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Give postofflce address In full. Including county and state. Postage Kate 12 to 16 pages. 1 cent; 18 to 32 pages, 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages. 8 cents; AO to 60 pages, 4 cents; 62 to 76 pages, 5 cents; 78 to &2 pages, 6 cents. Foreign post age double rates. .Eastern xdutiness Office Verree & Conklln. Brunswick building. New York; Verree & Conklln, Steger building, Chicago; San Fran cisco representative. K. J. Bid well. 742 Mar ket street. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of ail news credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dis patches herein are also reserved. PORTLAND, SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1017. A CRISIS. The wooden shipbuilding industry, fairly launched under favorable aus pices in the Pacific Northwest, is now perplexed by labor difficulties which threaten its serious damage, if not Its ultimate destruction. There is now to be a strike of ship carpenters and other unions, unless certain demands are met by the operators, including the closed shop and advances in wages. There are said to be no Irrecon cilable differences between the men and their employers as to hours or as to wages. But the closed shop is the rock upon which they will assuredly split if the demand is persisted in by the men. The shipyards have been running on the open-shop plan. The employers are thoroughly committed to that principle. They have con ceded the eight-hour day, and they are paying wages which are in excess of the standard wage prevailing for many years heretofore. Obviously they will make a determined stand at complete or exclusive unionization of their plants, and there will be a pro tracted and disastrous conflict, unless the Government intervenes and set tles the dispute, or takes over and federalizes the industry, fixes the schedules of pay, and impresses the workmer into its service. There can then be no Issue of unionism or the open shop. The fight will have been lost by the men. The vital Interest of the Nation is In building ships now. It is superior to every other consideration. It Is necessary that the industry be devel oped to its fullest capacity without needless delays or interruptions through labor troubles or any other troubles. There are, therefore, patri otic reasons why the men should go slow about this business, Just as there are reasons why the employers should make every practicable concession compatible with the welfare of the industry and the great design of turn ing out many ships at an early date. There are other things which should be weighed carefully by all concerned, and which should have weight with workmen as well as with operators. The status of wooden shipbuilding is not any too firmly es tablished, and its future is problem atical. If ships can be built at a rea sonable cost, with dispatch, it is like ly that there will be more contracts from the Government: but If their construction is to be beset with strikes, with constant friction between operators and workmen, with a rapidly Increasing wage scale, so that the ultimate cost will be all but prohibi tive, it is clear that there will be very few orders from Washington and there will be fewer on private ac count. What, then, becomes of the Industry? What becomes of steady work for men at any wage? These ere not academic questions; but they are real and determinative factors, and they must be met and solved. Their solution is not through strikes, but through an amicable and reason able adjustment of hours, wages, con ditions. The Government has In other cases provided a plan to settle wage dis putes on Government work. If the proposed strike has behind it any plan to force Immediate mediation and adjustment by the authorities at Washington, it may with propriety be said that the Federal Administra tion has many great tasks, and it will doubtless reach the Portland Colum bia River controversy at the earliest practicable time. The workmen should be admonished to act with moderation lest they defeat their own ends, and injure their own cause, and lest, also, they do irreparable dam age to the greater cause of the Na tion in this tremendous crisis. It is not conceivable that they purpose to further their interests at any cost to their country. They are far more likely to help themselves if they will think first of the shipbuilding indus try and what it means in the war. Enough horses and mules to equip tin army and enough cattle, hogs and eheep to furnish millions of rations for the men are killed annually on the rights of way of the United States, as is shown by specimen figures prepared by one railroad con stituting only 4 per cent of the mile age of the country, and on which the value of livestock killed last year was $100,000. If the proportion is main tained on other roads, as is probable. the total waste In this item alone is $25,000,000. This points to another economic duty, in which owners of . stock, railroad officials and employes and public officers can co-operate. Stock owners are urged to use greater - care in keeping their animals out of danger. Railroad men can do their part by the exercise of caution, and being vigilant in repairing fences and cattle guards, and public officials have work to do In enforcing trespass or finances ana in, framing new -ones where necessary. Twenty-five mil lion dollars is more than we can spare just now in wanton destruction of valuable property. OUT IX THE EIGHT. The public may have only a passing interest in the processes by which Mr. McCone, Socialist, reached the con clusion that the Socialist party not socialism is all wrong and that America is right in the war and safe always for democracy. It appears that Mr. McCone, who has been secretary-treasurer of the Socialist party in Oregon, had been incarcerated in Jail at Lewiston, under the espionage act; and in that quiet and wholesome atmosphere he saw the error of his ways and publicly recanted. Let us not intimate that the treatment might be salutary of others of the former McCone way of thinking and doing, though we might unhesitatingly rec ommend it if there could be assur ance that the results would be as sat isfactory. The acknowledgment must be made that the McCone letter is a candid revelation of . a mind perplexed and a soul tortured through a long period as to the integrity of the course he and others like him were pursuing. He saw the inner workings of the Socialist machine, and he learned that they were in the hands of the master-manipulators, the Germans. By actual contact with the army, he became convinced that militarism was inconceivable and impossible in Amer ica. Assured that democracy was in trustworthy American hands and that the cause of America in the war was Just, it was inevitable that this Socialist should next see that only through war could America and de mocracy survive and triumph. McCone did not, through pride of previous opinions, repudiate his own inevitable convictions, but accepted them and acted accordingly. The Oregonian printed yesterday his full confession. It should be read by every hesitating and troubled Social ist, and any other who may have been in doubt about himself or his country In the war. A MISREPRESEXTATIVE. The Governor of Oregon is doubt less In full sympathy with the loyal indignation of the citizens of Lane County at the participation by Mr. Allan Eaton, of Eugene, in the mis chievous deliberations of the so-called People's Council of Peace and De mocracy, an unpatriotic and truculent body of anti-American and pro-German pacifists that recently met in Chicago after vainly trying to meet elsewhere; but the Governor has no power to remove Eaton as a member of the Legislature from Lane County, as the Chamber of Commerce at Eu gene suggests. The Legislature alone determines the qualifications of its own members. If it chooses to tol erate a little trouble-making quasi copperhead, that is its business. Or Lane County itself has a remedy the recall. But it may be doubted If it is worth while to recall a mem ber of a body which may never meet again. If it ever meets, expulsion may be worth considering. But the further demand that Eaton be required to retire from the faculty of the University of Oregon is easier. If he is permitted to hold his pro fessorship there, it will be because the university is indifferent to the public and private activities of its members elsewhere than at Eugene, even in a time of war. Can that be. so? Assuredly not. No specious pretense that Eaton is hot accountable to the state of Ore gon through the university for his association with a discredited organ ization of outlawed Adullamltes will meet the case. Of course we may hear that. In the pursuit of academic freedom. Eaton had the constitutional right to join any assembly and that it is unwise to suppress the opinions of any citizen, however mistaken they may be. Eaton himself appears to have such a defense in mind when he wrote from Chicago to that Port land paper which is peculiarly recep tive of the offerings of all off-side patriots and special pleaders of bad causes: Much greater than the Issues Involved In the People's Council has loomed the refusal of the Governor of Illinois to permit the citizens to assemble and to speak. That is what the Knights of the Golden Circle said during the Civil War. Or what any band of traitors might say, who, in the name of free speech, claimed the right to assemble and discuss Just, how they should go about it to overthrow the Union. Or what any conspiracy to oppose the war or cripple the Government in its plans to defeat the public enemy might say. The time for debate as to the expe diency, or even the Justice, of the war Is past. It ended when Congress declared war on Germany. There is nothing more to say about it. There is nothing for any patriot to do but to help the President and Congress through to a successful end. Free speech is not the Issue. The issue is the safety of the world, and the integrity of America, determina ble now through war alone, and not questionable or debatable through the babblings of deluded pacifists or the seditious and traitorous mouth in gs of pro-German marplots. WAR AS A LIFE-SAVER. "Go to war and live longer" will be the slogan of the country If the statisticians keep on figuring. For they have not only succeeded In show ing that the mortality rate in the armies is only about eleven in 1000 men but that those who are not killed are actually benefited by their expe rience. Since science has succeeded in eliminating the horrors of camp disease and all but a few of the wounded are recovering. Increased expectation of life by those who are not killed outright will go far to ward offsetting the casualties on the battlefield. Out of 1000 men enlisted. 989 will live longer, on the average. than they would if war had not come, it Is now predicted. But civilians also will enjoy some manifest advantages. There Is, for example, the Home Guard. It is largely composed of men beyond the draft age, a good many of them en gaged in sedentary occupations, for whom it is the finest exercise possible to turn out for drill. They have long felt the subconscious desire to improve their physical condition, but it has taken a crisis to crystallize de sire Into action. They will live longer as a result of their new experience, of course. More than a million city folks have enlisted in the war-garden army. All of them realize by this time that if they had not produced a potato or a bean or a head of lettuce the adven ture would have been worth while. They, too, have been added to the brotherhood of Increased longevity. Seven, hundred - thousand retired farmers have returned to the soil. It always Increases a man's span of life to put him at work in which he is interested and about which he can feel enthusiasm. The number of other civilians who have been spurred to new efforts to make themselves stronger cannot be estimated with ac curacy, but it is undoubtedly very large. These are practical, tangible factors in the Increase of National longevity. There is undoubtedly a further gain in the fact that more millions will be Inspired by a definite purpose than ever before. Other things being equal, the aimless man dies sooner than the man who lives a life of men tal and physical activity, directed to ward achieving a certain goal. It will not be surprising if the actuarial tables a generation hence show an actual average Increased period of life of the people now living in the United States. CONSERVING EX EX. The appeal of Fuel Administrator Garfield to the people of the United States to save fuel by refraining from overheating their homes during the coming Winter contains the sugges tion of a measure of hygiene as well as of economy of needed resources. It is, as Mr. Garfield says, "the duty of America to save coal this Winter." There is plenty of coal In the ground, but a shortage of labor to dig it and of cars for its distribution. There is no doubt that the Ameri can people have formed the habit of keeping their dwelling places at too high temperature. This is particularly true In the cities, and It is truer of those who live in flats and apart ments and In hotels than of those who heat their own homes. But all are inclined alike to sin the difference is chiefly in degree. The lesson we are Just beginning to learn, that small savings by Indi viduals mount to great heights in a Nation of a hundred million people, is being-taught anew in the case of fuel. "If every family," said the fuel administrator, "will reduce the tem perature of its house by only five de grees it will mean that millions of tons of coal will be saved." Industrial plants can contribute their quota to National conservation by keeping closer watch on waste. The result of the whole will be saving not only of fuel, but of the time of workmen, and of cars that we need for other com modities, and of engines and drays to haul it, and so on clear down the line. Meanwhile, we shall gain by enter ing upon the Spring season in more robust health. We shall have fewer colds and be more capable and effi cient in every way. We do not need to have our living-rooms at 80 de grees, or thereabouts, Fahrenheit, and especially it is & foolish and extrava gant practice to fill the furnace with fuel and then open the doors and win dows to reduce the temperature, as many do. It Is going to be a year for savings of fuel as well as of food and no measure of economy should be de spised. WASTING TIME. A correspondent who confesses that he has "wasted considerable time waiting for my good aspects before attempting some new enterprise, even to the extent of losing a good oppor tunity," writes to inquire whether as trology has any scientific standing. He is inclined to give up his prac tice, believing that astrology may. after all, be on a par with the moon superstition, which used to govern so many farmers ' in the planting of their crops. The correspondent Is right In say ing that he has wasted his time, if. indeed, he has let any real oppor tunities slip by while waiting for some fancied star to reach the as cendancy. Napoleon, It is true, had a good deal to say about his "star," but it is suspected that he employed the word partly as a figure of speech and partly for effect upon the people. among whom superstition was more rife then than it Is now. Astrology was widely accepted once, and there were chairs for teach ing it in the old universities at Bologna and Padua, but it would be hard to imagine a department of as trology in a university today. This is the best answer as to the present standing of what once was called a "science," but which general accept ance of the Copernican system rele gated to the shelf. It once was popu lar among people who liked to be lieve In fatalism, because it excused their own failure to measure up to their responsibilities. It seemed pleasanter to blame things on "des tiny" than to get out and hustle. The man who accomplishes much nowadays puts in little time waiting for his "good aspects." The thing to do with an opportunity is to grab it. Just as the time to plant a crop Is when weather and soil conditions are right. Purely as a pastime, astrology is not uninteresting. One may derive some entertainment from the reflec tion that once upon a time the world took stock in it, and that this belief contributed several Important words to our speech. "Disaster" and "con 6lder" and "ill-starred" are some of them. The adjectives "mercurial," "Jovial" and "saturnine" are others. But we could have worried along without them, and the world would have made a good deal more progress If people had always believed It was up to every man to do the best he could while the stars were taking care of themselves. A TRIUMPH OF rNTENTTOX. It Is no small sacrifice for every mechanical inventor to have con tributed his discoveries and for every motor manufacturer to have con tributed his business secrets to per feet an airplane engine which com bines all the best Ideas of American Inventive genius and which can be produced in large numbers for all air craft to be used in war. In the lapse of only 101 days between the first con ference and the announcement that the last practical test has been made the ideas of many experts were dis cussed and brought into . harmony, drawings were made, the first ma chines were manufactured, laboratory tests were completed, and finally men made experimental flights under vary ing conditions of climate, weather and altitude. Adoption of a single type of engine which will be used on all American aircraft will vastly expedite the task which the United States has under taken of producing in a short time so large an air fleet that it will be able to drive the Germans out of the air, to spy out all their movements and positions while keeping them in the dark as to those of the allies, to wreck their trenches, artillery, de pots, transports and communications and to. spread terror among their armies and civil population. By that means sooner than by any other can the backbone of German resistance be broken and the war hastened to an end victorious for the allies. Accomplishment of this result re quires the closest co-operation of all persons and Industries concerned in production of aircraft. The loggers and lumbermen of the Pacific North west will be required to speed up production of spruce lumber, textile manufacturers to do likewise in mak ing cloth to cover the planes, and the builders of planes to manufacture on standardized plans. Opportunity for American airmen to do much at the front will be slight during the next six months, but next Spring the air of France and Belgium should swarm with them, and their forces should steadily Increase during the Summer. In that manner the Ger man armies may be driven into their own territory, and the conviction of defeat may be so driven into the minds of the German people that they will sue for peace in readiness to renounce their dreams of military conquest and Pan-Germanism. The cost of growing an acre of wheat in the United Kingdom has been estimated by the British Board of Agriculture at $52.25, which means that If growers were to sell their crops at $2 a bushel under war con ditions, they would be compelled to raise at least twenty-six bushels to the acre to reimburse themselves for their labor, land and seed, without allowing for a profit on the invest ment. Various estimates obtained by the board from individual grow ers, however, show that the cost ranges from $42.21 to $58.87. the dif ference being due to variable soils and the methods employed. Despite the war, British farmers do not pay as high wages as are paid in the United States, but on the other hand they do not use machinery to so great an extent. The average yield per acre In the United States In 1916 was esti mated by the Department of Agricul ture at only 11.9 bushels to the acre. for which the farmer received an average of $1.38. The direct effect of sedition upon the organization of the Nation for war Is shown by the statement of the Army and Navy Journal that "in former wars the Sixty-ninth Regiment, New Tork National Guard, has always had more recruits than could be taken care of," but that "in this war the re verse has been the case, and the cause of this has been clearly traced to the antl-Brltlsh speeches of the Friends of Irish Freedom." How far the mak ers of such speeches are from being friends of Irish freedom may be Judged by the fact that the British government has entrusted to a con vention of Irishmen the task of pre paring a constitution which will give Ireland as broad freedom within the United Kingdom as any state enjoys in the United States. Where a firm of undertakers owns the only cemetery and refuses Inter ment unless it conducts the funeral, as Is alleged at Baker, there would seem to be a fine opening for a rival cemetery without going into court to settle the dispute. If nothing better is proposed, they might give a dance to start the fund. That plan of en joyment can start anything east of the mountains. Coincident with finding of the priests cache of gold In Arizona is report of discovery of the long-lost Blue Bucket mine in Eastern Oregon, in which, according to fable, virgin gold can be taken out with a dipper. Dr. Garfield, fuel administrator. puts a bit of good advice in his ap peal to save coal by asking that tem peratures In homes be reduced 6 de grees. A few good thermometers make a good Investment. The New Tork bank president who embezzled $300,000 died insolvent and his widow is penniless, yet lots of people can figure what they would save of that amount, no matter how they acquired it. It's the luck of some fairs to ex perience rainy weather, and of others to enjoy the best. As most fairs ex ploit races, perhaps the horses enjoy the fun, and visitors should let it go at that. If berries that would go to waste can be picked and saved by the bend ing of a rule, bend it. Nature quickly restores trivial damage. Nature also abhors waste by trying to hide it. The Attorney-General rules there can be no limit to tne numoer or insurance agents, but the law, also, has a "limit" on shotgun practice. To strike or not to strike Is the question today, and compromise at the eleventh hour and fifty-ninth min ute Is the best work of man. The general deficiency bin of a few millions a few years ago has become the urgent deficiency bill of $7,000, 000,000. With keen sarcasm the Council limits the size of a man's woodpile to fifteen cords, as if everybody owns a mlntl All Portugal is In a state of siege, owing to a general strike; but Por tugal Is only a seven-by-nine affair at best. The Beavers, like other good men and bad, as well must wait until the clouds roll by. Ti j 'nmman who does thlnca the electric way la a conservator and does not worry. The woman who has little to do, or thinks so, can register for war work today. When Hoover recommends hare and horse meats, all we-uns will eat them. Help, Hoover, hellup! Umbrellas, like everything else, are going up J Kornlloff tried to take the Prussian route for defeat and disgrace. Ifs worth a trip to Astoria to see men fishing with horses. It is a brave straw hat that shows itself today. The revolt In, Russia appears to be an "s&r- '. .. . , How to Keep WclL By Dr. W. A. Evans. Questions pertinent to hygiene, sanitation and prevention of diseases. If matters of general Interest, will be answered In this column. Where space will not permit or the subject-la not suitable, letters will be per sonally answered, subject to proper limita tions and where stamped addressed envelope Is Inclosed. Dr. Evan wUl not make diag nosis or prescribe tor Individual disease. Re quests for such service cannot be answered. (Copyright. 1916, by Dr. W. A. Evans. Published by arrangement with the Chicago Tribune.; COMMENTS OTt THE DIET FOR. U RIGHT'S DISEASE. THE Journal of the American Med ical Association contains various comments on the diet for Bright's disease used by Chace and Rose and quoted in yesterday's article. This dis cussion shows, first, that the medical profession are not agreed as to the best diet for Bright's disease, and, sec ond, that a diet good for one case is not necessarily the diet for another. Or. Epstein told of his method of feeding cases of Bright's disease where the urine contained large quantities of albumin. His diet contained much more protein (albumin, lean meat, and vegetables rich in albumin). He gives from two and two-thirds to seven ounces of protein a day instead of the less than two ounces given by Chace and Rose. The theory Is that where so much albumin Is passing in the urine the patients become undernourished unless they have larger quantities of lean meat or other proteins. Dr. Mosenthal divided the stages of Bright's disease from the standpoint of diet into three: First, the stage where the need was for depletion. This Is well met by"the lemonade-banana diets. Second, the stage of maintenance. This Is well met by the Chace-Rose diets given yesterday. Third, the weakened anemic sufferers from Bright's. To take such a one and to convert him into a healthy, strong person without harm ing his kidneys in the process is more difficult. He thinks that this group of suf ferers needs more protein, perhaps as much as Epstein gives. It must be given, however, under the direction of one who knows how to watch for bad effects, how to Judge when it is being overdone. Several of the speakers spoke of the necessity for watching out for idiosyn crasies. One person can take a rea sonable allowance of meats, but some one meat is a poison to him. Physicians are too liable to make little of sucn statements from patients as "lamb dis agrees with me" or "I get a rash when I eat eggs" or "milk gives me a head ache." . Bishop thinks that a good deal of meat can be given with safety provided all meats which harm are eliminated from the meat list. He allows patient to eat rather freely of one or two meats known to be harmless to that patient. Meat, fresh milk, eggs, peas and beans are classed as meat in the above statement. Dr. Rosewater prefers eggs to meat and milk as sources of protein. He prefers butter, milk, and malted milk to plain milk. He objects to cocoa be cause it contain a purin body theo bromin. He objects to asparagus. Dr. Dubois thought it Inadvisable to keep a man long on food which he does not like. "It Is true that one can keep a nephritic on a restricted diet for a long time without developing any ol the so-called deficiency diseases, but, on the other hand, one must consider the possibility of developing not a physical scurvy but a kind of mental scurvy as the result of a diet which deprives the man of the articles of food he likes." Chace and Rose are of the same opin ion. They have combined milk with va rious vegetables, fruits, and food made from grains to make 20 diet lists for the use of patients in the Post-Grad- uate Hospital. By varying the veg etables and by changing the method of cooking ana by similar changes with the fruits and cereals they vary the monotony and suit the diets to patients and to markets. Rye vs. White Bread. Mrs. J. F. writes: "Which is the more nourishing, rye or white bread?" REPLT. There la no material difference between them. Barley Used la Bread. A correspondent sends us a state ment by Professor Moore, of the Uni versity of Wisconsin, that when from one-half to two-thirds barley flour is used with wheat flour the bread made from the mix is very palatable, and will be relished by all who like good bread. He says that it is advisable to use a pedigree barley such as is grown in Wisconsin. He gives the following recipe: One pint milk and one pint water or one quart potato water. One tablespoon sugar. One teaspoon salt One tablespoon shortening. One cake compressed yeast. d Scald milk; add water. Dissolve yeast cake in a little warm 'water; add sufficient wheat flour to make a stiff batter. Let rise. When light add salt, sugar and shortening and enough bar ley and wheat flour (sifted) to make a stiff dougn. Turn out on board ana knead until light and elastic Let rise. Form Into loaves. 'Let rise until about twice the size in bulk. Bake one hour. Dry yeast can be used by setting sponge in evening. Proceed same as with compressed yeast. Barley bread can be made in the proportions of one- half wheat flour and one-half barley flour, or one-third wheat flour and two-thirds barley flour. Chan sr e Diet and Habit. J. B. writes: "I notice in today's pa per your answer to C. R. of the mean- ins; of parenchymatous nephritis. I have had the same symptom you de scribe for the last three months. Would you advise some change in diet? 2. What Is pareira brava? 3. Is It a cure for kidney disease?" REPLT, 1. First have your urine examined. If yon find that you have parenchymatous ne phritis or any other form of Bright's diease you should change yourdlet and also some of your habits. 2. It la tho dried root of a vine found In Brazil. , . 8. potter says that pareira Is soothing to the kidneys, especially in suppurative In flammation thereof. In a very limited sense, therefore. It Is a cure for kidney disease. Harmful Laxative. J. W. S. writes: Will the continued use of cascara sagrada and sodium bi carbonate as a laxative be harmful? REPLY. It will. Somnambulist. Mrs. JT. G. writes: "I have a son, eight years old, who gets up at night in his sleep, unlocks the door, walks out around the yard and then back to bed without waking. He does this every night for weeks; then, again, nights pass without his getting up. He does not wake when talked to, but neither does be remember about it the next morning. He sleeps In ventilated room, has an early light supper, and retires at 8. "He does this only during the hot Summer months. This Is the . second Summer. "He Is very bright and healthy. "What is your advice?" REPLT. Tour boy is a somnambulist. Cure of this condition is a matter of mental training. The psycho-analysts say that sleep-walking fa a result of mental repressions. If you could place him In the right sanitarium finder the directions and control of a brain peclallst he could be trained out of the thablt. A sanitarium for the Insane or one for tha alclc Is not the place for him. Since you are near Omaha, I suggest that you it a bkv aneniaUsl. la that cUX. FARMERS DISCOURAGED BY PRICE Wheat Growuic Likely to Diminish la Consequence. Says Writer. UNION. Or.. Sept, 13. (To the Edi tor.) In the farmer's contention that the Chicago basic price for wheat of $2.20 per bushel is wrong as applied to the Paclflo states, there are some vital questions involved. In the first place the farmers of the whole country are being; urged to increase the production of wheat. The Government's agents have told them that they occupied the most important position of any of the Industrial instruments, as the question of food supply was the most urgent This Is certainly true. The war can not be won within a reasonable time except upon the basis of increased food production, with wheat the most im portant item. Congress by law established a price for 1918 wheat at $2. Two dollars per bushel where? At Chicago? The farm ers of the country, of the Paclflo States inclusive, have assumed that the'y would receive $2 per bushel for wheat in 1918 at their usual marketing point. The farmers of the Pacific States have assumed that whenever the price was fixed by the Government for this year's crop, the price would be es tablished for their marketing point. San Francisco. Portland or Seattle. They had a right so to assume be cause heretofore these markets have been practically Independent of every other marketing point. Even this year of our Lord 1917. during; the month of July, while wheat was being: quoted at Chicago at $2.18 to $2.25, it was being quoted at Port land at $2.30 to $2.40 per bushel. Now for the Government arbitrarily to overturn this normal condition as produced by the law of supply and demand and determine by its fiat that wheat shall sell at Chicago at $2.20 and at Portland at $2, is a stunner for the ordinary Coast farmer. In truth it does not look good to him. It does not look to him as though It were a fair proposi tion. He feels that he has not been treated fair and especially since the Pacific States were not represented on the board that fixed the Chicago basic price. There may be explanations offered galore, but whether the Coast farmer will be reconciled to the situation as attempted to be established, is ques tionable. It is the prediction of the writer that if the Chicago basic price stands as fixed by the price-fixing board, many thousands of farmers who grew or attempted to grow wheat in 1917, will plant some other crop for 1918. Now I am saying out loud what farmers as a rule are saying- to them selves or to each other. All the Coast farmer asks for is a square deal as be tween himself and farmers of other sections of the country and as between him and other industrial and agri cultural workers. B. F. WILSON. Draft of Expatriated American. SALEM, Or., Sept. 13. (To the Edi tor.) .(1) A young man of draft age born In the United States became a citizen of Canada in order to hold a homestead. Since that time he has served as a regular in the United States Army, but is now honorably dis charged. Can he be drafted in the United States Army now? (2) Could he be drafted Into the Canadian army? Can he take out his first citizenship papers now and thus evade British conscription? He expects to enlist in the United States Army when his business affairs permit. SUBSCRIBER. (1) If he is still a full-fledged cit izen of Canada he cannot be drafted In this country. (2) Upon taking out first papers he would be subject to draft in the United States. Futile Waiting; on the Star. PORTLAND. Sept. 14. (To the Edi tor.) Tour recent editorial. "Farming by the Moon," prompts this inquiry: Have scientists found any truth In astrology? I have wasted considerable time waiting for my good aspects be for attempting some new enterprise, even to the extent of losing a good opportunity, without noticing any di rect result from it. I am now Inclined to give this matter up. as it is largely connected with the moon theory. What Is the scientific opinion of this belief? L. C. M. Question Abont the Draft. PORTLAND, Sept. 14. (To the Editor.)- (1) When is the second army draft to be called that is, the first draft from Multnomah County? (2) Can a person choose his branch of service after being drafted? (3) Would a marriage performed July 18, 1917, be sufficient grounds for exemption, according to exemption laws? N. C. N. (1) The date has not been set. (2) No. (3) No. Bigger and Better Than Most Magazines The Sunday Oregonian PASSING OF AN HISTORIC CHURCH When the Taylor-street Methodist Church is razed, as it soon will be, to give place to a modern mission, Portland will lose a loved landmark of community growth. Something of the romantic history of the ancient struc ture, of the men who conceived it, and of the pioneer fight for the faith is told in a special story "in The Sunday Oregonian. With illustrations. HERBERT KAUFMAN'S CRUSADE Knight-errant of modern let ters is Kaufman and his Sunday page in The Oregonian is replete with challenge and attack. Wherever error is, there this spirited and courageous writer levels his lance of sharp-tipped logic If you don't read Kaufman, the habit is easy to acquire and mightily strengthening to the spirit. CURSE OF THE "SHUTTLED' BABY A few weeks ago the tragic death of Jack de Saulles, football star and college man, at the hands of his beautiful ex-wife, was a sensation of the news. In the magazine section of The Sunday Oregonian appears a feature 6tory of this tragedy of divorce and parental jealousy. WHERE COTTON IS SPUN Bereave the world of cotton and the sorry globe would be hard put for inefficient substitutes. Frank G. Carpenter, special contributor to The Oregonian, on his economic survey of America, has visited the cotton factories of the South. The intensely interesting story of his observations appears in to morrow's issue. CHURCH AND SCHOOL A page apiece to these companion insti tutions of enlightment are regular features of the Sunday issue. Where to worship and when may be found in the complete an nouncements of all Portland churches, while the gossip of the classroom, capably edited by pupil staffs, should be read by all who have the interests, of the schools at heart. REPORTING WITH A CAMERA This week the camera reporters snapped almost a full page of spirited war scenes for the Sunday issue. They tell more than the printed word can convey, and with the accompanying paragraphs give accurate glimpses of how the mandates of Mars are carried out. THOSE OLD POEMS Wafted in on every mail come the poems that have won permanency in many hearts. Do you remember that weirdly romantic plaint of the lorn maiden who hanged herself "for a butcher-boy"? It's there tomorrow. But the featured verse, by way of contrast, is Bryant's "Robert of Lincoln." THE MESSAGE OF QUEEN MARIE Tenderly beautiful, "with mother wistfulness, is the story of war and sacrifice told in the Sunday issue by Queen Marie of Roumania, an exile from her country and her throne. War in the Balkans, as she writes it, seems very, very real to the reader. A Nickel and a Nod Will Buy THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. In Other Days. Twenty-live Tears Ago. From The Oregonian, September 15, 1892. Loon Lake, N. T. The doctors hold out little hope for the recovery of Mrs. Harrison, and it is reported have told the President so. The disease Is pul monary tuberculosis aggravated by nervous prostration. Mrs. Ole Bull makes her home in Bos ton with her brother, Joe, who married one of the poet Longfellow's daughters. The Roseburg Plalndealer announces that the Roseburg & Coos Railway will be completed to Coqullle City this FalL L R. Gillihan, of Sauvles Island, brought Into town yesterday 14 Bart lett pears, the combined weight of which was 17 pounds. He Intends them for the world's fair exhibit. Walla Walla, Dr. Blalock has been so ill for several days that no one has been allowed to see him. Illness was brought on by the shock when he jumped from a runaway electric car at Tacoma. Owlnsr to' the fart that p 1 - r.t nv DOOr Err&rfe that It rirkn nnt tsv -1 It. the blast furnace at Oswego has been blown out for the present. GERMANS AND BOXER TTFRISnfO, Clipping; of 10OO Disclose) RntUen Reprisals on Chinese, PORTLAND, Sept, 14. (To the Ed itor.) I find an old Straits Budget pa per (of Singapore), which I have had In my possession since 1900. The date of this paper is 22d of December. 1900. I am sending this to show the American people that the cruelties of the Ger man soldiers existed before this war. READER. The German Soetal-Democratla Press publishes letters from German soldiers in China of which the following are specimens. line writes from felting. Aug. ;:., 1000: We took 76 Chinamen prisoner, fastened them together with their pigtails and kept them in the midst of us. Some rough spirits started thrashing them, and beat them so unmercifully that blood streamed from their bodies. After dinner the prison ers were all condemned to be shot. Two young Chinamen ran away, eight were spared on account of their extreme youth. out tne otner as were snot. At 12 to IB paces from them we stood, four men - to. each Chinaman. At the word to prepare for firing the prisoners set up a wall for mercy, but then came the order to fire, and nothing more was heard but a few dull moans, for each man was pierced by four balls and fell backward into the grave which had been previously prepared. I shall never forget that Sunday. Kentucky Connty Patriotic. ONALASKA. Wash.. Sept. 13. (To the Editor.) Having been born and raised In Eastern Kentucky. I take pleasure in copying an article that came out in the Carter County Herald, a small paper printed at Olive Hill, Carter County, Kentucky. "Loyal Larue County in this state holds the banner under the operation of the selective draft law. Larue County quota for the new Army under that law Is 132 men. Every one of the 132 called promptly answered and appeared before the board of ex aminers. Every one of them met the physical requirements and not one of them asked exemption and every one of them was accepted for service,." This record makes me feel proud. HENRY HALL. School Book of Two State. MONTAGUE, Mont., Sept. 11. (To the Editor.) Will you be kind enough to inform me -if the books-used in the public schools of Portland are the same as used in schools of Seattle or are the same books used in Oregon and Wash ington in the public schools. MRS. JOSEPHINE ROBIN. The same set of school books are not used in both Oregon and Washing ton, although standard books n cer tain subjects may happen to be iden tical. In Oregon the law calls for state wide adoption of books, while In Wash ington each county chooses Its own set. Breach of Promise Case. PORTLAND, Sept. 14. (To the Edi tor.) A man is sued for breach of promise, but finally consents to marry the girl; but when he takes the blood test previous to getting the license he fails to pass it and no license can be issued. If the girl still wants to marry the man, can she still obtain damages, providing they were awarded to her before the man consented to marry her? IN BAD. If the man broke his contract he is liable for damages. The contract Is voidable only upon the assent of the woman in the case set forth by the correspondent. i