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1'OKTL.WD, WEDNESDAY, AlC. 1. 191T.
AFTER THTIEE YEARS OF WAR.
' Opening of the fourth year of the
war finds the belligerents not yet In
eight of its end, though, the manner
In which it will end has been made
more certain by the events of its third
year. When Lord Kitchener predicted
that it would last three years, incre
dulity was displayed by those who had
not closely appraised the contending
forces, but it is now foreseen that that
period may be doubled. Its prolonga
tion may be ascribed to several causes.
The operations of the allies were at
first under no central control and fol
lowed no single strategic plan, so that
they seemed to be making several dis
tinct wars against a. common enemy,
while all operations and all forces of
the Germanic powers were under the
direction of the German General Staff.
The allies did not attach due impor
tance to the German thrust eastward,
to promote which Bulgaria was drawn
Into the German net. Hence allied
diplomacy chased the rainbow of a
reconstituted Balkan league and neg
lected to block the corridor between
Berlin and Constantinople by sending
an army to help Serbia in damming
the Teuton flood, and the allies wasted
their forces and weakened their pres
tige in an abortive attack on the Dar
danelles. Britain did not really begin to form
an army until the war was on, and
was compelled to scatter its deficient
forces in defensive operations tn
Kgypt and Mesopotamia. The shame
ful blunders in Mesopotamia wasted
energy and lengthened Turkey's lease
on life. The allied cause was be
trayed by treachery of the Russian
government, which brought defeat on
the army and yielded much rich ter
ritory to the enemy, adding to its re
sources. The blockade, though becom
ing stricter, was full of leaks and per
mitted Germany to derive much aid
from contiguous neutrals.
The opening of the third year was
marked by a great improvement in the
situation of the allies. The German
drive for Verdun had definitely failed.
The new British army had entered the
field with artillery and aircraft su
perior to those of the Germans and.
Joining the French in the battle of
the Somme, smashed the boasted for
tified lines and proved its superiority
iii tactics and morale also. Brusiloffs
Russian army had begun an at first
resistless drive, capturing hosts of
prisoners and much booty.
Kvents of the third year naturally
divide themselves into two periods, of
which the first closed with the Ger
man peace overtures in December and
the second opened with the proclama
tion of unrestricted submarine war on
January 31. In the west the French
and British gnawed a big gap in the
German lines north and south of the
Somme. Near Verdun the French re
covered nearly all of the ground east
of the Meuse River which they had
lost during nearly six months of in
cessant fighting. Italy, having recov
ered nearly all the positions lost in
the Trentino in the Spring, captured
Gorizia and the commanding heights
and advanced some distance across
, the Carso plateau toward Trieste. The
allied army drove the Bulgars out of
Western Greece and captured M on
astir, the old capital of Serbia.
In the east things did not go well
with the allies. The Russian advance
continued through August and into
September, and Roumania, declaring
war on August 27, invaded Transyl
vania, but in October the Teutons,
Joined by the Turks and Bulgars, drove
the Roumanians from that province
and the Dobrudscha and did not stop
until two-thirds of the kingdom with
its capital had been occupied, while
the Teutons took the offensive in
Galicia and Volhynia. The pro
German Cabinet of Russia began
secret negotiations for a separate
peace, which were stopped by the ex
pulsion of Stuermer from the Pre
miership at the demand of the Duma.
Masking fear of defeat behind their
customary arrogance, the Prussian
militarists made a bid for peace in
December. At the same time. Presi
dent Wilson, foreseeing that the United
States could not much longer remain
neutral, called upon each group of
belligerents to define its war aims.
The entente powers made a frank re
ply which showed their aims to be in
close accord with the principles of
American democracy, but Germany re
fused to divulge her terms except at a
conference. On January 22 the Presi
dent in a speech to the Senate defined
what he considered the essential con
ditions of permanent peace, and these
proved to be practically identical with
those which had been laid down by
the allies.
On January 81 Germany proclaimed
unrestricted submarine war, leaving
the President no alternative to carry
ing out his threat, made at the time
of the Sussex affair, to sever diplo
matic relations. He called on Con-
press to authorize arming of mer
chant ships, but a filibuster by a dozen
pacifists in the Senate prevented ac
tion by the expiring Congress. In the
meantime a dispatch from Germany
inviting Mexico in conjunction with
Japan to join in war on the United
States had fallen into the hands of
the Government, and Ambassador
Gerard, on his return, had fully re
vealed the hostile designs of Germany.
A revolution which in a few days
transformed Russia from a despotism
into a republic removed the last cause
of hesitation. Armed neutrality was
abandoned as an impracticable half
measure. On April 2 the President
called upon Congress to declare war
on Germany, and on April 6 the dec
laration was made. Thus the second
period of the year opened with the
issue clearly drawn between democ
racy and autocracy, and with the
greatest of democracies arrayed on the
side of the allies.
Internal confusion tin Russia pre
vented the allies from " carrying out
their plan for a combined offensive
on all fronts, but the western powers,
unaided, have forced the Germans to
retreat on a front of forty-five miles
for a distance of twenty miles and
have then driven them from every
commanding position between the sea
and Craonne, taking about 70,000
prisoners and hundreds of field guns.
They have now begun a -drive across
the Flanders plain with the evident
purpose of making the German posi
tion on the Belgian coast untenable
and of converting the new Hindenburg
line into a huge bulge.
Italy has crossed the upper Isonzo,
taken the commanding heights and
has advanced across the Carso plateau
to within ten miles of Trieste. The
Germans have been held at a stand
still in Macedonia, but since Greece
has joined the allies they face the
prospect of an offensive there also,
while Roumania has driven them back
in the Putna Valley. In Mesopotamia
the British have retaken Kut, cap
tured Bagdad and advanced far up the
Euphrates and Tigris. They have also
invaded Palestine, stand before Gaza
and only await reinforcements to ad
vance on Jerusalem. Sedition and
mutiny have changed the Russian- ad
vance into a retreat, but drastic meas
ures have already stiffened the resist
ance of the retiring armies.
Thus before the United States has
begun to make its weight felt, except
in money and material and against
the submarine, the Teutons have
proved capable of successful offense
only against disorganized Russia and
have been driven back wherever they
have been vigorously attacked. Utter
ly unprepared, the United States can
scarcely hope to put more than 250,-
000 men in France before Winter, and
will do well to , have a million there
a year hence. Germany's defensive
strength is so great that allied prog
ress can be but slow without an air
tight blockade and indisputable air
supremacy, but these sfre the very
points in which American help can
be made quickly effective. Submarine
ravages have confined allied opera
tions to their main fronts and have
forced inaction in the Balkans and in
Asia. The submarine has failed to
cripple them, and within a year great
fleets of American and British ships
will galvanize every allied army into
activity.
By using and wisely directing all
their strength, the American people
can give the allies the final push to
victory and can greatly shorten the
conflict, but they must harbor no il
lusions about the strength of the two
empires' central position for defense
or about the desperation with which
militarism will hold out in a struggle
on which it has staked its- existence.
THE OVERCROWDED LAW.
At the recent meeting of the Wash
ington State Bar Association President
Wilmot Tucker expressed the not un
usual complaint that the profession is
overcrowded. "If 50 per cent of the
lawyers now in practice," he said.
'were engaged in some other useful
occupation, general welfare would be ;
immeasurably improved, the public
happier, the' lawyer better off."
One can obtain a similar expression
from a member of almost any profes
sion. The law, medicine, dentistry,
journalism. architecture all are
"overdone." Perhaps the criticism is
more than half correct, for common
observation teaches that many law
yers would have made better sailors.
or carpenters, or oentists. Likewise
many sailors, carpenters and dentists
would have made better lawyers. And
so it goes through all vocations. If
there were some way of fitting each
man into his proper groove there
would be not much else than an inter
change among the professions and
trades and each would be as fcadly
crowded as at present.
Still we think that the law offers
an extreme example. And for that,
the lawyers themselves are largely to
blame. They in the greater part for
mulate the machinery for admitting
men to the bar and they provide the
machinery for expelling the unfit. The
former is greased and the latter is
rusty from lack of use. But there is
just as much room at the top as there
ever was. The public realizes that
fact and is jiot so much alarmed by
the precariousness of the living now
endured by many young lawyers as
in the seeming success of numerous
others who ought to have been kicked
out long ago.
WASTEFUL DELIVERY.
" There will be general sympathy with
the desire of Portland merchants to
eliminate unnecessary deliveries of
merchandise when it is understood by
all that delivery is an important fac
tor in the cost of living, that much
of it represents extravagance and
waste, and that it consumes man
power that in present conditions can
well be put to better economic use.
Wagons and automobiles from a hun
dred stores speed hither and yon,
crossing and recrossing one another's
territory, pausing now and then to
drop a package that may contain any
thing from a roll of carpet to a paper
of pins and much too often it is an
article that the buyer could easily
have taken home in his pocket. Of
course someone pays. As a matter of
fact, everybody pays. Delivery cost
is added to the price of, the goods, as
part of the """overhead," and so long
as the public demands it it will be
there. "There is no escaping it.
Abuses nov inherent in the system
must be apparent to the most casual
observer. They have reached the
point, for example, where cartage and
delivery represent in some cities a
heavier charge against the business
than railroad freights. It was brought
out by a Census Bureau investigation
recently that in trie city, of Washing
ton in 1916 $8,300,000 was expended
by the merchants for local delivery of
goods, as compared with only $7,250,
000 for freights. Tet the public is
alert when the subject of freights is
mentioned, and apathetic upon the
other question. ' And whereas higher
or lower freights present a complicated
economic problem, not at all easy of
solution, the more important question
of delivery has a remedy right at
hand.
The demand for retrenchment In all
lines is pressing. Curtailment of de
livery has been accomplished in some
Eastern cities, but the movement has
been slow to reach the West. Now,
however, it is here, and Portland faces
the issue squarely. Co-operation on
the part of the. public will make every
thing easy.- Reform will be harder
without that co-operation, but in the
nature of events it will come sooner
or later anyhow. Our young men are
going away to war, or are engaged
in other occupations more necessary
to the successful prosecution of the
war, and comparatively useless work
must stop.
The market basket and the shopping
bag ought to be regarded as marks of
distinction and as ornaments to any
body's arm.
QUEER LEGAL LOGIC.
This is the tale of an adventure on
the Sandy boulevard the other day be
tween a traffic officer and two auto
mobiles and its surprising -sequel in
the District Court of . Multnomah
County. The policeman was in hot
pursuit of a speed maniac, and in try
ing to catch him he passed another
car going just a little in excess of the
limit. The officer testified to the
facts, and the following colloquy re
sulted: 'Did you arrest the other man -who -was
going twenty-eight miles and also exceed
ing the speed limit T" Inquired Judge Jones.
'I did not," replied the offjcer. "I was
after this man." -
"This case is dismissed," returned the
court. "I will not find one man guilty
when the officer refuses to arrest amither
man who Is equally guilty."
This is quite the most perfect non
sequitur it has been our fortune to
note in the recent proceedings of any
court. The same kind of logic would
lead to reprimand of a policeman and
dismissal of a murderer caught in the
act because the officer had first seen,
and ignored, a thief robbing a gro
cer's till.
The judge would better have com
mended the zealous traffic officer for
exercising his plain discretion and go
ing after the greater offender. But
whether he did or not, we are quite
at a loss to know how the real speed
maniac's infraction can be justified by
the officer's failure to do his duty in
another case.
It may be hoped that the court will
not rigidly -follow its own precedent
and hereafter release any offender
who may be able to show up the dere
lictions of the. arresting authority in
some other matter.
ANOTHER SENSATION.
'The exact motive of those daring
young men in inveigling A. E. Clark
into an automobile, and then at the
poinf of the pistol "seeking to coerce
him into some sort of adventure with
Mrs. Clark, his former wife, is startling
in its perplexity. Of course Mrs. Clark
was fully cognizant of the plans of
her champions, for by evident pre
arrangement she joined the party in
the motorcar.
The undisputed facts are that the
two Kleinaus by false representations
got Mr. Clark to go with them in
broad daylight, and when in the auto
mobile there was a sudden display of
pistols by them, a struggle, and a
quick collapse of the whole scheme,
whatever it was. Perhaps it was to
take the attorney to Vancouver and
force him to re-marry Mrs. Clark. Or
perhaps it was to horsewhip him pub
licly. Or perhaps it was some other
mad idea.
We have no wish to prejudice this
case or to be harsh with Mrs. Clark.
But it would seem that there ought
finally to be a clear determination of
an affair which has furnished Port
land with a series of sensations during
many years. It may be quite true that
the woman has suffered wrongs. It is
true that she has enlisted the sym
pathy of other women, though it is
fair enough to say that she has not
always retained it. But the climax of
the case, just presented to the public
in so astonishing a way, certainly calls
for the sternest investigation and for
conclusive action as to her mental and
moral responsibility and as to the part
her young partners played in the re
markable automobile episode.
BASEBALL, OLD AND XW.
A match, baseball game, played between
the second nine of the Clackamas club and
the first nine of ths Highland club, resulted
as follows: Clackamas 7-. Highlanti 67.
From The Oregonian's Fif ty-Years-Ago col
umn. The good old days, the good old days!
Then the getters of the biggest scores
were the best players; now the whole
scheme is to freeze out the other nine.
Though it is no longer called a "nine."
It's a team. Then everybody played;
now only professionals play in the
big games, and everybody sits on the
bleachers or in the grand stand, and
yells. Then the National pastime was
mostly for amateurs; now it is not.
Then it was for the players; now it is
for the spectators. Withal the ad
mission must be grudgingly made that
the competency of players has enor
mously increased in the years. That
is one reason, perhaps, for the aston
ishing vitality of baseball, the unfail
ing interest of the bleachers.
From the time of adoption of reg
ular baseball playing rules by the old
Knickerbockers to the present date,
changes have been remarkably few
in number as compared with the great
advances in skill. The ball is of prac
tically the same weight and size.
Masks have been somewhat bettered
in material since their introduction in
1877; gloves and mitts have been im
proved, but the same general fabric
and fashion are yet employed in their
making.
In one department, however pitch
ing the changes have been very
marked, and to these renovations in
the "rules can be attributed the small
scores of modern-day ball games as
compared with those of fifty years
ago.
Curiously, it was in 18 67 the year
of the Clackamas.-Highland game
that W. Arthur Cummings, of Ware.
Mass., invented the curve ball which
made inevitable the changes in the
playing rules. At this time the pitch
ing distance was forty-five feet,, with
a box six by six, but the pitcher was
supposed to send on the ball with -a
perpendicular swing of the arm, the
delivery starting below the waist. The
batter had the privilege of calling for
high or low balls, and, for failure so
to pitch, the pitcher was penalized by
having a ball called on him after a
"warning" by the umpire.
Gradually new pitchers acquired thej
curve ball. By 1872 the throw was
legalized to some extent, but it was
not until 188 3 that the National
League completely authorized the
present-day style. Little by little the
net tightened around the batsmen un
til nowadays a score that runs into
two figures is laughingly referred to
as a freak. Lengthening of the pitch
ing distance to sixty feet gave the
pitchers more opportunity to utilize
their shoots and hooks. Foul strikes,
cutting down of the ' ball limit fsom
ten to four, abolishment of the bat
ter's high or low privilege all these
changes tended to emphasize the pitch
ing dominance that has held sway
during the past decade and more.
The ball that had been in universal
use for many years had been a rubber-cored
sphere. About five years
ago rule makers and close students of
the National pastime, believing that a
large score game would be more in
teresting, attempted to overthrow the
pre-eminent prestige of the pitcher.
A cork-centered ball of great resiliency
was placed'upon the market. Players
and fans immediately began to wonder
what was wrong with baseball. One
well-known tobacco concern that had
paid premiums for home runs almost
had to go into bankruptcy. Large
scores became as common as garden
weeds. '
The lively ball died a sudden death.
It didn't take with Friend Fan. Ball
concerns still manufacture the cork
centered globule, but the cork is now
very small and covered liberally with
rubber. Though scores and batting
averages are higher than they were
seven or eight years ago, it is not
likely that further efforts will be made
to revert to the foot-racing times of
the '60s.
BUSINESS AS OTSCAU
So great is the demand for labor
of the highest skill as. well as un
skilled that it is no hardship for any
city employe to be thrown out of his
position. If there is no necessary
work for him in the city's service and
if he is a faithful worker and has any
skill, he can easily obtain new -employment
where he is actually needed.
To retain him where there is no use
ful work for him is double waste, for
it wastes the wages he receives and
the work he might do elsewhere.
The same principle applies to men
employed in the distilling and brewing
industries. A great cry has gone up
that National prohibition would throw
hundreds of thousands of men out of
employment, but there is plenty of
other work for which these men are
sorely needed. If it should be de
cided that the production of alcoholic
liquor is unnecessary, at least during
war, no hardship would be suffered
by these men and a great gain would
be made by the community, for they
would be transferred from useless to
useful occupations. There is a job for
every man in the United States these
days.
Nor need any man or woman hesi
tate to abstain from luxuries as a
means of war economy lest somo in
dustry suffer depression and its em
ployes be thrown out of employment.
As the money spent on luxuries is
heeded to buy necessaries, so is the
labor occupied in producing luxuries
needed to produce necessaries. The
man and the job where he is really
"useful will soon be brought together,
and only temporary inconvenience will
result.
Hie conditions of these times are so
unusual that our motto should be
Business as unusual," not '"Business
as usual." As every person must
choose between necessary and unnec
essary expenses, so must the decision
be made whether any occupation is
necessary in these times. The man
who is called to the Army must for
sake his -Usual occupation; so must
many civilians, in order that the fight
ing man may be fed, armed and
eauipped.
A pessimistic report comes down the
Valley that the bean crop will in places
be so small as to be negligible. Blame
is placed on the lack of rain. Prop
erly it belongs on the man who planted
beans in the wrong spot and neglected
cultivation. Intensive farming cannot
be learned in one season. Beans will
be as valuable in the Fall of 1918, if
the war holds out, and signs point that
way.
County fairs must provide special
premiums for exhibits of canned goods
by housewives. A wholesome rivalry
will be created under which much
more may be put up. Local editors
shotiLd in all cases be put on the test
ing .committees, they being the only
competent judges of what is good to
eat.
A Japanese steamship is coming to
take 4,000,000 feet of lumber and a
Dutch steamship is in the harbor to
take 3,000,000 feet, both cargoes for
China. These are indication of what
will be doing after the war, when
Europe begins to rebuild. A cargo or
two a day will be common.
Automobiles are so common on the
highways that horses by this time
should be accustomed to them. The
animal that persists in running away
is a back number and should be sent
to Portland to round out- his career
in roasts, stews and bologna.
It will be observed that the 17-inch
rainbow of Hood River observed the
state law as to size by swallowing a
7-inch mountain trout. The exactness
of details as to figures is not remark
able when coming from Hood River.
Two men more or less notorious in
Portland as "reds" have been taken
to Utah for internment. There may
be others waiting to be denounced,
but this action of Federal officials
will close their mouths.
Even the animals are impressed
with the spirit of the year to do their
best. For example, the "lady hawg"
at Vancouver, , with twelve children
and places for only ten when dinner is
served.
The Government cannot provide an
officer for military training at the
University of , Oregon,, but students
who hunger for it can get all they
want by enlisting, if not drafted.
Anybody could make a fine garden
like that of General Petain if he had
soldiers at command to do the work.
One merit in making garden lies in
hoeing your own row.
For the 16,000 places in the second
officers' camp there have been 72,914
applications. When all the officers
have been commissioned, we will need
a great army to keep them busy.
Part of the mill-yard equipment
should be handy clubs to wield on
agitators. A broken head is a better
cure than the clean, round hole of
a bullet, and it hurts worse.
Of nineteen who appeared before a
Seattle board, fifteen were exempted.
If that ratio were to become general
there would be great overhauling of
plans; but it cannot.
We are" almost reconciled to a long
war when we read about the impris
onment of some of these disloyal agi
tators for the full period of the hos
tilities. The Indian at best is a child of na
ture and if he can kill an "evil spirit"
with stones and clubs he will do so
despite the efforts of the white man.
A little precipitation now and then
would be relished by the best of men.
Pity the poor slackers! They will
be fillers for the first exempts.
How to Keep Well.
By Dr. W. A. Evans.
Questions pertinent to hygiene, sanitation
end prevention of diseases, if matters of
general interest, will be answered in this
column. Where space will not permit or the
subject Is not suitable, letters will be per
sonally answered, subject to proper limita
tions and where stamped addressed envelope
is inclosed. Dr. Evans will not make diagno
sis or prescribe for individual diseases. Re
quests for such services cannot be answered.
(Copyright. 1916, by Dr. W. A. Evans.
Published by arrangement with the Chicago
Tribune.)
WHEAT AND OTHER Oil A 1"S."
Wild whett'- grows in Palestine and
Mesopotamia, Although found in one
of the, first settled parts of the civi
lized world, it was not the first grain
used for food purposes. Its superior
ity among grains did not become mani
fest until the art of grinding and baking
had been developed, for Its superiority
lies not so much in its nutritive quali
ties as in the stunts through which
the miller and baker can put it.
After the outer chaff and dirt has
been removed the wheat berry con
sists of three parts a. husk from
which bran is made; a germ, the
sprouting part of the berry; and an
endosperm, or the food stored to sus
tain the sprouting planf until it can
develop roots and leaves.
The endosperm, making- up 85 per
cent of the grain, is the part from
which the miller attempts to make all
of his grade flour. This part consists,
in the main, of starch and gluten. It
is poor in cellulose fat and mineral
salts.
The germ, making up 1 per cent of
the berry, is rich in nitrogen or protein
and fat.
The bran, making tip practically all
of the remainder of the berry, is rich
in cellulose, protein and mineral salts.
It always contains a considerable per
centage of starch.
However much wheat Is made this
year there will be a scarcity. To over
come this the authorities are attempt
ing to bring up several changes. One
Is to persuade the people to eat more
of other grains and less of wheat. This
phase of the subject has already been
discussed. The second Is to persuade
the millers, bakers and even the do
mestic cooks to incorporate other flours
with wheat flour. This has been dis
cussed.
The third is to persuade the millers
to bring more of the berry 'into flour.
The millers object to this because when
the germ is mixed with flour the
product does not keep so well. . The
fat is liable to become rancid. Soluble
proteins in the fat of the germ are apt
to act on the starch of the flour, con
verting part of it into soluble starch
and sugar, darkening Its color and de
tracting from the appearance of bread
made from it. This is the basis of 99
per cent of the objection of the millers.
When bran is mixed with the flour
the product is darker and makes -a
darker bread. Every miller mixes his
flours. Every flour on the market is
a blend. But no miller will blend in
such a way as to put out a dark
product because he knows of the
prejudices of the consumer.
There are commercial reasons for
both of these positions taken by the
miller. It is stated that flours con
taining germ and bran are less nutri
tious and wholesome. There is no basis
for that statement. It is stated that
the bran and germ could be more
economically fed to domestic animals
than to man. There is no. basis for
that statement.
The third method of saving wheat
cannot be accomplished unless the peo
ple are willing to eat darker flours and
will submit to some change in the mar
keting methods of flours.
"BIRTHMARKS."
E. A. R. writes: "Please advise me
in your column your opinion -as to
birthmarks. I have be n told there are
certain periods early in pregnancy
where it is possible. However, I would
appreciate your advice.''
REPLY.
"This is a frequent Inquiry. Birthmarks
cannot result from mental shock or any other
mental process regardless of the stage of the
pregnancy. There are no nerves running
from the brain of the mother to any part
of the body of the child. Nothing, not even
the blood, runs from the mother into the
child. The child takes Its nourishment from
the blood of the mother through roots In
the afterbirth, Just as a plant takes Its nour
ishment from the soil through roots. Of
course the development of & child may go
wrong from many causes. For example. In
Jury and Infection. Such going wrong re
sults In congenital deformities, defects, and
birthmark.
TO GO ALOX6 WITH MILI.
J. F. C. writes: "I am so situated as
to be able to have plenty of good milk,
which I like and which agrees with me,
except that it constipates. Is there
anything that can be done to prevent
it constipating me? What can be done
for gas in bowels'? I have heard char
coal is helpful. Has charcoal any bad
effects?"
REPLY. -',
Milk Is constipating because practically all
of it absorbs and no residue is left. There
fore it Is easy to overcome the constipation
resulting from drinking milk. Eat bran,
bran bread, fruit, and vegetables. Charcoal
has no bad effects.
CREAKING JOINTS.
Anxious writes: "'Would be pleased
if you would let me know what the
cause of . "cracking joints" is. No
matter in what position I move, one
of my joints is bound to creak. I am
23 years of age (fera.-'e).- Would ap
preciate it very much if you could ad
vise me of some remedy and if you
think I ought to see a doctor."
REPLY.
Have your teeth fixed. If your tonsils are
enlarged have the trouble attended to.
Creaking Joints are due to persistent absorp
tion of Infection. You should Join a gym
nasium and take exercises to "Umber" your
joints.
School Swimming Pools.
PORTLAND, Or., July 31. (To the
Editor.) 1) Aro-the swimming poola
In the city schools open to others than
school children,
(2) If so,'' what school having a
swimming pool is nearest Fourteenth
and Jefferson.
(3) AVhat nights are boys' nights
and at what hours is the pool open.
CAB.
(1) Tes, at specified times.
2) The new Shattuck School at
Park and Hall streets.
C3) Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
days are boys' days. The tank is open
both afternoon and evening. Wednes
day evening is "Social Night," when
the tank is open to both men and
women.
A Redskin Muckraker.
By James Barton Adam.
On a rock beside the river,
AVhere the bright sun rays
were
dancing
On the clear breeze-wrinkled waters.
Sat Star Eyes, the Indian maiden.
Sat she there a lovely picture
Silhoutted 'gainst the mountain
She was using for a background.
She had done a term at Carlisle,
In the state of Pennsylvania,
And returned unto her people
Bducated to the limit.
And of such superior polish
That her nasal prong was carried
At an elevated angle
As she strolled about the village
On the Dog Creek reservation.
From the bushes strode a warrior
Clad in bead-embroidered breechcloth
And a few red scars of battle.
And but little else to speak of.
And in husky voice that quivered
With the promptings of emotion
He proceeded to address her:
"Ah! you scorn me, haughty maiden,
Turn to me the icy eyeballs.
Shun me as you would the cur dog
Bearing fleas that are contagious.
Lre you yet had quit the village
For the paleface lodge of learning
All your wiles on me were focused.
For your smiles I was the target.
Then you were a native squawlet.
Ate of dog meat as your sisters,
Chewed boiled tripe with redskin relish.
Took a bath but on your birthdays
Or when caught out in a lain storm.
Wore a skirt of g-unnybapping,
Castoff flour sacks were your leggins,
'Stead of openwork limb casings
Showing irough the interstices
The material youre made of.
And "
But with a haughty gesture.
Rising from her squat position
On the rock beside the river
She his speech flow interrupt sd,
Cut it off close to Its fountain.
Saying In a voice that chilled him
From the scalplock to the toe nails:
"Cut it out, you darned muckraker!"
And the once untutored maiden
Hit the trail toward the village
While the warrior stood and wondered
What in thunder 'twas she'd called him.
. THE FIGHT FOR. DEMOCRACY.
(The poetic genius of Edward Killfeather
has again been given full play, with the
following results. The meter is perhaps
faulty, but there is no denying that Kill
feather's sentiment Is In tune with the
patriotic thought of the Nation.)
Old Glory is proudly in it; it's the flag
that is going to win it;
She is a hummer for crowding foemen
with dismay.
By the peerless valor of her sons, when
they turn loose the guns.
They will crystallize old Europe with
the real Democracy.
Chorus
For they will scrap around the sun,
putting the Zeppelins on the run.
It will be fierce on the vicious subs
beneath the sea.
The cold hand that is mailed with steel,
and the despot's iron heel.
Will go down before the heroes of
real Democracy.
She is floating o'er the land of one,
that rivers of blood has wet.
Who struck a blow for American lib
erty in his day;
She is there to return the debt for her
beloved LaFayette,
For he is one of the constellated heroes
-of her real Democracy.
There's none dislike monarchs that
have abdicated; why worry about
them being reinstated.
For that aggravates the people that
long struggled to be free.
It's a cinch it won't bo done, when the
fight is fought and won
By the heroes of real Democracy.
There will be no titles to create, there
will be no lineage counted great.
And look out for strange commotions
in the swell society;
Then our beauties will keep their
wealth at home and pass up
dudes about the throne;
They will be delighted to love the
heroes of the real Democracy.
There will be no one man worth a bil
lion, while there are countless
thousands without a shilling.
For the patriots of the poor will see
their cheerful day;
For the wealth Jehovah Intended was
not for a few aristocrats to spend
it;
It's the heritage ofall the heroes of
the world's real Democracy.
EDWARD KILLFEATHER.
REPRINT OF . ARTICLE DESIRED
Editorial on Assassination of Austrian
Archduke Valuable Contribution.
GEER, Wash., July 30. (To the Ed
itor.) Your editorial commenting on
the murder of the Austrian heir-apparent
to the throne elicited many en
comiums from leading men soon after
its appearance. I remember 'that one
college educator said, among many
other flattering things, that it con
tained a mass of historical data, lead
ing to the tragedy, that he had used
it in his class as text in teaching re
cent or current history.
At the time of the appearance of the
editorial I was not a subscriber to The
Oregonian, but became such soon after
and I tried then to obtain the back
numbers from the date in question till
the date of beginning of n,y subscrip
tion, several weeks, getting all but this
one most desired number, which had
become exhausted, attesting to the in
terest manifested in it.
As the vaaious anniversary dates will
be here in a few days, may I suggest
that yoil would convey aa extremely
interesting pice of "news" (new to
the many thousands of your present
readers, who either'wero not then read
ers or failed to see any interest in the
far-away incident) y republishing the
editorial?
Besides - Interesting tl.osa of your
readers who never read the article, it
would be a sort of anniversary treat
again to read your comment on the
event that ushered m th3 present con
flict to those people who did read It,
not to mention that possibly there Is
quite a number of peopie who tried to
get a copy and tried very hard an per
sistently, but failed.
R. STUEHCZ.
The Oregonian will republish the ar
ticle on this page Sunday, August 5.
Date of Dick Law.
PORTLAND, July 31. (To the Ed
itor.) What was the Dick military
bill? Did it become a law? If so, when?
A SUBSCRIBER.
The Dick law was approved by the
President January 21, 1903. It denned
as the organised militia of the United
States the regularly enlisted, organized
and uniformed militia of the various
states and territories and provided that
the organisation, armament and disci
pline of this militia should be within
five years from the date of approval of
the act the same as those prescribed
for the regular and volunteer forces of
the United States. It was a compre
hensive act organizing the militia.
When Open Account Is Outlawed.
ABERDEEN, Wash., July 30. (To
the Editor.) 1. Please inform me how
old bill must be before it is out
lawed in the state of Oregon. "2. If
any action was taken would it be of
any use to fight it. SUBSCRIBER.
(1) Six years.
(2) Yes. The statute of limitations
must be pleaded in defense, else it can
not be taken advantage of.
In Other Days.
Twenty-Five Years Abo.
From The Oregonian August 1. 1883.
Rome. The Pope has addressed a let
ter to archbishops and bishops of Spain,
Italy and the two Americas on the sub
ject of Christopher Columbus and b.Ls
discoveries. He appoints October 12 or
the following- Sunday as a day of cele
bration. Spokane. T.' S. Chaplin has re
turned from the Colville Indian Reser
vation with the startling news that the
Indians are up in arms and in an ugly
mood over the invasion of the whites.
Lick Observatory, Cal. The giant
telescope has been working industri
ously of late and It Is announced that
observations have convinced the scien
tists here that Mars is not inhabited.
Judge Hanford, of Seattle, has sen
tenced two prisoners to 80 years" im
prisonment for making counterfeit
money.
J. H. and S. M. Inman, of New York,
members of the pioneer Oregon family
of Joe Inman, are in the city visitingr.
They say they feel well repaid for their
trip.
Miss Kate Eberman and Miss Mav
Clark leave today for an extended visit
to the beach.
The coming athletic tournament of
the North Pacific Turn Bezirk is attracting-
much attention. The Port
land boys, under Instructor Krolm, are
getting into fair shape.
Half a Century Abo.
From The Oregonian August 1, 186T.
The Alta gives names and figures to
show that parties who contemplated
the erection of dwellings in San Fran
cisco, tho cost of which would have
equalled several hundred thousand dol
lars, have abandoned the idea at pres
ent on account of, the lata eight-hour
movement.
John A. Mather, of Multnomah Coun
ty, and Margaret J. Kyle, of Washing
ton County, were married July 28 at
the Union Schoolhouse by Rev. W. E
Smith. '
A surprise party was tendered Rev.
Mr. Stratton Monday evening, and the
guests left J120 in coin and $30 in
presents.
The corner-stone of the new Metho
dist Kpiscopal Church will be laid at
2 P. M. Bishop Thompson will offi
ciate. The firm of Schramm & Nl"on has
been dissolved by mutual consent. Mr.
Nixon's Interest has been transferred to
Joseph Kidder.
MANY THINGS ARK INCONCEIVABLE
No Use Trying to "Inserute" the In.
Hcrutable, Says Writer.
PORTLAND. July 31. (To the Edi
tor.) I should like to reply to your
correspondent In Vancouver. Who re
fers to the "elimination of two sides of
the eternal triangle" and by thus re
ducing it to a line as "simplifying mat
ters," and that "the man is yet to be
born who may conceive that one is
three or that three are one."
Of course, a triangle is but a symbol
of the infinite. Does a line really bet
ter express it? He must conceive that
line at both points as without an end
ing; this also is inconceivable. But the
infinite is vastly more than that.
Our own nature is complex; man is
"body, mind and spirit." a sort of tri
unlty as it were. Is the absolute less
so? The church does not and never did
teach that one is three or that three are
one in the same sense that one man is
three men or that three men are one
man, which is absurd.
Only that in the infinite life there is
a trinity, each in each, but each dis
tinct. It is an inference from what has
been revealed in quite simple language.
We do not comprehend it, but there
are many things in nature beyond com
prehension, and man is in a sense mys
terious and does not fully comprehend
himself.
Rather than doubt, we had better,
with Herbert Spencer, neither affirm
nor deny.
The theme Is outside the realm of
science, or even of philosophy.
LOUIS G. DRAKE.
Tvro Snake Bite Cures.
PORTLAND, July 31. (To the Edi
tor.) In the column under "How to
Keep Well," by Dr. Evans, a writer
asks for a cure for rattlesnake bite.
Here are two given me by a man who
claimed to have cured himself and who
had seen at least one other case cured
by the first remedy, and who claimed
both are infallible cures. I do not
vouch for either, but both are very
simple and easily tried out.
(1) Pulverize several balls of com
mon washing- blueing, dampen into a
paste without dissolving and bind over
the wound; leave on sufficient length
of time to be sure the poison is all
removed.
(2) Turn a bottle of turpentine up
side down over the bite, press down
sufficiently to prevent contents from
escaping; tip the bottle occasionally,
allowing sufficient air to enter to
cause bubbles to rise In the turpen
tine. My informant claimed that after
a few minutes the poison could be seen
rising in the turpentine.
SUBSCRIBER.
"BYE. SAMMY!"
"'Bye, Sammy!"
Hot, brown ranks of khaki.
And the pulsing drum;
Cool, young faces eager
For the fight to come.
Faith, it's Teddy, Aba and Father
George
Whose spirits march today
To the fine, old tunes a-thrillin
Down the military way.
Ah, we hate to see ye goin'.
But it's loyal pride, you're knowing
That we put in the expression .
"Sammy, 'Bye'."
"Bye, Sammy!" . ; r.
All our pride Is marching
Down the street with yon? r.
Our very hearts you carry
In your knapsacks, too.
Sure, you'll never have a rival s
In the Tommies from the Isle,
When it comes to all the' blushes
And the meanin' of a smile.
Ah, we hate to see ye goin'.
But its tears and love, you're knowln',
That we put in the expression
"Sammy, 'Bye!" V. L. M.
' Old Coins and Civil Service.
VLATSKANIE, Or, July 30. tTo the
Editor.) (1) Please give the address
of some firm that pays premiums on
old coins.
(2) Also where one would apply for
Government positions that is to take
a training course in civil service.
A SUBSCRIBER.
(1) New York Coin & Stamp Com
pany, 11 West Thirtieth street. New
York.
(2) Write to civil service clerk,
Postoffice building. Portland.
First Papers and Draft.
CONDON, Or., July 30. (To the Ed
itor.) Kindly let me know if a man
who has only first papers is subject to
be drafted. A friend of mine says that
the rule is that a man with first pa
pers only is an alien and can claim ex
emption on that ground before the ex
emption board. '
OLD SUBSCRIBER.
Exemption of men with first papers
applies only to those of enemy orisiAj