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PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 26. 1917.
BACK THE WAR WITH YOl'R MOXEY.
Approval by the President of the
war bond bill for $11,533,000,000 is
the prelude to another issue of liberty
bonds half as large again as the first.
In the first flush of enthusiasm the
people oversubscribed the $2,000,000,
000 issue by 50 per cent.
We have had many causes for
deeper enthusiasm since. Our Navy
has entered the fight against the sub
marine, and some of our gunners
have been killed, wounded or taken
prisoner by the Germans. The first
contingent of our Army has been in
France three months, and doubtless
Is being enlarged by a steady stream
of troops crossing the Atlantic.
We have had experience of the
Hunnish methods practiced by the
Germans in the bombardment of one
of our hospitals and the killing and
wounding of some of our citizens who
were caring for the wounded. The
first contingent of the drafted Army
has 'gone into camp, and we shall
soon have more than a million and a
half of men under arms. The truth
is being driven home to us that we
are in the war, and our National tem
perament insures that we shall stay
in it to the finish.
If any doubt remained in any mind
that the American people are behind
the war with determination to see it
through, that doubt would be re
moved by the announcement that
more than 8,700,000 separate bonds
are to be issued to meet the first sub
scriptions, and that more than 7,000,
000 of these are to be for $50 or $100
each. That means that up proximately
seven millions have backed their sen
timents with their money. This is
sufficient answer to the German sneer
that the American Nation is so de
cadent, luxury-loving and selfish that
It will not fight. We will show them.
The first liberty bonds were sold
by an impromptu organization which
aroused the determination of the peo
ple to put over anything that they
undertake. There has been time since
then to perfect and extend the or
ganization, and it should sell the
larger amount with less exertion.
Kvery person who has a relative or
friend in the armed forces will have
a heart in the work, and will be a
worker. Sale of war savings certifi
cates will enlist the aid of many peo
ple of small means, and will keep a
constant stream of money pouring into
the war chest, which will not only
help to finance the war, but will be a
sign that millions are learning that
lesson of self-denial and thrift which
contributes much to victory.
HECONSTRICTION BAYS.
Oro Fino Hall was crowded last night to
pear Henator Williams talk on reconstruc
tion. From The Oregonian, Fifty Years Ago
tscptembcr 21. 18o7).
An item like the foregoing Inevit
ably takes one's memory back to the
vivid events of half a century ago.
The problems of reconstruction were
not less interesting or exciting than
the vital issues of the Civil War but
recently over at that time. It would
almost appear that' they concerned
the average citizen even more deeply
than the crucial affairs of today, in
volving not a single nation, but all
nations.
Examination of The Oregonian's
files of that exact date discloses that
an entire column of small type
(agate) was given up to the speech of
the Senator the statesman who had
been a Democrat before the war, but
who had signed his own death war
rant in his party by writing an unan
swerable indictment in 1857 of the
evil institution of slavery, opposing
Its proposed introduction into Oregon,
and contributing vastly to its defeat.
He was virtually read out of his party,
but tn 1S64 he was elected United
States Senator by the Unionists, and
In the '70s he was Attorney-General
of the United States and spokesman
of Grant's Administration. He had a
great part in the proceedings for the
impeachment of President Johnson.
They failed by a single vote. '
There was a large crowd to hear
the Senator's views of reconstruction.
"Judge Smith presided." says the re
port. This was doubtless Alanson
Smith, a member of the law firm of
Mitchell, Dolph & Smith, the two
first named of whom afterwards
served Oregon in the United States
Senate Mitchell three terms (nearly)
and lolph two terms. There as a
' distinguished list of vice-presidents,
headed by Addison C Gibbs, the war
Ooveinor of Oregon, also a. former
bemocrat.
The Williams speech dealt largely
with the burning issues between Pres
ident Johnson and Congress. "We
may say without disparagement to
others that the address was incom
parably superior to any speech deliv
ered in Portland for years." remarks
The Oregonian. It would not be
profitable to review the argument, but
it may be well to quote a single para
graph as showing the thought and
purpose of the Republican party in
enfranchising the negro.
Senator:
Said the
Nesroes are rltiscns. Citizens must be
enablrd to protect themselves; to that end
they must have rights and power. The
Marks of the South, owing to the prejudice
and hate toward them, must have either
bayonets or ballots. The ballot Is the more
economical protection to give them.
tlavk men are voting there now, and suf
frage takes no backwsrd step. Intelligent
men of the South an-ppt the fact and no
longer purpose to fight over the suffrage
Question. . . . Mr. Williams alluded to the
cry of alarm raised about .the equa.ity and
amalgamation of the races, and said that
Sn this country every man is free to aeek his
level. He may associate with the good and
tiia elevated: or he may ge down among the
low and the -vicious. There la no compul
sion. The disputes that divided men then
are now largely forgotten, and in
their place are new issues. Moreover,
new names have taken their place on
the scenes of action, world. Xation.
state. Kone of the many mentioned
in The Oregonian's account is now
alive. The Oro Fino Theater, where
the Williams meeting was held, was
long since torn down. It was then
the chief general-purpose hall of the
city, until it was succeeded by the
Xew Market Theater. It, too, is
given up to other uses. How many
men or women now in Portland or
Oregon can name the site of Oro Fino
Hall?
BLACK BALI. ED.
The Nation including the Admin
istration may well be grateful to
Colonel Roosevelt for his patriotism
or, rather, for its vigorous and effec
tive expression. He could not be other
than a patriot: but he might, without
impairment of his prestige, have ac
cepted in silence the place behind
far. behind the seats of honor in the
war to which somebody in Washing
ton has assigned him. But he didn't.
"I was blackballed," Roosevelt
says, "by the committee on admission
to the war." That describes it.
I,t is an interesting question as to
whether Roosevelt is, or would be, a
more formidable candidate for Presi
dent In 1920 in France or in America.
It is a question which gives the
Democratic party heart failure, al
most, whenever it is considered.
In France, Roosevelt might have
been killed, or he might have killed
himself politically by some military
blunder. But there were fears in
Washington that he might return a
great hero.
In America, Roosevelt Is on familiar
ground, and is making no mistakes.
He is also healthy, quite healthy. In
1920 he will be 62 years old the very
prime of life.
ODIOUS.
Once there was a pretense by Ger
many that its Zeppelins and airplanes
in their aerial exploits were seeking
out forts, encampments, fortifications,
defended cities and the like. So Ger
many said in the beginning, in ex
plaining its overhead raids of England.
But how is it now? The great ob
jective is London for the demons of
the air London with its millions of
women and children. - If it can ter
rorize all of them by killing some of
them as many as get in the way of
the death-dealing bombs thrown from
the sky into the heart of the city
Kaiserdom thinks it may win the war.
The K.aiser has clung tenaciously to
that preposterous idea from the start.
Frightfulness, the Prussian hand
maiden, has never lost caste at home.
She has shown herself to her enemies
in many new and strange guises: but
will anybody say that the fear she
has inspired has brought Germany
nearer its goal?
In Sweden even now thoughtless
mothers frighten children by telling
them that the Russians will get them.
Sweden remembers more than one in
vasion of its soil by the hated Rus
sians. The junkers are doing their best to
make the German . name odious
throughout the world for all time.
OCR PLACE SECURE, i
In time of sudden trouble how apt
the thoughts to turn to "home and
mother!" They were a score of men
and women, happy, carefree, inno
cently lapping up illicit booze at a
roadhouse. When the raiders came
how natural that twenty hearts should
beat in anxiety lest mother, father,
sister, brother, wife or sweetheart
should learn that a loved one had
been transported from light and gaiety
to darkness and gloom.
Presumably there is no disgrace In
frequenting a roadhouse where in
toxicants are sold contrary to law.
If there were, roadhouses would be
sad places. The habitues would sit
mournfully dropping tears Into the
beer as they contemplated the loving
faith of the home folks thus betrayed.
No, the Jails are the horrid things.
One's forced presence there must on
no account be made known.
Thus it is that the newspaper be
comes the rock of hope, the haven in
distress, next in importance and so
licitude to home and mother. A warm
feeling always steals into the news
paper heart when the message comes
in quavering voice front the city
stronghold: "Please keep my name
out, for my wife's sake." 1
Yes. we stand right next to the
family in the first thought and tender
devotion of him whose jollification
has led to jail.
AIRCRAFT IX WAR.
The greatest single advance in the
military art that will be made in this
war promises to be the use of air
craft. In conjunction with the em
ployment of great masses of men who
could hold a fixed line from the North
Sea to the Swiss frontier, it began by
eliminating the element of surprise
and the possibility of flanking. For
this purpose it supplanted cavalry as
the reconnoitering force. It went far
ther, and, by scouting behind the
enemy's lines, aircraft exactly located
the position of his artillery, reserves,
ammunition dumps and supplies, and
by wireless they directed artillery fire
upon these points.
Aircraft have now supplanted .cav
alry for raiding purposes. Unlike
cavalry, their movements are not ob
structed by infantry and artillery, for
they fly over positions held by these
arms. They can be fought effectively
only by other aircraft, for anti-aircraft
guns make only occasional
chance hits.
We have now reached the point
where aircraft are becoming the chief
weapon of offense. They have flown
over and along trenches, spraying the
defenders with machine-gun bullets.
They have bombed artillery, putting
entire batteries out of action by kill
ing all the gunners and wrecking the
guns. They have scattered advancing
troops with showers of bombs, and
bullets. They have wrecked trains,
railroad yards, depots of supplies and
have bombed naval bases and muni
tion factories far in the enemy's rear.
They have begun to convince the
Germans that trench lines are useless
and have compelled Von "Hindenburg
to resort to small, concrete forts and
fortified shell-holes, but short work
is made of these by the new Anglo
American invention, the tank. They
are making the battle-line, as we have
understood it in this war, obsolete.
They can do more, for by dropping
tanks of highly inflammable liquids
they can start conflagrations which
will destroy entire cities.
It is impossible to hold any line of
defense marked by a sea-coast or by
a range of mountains against them,
for they fly over it. Any defensive
aircraft patrol which ha hitherto
been established against them has
proved ineffective, and it cannot be
otherwise unless strong enough to
guard the entire line to the highest
altitude to which an airplane can
climb. This has been proved by the
recent air-raids on England. The
coast is patrolled by aircraft, but the
German planes fly to great heights
above the British until they are in
visible, and drop bombs from an alti
tude as great at 20.000 feet.
Lord Montague has estimated that
80.000 aircraft would be required to
defend the British coast. Thus moun
tains, ceep, steep - banked rivers,
straits and arms of the sea have be
come worthless as strategic frontiers.
and Oermany s pretense that annexa
tion is necessary to rectify frontiers,
in order to make them defensible, is
destroyed, for such obstructions are
nothing to airmen.
What will be the effect on the future
of war? Will war become impos
sible through realization that fron
tiers and defensive lines are obliter
ated, that artillery and great masses
of infantry are defenseless against
aircraft and that war may be carried
far into the interior of a country by
wholesale slaughter of the civil popu
lation with bombs and inflammable
substances? Or will nations train
great forces of airmen and other spe
cialists for war in place of arming
tne wnoie nation? If the latter should
prove to be the outcome, the United
States will have a great advantage
for it has the most highly developed
industries combined with the largest
domestic supply of the metals, lum
ber, textiles and fuel that are used
in aviation. In course of time Rus
sia might rival this country, but not
until her people are trained in Indus
try and her mineral and forest re
sources are developed.
KEEP IX CLOSER TOUCH.
One respect in which the Govern
ment has been dilatory in organizing
the Nation for war is in its relation
to labor. Although the Government
needs the constant operation of in
dustrles essential to supply the Army
and Navy and to aid the allies, it has
left things to take their course." That
course has led to disputes which have
culminated in strikes before the offl-
cals at Washington paid any attention
to them.
A speech made in England by W. A.
Holman. Prime Minister" of New South
Wales and head of a labor govern
ment, is in point. He attributed mis
understandings among workingmen to
tne lact tnai tne government was
largely absorbed in London and that
the men at the forge and at the lathe
were to a large extent cramped by
their surroundings." Promises had
not always been fulfilled to the letter,
probably for sound reasons, "but those
sound reasons had not always been
made sufficiently visible to the Work
er." They could not be explained to
"a more generous or sympathetic
audience, but when no explanation
was forthcoming, there was always a
friend at hand to offer his explana
tion, which was that there was a con
spiraey to rob them of their hard
earned liberties and break up their
trade unionism."
By paying little or no attention to
the labor question until strikes break
out, the American Government has
made much the same mistake as that
of Great Britain. There should be
every center where work connected
with the war is going on a represen
tative of the Government authorized
to adjust disputes and prevent strikes.
Such an adjustment of wages should
do mane mat every man will reel sure
of getting his full worth, and that
discontent will not be aroused by
knowledge that an employer has en
ticed a man away from his job by
offers of higher pay. It Is necessary
a i -i . , , '
lui tne uuveniiueni to Keep in as Close
touch with the labor situation in
every part of the country as Mr.
Hoover is with the food situation. If
that were done, no pretended "friend1
would be able to stop industry by in
citing a strike for higher wages or by
spreading reports that rights were to
be attacked which no man had
thought of questioning.
GOVERNMENT FKICES FOR STEEL.
Fixing of prices to be charged for
steel, not only by the United States
and allied governments but by pri
vate consumers in this country, is a
further recognition of the fact that
the war has made necessary a sus
pension of the economic law of supply
and demand. That fact had already
been recognized by Government fix
ing of prices for wheat, fuel and cop
per, and it is to be further recog
nized by like action as to other food
stuffs and as to commodities used in
their production.
Demand so far exceeds supply, and
has become so imperative for war
purposes that it has placed a premium
on extortion, which is no more per
missible than is exaction of usurious
rates of interest. This situation caused
an unequal race between the cost of
living and the earnings of the people,
in which earnings always lagged far
behind, and were increased only to
furnish an excuse for a further ad
vance in prices. If the Government
and its allies had paid these prices,
the cost of the war would have in
creased to such an enormous total as
would have been an intolerable bur
den to future generations. Prices
were being pyramided to such a
height that they must inevitably have
toppled of their own weight, spread
ing ruin on all hands.
This is proved by comparison of the
war price of steel in several forms
with the pre-war price, while the
Government prices show that gener
ous allowance has been made for ad
vance of wages and other costs of
production. Steel plates have been
selling at $220 a ton, though they sold
at $25.53- in 1914. and their highest
price in the preceding ten years was
$38.08. They are now to be sold for
JS5, which includes ample allowance
for war conditions. Shapes are re
duced from $120 to $60. Wire nails,
which in 1914 cost $34.94, now cost
$89.60; steel beams have jumped from
$25.76 to $89.60; tin plate from $73.69
to $268.80: billets from $19.24 to $65:
Bessemer iron from $14.89 to $51.95.
while the average advance for eight
important products has been from
$30.97 to $108.97.
The prices fixed by the Government
are so liberal, being more than double
those prevailing before the war, as to
leave a. margin for profit to the small
est, least efficient and least economical
mills, while the profit remaining to
the big corporations will be generous.
If the President had cut closer to the
bone the effect might have been to put
the small manufacturers out of busi
ness and to give a monopoly to the big
manufacturers. The President made
this mistake in fixing the price of
bituminous coal at 12 a ton at the
mine, if the West Virginia operators
who closed their mines on the plea
that they would lose money at this
price are telling the truth. Any In
equality in rates of profit will be
rectified when the Government takes
in the form of taxes as high as 60
per cent of that made by rich cor
porations. Knforced reduction of prices -will
necessitate revision of the estimates
of revenue from excess profits tax,
which were based on profits for 1916.
In reducing profits the Government
destroys the source of much expected
revenue; It cannot cut out the war
profit and confiscate it by taxation at
the same time, but it is far sounder
finance to cut it out. The more the
Government pays for war material, of
which steel Is the chief, the more
money in proportion it must borrow
and the greater will be the future
annual burden of - interest. As the
people must pay the same prices, the
more they will be impoverished by the
war and the less surplus they will
have to buy liberty bonds. As each
person - through whose hands steel
passes on its way from producer to
consumer adds . his percentage, the
ultimate addition for each dollar
added to the producer's price Is much
more than a dollar, and the tempta
tion Is strong' to follow the manufac
turer's example by increasing the per
centage. Thus, if revenue from ex
cess profits tar falls short of expec
tations, both the Government and the
individual will be well compensated in
lower cost of war material and of
living.
Government price-fixing will have a
salutary effect in cutting the ground
from beneath the feet of those who
condemn the war on the plea that it
is a rich man's war, which adds to the
wealth of the wealthy, while aggravat
ing the poverty of the poor. The dan
ger of its becoming so has been
averted, the La. Follettes should be
silenced, and all should work heartily
together to promote the Nation's success.
The development of aircraft under
the impetus of war will certainly have
great effect on their use in peace.
Already they cross the Knglish Chan
nel in ten or fifteen minutes, and .fly
between London and Paris in three
hours, and Major Perfetti, head of the
Italian aeronautic mission to the
United States, proposes to build air
planes capable of carrying twenty
five men whicji can fly across the
Atlantic. The triplane is taking the
place of the biplane and is beginning
to be supplanted by the quadruplane,
while the quintuplane is seriously dis
cussed. All express travel and car
riage may soon be done by the air
route, and ability rapidly to transmit
actual letters and documents may do
away with much business that Is now
done by cable.
People in Sweden are protesting
the proposal to draft aliens, saying
there are 100,000 Swedes in this coun
try and conditions make it impossible
to return. Many of their parents are
pro-German and do not want their
sons to fight Germany. The United
States is not in the frame of mind just
now to consider the feelings or wishes
of pro-German Swedes, and if this
country is good enough for their sons
to live in, it is good enough to fight
for if the proposed plan becomes law.
If the Yankees of South America
are anything like those of North
America, German incitement of strikes
will inflame their fighting blood. The
Germans have given one more proof
that they do not understand human
nature by provoking Argentina to
fight.
The war garden boom has given
many persons an Interest in the State
Fair who have hitherto passed it by
with indifference. Growing things In
one's own garden is the surest means
of awakening interest in , growing
things in general.
The Poles never fall to show up In
a war for liberty. Since their own
country lost its freedom they have
fought for that of every other, and the
Polish legion now drilling In this
country should prove worthy succes
sors of Kosciusko and Pulaski.
This is Salem day at the State Fair,
and tomorrow will be Portland day.
As a matter of good-natured rivalry,
people of this city should arrange to
go and make Portland day the bigger,
despite handicap of distance.
That California woman who wrote
to ask about the financial standing of
the Portland man she is to marry
will be a thrifty wife. If Cupid car
ried a rating book there would be less
misery in the world.
A West Virginia judge has put
wedge into the Federal bone-dry law
by deciding the West Virginian is en
titled to his quart a month, no matter
how he gets it.
The Beavers seem incapable of get
ting beyond the halfway house on the
way to the top. Here's hoping they
will climb the rest of the way next
year.
Men In all branches of Army service
will be given opportunity to secure
commissions. After they get on the
battlefields the chances will be greater.
That demand for Senator La Fol-
lette's resignation will furnish him
with an excuse for about a ten-hour
speech vindicating himself.
All those Californians will need
extra handkerchiefs before they are
acclimatized at American Lake. That
is not a Winter resort.
The Crown Prince will not stand for
criticism of his social and other ac
tivities. The king can do no wrong.
neither can the jack.
The domestic- triangle ends in trag
edy, as do most such triangles. Hut
others will continue to make the experiment-
It is safe to say that 10,000 Poles,
if they become a unit in the American
forces abroad, will take few prisoners.
School has been running more than
three weeks, and has the boy politician
quit bringing teacher a rosy red apple?
All the Coast captains, pilots and
mates are after more pay, not to men
tion the men who cook the "mate."
Airplanes will raid London once too
often. Christian forbearance has its
limit.
Did you miss the meat and have a
nightmare last night?'
Economic loss due to strikes Is more
than that of wages.
Meet you at the State Fair tomor
row.
How to Keep WelL
By Dr. W. A. -Evans.
Questions pertinent to hygiene, sanitation
and prevention of diseases, if matters of gen
eral interest, will be snswered in this col
umn. 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 diag
nosis or prescribe for individual diseases. Re
quests for such services cahoot be answered.
(Copyright. 1916. by Dr. W. A. Evans.
Published by arrangement with the Chicago
Tribune.)
STAMMERING ASD PRE-XATAI, IX
FhlEXCE. MRS. X writes: "I have read your
articles on stammering and have
made a study of the matter, and, as
one who stammered until she was 20
years of age. I feel fairly well qualified
to express an opinion.
"You hava stated many times that
there is no such thing as prenatal in
fluence; also that stammering is in
herited, sometimes from an ancestor
way back.
"As far back as we have records
(100 years) none of my ancestors stam
mered, but listen to this:
"My mother had a violent (not to say
vile) temper. She made no attempt to
control herself at any time during my
memory. The year before 1 was born,
or, to be very accurate, ten months be
fore I was born, my father made a
business deal which lost him a great
deal of money. At the same time one
of my sist'jrs died, and, as it was the
first death in the family, the mother
felt It keenly, but the loss of the money
was uppermost in her mind, after the
funeral, I am told.
"From the day she found it out (the
money business, I mean) until the day
she died, which was about 36 years
afterwards, she never for a moment
stopped talking about it. Well, that is,
perhaps, a slight exaggeration, but I
certainly heard about it every day of
my life. Naturally, the first year was
the worst, as it was more fresh in her
mind then, though I do not recall the
first year of my life very vividly.
"I have mads it a point to ask every
stammerer I have met what sort of a
disposition his mother had not letting
him know why until afterwards and
out of perhaps 60 cases I have not met
one who did not throw back his hands
in horror and say, 'Awful.' 'terrible
temper.' 'no self control," etc.
"As a child the sound of music would
bring tears to my eyes and a choking
feeling In my breast. I would go away
in a corner and cry, not knowing why
I cried. This began wherul was 4 or 5
and lasted until I was 15 or 16. Out of
nine children (I the youngest). I am the
only one who was melancholy. Mother
never forgave father for making a poor
business deal and grew to hate him.
Until I was past 20 years of age I had
to fight a feeling of loathing for my
father, though I knew him to be a fine,
honorable, splendid man. I feel this
was parental influence my sister's
death and mother's ungovernable tem
per. "You may tell others there is no such
thing as prenatal Influence, but I tell
you that stammerers stammer because
of the pregnant mother getting so an-
ery sne cannot speak. I know of one
case where a boy of 10 has never
spoken a. word yet because while his
mother carried him she had- a violent
quarrel with her husband.
"Anyway, it's a good doctrine to
preach to expectant mothers. It has
occurred to me that they get a lot of
sympathy for 'all they have to go
through' and expect a martyr's crown
when they have borne a child. Take it
from me. there Is no more credit to a
human mother having borne young
than there is to any other kind of an
animal. It depends altogether upon the
kind of a mother she Is and the kind
of a family she raises whether or not
she is entitled to any laurels.
"The poetic side of motherhood is
very beautiful, but the average mother
has all the faults of the human female.
Bearing a child does not canonize her.
though she sits under the spotlight and
seems to expect It many of them do,
and you know it."
REPLY.
Tour statements are In part right and In
part wrong. I have not stated that there
la no such thing as prenatal Influence, nor
that stammering is inherited. I have said
that birthmarks could not be produced by
mental shock. Also that back of stam
mering there ley a lack of mental poise.
I believe in prenartal Influence and inher
itance of mental and physical qualities from
parents. To my mind your case is clear.
Your mother was menta'Jy unstable. Khe
had a lack of aeif-control. You Inherited a
mental instability, a lack of mental poise,
and evidently a tendency to emotionalism.
Your Inherited mental qualltlea combined
with a lack of home training by your mother
constituted the groundwork for your stam
mering. Care for Obsession.
M. M. writes: "Will you please tell
me if an obsession is curable. I am a
young married woman 28 years old and
have been suffering from one for the
last six months. I have made several
changes in hopes of improvement, but
without success. Is It a disease of the
nerves? It keeps me in a depressed
state. I felt it coming on me after I
had dieted and reduced 30 pounds. I eat
well and sleep well, but cannot seem to
put this out of my mind for an hour.''
REPLY.
I Judge from your letter that you are not
Insane and that you are a person of soma
poise. Assuming that I judge you rightly,
you should be able to shed your obsession.
The disturbance Is mental. Cure must come
through mental training.
Nothing to Worry Abont.
F". J. O. writes: "I have had a fistula
about a year. It does not bother me.
It opens up every few weeks and closes.
My doctor says not to worry about it.
"My pulse beats io to the minute.
What is the reason?"
REPLY.
You should not worry about the fistula.
Go ahead and have it operated on. Regard
ing your pulse, do you smoke or otherwise
use tobacco?
Canse of Fistula.
H. H. A. writes: "Can you tell me the
cause of a fistula and a cure? I have
been bothered with it for some time."
REPLY.
Tbe causa of fistula is abscess located by
the side of the rectum. A frequent cause of
the abscess is localized tubeiulusls. The
best chance of a cure lies In operation.
Plan to Cut Milk Cost.
PORTLAND, Sept, 25. (To the Ed
itor.) It occurs to me that a simple
way to reduce the cost of our milk de
livery would be to have a small box or
cupboard with a cover on the front or
back porch, put a pitcher in, and have
the delivery boy fill the pitcher from
his can.
In this way the cost of bottles, labor
of washing, filling, sealing, breakage
and loss would all be avoided. 1 don't
think any of us would die any sooner.
Our grandmothers were well satisfied
with this method and lived Just as long
if not longer than we do. J. H.
Strike Is "Great German Sneceis."
PORTLAND, Sept. 25. (To the Ed
itor.) In The Oregonian Monday you
have an article with the heading "Ship
builders All Vote for Strike." Did not
the editor make a mistake? Should it
not have been indexed in the "War
News" under the head of "Great Ger
man Success?"
By one who served nearly four years
for J1S per month, with nothing for
overtime. R- T. CHAMBERLAIN.
666 East Washington street.
Vigilantes' War Note.
Tobacco for the Walking Wounded.
BY GERTRUDE LYNCH,
of the Vigilantes.
A welfare worker, who has Just re
turned from the front, tola me of the
thousands of men who can walk, or
get about with a comrade's help-
walking wounded, they call them. He
said there ware sometimes 300 in a lin
waiting their turn outside a first aid
station. Frequently officers were anions;
them whose rank would entitle them
to take precedence, but who refused to
avail themselves of the privilege. Un
der such conditions it is hard to wait
patiently think of It, standing in line
waiting for loo or 00 men to be treated
when you are sufferng from wounds
and the exhaustion of a five days bat
tie!
Up and down that line went welfare
workers Red Cross, Y. M. C. A. men.
Ambulance carrying hot drinks ana
cigarettes. To the weakened and im
patient men those cigarettes were the
greatest solace. Just picture that
line of walking wounded and send
on the little "fags."
A government official In England
showed Gertrude Lynch, special corre
spondent for the Vigilantes, a letter
taken from a German prisoner. This
man was one of the crew of a subma
rine which was sunk. He escaped
death, but was captured. The extract
given below shows what the Germans
have been telling their people that
the hated Sngllsh, are being starved
out.
"I can feel nothing but gratitude,
dear mother, for the way tha English
saved us and have treated us. I have
always said that they were decent peo
ple. We hardly notice anything of tha
war. There are no cards for anything
not even for bread, and a plentiful
supply of food. It is sad, but it Is
true."
Oliver Bodington, British patriot, hag
an American wife and was for two
years president of the British Chamber
of Commerce in Paris. In an interview
with Gertrude Lynch he comments with
understanding upon British, French
and American soldiers:
"When the American soldiers get
over hers and they realise as they
never will realize until they are here
the atrocities of the barbarians, they
will realize, too. the necessity of rigid
discipline in order to meet and destroy
what is necessary to be met and de
stroyed. "The French soldier has not the fine
gift of silence of our Tommies. Listen
to him, you will hear blague, cynicism,
worse, but the American soldier must
learn not to pay attention to that it
does not mean anything; when he gets
through he has worked off his ill hu
mor and he goes about his work again,
relieved.
"What keeps tha French soldier go
ing is an intellectual conception of his
duty that is his patriotism. What
keeps the British soldier groing is what
some call his religious, but I term his
ethical sense of duty that is the dif
ference. The result of whieh is that
when a French soldier sees or thinks
he sees things going wrong in his
country, it is more inclined to impair
his notion of his military duty than it
would if he derived his seno r.e
from another quarter. I am not dis
paraging the French army or drawing
any comparison unfavorable to It, but
the important thins to note is that the
cMstinn soiaier aoes what ho feels to
be his duty. He cannot tell you why,
out mo rrenenman can. nearly always
If I know anything about the Amer
ican people they are more like us in
mis regard. The mainspring of their
not, nsa mat or the French
an Intellectual stimulus, but an ethiea
one. That is why there is such a
common Dona between us, a bond that
"". ntrenginened. It Is our Anglo-
lioness mat must be main
tainea. in the last resort It is what
" Mo.vo got to wo rx on.
WASTE BECA.V MANY YEARS AGO
Krxtaiirant Advertisement In The Ore-
it-man in i73 cited to Shw Custom,
PORTLAND, Sept 25. (To the Edi
torsDuring these militant times too
....i otress cannot Be put on the on
great idea of food rnm.rii..
There has been entirely too much
8B' "specially in meats and bread
stuffs. The following: dinning- i v An
Harper's Magazine of April, 1S73, goes
" ' . However, mat we of the pres
ent uy are not tne first offenders. We
.iivo oeen louowing rather in the foot
steps of our early forebears. It scorns
at least three kinds of m, n.-
times a day was deemed necessary those
The great -house of Harpers called
Mr. Delmonlco's attention to Mr
Thompsons bill of fare. It must be
remembered this was long before we
had any ad clubs or professional ad
writers in Portland.
What with attending to his growing
viit.-KEmitn trade, his new hotel as well
ss the restaurant. It can be imagined
Mr. Thompson's time was falrlv well
occupied. SUBSCRIBER.
Nothing Indicates the progress of a people
more than the character of its advertise
ments. A friend in Portland. Or., sends us
one of these, clipped from The Daily Ore
gonian. of that city, which might be perused
with profit by Mr. Delmnnlro. The Mr
Thompson who keeps tha establishment men
tinned below Is a hard-working blacksmith
and he and his wife run the concern on the
temperance plan:
THOMPSON'S TWO-BIT KOUPn.
Front 6t.. bet. Main and Madison.
NO DECEPTION THERE!
Hi-You Muck-a-Murk. and Here's Your
Bill of Fare:
THREE KINDS OK MEAT FOR DINNER:
al.SO for Breakfast and Supper. Ham and
Eggs every other day. and Fresh Flah, Hot
Rolls and Cake in abundance.
Hurry un: and none nf vone mHn. ,
CHEAP BOARDINU-HOUSES. Mow's the
time to have the wrinkles taken out of your
aiier tne nam winter.
Board and Lodging.. .$5 I Board $4
Six NEW rooms, furnished with beds the
BEST In town st my Branch House, corner
First and .Jefferson.
I am ready for the BONES and SINEW of
the country.
"Hi-You Muck-a-muclc is a phrase in the
Chinook language for plenty to eat.
Error In Transmission.
ST. HELENS. Or.. Sept. 24. (To the
Editor.) The following was copied by
the writer and is sent to you with the
hoope of getting the meaning of the
last word therein "non-cerobattant."
It is copied from a telegram received
here by one of the official examiners
of drafted men:
Pernons considered nnder paragraph
section HO of tbe regulations will be
drafted, will be forwarded to a. mflhilizHtlnn
camp and will make up a part of the quota
from the state and district from whence
they come and will be assigned to duty In
a capacity declared by the President to be
non-cerobattant.
BRETT RANDOLPH.
Probably It la a mistake In transmis
sion and that "noncombaaant" Is in
tended.
No "Volunteer Army Raised.
NYSSA, Or., Sept. 24. (To the Ed
itor.) I take the liberty of asking you
to settle the following question: Has
the Government actually made a call
for volunteers for duty this year? I
maintain that no call has been made
and that the call to fill up the regular
Army and National Guard could not be
classed as an official call fur volun
teers. BRYAN PAYNE.
The President issued a proclamation
June 15, 1917, designating the period
June 23 to June 30 as recruiting week
for the regular Army and urging en
listments to the number of 70,000.
There has been no call for men to All
what haa heretofore been known as a
volunteer Army. i
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of Sept. 26. 1813.
Sandusky. O. The remains of Gen
eral John Pope lay in state at the Sol
diers' Home here this morning and
were viewed by all the old veterans and
a large concourse of citizens.
It Is expected a meeting of the di
rectors of the Terminal Company will
be held today, and it is believed they
will decide to start work on the long
delayed central passenger station.
Summer weather yesterday brought
out a big crowd of visitors to the City
Park. The appearance of the place is
much improved, due to the late raina.
which have washed dust off tha trees
and shrubbery and brightened up the
flowers.
This morning several thousand happy
children will be seen trudging joyously
to the various public schools to meet
their teachers and prepare for a re
sumption of the pleasure of having
their young Ideas taught how to shoot.
Local sporting circles are awaiting
with interest the outcome of the indict
ment for prizefighting of the persons
who were most prominent in the enter
tainment given under the auspices of
the Pastime Club last Tuesday night.
Half m Century Ago.
From The Oregonian of Sept. "8. 1867.
Florence. Garibaldi was arrested br
.the Italian government while crossing
the Roman frontier.
Dublin. It is reported that a eus
plclous craft is cruising off Kerry, sup
posed to ba a Fenian privateer.
San Francisco. Cuba and California,
are telegraphically united. Congrat
ulatory messages have been exchanged
between the Governora of tha tvs
states.
Vew Orleans. Tha total number ef
deaths by yellow fever were 1214 up
to Saturday. Deaths average about TO
daily now.
The Olympia Tribune says the party
that surveyed the Cowlitz or Packwood
Pass has returned, and the result is
most gratifying and satisfactory, tha
altitude being lower than was expected
and the grade better. There is no dif
ficulty either for a railroad or a wagon
road that cannot be surmounted.
IT. '8. COXTIXGEXT INSPIRES POEM
Scotch Newspaper Wlahes Kdinburgk
Might Oive Welcome Also.
PORTLAND, Sept, 25. (To the Ed
itor.) The enclosed poem might inter
est soma of The Oregonian's readers.
It was published by the Scotsman, of
EdinBurgh, and sent me by a friend.
It was suggested by the Scotsman
that another American contingent be
sent to Edinburgh so that the Scots
might have a chance to do them honor
as the Londoner had done.
MARGARET BRADSHAW.
AMERICA MARCHING THROUGH LONDON
TOWN.
They march from the East, they march from,
the West.
America'a brightest, her bravest snd best.
They march from the North, they march
from the South,
To the plains of Hell and the cannes's
mouth ;
Truth, Hight and Freedom their old battle
cry. On the fields of war where the wrong shall
die;
They come to face the powers that enslave.
From thrall of oppression the weak to save;
For Honor and Justice their Fathers stood.
They stand for man's world-wide brother
hood. For the things that count, for the fall of
Pride.
For the reign of the Love of the Crucified I
The bright-harnessed angels are glad to
look down
Oa America marching ' through London
Town.
They are marching up. they are marching en.
From far Alabama and Oregon,
From grand Massachusetts and stately Maine,
From field and from forest an endless train,
The vanguard and wave of a mighty sea.
The sons of bires who fought themselves free:
Tha sound of their shouting might wskea
the dead.
The face of all tyranny pale with dread.
Like stars on their courses the bright array.
Like legions avenging on Judgment day.
True knights of the order of Liberty,
They carry the pennons of victory.
Host of Western lands, hail to thee!
For bright-harnessed angels may well look
down
On America marching through Londoa
Town.
I
Kith with you, kin w!thJyou, brothers are we.
Heart-clasped and hand-clasped by land and
by sea.
One and the same at our dear cradle-shrine.
One and but one on the long battle-line,
Shoulder to shoulder, entwined are our flags.
Till the ensigns of serfdom lie tattered in
rags:
What of death-dealing raider or submarine.
The reddest carnage that earth has seen;
What if war for us both should seem to be
The sweat of a new tlethKemane.
Beyond there is peace, on olivet's crown.
He suffered once that man might be free.
Whose hand strikes this hour of destiny.
The bright-harnessed angels, they shout
looking down
As America marches through London Town.
F. GORDON MACLEOD.
U. F. Manse, Fettercairn.
A CRl'EL PRECEDENT.
By James Barton Adams.
A judge ha3 issued the decree that
when a man is stuck in court for ali
mony he can pay in garden truck. If
he is shy of cash to pay the freight In
coin or bills, has no dinero laid away
for rainy weather ills, by perspiration
of his brow with sorely blistered hands
he can get action on the hoe to meet
the court's demands, and on each
monthly penance day can fill a gunny
sack with garden eats and hike away,
the load upon his back, and dump tha
treasures at her door and sadly homo
ward hike, his temper addled to the
core, his thoughts unchristianlike.
He'll think while he is laboring hard
the dame once In cahoots with him,
his one day loving pard. enjoys his la
bor fruits: the active Jaws that erst
while jawed at him now joyful smack
o'er the products of the fruitful sod
o'er which he bowed his back. While
toiling in his backyard patch produc
ing garden sass he'll wish some giddy
guy would snatch her from the widow
grass; a jay who'd be compelled to
come across with kale for her -to feed
her wifely tummy-tum with needed
provender. r. cruel Judge, if your de
cree to punish the divorced who can't
cough up the rash should be by all the
courts enforced, anathemas of fiery hue
hurled at your crazy head might often
make you wish that you were num
bered with the dead.
Enemy, Too. Smokes Cigarettes.
PORTLAND. Sept. 25. (To the Ed
itor.) Referring to the letter of C. D.
L-, yarding engineer of Chambers
Camp, Nasel, Wash., published in The
Oregonian of September 24, I am deep
ly impressed by the following lines
concerning the American soldier: "Be
lieve me, it will be a cold day for a
cigarette soldier that gets up in front
of an Iron Dutchman that has sense
enough to breathe air instead or to
bacco smoke."
It is a known fact that the iron
Dutchman is an iaveterate smoker
himself of pipe, cigar and even of tha
dreadful cigarette, and further, that his
own government supplies him with tha
deadly weed.
Theer is no smoke without fire. Does
the iron go into smoke when the
Dutchman smokes his cigarette, and
what remains of the Dutchman? Poi
soned gas? W. R. P.