Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1917)
10 THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1917 POBTLAJfD. OREGON. Entered at Portland (Oregon) Postofflce as second-class nmil matter. Subscription rates rlnvariably in advance: (By Mail.) - Daily, Sunday lncluued, one year. $8.00 lJaiiy. Bundjiy Included, six months 4.25 Laily, Sunday Included, three months. .. - 2.25 Iaily, Sunday Included, one month. ...... .75 laiiy, without Sunday, one year . . 6.00 Jjaiiy, without Sunday, three months. . . L?5 Dally, without Sunday, one month .60 Weekly, one year. ...........-. I- Sunday, one year. .m bunaay and Weekly.. ........... .ov (By Carrier.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year lally, Sunday Included, one month How to Remit Send postofflce money or der, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk, tilve postofflce address In lull. Including county and state. l'oatase Kates 12 to 18 pages. 1 cent; 18 to 32 pages, 2 cents; 84 to 48 pages, a cents. 60 to tto pages, 4 cents; 62 to 7o pages, o cents; 78 to 82 pages, cents. Foreign post age double rates. Eastern Business Office Verree Conklln, Brunxn lck building. New York; Verree c Conklin, Steger bunding, Chicago: San Fran cisco representative. K. J. Bidwell, 42 Mar ket street. I'OIMI.AM), TUESDAY, JCSE 5, 1917. VOCR COUNTRY CALLS YOU. Today the United States calls upon every man between the age of 21 and 81 to 'come forward and register as a willing defender of his country, though ' defense may require him to go to Europe in order to strike down the in solent ruler who has attacked us on the sea. These men are summoned thus to prove their readiness to do their duty by their country. They are reminded by the contrast between our own happy state of freedom and prosperity and the misery to which the conquered peoples of Europe have been reduced, that the blessings they enjoy are worth fighting for, and cannot long be en Joyed unless we fight for them. Never was a nation so reluctant to fight, but through nearly three years the necessity has been gradually driven home to us, for the alternative has been presented between war and loss of the right to free intercourse with other nations, with the ultimate certainty of subjection by a ruthless despotism which aims at world do minion. Having resolved on war rather than tame submission, we have no choice but to fight as other nations are fighting by throwing our whole able bodied man power into the struggle. Every nation now at war has organ ized all of its men of military age to bear arms, retaining in their ordinary vocations only those whose labor is necessary to the supply and equipment of the army. Every nation also em ploys all men above or below military age, and many women, in providing for the army. War is no longer the work of a few professional soldiers, who are equipped by armorers and makers of crossbows. It is - the co operative enterprise of the entire na tion, in which each must do his or her part. Having entered upon the strug gle, we dare hot risk defeat by not doing our utmost, for defeat means that the conqueror would invade our own shores and that we should be compelled to defend our Independence on our own territory. By defeating him in Europe with the aid of our allies, we can make ourselves secure against Invasion. Of the ten million men who will be registered, comparatively few will be chosen on the first draft, but all will be on the roll, subject to future calls. It will be the roll of honor, on which ' they should be proud to have their names Inscribed. Whether they shall be summoned to arms or be left at home, they will have a clear con science through having answered their country's call, and those who are not first drawn can do their part behind the lines while awaiting a later sum mons. As for those who fail to register, either through cowardice or disloyalty or mere selfish lack of patriotism, the law will lay a heavy hand on them and compel them to do their duty, but the severest punishment will be the contempt of their fellow-citizens. SCHOOL AS USUAL. About a million and a half pupils attend the high schools of the United States, and about 350,000 are in colleges, normal schools, technical schools and - high-grade vocational schools of various kinds. Normally, about 90,000 of the 200,000 young men and women who will be graduated from high schools this month would enter some higher educational insti tution. These figures give point to the appeal made by the Federal Commis sioner of Education, Professor P. P. Claxton. that as many young students as possible continue their education in the coming year without interrup tion. The commissioner emphasizes this course as a public duty. The longer the war continues, the greater will be the need of trained men and women. The highest purpose will be served by continuation of the schools rather than by their interruption in favor of such relatively minor work as the students will be able to per form. The total number of persons of pro ductive age in the United States Is estimated at 60,000,000. The number in colleges and other higher institu tions Is about one-half of 1 per cent of this. The proportion is small from the point of view of National output, but it is important as a leaven. There will be an increasing demand for skilled management, for executive ability, and for precise knowledge along technical lines. The first call of the allies, as Professor Claxton re minds us, was for" 12,000 engineers for construction work in Flanders and France. 'More will be needed later, and if Russia remains in the war' it, too, will make heavy demands upon the skilled resources of America. But our chief need is quite likely to be at home. We have only begun to organize. Few appreciate as yet how great will be the strain. Our rail roads and our shipyards and indus trial plants of nearly every kind. will call for technical help beyond any present prospect of supply unless our 'colleges and technical schools remain open. Attention is also called to our re quirements "and those of the world after the . war. All the 'countries of Europe, including neutrals, will be ex- . periencing reconstruction, in which we will be called upon to help. Their colleges are now practically empty. - Teachers by hundreds of thousands rare being killed on the battlefield. It is improbable that however much the value of education is understoodby them, the nations of the old world 'will be able to support their schools p-3 they have done in the past. This (' then will place a double duty upon ' Americans. 1 It is from every angle desirable that the schools should be kept up to the , highest possible standard, and par ticularly that graduates of high schools should try to make up for the number of college students who will leave school for war service. The in terests of the country must be re garded broadly. These will not be served by mistaken enthusiasm for immediate duty at the front. The youth who is doing well in school, and is under the military age, will still be a patriot if he devotes himself earnest ly to making himself fit for the higher service. OUR POLITICAL. JOKE. . It is observed by some Eastern newspapers that the regular political joke has just been perpetrated in Ore gon. The New York Times mirthfully remarks that Portland is "a city where every prospect pleases and only the ballot law is vile." Howong, O Lord, how long this Portland ballot is! In that Northwestern paradise it is better to be a visitor than a voter. ironbound provincialism does not understand the true delights of gen uine democracy. Conceded, it may be, that there were measures on yester day's ballot that should never have been presented to an enlightened com munity, and admitted also that the easy-going election law gave us some candidates for office so much worse than the worst convention ever held that they could not have got within hailing distance of one of those dis credited bodies. But we of Portland and Oregon ac cept our election burdens with light hearts and sweet content. Nothing so promotes satisfaction and good tem per as the act of swatting something or somebody. Did our Eastern critic ever reflect upon the psychological reasons for success of some of the best-known public diversions? Is it the chance of winning a cheap cigar or the pleasure of whacking something that causes men to throw baseballs at wooden babies? Is it pride in skill or possibility of scoring a lovely smear that induces one to pay money to throw eggs at a dodging negro's head? " Who would bowl if there was not Joy in occasionally seeing all tenpins knocked gallywest? Who makes the most money, the real actor in the moving pictures or the one most successful in throwing custard pies? The world is made up of all kinds of folk. Some will sit for hours on Council Crest silently enthralled by the beauties of nature and man's serious handicraft spread out below. Others will patronize the roller-coaster which graces the same spot. Neither particularly annoys the other. Oregon is comprehensive in its at tractions. One is perfectly free to spend one's whole time with the sober joys of scenery. There is no compul sory voting not yet. But for lovers of slap-stick comedy, there is a-plenty offered often. What more could the homeseeker ask? COMMANDEERING BALVARSAX, The heated controversy in the Na tional Capitol yesterday between ex Representative Metz and Dr. George Walker, of Johns Hopkins University, in which blows were struck, shows the intensity of feeling that has been en gendered by the contention over the commandeering of German patents by the United States during the present war. It derives especial force from the fact that the dispute in question arose over consideration of the patent on the substance, salvarsan, better known to laymen as "606," which Mr. Metz, who is a wholesale druggist and an importer, as well as a citizen of German origin, desires to protect to the utmost in its present status, and which Dr. Walker, who may be sup posed as an American scientist to take a more Impartial view, would throw open to manufacture by Americans. As a specific for syphilis, salvarsan Is highly valued by medical men. It is thirty times as potent as mercury. Present supplies of salvarsan are ex tremely limited and the price is almost prohibitive. The patent is held by a large German dye-manufacturing com pany of Frankfurt. It is covered by more than thirty claims, so that it is impossible to make it in this country without infringement. Dr. Walker has been active in the campaign for abrogation of the pat ents, and he has also gone further than that, for he has advocated legis lation that would affect the drug in time of peace. He declares that the cost of manufacture is small. At pres ent an ampule containing six deci grams of salvarsan, 'when it is obtain able, costs $4.50 or more. Dr. Walker quotes a responsible manufacturer of experience as promising to sell it, after some time given him for preparation, at 50 cents an ampule. He says that the two basic substances used In the manufacture are anilin at 50 cents a pound and arsenic acid at 90 cents a pound. In the process of manufacture there are also used oxalic acid at 75 cents a pound, caustic soda at 40 cents a pound, nitric acid at 21 cents a pound, "sulphuric acid at 21 cents a pound, magnesium chloride at 30 cents a pound and sodium hydrosulphite at 13.50 a pound. The price of the last named chemical is normally under 50 cents a pound. But the retail price of the finished product is $3397 a pound. Some highly expensive machinery and the services of one or two expert chemists are required. A pound is finally divided Into '755 glass ampules. The empty ampules cost from 2 to 5 cents each. The other materials which go with It, com prising a small pasteboard box. a tiny file and the printed directions, cost no more than a few cents. Overhead charges, cost of distribution, etc., are extra. It would seem as the retail price might have been fixed at an exorbitant figure to make it correspond with the technical name of salvarsan, which is sulphinate of soda. Neverthe less it is the contention of the advo cates of seizure of the patents that the price of $3397 a pound is extor tionate, and that, to use Dr. Walker's own words, "no government should permit the private control of an agent which is of such great value to the welfare of the people and so striking ly needed by many of Its poor." He makes the amazing statement that there are probably 6,000,000 persons in the United States afflicted with syphilis in some form. , He says that anions the criminal classes prevalence ranges from 20 to 30 per cent, and that In some hospitals for the insane it represents as high as 22 per cent of all cases. It is now recognized to be the sole cause of locomotor ataxia, general paresis and certain diseases of thp blood vessels, the bones, the brair id the nervous system. It is an i.jortant predisposing cause of other maladies. A bill is pending In Congress, and it is this bill over which the controversy has arisen, providing that the patent shall be suspended dunlng the war, on rajmcnt of royalties, with the under standing that 'after peace is declared the patents shall be restored to their former position. The proposal to ab rogate the patent without conditions Involves the entire patent question, and the issue of "human rights" as compared with the rights of patentees. As for abrogation for the war period alone, the United States would have plenty of precedent. Great Britain and France have already acted In con formity with this principle, but. have protected the Germans in the future by requiring a royalty from manufac turers. Our Congress undoubtedly can go this far in war time. So far as the permanent settlement Is concerned, that in any event will be a matter for the treaty-makers, among whom our voice will be heard. Adjustment of patent rights will not be the least' of the issues settled by the final terms of peace. RUSSIA'S IW PERIL. At a time when other nations are placing more drastic restrictions upon the manufacture and sale of intoxicat ing liquor, for economic and other reasons, poor old Russia Is on the verge of backsliding from the well formed purpose of sobriety made in the early days of the war. So it would seem from the appeal made by the congress of delegates from the front, meeting at. Petrograd to discuss the national crisis. Before the established government was overthrown, there was a more or less competent authority to enforce the drink laws. Now that a condition bordering on anarchy has supervened, and everybody's business is nobody's business and every moujik Is clamoring for his "rights" in the old familiar way, bootlegging on an enormous scale has become prevalent. The army and the whole people face a new danger. It would be a strange trick of fate if the Russians, having got rid of their Czar and of the trappings of imperial autocracy, should now raise up an other master more tyrannical than the old.. Their country at this hour, with its government only half organized, its ideals confused and its people torn by the contending forces of conflicting opinion, needs sobriety more than it ever did in its history. In the old days the drunken Russian at least had a Czar to look after him. Now, if he hopes to prove his fitness to rule him self, he must not appoint John Barley corn as his chamberlain. Czar Vodka will make no better em peror than Czar Nicholas; indeed, he probably will do much worse. The Black Hundred is quite probably be hind the revival of alcoholism, as the congress of delegates suspects, and its purpose is clear enough it is to be fuddle the rank and file of the nation so' that the monarchy can regain power. The newly freed Russian citizen who now confounds his personal right to get drunk with the general principles of liberty which the world is seeking is playing into the hands of his ene mies. The German army is by no means the most menacing of these. Dark forces at home will be ready to seize the first opportunity to return him to his former state of bondage. BUILD BOTH OF STEEL AND WOOD. Impatience with General Goethals for getting into a wrangle with Chair man Denman, of the Shipping Board, about the building of steel or wooden ships is voiced by the New Tork World and in milder terms By the Times, which see no cause for rivalry when the emergency calls for all the ships we can build, of whatever type" There is no cause for rivalry, though In the minds of the steel manufacturers there is cause, and they have succeeded in injecting their ideas into the mind of the General. General Goethals has been im pressed with the feats of the steel men in, fabricating steel for the Panama Canal locks and assembling it on the ground, and he believes their state ment that they can do the same with ship steel. One company has prom ised to complete the first steel . ship in six months and to turn out one a day during the succeeding year, as suring him of 8.000, 000 tons in eight een months, and he has accepted the offer. Well and good. Portland and other Pacific Coast ports ore ready to build some of those steel ships, as they have proved. But will 3.000.000,000 tons be enough shippin? to transport food, munitions and armies across the At lantic when the United States is in the war with both feet? If the estimate that It requires twenty tons of ship space per man to transport an army and its supplies be correct, that would be enough for only 160,000 men, and, estimating a month for the round trip, the entire fleet would be occupied for three months in carrying less than half a million men and their material. If the Government had 6,000.000 tons at its disposal it would not have too much. It may be possible to produce the larger amount of steel tonnage In eighteen months, but that would con sume a great quantity of steel when that metal is in great demand and is at famine prices. It is needed to make guns, rifles, automobiles, locomotives, cars and rails, not only for our own armies but for those of France and Russia, All of these things are as urgently needed as ships. If the sec ond three million tons of ships can be built of wood and can be completed in the same time as the steel vessels, why not build them and save the steel for these other uses? General Goethals was quoted by Representative Fitzgerald as saying that it would be impossible to obtain enough seasoned lumber in eighteen months, as though he did not know the uses of a' dry kiln. The General seems to take the builders of wooden ships for a lot of get-rich-qulck men, who would turn out a vessel built of green lumber, which would go to pieces after a few voyages. The New York Times seems to share. his opin ion, for it classes the wooden vessels which are now proposed with the crazy craft which were" built for the emergencies of the Civil War, and it advobates their construction as an emergency measure only. Hence it is proposed that the Government build only 150 to 200 wooden vessels as the limit which can be reached by the wooden shipyards in the next eighteen months. The Pacific Coast should be given the opportunity to turn out all the wooden ships possible within the time named, provided they are seaworthy and navigable. The Times truly says that "the two proposals are parallel, not conflicting," for "there is no com petition between the forests and the rolling mills; the men who work In either cannot work in the other." In the same tune, the World says: There Is room enough both for wooden hips and steel ships. Stop the talk and build both. - In the East the wooden ship is re garded only as an expedient to meet an emergency which will soon pass away. The West has an opportunity to prove that the wooden ship has a permanent place to fill, if built on new lines. The emergency is likely to continue much longer than our Eastern friends seem to gxpect, for the war appears not to be near Its end and the longer it continues the greater will be the destruction of tonnage, the greater the arrears of normal increase to be made good and the more wide spread the devastation which must be repaired with goods transported chief ly from the United States, Shipbuilders may be . able to cal culate on a period of ten years during which ocean freight will be so far above normal as to give them a wide margin for experiments and blunders. By means of these they may be able to evolve a type of craft, economical in construction and operation, reason ably speedy, durable and of large ton nage which can hold a place perma nently In ocean trade. This would be a boon to Portland and all other Pa cific Coast ports in establishing a new industry and in expanding their com merce. it would be a boon especially to the lumber industry In establishing a large home market to replace that which Is being steadily lost through adoption of substitute materials. The possibilities are so great that the at tempt is well worth making. One of the most valuable lessons now being taught in the military train ing camps is that certain "personal liberties" must be surrendered by the individual for the efficient conduct of the whole. This is the first shock re ceived by the civilian who has been accustonted to regard his nersonal idiosyncrasies of dress and manner as important, and who soon learns that the Army itself sacrifices practically every right which it fights to preserve for its countrymen at home. In a place in which even the clothing in which a man sleeps is cut to a uniform pattern, this lesson is deeply im pressed upon every recruit, and it is worth noting that those who undergo the ordeal invariably emerge as the strongest advocates of discipline. The training, therefore, in. teaching re straint, makes the man7 the more fit as a citizen, and the experience through which we are about to pass under compulsory service may rea sonably be expected to have a far reaching and beneficial effect upon the citizenship of the country as a whole. Cotton is now being thought of as a producer of food. The use of cotton seed meal as feed for livestock, thus Indirectly contributing to our table, is not new, but it is now proposed by some to make bread from the meal, after putting it through an extra process for pressing out all of the oil. This meal would contain about 40 per cent of protein, as compared with only 19.1 per cent for porterhouse steak, so that a cottonseed loaf would as a matter of fact combine, the food values of both bread and meat. J. W. Allison, of the Interstate Cottonseed Crushers' Association, estimates that the South produces 7,000,000 tons of cottonseed a year and that the meal amounts to about four-tenths of 'that. He figures that this would be equiva lent to adding 481,000,000 bushels to the wheat crop, which is about two thirds of what we produce in an aver age, year. Enthusiasts who have eaten the new cottonseed bread - profess to like it, but It remains to be determined whether it can be made popular. An old-fashioned home body who was reared in an atmosphere of" thrift and saving in the old days when food, though cheaper, was held in higher respect than it Is now, has offered what he regards as the solution of the stale-bread problem. This consists simply in adding "fried bread" to the menu. This was a staple .supper dish in many homes a good many years ago. It is made by softening the left over bread with water, dipping it in batter and frying It over a hot fire in a moderate amount of fat. It is hot and otherwise palatable, and one of its obvious advantages is that it is 90 per cent bread that otherwise would be thrown away. It seems strange that tnany of the measures of economy we are now adopting come to us from the times when prices were compara tively low. Purchasing power of the citizen, however, was even lower and people learned to save' because they knew that when they ran short they would be compelled to do without. John Barrett has good vision and if he sees the whole of the Western Continent in the war the several po litical divisions would better begin ar rangements. Most Deotle would thrlvft nn a. v table, diet, once they are convinced. ret a, little beefsteak now and then will be relished by the fattest men. There are lots of worse things than the vegetable diet -that Mr. Hoover suggests, particularly for the fellows who are staying home. It may yet devolve npoa General Pershing and his men to get those Germans out of their trenches by Christmas. The shirker does not care what Ger many thinks of the United States. He thinks only of his precious hide. There Is glory In volunteering, but not disgrace in conscription; it's a necessary evil Just now. Even mamma's boy will look back at today as one of the great days of his career. The only snow In June in Oregon fell on the fellow snowed under ves- terday. The Federal grand Jury convenes to morrow and It will be 1-2-3 for the dodger. Smile, you defeated gentlemen, smile. The voter loves a cheerful loser. The BpaVfirs nvf nmrkimrArl much, anyway, before the Fourth kf juiy. The shirker must rppfstpr wbn "h a leaves jail, so why shirk? The number of Oregon recruits, 1849, is talismanic. Many a young wife dates her wor ries from today. All quiet along the local Tangtse Kiang. Ball cartridges for draft rioters. Open season for crow. Gleams Through the Mist By Dean Colllx SOLDIER TO THE POLITICIAN. (On Going Away to the Wars.) I have heard the cry from the trum pet's Hps Calling me o'er the foam. To the trampling decks of the trans port Bhlps; Blent voices boom and the banner dips As we swing away from the crowded slips And what will you do at home? Tired and tolerantly before I have witnessed .your fruitless games; But this Is a day for games no more. For shifting and trading and turning o'er. For petty plot or for bolted door Or the cheap little, shameless shames. Tour voice rolled rich, when you made the speech That rang In the Nation's ear; Far as the wings In the wire could reach It cried like a clarion call, to teach The duty of each man unto each Say, did it ring sincere? I Deep in my heart your lesson Ilea, Showing my way anew; Over the foam the trumpet cries. My service lies where the banner files; Plain is your lesson unto my eyes Is It as plain to you? For the word that you spoke was proud and high And a man may go where it leads. May go, with a laugh on his Hps, to die; Freely may go, as free go I; You spoke true speeches to lead us by Back you your words with deeds. I There shall be no bargain for place or pride. No serving of masters twain. No ponies of personal gain to ride. No small trades trad-? no .light lies lied So -the sword I have fastened upon my side May not be wielded in vain. Tired and tolerantly of yore I watched your devices strange. But, the many masks that of old you wore Cast them aside! Their use Is o'er,' For men today must be men once more - In a service that brooks no change, I serve with my blood, as best I may,- Whether to live or die-; Arid this is the charge on you I lay: In the lucky hour or the evil day. Where and whatever the price to pay Serve you as true as L Neither for glory nor pride nor gain Is the service for me and you; Only to cleanse a shameful stain. To break the links of a bitter chain; And death is laughter, if we attain To this deed for men to do. And, come I home when the war is won. Or die on the trenches' lip; Well or ill be the task begun; Well or ill be the hard race run Some shall come back after all is done To ask of thy stewardship. I have heard the cry from the tram pet's lips Calling me o'er the foam To the trampling decks of the trans port ships; Blent voices boom; and the banner dtps As we swing away from the crowded slips And what will you do at home? e "Speaking of squirrels," began the Courteous Office Boy. "Who has been speaking of them since the Spring pome season began to get old?" I queried sharply. "Speaking of squirrels," said the C O. B., ignoring my remark,- "I am plan ning to start a big National movement this Summer, and I have already whit tled out a wonderful slogan." "Slog away then." I cried attentively. "The slogan is like this," obliged the C O. B.. "Why go to Brazil? See Amer ica first'!" And I arose and hewed him down. SHADOWS. Through brazen sunlight where the sky rings hollow. Through rustling velvet tapestries of night. Endless and endlessly I follow, follow. The drifting shadows of unknown de light. Melting to mystery within my sight Endless dissolves the vision that I fol low; Endless and endlessly in day and and night Ring the lost echoes hollow, hollow, hollow. see TIIK POTE HOUND. Dear Ed Aloysius Smythe (rhyming with writhe), the vera libre bard that I caught for you a few weeks ago. Is still under observation and has de veloped some more symptoms. I think we will be able to diagnose him defi nitely in a short time if he continues to uncork things like the following: OPUS 13. The savage sky Knouting the red raw earth; Whistle and flash of silver slugged cords, And the ooze of stiff blood Over the beaten soil. Aloysius diagrammed it to me and said it vas a heavy rain storm and suggested that I buy him some lunch in honor of the occasion. Waldemar, the house cockroach over at the restaurant, seems to distrust Aloysius, and this leaeds me to fear that he may not be genuine after all. Yours truly, O. Pythagoras Blmelack, Pote Hound. SEARCH FOB, LAST ANALYSIS. .. have received an anonymous let ter that fills us with doubt, as to the charter of a ship for our voyage of exploration to the LAST ANALYSIS. We bad almost made up our mind definitely to 'complete the charter of the good ship EVOLUTION, which, we have been Informed is the only ship that can be relied upon with certainty to arrive at the LAST ANALYSIS. Yesterday came the anonymous let ter which followsi "Dear Sir The ship EVOLUTION which, you contemplate chartering, while sure craft. Is terribly slow. "If you are anxious really to get to the LAST ANALYSIS by the most direct route, I urge you to lose no time In chartering the good ship REVOLUTION, which I will guarantee to b one of the fastest craft afloat. While it hat been engaged at times in piratical enterprises, you wjll find it on the while a thoroughly up-to-date and reliable ship. - Yours very radically C. E. S. W." WHITE FLOUR IS MORE DIGESTIBLE Muck of Nntrtinent In Mixed Product Not Absorbed by System. PORTLAND. June 4. (To the Edi tor.) Just a word in commendation of y&ur recent editorial on "Hoover Not a Theorist." There has been so much misinformation spread abroad regard ing the relative food value of white flour and graham flour that the public is entitled to know the facta There is abundant evidence from the experience in Belgium that the so-called war bread, or any bread containing a large proportion of the wheat husk, is not a satisfactory food and the experi ence in Belgium convinced Mr. Hoover and others interested in that work that from the standpoint of food value white flour is superior to any of the coarser mixtures. This, of course, only bears out what has been shown time and again by sci entists, both in Eastern universities and Government laboratories. The . fact that bran contains a larger amount ,of protein does not prove it to be a better food. The point that is overlooked is that it does not contain as much "available" or digestible nutriment as is found in white flour. In other words, the hu man machine will not digest as per fectly the coarser - constituents as it will those of white flour. The conse quence is the system will get a larger amount of nutriment out of the white flour than from the various mixtures containing the husk of the whea berry. It Is true there is no objection to those eating bran and the coarse flours who prefer it, but they are entitled to know the truth, that they are not setting- the nutriment from it that they would get from white bread. This is of most con sequence to the poor, who hvive been made to believe that they are getting more for fteir money out of xrahara bread than from white bread. The op posite is the truth. This misinformation was probably originated in the advertising of those who had patented health foods for sale and they have, no doubt, convinced many well-meaning people who are en titled to know the truth. We should remember that the cow's stomach will digest wood fiber such as is In the bran, but the human stomach will not. In digestibility white flour stands at 93 per cent, whole wheat flour at S per cent and graham flour at 84 per cent. These figures are sufficiently convinc ing. FOOD FACTS. Poor Eyesight and Service. MONMOUTH. Or., June 3. (To the Editor.) 1. Can you tell me how etrcmg a man's eyes must be to pass an Army examination? I understand he must be able to read certain size print at a cer tain distance. 2. Can a, man pass who wears glasses? 3. Would a severe illness of heart trouble a few years ago go against one if it was known to the examining phy sician? C. M. 1. The examination for eyesight for ordinary service in the Army, consists of the reading of three-quarter-inch black letters at 20 feet. It is known as the 20-40 test, inasmuch as the letters may be read at 40 feet by those of good eyesight. The .test is conditional, pro viding that no organic disease shall exist in either eye. 2. A man wearing glasses is not barred If he passes the test, 3. No. Only existing symptoms would be considered by the examiner. Title la Secure. TILLAMOOK. Or., June 3. (To the Editor.) I own 40 acres of land that was purchased from the Southern Pa cific R. R. Co., in 1864. Would I have to get a new deed or pay 12.50 per acre when the Govern ment throws the railroad land open for settlement? II. LUCAS. The law revesting title in the Gov ernment and providing for sale of the O. & C. grant lands -does, not apply to lands sold by the railroad company prior to July 1. 1913. Basks In Sweden. CARSON. Wash., June 1. (To the Editor.) In what city In Sweden is Wermlands Enskilda Bank? Think it is in one of the following: Karlstad, Kristlnenhamn of Kilipstad. A SUBSCRIBER. There is a bank of that name at Karlstad; also there is a bank of tlm liar name (Vermland Enskilda). at Krlstinenhamn. and at Filipstad there is a Vermlands Enswkilda Bank (Note differences in spelling.) Aninut Tralnlsv Cann. PORTLAND, June 4. (To the Edi- offlcers' reserve corps May 2 and was recommended to tne war Department for a commission. Can you tell me whether there will be another training camp established in August, as was talked of some time ago? A SUBSCRIBER. Yes. between August 27 and Novem ber 26. An announcement appeared in The Oregonion Sunday, June 3, page 6. Under Ore scon Low. PORTLAND, June 4. (To the Ed itor.) A man living in Oregon has a will drawn and witnessed in another state. If he dies in Oregon will his will be executed under the Law of Ore gon or that of the other state? READER. The will may be probated here. If part of the property Is In another state It may be administered by what is known as auxiliary procedure. Corropt Practices Act. CORVALLIS, Or., June 3. (To the Editor.) (1) Please print the names of the members of tho President's Cabinet. (2) Also tell what Is the "cor rupt practices act." LAURA DERRI3. (1) Apply at your city's public li brary. (2) It is a lengthy statute intended to safeguard the purity and freedom of elections. Wreck of Alpena. PORTLAND. June 4. (To the Ed itor.) In answer to "Reader." the steamer Alpena, a side-wheel steamer, went down in a wicked storm in north ern Lake Michigan In the Winter of 1880. One of Its doors marked "Alpena" came ashore near Manistee, Mich. MACMAHON. Washing (he Flag;. PORTLAND. June 4. (To the Ed itor.) Have been told that our Ameri can flag should not be. washed. Would like to ask if this is true. A SUBSCRIBER. The 4only objection is that in the cheaper flags the colors may run. Campflre Girls. SUNNYSIDE. Wash., June 2. (To the Editor.) Please send me literature on Campflre Girls' clubs, as this town is becoming interested in this subject. OVA CHAMBERLAIN. Write to Miss Helen Gillespie, 411 East Eleventh street North. Portland. Choice of Servlee. OREGON CITY, Or., June 3. (To the Editor.) If a young man registers on June 6 can he then enlist In any de partment he prefers? - C. G. Tea, but not after he has been drawn for service. He then baa no option. In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Oresronlan of June 5. 1S02. Washington Secretary Blaine today resigned from the Cabinet of President Harrison. The event caused a sensa tion In Washington and It is believed it vill mean his open entry Into the race for the Presidential nomination. Minneapolis The name of Blaine is on every Hp tonight. No man asserts tonight that Blaine will decline the nomination. The latent magic of his name has kindled the Northwest into a blaze of enthusiasm. City View Pork will be alive again on Tuesday for the annual June meeting of the Portland Speed Association, and the indications are for a very pleasant and interesting week's sport. The campaign Is virtually ended and the great battle between the Republi can and the Citizen-Democratic forces will be fought at the polls tomorrow. All saloons In the city will be kept closed from 8 o'clock In the morning until 6 in the evening. Daniel O'Leary, of Chicago, ex-champion walker of the world. Is in the city. He will remain here for some time. Mr. O'Leary Is 48 years old but Is as quick and active as he was 17 years ago. Half n Century Asro. From Tho Oreronlan of Juris 5. 1S7. We are authorized to state that Mr. O. P. Mason Is not, and will not. be a candidate for City Recorder. The trustees of the M. E. Church met last evening for the purpose of exam ining the plans submitted to them for their new church edifice. There are at present not less than perhaps 1200 or 1500 tons of flour and wnat in store in this city, awaiting shipment. The returns are not yet full enough to Indicate the results of the election in Washington Territory for delegate to Congress. But we learn from a gen tleman who came over from Vancouver yesterday morning that the friends of Mr. Flanders were confident of his suc cess in the territory. Hanging In Montana Is styled "Climbing the pine limb," and In Ne vada, "Early rising." The Boston Traveler thinks $22 a barrel for flour Is coming It rather strong and gravely advises people not to eat so much as they do. A Journal In Georgia says General Grant is the hope of the South. Then his position is much changed since the time when the Southrons fought so hard to keep him from going South. The Tourist's Paradise. By James Barton Adams. Sosxi will the glad-eyed tourists scoot o'er roadways (not to bad); the wheels will buzz, the horns will toot as If they, too, were glad; they'll pene trate our mountain nooks, gaze on our canyon walls, and feast their eyes on laughing brooks and crystal water falls. The forests clad in deathless green, where firs point to the skies, and many a peerless valley scene will greet their wondering eyes, and as they gaily glide along o'er highways smooth as floors they'll lade the air with Jov ous song, 'twill thrill all out o' doors. The smoke from campfires will arise from many a sylvan nook, while hun gry hemales will upsize the grub the women cook. They'll rpeed along Co lumbia's shore, that stream supreme ly grand, where picturesque delights galore are seen on every hand; where nature did her level best and tolled without surcease to make this portion of the West her crowning master piece. When deepening shadows of the night envelope peak and crag they'll squat 'round In the canipfire's light and chew the Jolly rag, and when they hit their blanket beds beneath star spanpled skies and god of slumber soothes the head and buttons up the eyes the lovely morlntr picture dreams 'twill flash upon their brains will be of waterfalls and streams and won drous mountain chains. Then as they homeward hit the grit leave paradise behind, they'll vow that for rare beau ties It beats all creation blind. No Race of Giants. PORTLAND. June 4. (To the Edi tor.) Would you please tell me what Herbert Kaufman, who has a weekly pane in The Oregonian. means by his article "Let's Get Bigger"? It was written several months ago. I got the impression that he meant that we would be great giants In heiKht In a few generations. It would make me feel very bad If this would be true. I do not like the Idea of hav ing a race of people 12 or 15 feet high. Was my Impression right? Please answer, as It has made me very ner vous lately thinking- about It. CLAUDE RONDO. The article was not Intended to con vey the impression you have. Based upon a report that scientists had found the secret of growth, a substance termed tethelin. at the base of the brain, Mr. Kaufman sought to indi cate that man had never achieved his full destiny, and that he might grow greater in spirit as well. It Is, of course, inconceivable that science would attempt abnormally to Increase the physical proportions of tho race, even if It were possible. Treatment of Rattlesnake Bite. MOSIER. Or.. June 3. (To the Edi tor.) What is the best remedy for rattlesnake bite SUBSCRIBER. First of all and as quickly as pos sible surk the wound, endeavoring to draw out the virus-affected blood. Llgate between the wound and the heart, and cauterize with anything handy, such as caustic, a live coal, a red-hot iron, or even by putting gun powder on the wound and setting fire to it. Ammonia inhalations and hypo dermic Injections of strychnine, one sixtieth to one-twentieth of a grain. are helpful. Some think that copious draughts of olive oil are beneficial, and the oil In any event would not do any harm. No. HOQUIAM. Wash., June 3. (To the Editor ) It was stated in The Oretro- nian that doctors have been appointed on the registration board in Portland for the Army draft bill. Does this mean that physical examinations will be made on all those registering June 5? SUBSCRIBER. Physical examinations will be con fined to those selected for service. Allen With First Papers. PORTLAND, June 4. (To the Edi torsCan you tell me if a man born in Russia having his first papers has to register under the conscription bill, and is he liable to be conscripted? SUBSCRIBER. He must register. If he has nnlv first papers he is not a full citizen, so would not bo subject to conscription.
