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TITE MORNING OREGONIAN. MONDAY, ATOH. 1C, 1917.
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Eastern Business Office Verree Conklin.
Brunswick building. New York; Verree tt
Conklin. Steger building Chicago; San Fran- to sljOW that lt supports Sunday and
i",co.,r"re,,enlatlve- J- Bldwe11- 742 Mar- indorses Sunday's patriotism with
I sometning else besides cheers.
PORTLAND, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1B17.
the man. Somehow, one cannot con
ceive a Eilly Sunday in the role of
pacifist, with a. great moral question
before the world. He is highly prac
tical, too. This he showed forcibly at
a later meeting, when he announced
that he would not keep a cent of the
free will offering, that will be asked
for at the close of the campaign.
Usually on the last day a collection -is
taken up for the evangelist himself.
One of the main arguments em
ployed by his opponents has been that
he Is working for money that his
bank account profits handsomely from
his revivals. But he will not keep a
cent of the money given him by New
York, whether lt la a thousand dollars
or a million. After paying his as
sistants, as always has been his cus
tom, he will divide the remainder
equally between the American Red
Cross and the Y. M. C. A. field forces
working among the soldiers and sail
ors of the United States. He said this
was "calling New York's bluff." It
certainly has put New York on its
mettle. It gives New York a chance
H CM AXE WEEK.
83IAIL-TOWN patriotism. I The present week marks the culmi.
There mav be some deer osychologl- nation of a movement to stimulate hu-
fcal reasons why village boys enlist """" treatment, or animais.
This
I nil rtnr tn rind a mnnr lot nrAftlr rillt
more readily than city boys In the ... , rr,i
various arms of the military establish- are thoughtless and that thev reauire
ment. If such there be, we shall an occasion to remind them of their
leave the study to someone else for I duties. We have passed the period
the DurDoss of extracting them. The when open cruelty Is tolerated In en
object herein Is primarily to call at- I lightened neighborhoods, but we still
tention to an interesting fact. need to guard against neglect. It also
In the Amity Standard we find the Is well to remember that practice of
names of twenty-six young men who the humanities Is a habit worth cul-
have already gone from Amity homes, uvating. Much of the progress we
the names of five more who tried to have made toward the enlightened
enlist but were rejected and the name treatment of children is the outgrowth
of one who has passed the examina- or the early movement to compel bet-
tion and is awaitinsr call. The high ter treatment or helpless animals.
school is almost depleted, says the UDservance or Humane week does
Standard, and In the upper classes not Involve a ritual specially prepared.
"there would not be a boy left If age It means simply thoughtfulness. There
and physical ability would permit." should be full realization that animals
Think of that voluntary contribution feel pain, as people do: that they
to the country by a town of 400 In- ought not to 'je punished in anger,
habitants! I ootn Decause tney do not deserve lt
Now turn your attention to the I and because anger Itself reacts against
nearbv town of Stevenson. Washing- the person who gives way to it. The
ton. The 1910 census records a popu- trfJiaen nuie is clearly applicable.
lation of 387 In that village. The wecenuy tne American Red fatar
Pioneer states that thirty-five Steven- animal relief organization has been
son young men have already Joined the doing splendid work to alleviate the
service and others are making prepa- condition or animals in war, but there
rations to go. are obvious duties of humanity toward
Harrisburg, Oregon, with 400 or I animals in peace as well. And when
BOO neode. has contributed eighteen we ruiiiu a duty we develop character.
to the country's cause without draft "he man who is kind to . animals is
or conscription; Monmouth, which Is likely to be a more tolerant neighbor
about the same size, has sent out fif- and a more steadfast friend. The
teen; Dallas, which had 2124 inhabt- week offers everyone an opportunity
tants In 1910, already has 97 In the to cultivate a virtue by no means to
service. I De despised
" j If volunteers came as freely from
all places as they nave rrom tnese pool OUR RESOURCES FOR VICTORY,
email towns, mere wouia do no neeu T.nQ0!c,o k , v T nnn
o " J -' ' V. V
OAfY Anrt Ti lr Kill ...itV. onrtnUi ti.
jauon as a wnoie urn as wen as dib- of ,t ,-, SoT,Q, mmuM
-1 1 .1 T ... 1 l AAA AAA An I ' J - "
, . ; . , , 1 eany compisuon or the rirst step in
(awaiting equipment and training. I ,, , , ,
rortland'B quota would be 25,000 to thoSe of the allies. By lending them
-i.xuv. "'"'"ucuu' ?""V' " V' $3,000,000,000 at 3 per cent the
those of Dallas would give the Na- TTrilt - Rtar. ,
,tlon an army of nearly 6,000,000 and fundg fop tne purchase of munltions
-1.11(3 EUlia Ul rut uauu 1 1 ma nci vilc
would be upwards of 12,000
Everyone knows that Portland and
other large cities have not approxi
mated the enlistment mark of these
small communities. Why lt Is so we
completed contracts to the service of
those two countries, by lengthening
the workday and by adapting other
plants to munition-making. This re
quires the most extensive mobilization
of industry, including labor, by the
National Defense Council. Only by
the most careful and skilful distribu
tion of our industrial plants and vof
our labor supply can we keep the war
industries In operation to capacity,
produce the needed supply of food on
the farm and at the same time recruit
the Army and Na'7 to the desired
strength in time to make them of any
service In this war.
It is difficult to understand how all
these essentials of the war can be pro
vided without compulsory service. In
effect, all the resources, not only of
our fighting forces but of our Indus
tries, farms, forests and mines, must
be enlisted in military service. If we
rely on voluntary enlistment for the
Army and Navy, many men may be
taken who are more needed In the
factory or on the farm. If recruiting
officers should be Instructed to re
ject such men, much motion would be
lost and raising of the desired force
would be seriously delayed, while
needless expense would be Incurred.
It Is the duty of the Nation to husband
its resources In order that they may
be used to the best effect in the war
and In the gigantic work of recon
structlon which will follow. It is the
duty of every citizen to do his part
in that place where he can be of most
service.
Only by giving the Government
power to put each man In that place
can waste of time, money and human
energy be prevented. We owe it to
ourselves and to the great cause in
which we are fighting to use our en
tire resources with true economy,
which can be practiced only by treat
ing each citizen as a part of the vast
machine military, naval. Industrial
and agricultural with which we must
win the war.
for several months to come, will
strengthen their credit, thereby rais
ing the rate of exchange and propor
tionately lowering the price of their
purchases in this country, and will re
duce the after-war burden of interest
ljaye promised to leave to others for whlch they must assume by the dif
v " " . Z I ference between the 3 V per cent
guesswork we cannot refrain rom ex- wMch they wm pay &nd fte g Qr mQre
small town boys know nothing about
Idleness or street gawking, very little
about pool playing and have acquired
. a lot of wholesome Information in
their schools about the glories of their
-v. country and the duties' of citizenship.
per cent which they would have paid
by borrowing on their own credit
alone. The allies' bonds have been sell
ing at discounts which brought the
Interest on the money actually ob
tained to about B'S per cent. Thus
they will effect an annual saving of
$60,000,000.
The countries most In need of our
GIVE CS BOSTON,
A writer In the New York Sun com
plains that New York cooks do not
know ' how to make clam chowder.
They put In tomatoes, carrots and eel
ery, leave out milk, and boil the
clams until they are tough. It is a
bitter indictment, probably deserved.
Judging from the description, the
dish Is what is commonly known in
the West as Coney Island clam chow
der. It is the one thing that has
made us refrain from visiting what
may otherwise be an Interesting pleas
ure resort. Now the suspicion per
sists that the concoction is prevalent
in all New York,
Boston clam chowder has milk Id it
At least that Is the name given milk
clam chowder by Western cooks. It
is quite probable that Boston has not
yet succumbed to the popular culinary
custom of making staples taste like
something else or like a lot of other
things. Boston is
sides, Boston inherited its clam chowder.
It is tradition that one of the first
acts of the Pilgrim Fathers was to set
up a chowder kettle Just west of Ply
mouth Rock. Some skeptics have
questioned the availability of milk at
that particular time and place, but lt
is a cinch the Pilgrims had no to-
Mr. Burke has suggested. The whole
tuber, or the generous part of one,
commonly has a way of taking care of
-.he germinating element in time, for
example, of early drouth. One com
mon fault of American growers, who
work in haste and depend largely on
machinery, is that they do not bring
the soil to the high state of tilth that
is always desirable. The whole potato
used as seed atones for a lot of omis
sions on tha gardener's part.
The eye, planted alone, must be
placed in the ground with care and
tended with more care. It calls for
soil well pulverized and careftflly
pressed around the seed. It will do
better If irrigation is practiced con
servatively while it Is being estab
lished. Otherwise there will be
How to Keep Weil
Dy Dr. XV. A. Etus,
Questions pertinent to jygiene, sanitation
and prevention of dtaeaso, lc matters of gen
eral intereet. will be answered in this col
umn. Where space will rut 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. Kvans will not make diagnosis
or prescribe for individual diseases. Be
quests for such services cannot be answered.
((JnnvrlirhL 1!1B. bv Dr. W. A. Evans.
Published by arrangement with tha Chicago
Tribune.)
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person hablrually eats more
gar and starches than he needs
he places some strain upon his liver.
However, this Is of secondary Import-
good many hills that will not "come I ance. The pancreas Is the organ which
up." I goes down under the strain. If a per-
By all means let us save our potato I n habitually eats mora meat than he
eyes, but not try 10 save too much I neeas no tnrows a strain on nis liver
labor at the same time. Nature has a and kidneys.
way of exacting compensation. If we There Is some tendency of the liver
want to eat our potatoes and plant to enlarge In warm weather, especially
them also, we shall have to make in the tropics. One theory, and there is
atonement in work. This is wholly a good deal of basis for it, is that this
feasible in the hand garden. Large I tendency to enlarge results from eat-
commercial growers probably will con- ing too much, and especially from eat-
tinue to plant pieces weighing not I ing too much meat. When the atmos
much less than an ounce. I pherlc temperature approximates that
of the body the need of eating food to
The Federal bureau of education Is make heat Is eliminated. Therefore a
finding time to urge the extension of diet which is scanty for ordinary
opportunity for children to hear better I weather throws a strain on the elimin-
muslc than is their accustomed lot. I atlng organs during hot weather.
Commissioner Claxton believes that
good music has a high moral and
spiritual value and that lt would also
have practical value both in saving
cost of police administration and in
adding to the fullness and fineness
of the life of the Nation. He regards
the church organ as the ideal instru
ment for the cultivation of better mus
ical tastes. While he admits that the
selection Of a orocrammn that will nr-
peal to the untrained ear is beset with has a katzenjammer. takes
CALL. OF PEOPLE IS SUGGESTED
Mr. Healy Invites Them to Prevail on
Mr. Jesselys to Become Candidate.
PORTLAND. April 14. (To the Edi
tor.) The next four years, or during
the administration of the next Mayor
elect, there will be many auestions of
the greatest importance to our city
which will have to be solved, ques
tions that will be very intricate, that
will have to be worked out and can
only be worked out by a man of sound,
logical and broad business training and
experience. For example, should the
city decide to own and furnish Its own
electric energy for the purpose of
lighting the city and attempt to hydro
expert and develop its own elec
trical power, is there a man in the
employ of the city as Commissioner or
a candidate so far named that has had
any experience In hydro experting
power propositions, building dams.
building power plants or equipping
same, or has had any experience what
ever In that line of work?
There is a man who has been men
tioned as a possible candidate for this
office of Mayor who, through his ex
ecutive and large business experience.
X
In Other Days.
r
Half a Century Asto.
From The Oregonlan of AprU 19, 1887.
Members of the Pioneer Balseball club
will meet at the photograph eallerv of
Joseph Buchtel this evening at 1 o'clock
Tor the purpose of reorganizing for the
season of 1S67. Theodore FJ Miner is
president.
.We are Informed by Mayorl Barclay,
of Oregon City, that at last there Is a
fine prospect of the organization of a
water company In that place.
A race was run on Saturday below
the city between Tom Moffits horse
"Derringer" and W. R. Hiir mare,
"Kitty," for $50 a side, won by the for
mer. A considerable number ofj people
were out to witness the sport tind we
learn that many epondullx on the out
side changed tholr base as on the result.
I
Mr. Corbett learned on Saturday by
telegraph that the stages below Trin
ity Center were stopped by onoV and
a uciunu nil v uucbliud i i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 well I ,w ,.w i rr i : . .. - 1 1 .
qualified to handle the most minute. I X
, ,""" On Thursday, the 4th Inst-. thj In
lems of the administration of the city dlans atole 11 mules and two horses
in a fair and most impartial manner. I fmm th tr,in hDir,nin tn a i if i,
inis man is air. a. &. josseiyn, pos- wood. Esa.. whll mmmnpii on Curtr.
slbly as well known to the citizens of Creek on the Canyon City road, about
r-oruana, as any man residing in mis 1 3a miles from The Dalles. 1
The liver can stand without demon
strable harm the effects of overeating
continued for years, but, the habit be
ing persisted In, the organ wears out.
Probably the chief source of liver
overstrain Is protecting the body
against poisons. A man drinks alcohol
ic beverages strain is thrown on the
liver. The liver does its work and the
man either feels no 111 effects or else he
purge, or
difficulties, he strongly urges that the Boea to Frencn Llck Ior a week, and is
numbers be chosen on the principle a11 rIeht. He keeps up the habit for
that in music as in literature common yea- After a while he overstrains
people and children, even if thpv have hla llver and cirrhosis results.
not understanding for the best, have Not a11 the Poisons against which the
feelings and power of response to the liver Protects us are poisons when they
best and nnlv that wTilv. lunrthv are swallowed.. The bacteria in the
should be used.
qualified for this position for the rea
son that by his exceptional business
training he is able to cope with and
handle such hydro experting as men
tioned above, as well as all other in
tricate problems so necessary to be
worked out and accomplished by the
Mayor of this great city.
The writer knows, and so do the
has been connected' with one of the I Tno work of putting down the double
largest corporations of this city, but track on Morrison street will begin as
Is not now nor has he been for some soon 3 th crossings and curves
time. Identified In a business wav with Thlrd and Morrison are In. The presi
any corporation whatsoever and that f "f f rsfcar, track wU1 be leI 1? p!acc
he Is not at this time Identified with
Twenty-five Teara Age.
From The Oregonlan of April 18, 1S9
Chicago Senator Allison, of Iowa, in
an Interview today, said that he vaa
not a candidate for the Republican
nomination for President. He seems Uo
regard President Harrison's renomina
tlon as almost a foregone conclusion.)
large Intestine manufacture poisons out
of food substances. These poisons are
called amines. They are absorbed into
the blood streams of the Intestines. The
liver converts them Into harmless
chemicals.
Habitual constipation, especially
when lt is associated with the habitual
The high importance of being up-to-
date in these times is illustrated by
the success of a British steamer in es
caping from a German submarine by j
throwing out a protective smoke
screen. This device was formerly em
ployed by warships and equipment of eating of too much meat, strains the
liver. If the person feels the effects
of this combination of overeating and
constipation we say he. is bilious. We
give him a purge. He feels better. We
say that the "medicine touched his
liver." The operation of the medicine
did indirectly "touch his liver" by
taking off the liver load.
A man may habitually strain his
liver in this way. Eventually lt gives
down under the continued strain. An
merchant vessels is a matter of com
paratively recent date. But every pos
sible precaution is now called for and
it is truer than it ever was that con
stant vigilance is the price of liberty.
"Lend a Hand" is the name of the
monthly publication of the inmates or
the State Prison. 7t is pretty near the
neatest affair of the kind in the state,
accounted for by the fact worse luck!
conservative. Be- ' ,th.?e are, few f od Pinters ordinary Btraln lonjr continued becomes
- " V ""lu" in time an overstrain.
6wia uiaiLamuu never deteriorates.
Editorially, "Lend a Hand" has an ex
cellence not. to be expected. Its price
is a dollar a year, but subscriptions
are not asked as charity.
Unlike some other organs for In
stance, the lungs the liver Is not
much subject to infection. When it is
crippled It is because of the long con
tinuance of bad habits.
The Incentive to thrift gets a real
setback when we are told that the
matoes. which are necessary to the very act of buying large quantities of
bogus article. staple goods has the effect of causing
The next time we go East we shall f " 01 prices, me
put up in Boston.
I BILLY SUNDAY'S PATRIOTISM.
AH doubt as to where Rev. Billy financial aid are France, Russia, Italy
Sunday stands on the Issue of war or I and the smaller allied countries Bel
peace for the United States has been glum, Serbia, Roumania and Portugal
set at rest by . the evangelist himself. I Relief to Great Britain will be no less,
His opening sermon In the New York I though indirect, for it has advanced
campaign left nothing to be desired, great sums to the other nations, and
Whether or not there are those who the United States can now take this
disagree with his methods as a re-1 duty off her hands.
vivallst, there are not many in the I Of equal importance is the pooling
United States who will not give full I of our food supply with that of the
assent to his views as to the duty of allies, and of the means of transport-
rnerlcans in the National crisis. Ing it. Great Britain normally imports
Sunday talked to an audience of about 55 per cent of its food, and the
twenty thousand. As was to have been great effort now being made to in
expected, he took a warlike text. He crease home production will leave a
probably would have done so regard- I large deficiency to be made up, while
less of military exigencies, for the I France and Italy must also draw heav-
Reverend Billy has a fighting temper- Hy from abroad. The United States
ament, and the text would have been I and Canada must be the chief reliance
nicely applicable to the devil if it had for food, for the Argentine crop is so
not bee-i made to fit Prussian mill- short that exports have been forbid
tarism. It was: "Tarry je at Jeru- den, and the surplus of India and Aus-
ralem, and there ye shall be endued I tralia is so distant that economy of
with power from on high." He had. ocean tonnage requires Europe to im
of course, a receptive congregation, "port from the nearer sources in North
"The people had not been abld to reach I America,
the tabernacle without passing a doze 1 1 The Winter wheat yield of the
recruiting stations, and they were in a 1 United States promises to be nearly a
mood to show how they felt about the quarter of a million bushels less than
issues before the country. Conse-1 that of 1915, and the most strenuous
quently they cheered vigorously when I effort of Government, farmers, bank'
Sunday said: "The soldier who breaks ers, urban dwellers and labor is nec
H every regulation, yet is found on the I essary to make good this loss by In-
-.1 ." -firing line in the hour of battle, is creasing the crop of Spring wheat and
- . it . t 1. M,,.t Mlian t..-. ,J, ...... .n Y. 1
.-,.. who won't enlist and who Ooes all he total productiou of food to an equality
-1 rton tn keen others from enllstiner. In I with that of 1915. wnile It is trim
these days all are patriots 01 traitors that 1915 was a year of phenomenal
s' to your country or to the cause of crops, the United State3 and Canada
Jesus Christ I need to produce such crops In order
Sunday's conception of the high pur- I to supply Europe s deficiency. Dwell
nose of Americans was shown at tha I ers in the cities, as well as In the coun-
climax, when he denied that he would, try, can help by growing potatoes and
if he could, wipe any nation off tha I other vegetables in their own and
- map. i never said, eitner in priva-e I neignooring lots, we are neiping to
or in public, he declared fervently. I win the war just as effectually by
that the German nation should be 1 feeding the allies until and after our
- - i -i. ntTea on tne mat), wnat i ata say. uwu aiuiv la reauy tor tne neia as
1 r ' ind now repeat, is tnat ixerman impe-i uy tseuuing an i rmy to r ranee.
' ' -rial ism. snouia De Diotiea on me map. i xne same general ena can De servea
' i'or the German people I have noth-I by exporting agricultural machinery
-ng but love, nothing but sympathy. I to Russia for use in increasing that
gram production and in get-
results from the reduced
labor. Provisioning of the
the Stars and Stripes than tho?e I Western allies can also be hastened
- 's":ppTTiBn ri'nnrt n ThMr vins " I bv the allied armies In th "RfllltHn
rvday constitutes himself a vigor-1 states, for If they cut their way across
.'-.-v'. fallv of the recruitine officers bv the peninsula and effect a - Junction.
!.- mighty denunciations of Hohen-I they will recover the grain fields of
misrn. and bv his reiteration of Roumania irom the Teutons and will
'or the German as an individual. I riussian and Roumanian wheat to
ikes the" issue quite clear, and I Western Europe. Thus the money and
. ,iibits the fighting spirit that has I munitions we may supply to Russia
iAmer'cans truly -great, despite I ana Koumania win contribute power
rtermittent tendencies tney maviiuny io tne teeaing or tne western
S shown to "backslide" from the I allies and will relieve the drain on our
. ' Aith that is in them. And Sunday 1 own food resources,
for preparedness, too, in and out I .Britain and France are now produc
j war, as he indicated when he told ing enough munitions for their own
audience that if it were not for 1 forcee and have a surplus for the othe
e brave men or Italy ana U'rance I ames. vontracts witn tnose countries
d Great Britain, and for the British are being completed in American fac
et under Jellicoe and Beatty, New tories, and large numbers of men and
rk would now be a heap of ruins I women are bein;. released for em
1 the German fleet would be pound- I ployment in other ways. It is im
, at our doors. Now, he said, Ger- portant that the supply to armies ac
a militarism is doomed and "the I tually in the field should be main
is of the United States will help tained and, as regards Russia and
Vits grave." I Italy, probably increased without de
UHy Sunday's attitude toward the laying proauction ior our own
it issue will not occasion surprise largea Army ana xsavy. xms n-ar- be
ihe part of any of those who know! done by applying plants which hay
"DIXIE" AS A NATIONAL AIR.
A correspondent, whose letter is
printed in another column, suggests
the formal adoption of "Dixie" as a
National air and marching song. All
that the correspondent Eays of the
stirring qualities of the tune of "Dixie"
and of the applause that greets lt
whenever it Is played is true. Yet
acceptance of a National song is not
a formal matter. As for "Dixie," de
lightful as is its swing, and infectious
as is the rolicking melody, it is never
theless self-limited. Notwithstanding
the undoubted loyalty of the South,
"Dixie" is still pre-eminently a South
ern song first; its wider acceptance
is secondary.
And the words that Dan Emmett,
the minstrel, wrote for it cling to it.
in spite of everything. Once General
Albert Pike, when the song was at the
eighth of its popularity in the Con
federacy, tried to dignify it with no
bler words, like these:
householder is truly on the horns of a
serious dilemma.
People wondering at support of the
President by Republican members of
Congress do not know Republicans.
Patriotism is the essence of Republic
anism and has been since 1856.
Students in colleges where military help your wind.
training is given may chafe under the
advice to stay at school, but it is bet
ter they heed it. They will be needed
for officers by and by.
- BATHS ARB O. K.
E. G. K. writes: "I am in the habit
of taking a warm bath each night be
fore retiring, after a strenuous day of
work, and a cold dip each morning upon
arising. IS . it possible that a warm
bath, taken each night, may prove
weakening and that a cold dip In the
morning may cause a congestion of
blood, injurious to the kidneys?"
REPLY.
Your habit !s all right. Keep lt np. Ex
ercise some after your morning dip. Use ex
erclae that will keep your Joints supple and
any class of people either in a politi
cal or business way that would Inter
fere with him becoming unbiased, un
prejudiced or free to accept this hon
ored position.
The question Is, can we prevail upon
him to become a candidate? - I believe
we can If the people will request it.
JOSEPH M. HEALY.
till the tracks are down on both sides
of it-
sight of two or i
ired In the river
unless some un- I
ents itself in the '
"BE A SOLDIER"
(Tune: "Be a Hero.")
God is calling, will you heed?
soldier.
Dare you for old Glory bleed?
eoldler.
Show your colors In the fight.
iveep your sword and armor brieht.
Strike out bravely for the right,' Be
somier.
Be
Be
The citizens of Portland will have an
opportunity early next month of wit
nessing the unusual sight of two or
three ironclads anchored
at this point, that is.
forseen obstacle preser
way of the Chamber of Commerce committee.
The attraction at the Marquam Grand
next week will be Gillette's highly suc
cessful comedy, "All the Comforts of
Home.
A project Is on foot to build a steam
motor line from the end of the cable
road on Portland Heights to Beaverton,
and thence to Hlllsboro. A line of this
kind would make both Beaverton and
Hlllsboro suburbs of Portland.
Chor.
Be a
Down the Kaiser's war
soldier.
machine.
Be a soldier, untold millions try to
screen.
Down oppression, never fear.
Let earth's brotherhood draw near.
For our God and flag we'll cheer. Be
a soldier.
Down with tyrants o'er the earth. Be
a soldier.
Love the land that gave you birth. Be
a soldier.
Standing boldly for the right.
In the darkness or the light.
We are marching to the fight. Be
soldier.
Fight for God and native land.
soldier.
Be a
Declaration of London.
PORTLAND. April 14. (To the Edi
tor.) (1) Kindly advise what the
Declaration of London cfrvered, which
Senator La Follette alluded to In his
argument previous to the vote takes
In the Senate on the existence of a stats
of war between the United States ane
Germany. (2) When was the terns,
"Commodore" eliminated from the list
of naval officers and what was sukv
stituted in its place? SUBSCRIBER.
(1) The Declaration of London, 1909,
contains 71 articles. The main sub
jects covered are: Blockade In Time
of War; Contraband of War; Unneutral
Service; Destruction of Neutral Prizes;
Fight that freedom long may stand. Be Transfer to a Neutral Flag; Enemy
a soldier.
Help to set earth's captives free
Wave old Glory o'er the sea.
Long may live democracy. Be a sol
dier.
Oh, there's trouble in our land. Be
soldier.
in the strength of Jesus stand. Be a
soldier.
See the stars of Glory wave.
O'er a people true and brave.
Let me die its power to save. Be a
soldier.
Character: Convoy: Resistance to
Search; Compensation, and several ar
ticles dealing with ratification of the
Declaration.
(2) The grade and title were abol
ished In 1S99 except as a rank to which
Captains having had Civil War service
are retired. Commodores then on the
active list were promoted to the rank
of Rear-Admirals.
Southrons, hear your country call you,
p! lest worse tnan death berall you.
To arms! To arms! To arms In Dixie 1
Lo! all the beacon fires are lighted;
Let all hearts be now united. .
To arms! To armsl To arms in Dixie!
Advance to the flag of Dixie.
era! Pike s version. All went on sing
ing the old walk-around as Emmett
wrote it, chorus and all. The chorus,
in negro dialect, goes this way:
' Den I wish I was In Dixie.
Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie's land we'll take our stand
To lib and die In Dixie.
Away, away, away down south in Dixie.
The "Marseillaise," on the other
hand, was written as a war Bone, al
though it owes its wide adoption to ln lno oiaaaya
nonular canrice. and even under a
name that was given it by mistake. Tho multiplicity of
v" .ng but love, nothing but sympathy. I to Russia f
- vithirig but pity. In these days of country's gr
'. 't :ct I believe you'll find no more I ting larger
--! brave and patriotic people be- I supply of 1;
- ' 11 C- , C- V. I Waot.ra oil
Delayed blooming of fruit trees is a
blessing in disguise. Pollenation will
be all the better if the blossoms do not
come out until after the worst rains
are over.
In the midst of momentous events
in Russia, it seems puerile to waste
time considering whether the capital
shall be called Petrograd or St. Petersburg.
Nobody can question the patriotism
of the St. Helens woman twice blessed
with twins within eierhteen months.
She is doing her bit bravely.
LACTEAL GLANDS
M. K. writes: "What are the func
tions of the lacteal glands; also what
foods act directly upon them?"
REPLY.
The breasts are made up of fat and lacteal
glands. The lacteal glands, also known as
the mammary glands and loosely termed the
breasts, are the glands which secrete milk
There are no foods which act directly on
the lacteal glands ln a proper sense. In
a certain sense milk, butter and all products
of milk and butter act on the lacteal glands.
Other foods also act on them in lesser
measure. For Instance, meat, bread and
vegetables. Beer and malt liquors have no
special action on these glands.
FItUIT JX'ICE FOR BABIES
M. W. writes: "1. Is it customary to
give a 3-months-old baby fruit Juices?
2. How Is potato Juice made?
REPLY.
1. Most physicians advise fruit Juice ln
After the Hose Festival -will prima
fho TTnr-tv, r.f Ti,r ,i i,. iv. i I moderation for 3-months-old babies If there
. X.Y, . " 7,1 . i during war time need not be a straw- I ' .7
al Pike's version. All went on sing- K- . . pation
reason for using it. such as constl-
or certain kinds of bowel trouble
or tendency to scurvy. Some physicians do
not advise fruit Juices until after 5 months
The $5000 offered bv St Tnla men of age, unless the conditions are urgent.
n rnt.ln o,1 2. TO this Dr. J. H. Kellogg, Ot attl
V.r.til ,,V,ro ...ill j w... -TeeK. answers:
the right spirit is in the offer.
I recommend potato soup
or puree. This should be given In quanti
ties of one to three ounces a day, accord
ing to the needs of the child. It Is only
Inexorable passage of time is shown I necessary that the puree should be thin and
in cessation of activity by "Big Jim'
Menane, premier hackman of Portland
smooth, season with a little salt and a small
amount of butter.
Russia's hosts have caught the fire. Be
a soldier.
Freedom Is the world s desire. Be a
soldier.
Down the kaisers everywhere.
Grant the bleeding Germans prayer.
Give the world a freedom fair. Be a
soldier.
J. L MONTGOMERY.
Woods, Or.
THE CALL TO ARMS
Listen! Your country Is calling!
She needs your service today!
Will you, ignoring her summons.
Go silently on your way.
Thinking of self only? Will you.
Forsaking your sacred trust.
Let the banner of Stars and Stripes
Be ignobly trailed ln the dust?
Think of the Story of Freedom!
Think of the Patriots true
Who gave their lives for the Country
And gave the flag to youl
Listen! A bugle has sounded.
Proclaiming America free!
And, flung on the breezes which love it.
Floats the flag we rejoice to see!
Rose Festival Opposed.
PORTLAND. April 14. (To the Edi
tor.) I am glad to notice in The Ore
gonlan that voices have been raised
against the spending of money on the
Rose Festival this year.
Indeed.- this is no time for luxuries of
this kind, when we are confronted with
issues of such importance; Issues wnicn
will soon draw upon our resources,
financial and otherwise. The money
which is going to be raised for the
Rose Festival can be used at this par
ticular time (or at any time, for that
matter) to a better purpose. Let us
not forget the Red Cross.
I hope that in the future -the koso
Festivals willvbe done away with alto
gether, as, besides flooding the town
with idlers from the country and de
moralizing the trarfic tney do not ac
complish very much. While we are
fooling away our time ano spenains
our money on no3e resnvma o
which has no Rose festival, peia ino
best of us every time. L. RlCfc.N.
From Lexington to Santiago
The Veteran's Lament.
By James Barton Adams.
armies being
The tune was adapted from the orato- proposed provides a means of effer-
rio "Esther." Its composer called lt vescence. uncle barn's and the Salva-
the "Chant de guerre de 1'armee du on are enough,
Rhin."' Paris first heard it when the
Marseilles battalion brought it to the It's a nicely guarded insurance fra-
city and sang lt
the Tuileries. "Marseillaise" lt has re- is little comfort in dying early to avoid I my aged back is somewhat bowed and
I've trudged along for three score
years and ten. and then some more,
adown this earthly vale o' tears toward
the river's shore. My letrs are weary
at the storming of ternity that keeps off the rocks. There of the ioaa they're called upon to bear.
mained. and nothing: can change it. the crash.
It is impossible to predict what the
American National anthem of the fu-1 Our food preparedness campaign
ture will be. It probably will not be would be greatly helped by a little co-
Dixie," and perhaps not the "Star- I operation on the part of Old Proba-
Spangled Banner." which has certain bilities,
vocal difficulties that make the aver
age citizen painfully aware of his lim- I A. L. Barbur was gifted with pres- I hard, that us old boys of "61 are tossed
Itatlons. Rut when It comps. It will rip.non vhn Via hemn mnnfho o ,! In the Olscara. wnue nags are n in
I am shy of hair; but yet the heart in
side o' me is 'bout as young as when.
it throbbed with patriot loyalty when
Lincoln called for men. I served all
through the Civil War in years of long
ago, and on my breast I've got a scar
that shows I raced tne roe; ana now
when war again is on I think it plaguy
Daylight for Gardeners.
ALBANY. Or., April 14. (To the Ed
itor.) I notice in The Oregonlan a sug
gestion that the amateur gardener
Bion w MDiiaisu . . . , ,.. v.- rtiv.
Borne stainless, the Red, White and Quit nis worK "
light in wnicn m vi - - e--
wh- rin,n he not Eet UD at 4 or 4:30
A. M. and work until 7 AM. and ln the
evening from 6:30 to 8:30 P. M-, as lots
f others are doing.
I speak for myself. I raise all my
garden truck on one lot; have not
boueht new potatoes or lettuce or cab
bage, in fact, have enough green vege
tables to can lor the inter use. my
garden work Is all done before 7 eacn
morning, weather permitting, as I am
employed at my barber shop until 7
P. M. each day and Saturdays until
10:30 P. M. LOUIS VIERECK.
likely come in a day, or a night. Its
adoption will be spontaneous, and not
according to any rule. To attempt to
forecast it would be futile. The issue
is in the hands of fate.
vocating cultivation of the vacant lots.
everywhere I turn my weakened eyes,
like floatin' Jewels in the air outlined
no-Alnst the akies: and drums are rous-
The mail-order real estate rs were ing volunteers and bugles loudly toot.
found guilty and once more the suck
ers are exposed t the next game.
PLANTING POTATO ETF.S
The germ of the plan suggested by
Collector Burke, that the people use
the bulk ' of their seed potatoes for
food, reserving only the eyes to plant.
is contained in Mr. Burke's own ex
planation that "the more potato is left
in contact with the eye, the more re
sistance the seed will have to with
Young Roosevelt, who hastened the
date of marriage, cannot be classed
with slackers, not if T. R. hears it.
This Fall the aged Oregon Joke will
become a reality when "we eat what
we can and can what we can't."
I 'feel like cussin' at the years that
bind me hand an' foot. It makes me
wish I'd not been born before the civil
strife, and that this body, old and worn,
was young and full o' life; and hard
with muscled strength like when with
Union's valiant sons, I did my bit
among the men behind the Yankee
guns. Twas then our brothers that
we fought with all our might and
main, who with disloyal vigor sought
to rend the Union chain; and when each
battle force was spent my breast with
hope was filled, that every duty shot I
Blue.
Shall your sons fall to serve and pro
tect you,
Oh, emblem of Freedom true?
Oh, none shall ever disgrace you,
Columbia, thy sons are true; v
When your trumpet itall Is sounded
They will lay down their lives for
you!
EUNICE RAMSDELL,
Capt. Dlv. Nat. Girls' Honor Guard.
Cove, Or.
THI1 SLACKER"
The slacker is a pest we've had.
Since Adam first raised Cain
In office, shop, or ln the field .
You'll find him Just the same. 1
He never wants to buckle down.
And do his little bit.
For well he knows ln a real man's
game
That a slacker does not fit.
And now that Uncle Sam has asked.
For men with good red blood.
With marriage, he shirks the Nation's
call
As we'd expect a slacker would.
It's little he cares for the starving
poor.
Across the ocean wide
If some girl will spread her skirt.
And behind lt let him hide.
I wonder if his mother would
Have picked a shirking, slacker pest
Or choose a man with good red blood
Whom she could trust and love and
bless? '
MYRON E. HOWTS.
The record day's recruiting for the
stand adverse conditions surrounding Navy was on Friday, Ap,-il 13, and that sent had crippled and not killed. But
its germination and growth." In view uppercuis tne superstition
of the high, almost prohibitive price
of seed stock, the saving by hotels
Wherever a bonding meeting is held
the doubters become believers.
Douglas Ilaig possibly contemplates I
Christmas dinner in Berlin.
restaurants and even private resi
dences of the eyes of all potatoes in
the course of their preparation for
the table presents undoubted eco
nomic advantages. This, however, is
based chiefly on the principle that I By conservation of food is meant to
such a supply of seed is better than stop eating too much.
none at all.
The gardener who plants only the Oh, rain, rain, go away! Baseball
eyes must, if he gets a good crop; be here next week.
prepared to pay for it with added
labor. There are many conditions ad- I Babies in arms are part of the war
verse to germination and growth, as I scheme,
now it is a foreign foe who desecrates
our flag, who in the dust would lay it
low as but a worthless rag; and if I
now could battle for humanity and
right. I'd hasten to the front of war
and God! how I would fight; and I
would run the hollerln' scale from
tenor down to bass, to see Old Glory
switch her tall in that old Kaiser's
face.
fncce."
PORTLAND. April 14. (To the Edi
tor.) Please give me the name of the
English convict ship that was- on ex
hibition the Summer of 1915 ln Port
land and Seattle and San Francisco.
READER.
A MOTHER'S WISH
My soldier boy has gone away.
And left me all alone.
To dream about the happy day.
When soldier boys come home.
I love my laddie brave and gay.
My soldier sweetheart true.
The only grief I'm conscious of
That mothers can't go too.
I glory ln this flame that burns.
That makes man more than clod.
And wish that I my life might give
To Country and my God!
.NETTIE B. DELAY.
Either.
PORTLAND. Or.. April 15. (To the
Editor.) Please state which Is cor
rect, the rim of a hat, or the brim of
a hat. A atiiiliiii-
State Dairy Rating;.
EUGENE, ON April 14. (To the Edi
tor.) Can you tell me the scores or
the five highest scoring dairies in Ore
gon, and the scores of each?
According to the ratings of the Fed
eral Government, recently issued, tne
five dairies given below have the high
est records among the dairies ot the
state. The ratings given are out of a
possible 100 points:
Wardin & Heuser, Hillsdale, 97.65.
A Helman, Lents. "97.15.
Stelgerwald Brothers, Forty-second
and Going strets. 96.95.
Clover H'lls Farm. Deer Island. 96.90.
Charles Lehman. Hillsdale. 95.85.
Dixie" na at National Anthem.
PORTLAND. April 14. (To the Ed
itor.) While considering the subject of
National air and a marching song.
none couia excel -uixie. inoi oniy ior
its "swing" and "go," but what other
air has ever been accepted and ap-
plauded as "Dixie"? not only for the .
music Itself, which is inspiring, but for
the significance of its now belouging to
the undivided America. Let our "Tip
perary" be good old swinging, swaying,
marching, inspiring "Dixie."
JUNE NISSEN.
PTohtbtfrOtfi In Wash InK ton.
INDEPENDENCE. Or.. April 14. (To
the Editor.) On what date does the
state of Washington become "bone
dry," or was the emergency clause in
their dry bill?
JANE BARLEYCORN.
Washington will become "bone dry"
June 7, unless the referendum is in
voked. There was no emergency clause
attached.
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