Western Hemisphere. CITIZEN OWES DEBT TO NATION Father of Voing Man With Colors Feela He II an Not Lived In Vain. PORTLAND. April 5. (To the Ed itor.) I aee by the papers the Ancient Order of Hibernians have passea a res olutlon. That's good. Mail It to the Dublin Fuslleera somewhere in France, with a request to tie a atons to it and hurl It Into the German trenches. That will make Von Hlndenburg turn to-the map to find Russell street, in Alblna, U. S. A, and comport himself accord In srlv. The writer's son is with the colors. If he comes back he will have paid a debt due from every man from the President of the United States to the poorest man In the street. If he doesn't come back, his parents haven t uvea in viln. When I was a young man the reso lutlons we passed to the flag that made ua free gave ua the opportunitiea to make ourselves what our talents and energies willed, and to the highest and lowest life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness was the crack of a rifle, more effective than the eloquence of eplneleBs Senatora and petticoat men. and the only manly answer to those who insult the honor and dignity of the greatest and best Government under the diadem of God and murder the cltl sena of a republic whose credentials of free men and women were bought with the valor and blood of the manly dead. JAMES FOLEY. Federal Inheritance Tax. NEWBERG. Or., April 4. (To the Ed itor.) Has Congress passed a law tax ing inheritances? If so, what Is the lowest amount taxed? H. - The Federal inheritance tax is not levied on the first $50,000 of value of the estate. Excessive Use of Salt. PORTLAND, April 8. (To the Edi tor.) Please let me know If taking one-half teaspoon of table salt every morning In hot water will have an In jurious effect. A SUBSCRIBER. i It is not a wise practice and may do physical harm. In Other Days. Twenty-Five Years Age, From The Oregonian of April a, 193. The state Republican convention la getting under way, but not without difficulties. The Eastern Oregon coun ties are set upon having a Congres sional candidate, and C. A. Johns, of Baker, has been picked by. Umatilla and Malheur. There is a prospect of a caucus after which .Multnomah will nave to step m and settle thlnga Mult nomah may also have to take a hand In the Supreme Court fight (or In both the Congressional and court contro versy) to settle It. as the Multnomah delegation wants Judge Hurley for that place, although C E. Wolverton. Judge D. R. N. Blackburn and Judge Bean are running pretty strong. Olmstead and Moors also are the centers of sizable Dooms. Judge L. R. Webster seems strong for the Attorney-General's place. especially wun tne arrival of the Southern Oregon delegation. B. B. Beekman has withdrawn in favor of his friend, Lydell Baker. The conven tion will assemble at Masonic Hall to day at 11 o'clock. Honolulu The roval Daises la helnsr barricaded with sand bags and cannon. The agitators for a republic, led by R. W. Wilcox. V. V. Aehford, A. a Hart well and R. S. Spauldlng, are quits ac tive. Ben Woods, driver of the auDolr wagon of the fire department, has no sinecure since the consolidation. Mike Lang, a dellvervman for M Gunst St Co., hsd a peculiar experlenoe yesterday. While driving up the approach- to the steel bridge his horse was suddenly thrown to the ground and he was almost nreclDitated nvar the dashboard. The animal had stepped un a. car ran. ana sustained an electric snoca. A car was Just In front. Mrn R T TT.,o-Y. . 1 - . . ---." i i j covoi j an er visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mra S. H Rlm-khiirr, Xf- xj 1 lives at Lake Benton. Minn. Half a Century Ajro. From The Oregonian of April 6, 1887. A daughter of a St. Louis chimney sweep Is engaged to be married and her father has Issued no less than 800 cards of Invitation. Most of the nations of Europe are countenancing the discontinuance of capital punishment altogether. Italy lately abolished It altogether and Por tugal and Switzerland have had no exe cutions far a long time. In Holland. Belgium. France. Prussia. Austria. Sweden and Denmark not one-third of the convictions for murder have been followed by execution. W. G. Ballard and Thomas Stephens, of the Excelsior Soda Works, have dla aolved partnership and Mr. Stephena will hereafter conduct the business, "Played Out," a new novel on an old subject, by Annie Thomas, has come to our table. We will review it at our earliest leisure. Principal Warren, of the Harrison School, has compiled the following hon or roll of his students: Carrie Wilcox, Nora Egan, Mary Slavln, Mary Sullivan. Katie Holman, Agnes Lownsdale, Mary Coombes. Alice Cornelius, Emma Gllt ner. Mary Barkwell, Alice Hill. Virginia Nation. Annie Taylor, Amelia Henley, Sarah Burbank, Ella Lucas, Jennie Kel logg, Maggie Tharp, Alma Hayden, Jo seph Bellon, Hugo and .George Bay house, Horatio Cushing. "George Cone, Willie Richardson, Arthur Jacobl, Wil lie Schmeer, John Taylor. George Lan deaa. Clarence Reld. George Richey and Harry Walts. WAR IS AGAINST DOHE-VZOLLKRN "German-Americana" Counted on to Be True to Adopted Country. PORTLAND, April 6. (To the Edi tor.) We are hearing so much In the war talk of today that the German Americans cannot be expected to fight against the fatherland that I think a few remarks might be timely. Who constitute Americans, anyway? Are we not all rather recently derived from the races of the old world? When the War of Independence was fought did not the English-Americans of New England fight against old England? Who fought the War of 1812 against Great Britain but the British-Americans? In Washington's Administration when war was threatened with France, no class of citizens waa more willing to fight the French than the French Americana. In our great Civil War family waa set against family, friend agalnat friend, even brother against brother by the principle of preserving the Union and freeing the slaves. The German Americans were true to their American convictions then and they will be true to them now. This war we are now in is not a race war not a war against the Germans or Germany. It Is a humanitarian war, a war against ruth less barbarfty. led by ambition, self ish political leaders In Germany, who ride the necks of their own people as meanly as they want to trample under the whole woild. Many of- the German-Americana felt this oppression In the old country and will now stand true against It. We are not going to flcht for England, for France, for America even, in the sense of aggression, but. fighting against wrong, we are all united and closely related In the Germanic heritage of a sense of fair play and human Justice. I think America believea In the Ger man people versus the house of Hohen zollern. THOMAS S. ANDERSON. AS TO UNPATRIOTIC PARENT School ran 'am Would Turn Children Over to Juvenile Courts. PORTLAND. April 6. (To the Edi tor.) Reading the accounts of the school children In another city who at the instigation of their foreign-born parents refused to salute the flag with the other children In' their exercises. It appears to me that those parents are not fit to be the custodians of tha children and should, by due process of law. through the Juvenile Judge, be deprived of the privilege of teaching them anarchy and insubordination to proper authority and disrespect for the Government that protects them. If such pernicious practices are al lowed to pass by It will soon grow into something more than a school scrap, for when these children become grown up they certainly will have no respeot for law or order of any kind. It Is a pity that such looseness of government enforcement exists, or firm steps would have been taken to teach the parents of those youngsters that "liberty" does not spell "license" Ions; before this time. - - FORMER SCHOOLMA'AM. Vesterllde la British Vessel. PORTLAND. April 8. (To the Edi tor.) Was the freighter Vesterllde built for Norway? Was It sold to the United States for $1,000,000? Did it float a Norwegian flag? MRS. E. T. The Vesterllde was contracted for by a Norwegian shipping firm, which sold It before completion to the Cunard line, a British concern. It was launched as a British vessel. It was not sold to the United Statea Tea. CANBT. Or.. April 4. (To the Edi tor.) Please Inform me If one should Join the Oregon Naval Militia would he be liable to service out of the state. SUBSCRIBER.