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lO THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2S, 1917. M)t (Drcxprniai. PORTLAND, OKEGOJi. Entered at Portland (Oregon) Fostoffice as stunnd-claiM mail matter. ub&criptioa uui invariably In advance: ' (Br Mall.) X.TlIy. Runiay Included, one year ..$8.00 Oaily. Sunday included, six months.... 4.1'." aaiiy, feun4ay inclutc'l. three months. 3-iaily, Sunilaj Included, one montii.... Daily, without Sunday, one years Daily, without Sunday, six mouths....": Dally, without Sunday, three months... Daily, without bunday, one month..... .75 e.uu 1.76 . 1.50 3.&U v ee .'eekly. on year funaay. one year . fcunday and weekly (By Carrier.) Daily. Sunday Included, one year J9.0O Daily, Sunday included, oue month..... .75 Dily. without Sunday, one year ....... 7. bo Daily, without Sunday, three months.... Daily, without builds y. one month . . .00 How to Kesnit Send postoffice money or der, express older or personal check on your local bank. Stamp, coin or currency are at Bender's risk. tiive pofctoffice address in Xuil. Including county and state. Poxtage' Kates 12 to 16 pages, 1 cent: 18 to u2 putfes, J cents; S4 to 4s pages, l cents: Co to lf pages. 4 cents: 02 to 7tf pages. 3 cents: 78 to &2 pages. cenia. JToreiga post age double rates. Eastern BtuinrM Office Verree & Conklin. Bruniwick building. New York: Verree & Conklin, SLeger bunding, Chicago; San Fran cisco representative, K. J. Unlndl. 742 Aiax kel street. ME.MBEB OK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Pretu Is exclusively entitled to the use -for republication of all 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, FRIDAY. SEPT. 28, 1817. MILITARISM STILL SIPKEME. The world can judge of the sin cerity of the virtuous intentions which Germany has expressed to the Pope by comparing them with, the proposals in regard to Belgium contained in the supplementary note to the Vatican. Germany is willing to evacuate Bel gium and even to pay a part of the compensation for damage which Ger many alone has done, but: Germany must have the right to de velop her economic interests in Bel trium, especially in Antwerp. Belgium must give a guaranty that any such menace as that which threat ened Germany in 1914 will in future be excluded. Belgium must maintain administra tive separation of the Flanders and "Walloon districts introduced by Ger many. fn fact, Belgium is to retain only a shadow of independence. These proposals show how little progress Germany has made toward acceptance of the only terms on which the allies can honorably -make peace since Chancellor von Bethmann-Holl-weg told Ambassador Gerard in Janu ary, 1917. on what terms Germany would withdraw from Belgium. He named the guaranties required by We must possibly bave the forts of Liege and N'amur. "We must have oilier forts and garrisons throughout Belgium. Vv'e must have possession of the railroad lines. We must have possession of the ports and other means of communication. The- Belgians will not be allowed to maintain an army, but we must be allowed to retain a large army in Belgium. We must have commercial control of Belgium. In fact, Germany has not receded one inch from the position taken at the outbreak of war that the pre tended necessities of Germany, not the rights of Belgium, must be the deciding consideration. The terms now proposed state broadly what the Chancellor stated specifically to Mr. Gerard. They would leave only the empty shell of independence. Guaranties are to be given that mighty, menacing Belgium will not again fall upon and crush weak, de fenseless, unoffending Germany! Was there ever more brazenly impudent - distortion of facts? Belgium fortified herself against the possibility of attack by Germany, but guilelessly bought guns in Germany and per mitted Germany to gain exact infor mation as to the structure of her de fenses not measures of offense but purely of defense. Belgian military officers discussed with those of Brit ain what aid should be given by the latter country in the event of German attack, which was foreshadowed by the construction of strategic railroads to the Belgian frontier. Ko defenses against France were constructed, for 110 attack was feared from that quarter. The event proved how ac curately Belgian statesmen and Gen erals judgefl from what quarter at tack would come. For these offenses Belgium "was crushed, and must now permit Germany to occupy her fort resses and to control her railroads, ports and commerce, in order that, when Germany is ready for another swoop on France, her armies may not be delayed by the resistance of the unreasonable Belgians. Germany, as well as Belgium, knew that France would respect Belgian neutrality and took advantage of that knowledge, concealing her own evil purpose until the time to strike, by Invading France through the unde fended Belgian frontier while the French forces were concentrated on the fortified Alsace-Lorraine frontier. Not only Belgium, but France, fell a victim to fidelity to treaty obligations and to Germany's perfidious disregard of those obligations. These proposals are conclusive proof that Germany has not yet learned her lesson, and that it Can be hammered Into the Prussian head by no other means than the grinding to pieces of German armies the work which the British and French armies are now doing with such unfaltering tenacity and with such continuous success in Flanders and before Verdun. The terms are evidently an attempt at compromise between the demand of the Pan-Germans that Belgium be not restored and that conquered territory Vie annexed, and the declaration of the Jteichstag majority against any an nexation. Germany is still ruled by men who believe that might is right, and that the rights of other nations must yield .to the desire of- Germany for world dominion and safety from attack, which latter is twisted by Pan-Germans into defenselessness of herj neighbors against attack by Germany. There can be no stable peace until! these ideas are knocked out of the ob stinate, perverted minds of Germany's rulers and are replaced by a system, to use the words of Mr. Asquith, "un oer which both great and small states can be assured of a stable foundation and independent development." The process 'of. forcibly converting Ger many to this principle can be short ened only if the German .people take power into their own hands and make peace oh the principle for which the allies are fighting. We deceive ourselves if we assume that German peace overtures are made at this time in the expectation that they will be accepted by the allies. They are but a political play to in fluence the German people. An in creasing number of Germans say to their government: "You say you have won victory everywhere, that you have have won great stretches of territory and that your submarine war is a. success; why don't you make peace?" The German government of- 1 fers terms based on the assumption of nciory ana wnen tnese are rejected, it turns to the people and says: "You see, we have offered peace, but our enemies refuse it. They insist on fighting- on, and are constantly joined by new enemies. They want to de stroy Germany. This is a war for our national existence." By these ma neuvers they hope to unite the Ger man peiple for continued war. Only by fighting until the Germans are driven into their own country and until their military power is destroyed, or until democratic supplants auto cratic, militarist government in Ger- 1 many, can the menace of Prussianism be ended. A GOOD MAN PASSES. The state lost an exemplary citizen and the medical profession a worthy and highly proficient member in the passing of Dr. Otto S. Binswanger Wednesday. A native of Bavaria, he had spenf all his professional life in America, and had been for many years a resident of Portland. The National melting pot had In him a distinguished example. German-born and bred, he was yet a' thorough-going American. It is of interest to recall that Dr. Binswanger was as a youth a soldier in the German army, in the Franco Prussian war, but there was none who was farther removed, by instinct and by education, from militaristic ideas or ideals. He gave his son to the Army service in the present war; and it is easy and natural, knowing his bent of mind and patriotic spirit, to think that, if he had been younger, he. too, would have been glad to give the benefit, both of his military ex- perience and scientific knowledge, to his adopted country. A good man, a true physician, a genuine scholar and scientist. Dr. Binswanger will be much missed. "OCB FULLEST CO-OPERATION." An unanimous vote was also taken to wire President Woodrow Wilson that it was with deepest regret that we were unable to comply with his request; that we assure him of our fullest co-operation and hearty sap port in prosecution of the war to a success ful termination. "Our fullest co-operation" not par tial, or hesitating, or nominal, or inef fective co-operation but "our fullest co-operation" in the war and the measures to carry it forward, is the pledge publicly made by the striking shipbuilders of Portland to the Presi dent of the United States. The para graph which heads this article is part of a statement authorized by the ship workers after their meeting Sunday night. "Our fullest co-operation." The way to co-operate is to co-operate. The way to build ships is to build them, not refuse to build them. The way to win the war is to furnish ships to the Nation, not to halt their construc tion on the ways. A hamstrung Army or a crippled Navy wins 110 wars. The shipworkers accuse the em ployers of misrepresenting the situ ation to them, and refusing to meet the union representatives. It may be so; let us admit, for argument's sake, that it is so. They are nevertheless ready to carry on the work of build ing ships on terms and conditions laid down try the Government. At least they-say so. We have not heard that it is disputed or denied by anybody. Have the men done as much? Is their refusal to accept a temporary adjustment not an adjustment of the employers, but of the Government, and guaranteed by it-through the President is their refusal their idea of "our fullest co-operation" ? It would appear sop yet it is not only not full co-operation, but it is a definite dec lination to co-operate. Now it is noted that the adjustment board is to come to the Coast and have hearings in the various cities where labor conditions in shipyards are disturbed. It may be agreed that it has been difficult to follow the Ad ministration in its ways of handling the strike and the strikers. But now it lias evidently determined on a policy , and will pursue it. The ad justment board will have hearings and reach a settlement. Clearly it will be many days, or even weeks, before there is a decision as to Portland and the Columbia River. Meanwhile, what are the workers to do? Do they think that the em ployers will give way now, or soon, and recognize their unions, and start up their yards with union labor ex clusively? The Oregonian sees nothing In the situation to justify such conclusion. It believes that the operators are thor oughly, and finally committed Jo the principle of the open shop, and that nothing but compulsion from the Gov ernment will alter their position. The Oregonian is not only convinced of it, but it thinks that it ought to be Obvious 'to the strikers and' their leaders.- What then? Clearly there is-to be idleness in the yards, unless' the strike is broken, or abandoned, until the Government acts through its adjusters. What is the gain to the men by hold ing out until the adjustment board acts? They will have been for many days or weeks without employment, and, worse yet, the service which they owe, and say they are willing to render, to their country, will not in the meantime have been discharged. What will the men lose if they re spond to the call of President Wilson, and return to work on a temporary basis, until there is a decision on the merits of the controversy, or on the basis of the Government's paramount needs, whichever it is? Will they be any the less able to urge their case because they have obeyed the sum mons from the White House, and re sponded, too, to the urgent call of their own representative on the adjustment board? Or will they be in better, posi tion before the board because they, have shown that for patriotic reasons they are willing to give their "fullest co-operation" when it is deeply de sired and vitally needed? If there is any thought by the union leaders or others to force the Govern ment to commandeer the yards, it would seem that they are taking a first-rate method of bringing it about. Perhaps that is what the men want. Then evidently the Government will fix wages and working conditions, and It will conscript labor as' well as the yards. What becomes of the unions then? Obviously, the Administration does not want to resort to conscrip tion of the shipyard industry. But it may be driven in self-defense to just such course by unwise actions of the workers, or by selfishness and arro gance of the employers. But it will lie necessary to give the operators their profit, even if the yards are com mandeered. The operators, then, need not worry. It seems to us to be plain that the -- " - - .SC - - strategic position of the workers will be far better if they do what the President thinks they ought to do, and has asked them to do, and "what the public as a whole thinks they should do. They ought to give the Govern ment their "fullest co-operation" now, not at some indefinite and uncertain time in future. LETTER WRITTEN IROM A JAIL. Phincas T. Barnum is known as the world's greatest showman, a tran scendent genius of the sawdust ring, who deliberately humbugged the pub lic on the pleasing theory that people liked it. But it is interesting now to know that -he was not born in a me- J nagerie or even for a circus career. The authentic biographies say that young Barnum was a native farm boy, but he had an unconquerable "aversion to agricultural labor"; so he became an editor. The New York Sun the other day reprinted on its editorial page a letter written by P. T. Barnum in 1832, when he was 22 years of age and was ! engaged in the business of running a weekly paper at Danbury, Conn. The missive was to his friend, Gideon Welles, editor of the Hartford Times, afterwards Secretary of the Navy throughout the Civil War. The chief biographical Interest in the letter is that it was written from the County Jail, where Barnum was serving a sixty days" sentence for libel. "I am." said Editor Barnum, "by the unhallowed decree of that lump of superstition, David Daggett, set within these gloomy walls for daring to tell the truth." A fearsome penalty, to be sure. But the editor had the courage of his convictions, for he adds: "After the judge had given his cursed charge, I was advised by many friends to forfeit the bonds, which were but $100, but I chose to go to prison."' But the young journalist had no evident relish either for posing indefi nitely as a martyr or for keeping long out of the public eye; for he soon abandoned journalism, and started his pilgrim's progresp from prison along the high road o' ne-night stands by taking over the. . ountry Joyce Heth, nurse of George Washington. Soon he became owner of a museum in New York and later of the "biggest show on earth." His name is indelibly linked with those of Tom Thumb, Jenny Lind, Jumbo and the woolly horse. What Barnum might have done for early-day journalism, if he had stayed with it, must forever remain in the realm of sheer speculation. But he would have succeeded in that peculiar character of newspaperdom which seeks to find out what the public wants, and to furnish it. You can fool some of the people all the time. POTATOES ARE IN DEMAND. Some fear was expressed, last Spring, when many people, responding to the Government's food-producing appeal, plowed up and planted pota toes in vacant city lots, that the price of potatoes this Fall would be so low this year as to make them not worth the digging. A walk through the Public Market any day ought to convince the pessi mist, who is usually as lazy as he is pessimistic, that potatoes are quite worth while. Not only is the" best quality of potatoes selling at seven pounds for a quarter, but potatoes, down to the smallest marbles, which farmers used to think were not even worth picking up to feed to the pigs. find a ready sale at ten pounds for 10 cents, which may be considered as a by-product and all clear profit. In the hope that- the price must come down, in view of the enormous crop, people are buying only a few pounds at a time living from hand to mouth, as the saying is. Still the price is maintained. The reason is simple. Potatoes are a satisfying rood, and with bread, butter, eggs meat and all staples at top-notch figures, people naturally turn to the more lowly vegetable. The consumption of potatoes has enormously grown in the .past few months. The demand for them in increased .quantity will continue throughout the year and wise house holders will stock up for the Winter just as soon as the late potatoes come into market. . Let us not forget that Uncle Sam is a competitive buyer for all these foods, and while the armies in Eu rope must have wheat and 'meat, the training camps will need vegetables. The first call from Camp Lewis has been received by the Chamber of Commerce and it is for 10.000,000 pounds of potatoes and 1,000,000 pounds of onions. Happy, Indeed, is he who planted the -vacant lot. , He will ' need no urging to do it again next year. OUR DEEP SEA FOOD DEPOT. The high cost of living will not be without its compensation in Oregon if it causes' the people to become better acquainted with fish. .There is off the Coast a resource of immense possibilities, but for the most part it lies dormant for want of a suitable market. - Oregonians are not now great fish eaters. It is said that the normal yearly consumption is only about eight pounds . per capita. That con sumption, small as it is. is confined principally to two or three of the best known varieties. Everybody eats fresh salmon occa sionally, but the habit does not ma terially upbuild the salmon fishing industry, for there is always a market for the canned product. We are also buyers of halibut, and of smelt dur ing a short season in which they run. Other fish are, almost strangers. Many are wholly unacquainted with cod, sanddabs and numerous other fish which ab6und in the Pacific. A great food supply is practically un touched and the fishing industry, so far as it has been built up by deep sea catches, is dealt with in statistical reports largely on the basis of what it might be. Indifference to fish as an article of food is probably caused in great part by lack of knowledge as to how to prepare it in varied and economical ways. Salmon and halibut lend them selves so readily to slicing that the rather shiftless habit is encouraged of slapping a fish steak into a hot, greased griddle and serving it fried to an unpalatable dry state. One soon tires of it and the acquired antipathy runs to all kinds of fish. Fish, we think, is practicallv the sole article of food that the average restaurant, or grill cooks better than the average housewife. The profes sional cook. knows better how to pre serve its juice and flavor and he is skilled in the preparation of , sauces that add to its palatableness. But there is no really good reason why this should be true. The people ought to eat more fish at all times and doubtless they would if there were a better knowledge of varieties and the many ways in which each variety may be prepared for the table. The primary purpose of the new municipal fish market, we presume, is to encourage. a wider uso of fish and thereby conserve certain other foods of which there is a shortage. To that end it would not be amiss to make the market facilities a little pleasanter and a little more sanitary. It would also be of economic advantage to establish in connection therewith a cooking demonstration department. We are not now thinking of culi nary instruction in which bewildering tables showing percentages of refuse, water, protein, fat and mineral and the food values per pound have a part. Women with a multitude of household duties soon tire of strictly scientific instruction. But they would, we believe, welcome practical demon strations of how to prepare fish for the table. Portland is close to a great fish source, yet its consumption is about one-half per capita of that of the country at large. A wider use of fish would have an economic virtue aside from its reduction of living costs. It would promote an industry at the city's door, and on that ground, as well as the other. Its encouragement is a proper municipal-enterprise. Some examples of the kind of mis fit appointments which are being made in the rush of war with a strong suspicion of political pull, are given by a correspondent of the Army and Navy Journal, who is a United States Reserve engineer. A construe tion Quartermaster-Major arrived who was a real estate promoter in civil life, but knew nothing about con struction. At the same time came a Major in the Engineer Officer Re serve who knew both engineering and construction. The latter did the work, while the former signed all letters and telegrams and got the credit. A call was sent for an experienced road engineer and for a water and sewer engineer. For the - former job the War Department sent a National Guard Major who was a newspaper man and had once inspected a road He was used as rear flagman for the road party. Orders were not given to the water and sewer engineer until five weeks after the request for his services, and he arrived after the work was completed. Doubtless there are hundreds of other square pegs in round holes. One by one the nations of the world are addressing themselves to the food problem. The United States leads in the number of agricultural schools and in the number of pupils attend ing them, but it still has much to learn. The science of management must be taught intensively in the fu tuie. It is not scarcity of land that has compelled the importation of foods that ought to be produced at home, but the misdirected energy of those who tilled it. It is well enough to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before1, but more important that two kernels of grain shall be produced with the same amount of human labor. It is not the area, but the manner in which energy is applied to it, that is going to count. A visitor to the National Guard camp at Van Cortlandt Park, N. Y., observed that nearly all the kitchens were unscreened, that flies were en joying themselves and that garbage cans were uncovered. An officer told him that requisitions were useless, as it was impossible to. get needed sup plies, if these things are not soon remedied, we may have a repetition of the epidemics which disgraced the camps at Chickamauga and Montauk Point during the Spanish war, not withstanding all the boasting that 6uch things cannot happen in this war. Work is to begin within a month on the Government nitrato plant in West Virginia, but in the meantime five of the seized German ships have been chartered for use in importing nitrates from Chile. If waterpower had been set free several years ago all the nitrate we need, both for ex plosives and for fertilizer, might easily have been produced in the United States, and those five ships might nave been employed in carry ing other commodities, for which they are sadly needed. . Italy is awakening to the impor tance of agriculture. Recent an nouncement that the government con templated a series of measures for the rationing of the nation told only part of the story. It has taken a crisis to bring realization of the crimes of neglect committed, in the past. Italy nas been an importer unnecessarily of many foodstuffs, including grain, meat, cheese, fish and fats. How large a proportion of Ameri cans have defective teeth appears in the fact that among 21,000 men ex amined in New York City for the Na tional Guard and National Army, 24,000 dental operations were per formed. The Surgeon-General has en rolled 2872 dentists to equip soldiers to bite hardtack. A board of officers has recom mended that the Army be provided with goulash cannon, as moving kitch ens are called by the soldiers. Each kitchen will be able to feed 250 men, or one company, and the soldiers will be- sure of hot meals, either in camp or on tne march. Periscopes of German submarines are now nickeled or bronzed, thus re flecting the color of the water and becoming invisible. This trick is be lieved to explain the recent sinking of several vessels, survivors of which re port that no sign of a submarine was seen. If a grower in Southern Oregon cannot find a market for pears and the fruit is fed to hogs, the ill fortune is on city folk, who never get half enough fruit. - Old England marvels, at the skill of the lumber unit from New England mat turned out 10,000 feet. Out here they would do that before breakfast. With Senator Gus Carpenter as chief of police' at the State Fair, the gambling device that fails to get the double-O is a smooth affair. You must admire a woman who speeds, admits it and "pays like a little man." But keep out of her way. One is a meatless day and another a wheatless day, but the eat less day is just before payday. What about weather for Portland day? It was perfect. All roads lead to Salem and the going is good. How to Keep Well. By Dr. W. A. Evans. Questions pertinent to hygiene, sanitation ana prevention or diseases, if matters of gen eral interest, will be answered in this col umn. Where space will not permit or thi subject is not suitable, letters will be per sonally answered, subject to proper limits tlons and where stamped addressed envelopi is inclosed. Dr. Kvans will not make dlag nosis or prescribe for Individual diseases. Re quests for such services cannot be answered. (Copyright. 1916. by Dr. W. A. Evans. r-uonsnea oy arrangement with the Chicag xnuune.j 3 HOW MEASLES SPREAD. -JITR. HUBBARD, of the New York J.VJ. State Department of Health, tell this story. On April 1 Mrs. R. and he daughter, Dorothy, traveled to a New York city from Dayton, O. While on the train they noticed a child cough ng and sneezing. Two weeks after ar riving at their destination Dorothy de velopeKa cold and a few days late broke out with measles. The case was promptly reported and the health officer got a list of all th children with whom Dorothy had been In contact just before she became sick and while the family thought she suf fered from a cold only. There were M, T. and R. P.. -who had played with Dor othy cn the street; F. A and A. J., who Played with Dorothy in the house, be side's several children who had had measles. The health officer Quarantined these seten children who had been in contact. The children who had had measles were not quarantined. On April 30 F. J. and A. J. came down with the measles. The health officer was on the job. No other susceptible persons were exposed and the threatened epidemic was brought to an eid. 1 This little city had been free from measles for some time and there was lots of measles material there. inere are several lessons to be learned from this little experience. The first is that children with bad cold should not travel on trains. There is a fair chance that what today appears to be a cold may be a case of measle tomorrow or the next day. Measles, when in the cold stage, is highly con tagious. Such contact as takes place on a railroad train is capable of spread ing tne disease. The second lesson is that the dange is proportionate to the intimacy o contact as a rule. F. A., who passed Dorothy on the street, escaped.; F. J ana A. j., who played with her in the house, got the disease. The third is that an active health de partment can stop an epidemic o measles, although it starts in a board ing-house, if the family or the physl cian win -report the disease promptly ana everybody will obey orders. The outlook is that we will have a lot of measles this Winter. One or two million young men gathered from al over me country will be living in groups of 1000 or more in barracks and military camps. A fair proportion of them will be men who have never had measles. One estimate is that 17.9 per cent of adults' have never had measles. Measles will break out in many of these camps. As the men will be quartered in large rooms, some hold ing as many as 140, the disease will spread. Visitors will bring measles into the barracks and tents. In turn, vis itors will carry the Infection into civil life. The Winter of 1917-18 is certain to ti a bad measles season. The English health authorities al ways have been disposed to let measles go uncontrolled. Since the war has been on English papers are constantly saying that the English authorities must change their attitude toward measles. And now coming back to the third lesson from this New York experience an active health department can con trol measles if the cases are reported promptly and quarantine is obeyed. Only Cure la Dieting. W. writes: "Will you please answer the following: "1. Will Epsom salts and lemon taken every morning reduce fat? I am stout wnac is l no cause or a person having a temperature of 97? I am 5 feet 4 inches in stocking feet and weigh 1Z5 pounds." REPLY. 1. I presume- It would If enough were taken. But the cure would be much worse than the disease. The only cure for obesity is dieting. Bat less food. Especially reduce sugar, sweets, desserts, bread, potatoes, and beans. 2. If yon are otherwise well yon need not worry about a mouth temperature of 97 de grees. You are about five pounds overweight. Club Foot and the Army. J. A. R. writes: "In my childhood I was- ciuofooted in my right foot. At an operation was performed and this ucwnimy was corrected. I am as sound today as the average. Will this defect keep me from entering any kind of military service? If you will give me your opinion on this or advise me if there Is anything connected with the service that I can do I shall appreci ate it." REPLY. If the examining surgeons find that vou nave a strong, serviceable foot, they will pass you. If they reject you, apply for service driving an ambulance. This you would have to do through one of the Hed Cross units. At the beginning at least members of the medical corps will drive the Army ambulances, and examination for positions In this corps, so far as foot con ditions are concerned, is the same as for the line. Cure for Hives. JV. J. writes: "Please give me some information regarding the cause and cure of hives. We have a case in our family that has run for nearly three months. Wo have used various physics and tried to regulate the diet without effecting a cure. We have consulted physicians several times." REPLY. Hives result In nine-tenths of the cases from food against which the patient has an Idiosyncrasy. By experimenting with differ ent foods the afflicted one can determine which is at fault In most cases. Some phy- iclans determine the offending food by a process similar to vaccination. The cure de pends on avoiding the cause. . Jolting: Ip Needed. JT.. T. C. writes: "Will you kindly tell me what causes frequent yawnings? It has lately become almost incessant. and is extremely unpleasant. I am slightly past 40. My work is of a ee dentaty nature and I do not get much frtsh air. Has this anything to do with the heart? I can sleep a great deal." REPLY. Get out and play golf or tennis, or some thing. Walk to the office or In some way manage to get jolted up or stirred up. LAW PUTS DALLAS ON HIGHWAY Citizen of Tovrn Calls Attention to Wording; of Road Bonding; Act. DALLAS. Or., Sept. 26. (To the Edi tor.) As The Oregonian has given much space to Tamhill County's side of the-. West Side highway controversy, I would ask a few lines for the other side the larger side, as it happens in this instance, as two of the three Highway Commissioners have decided in Its favor. We will all agree that it would be a nice thing for McMinnvlUe to have the paved road run straight through from that "town to Corvallis. It would not only throw the Amity trade to the Tamhill countyseat, where it naturally belongs, but it would also effectually shut off from Dallas the trade of the entire north end of Polk County one of the richest and most thickly popu lated farming communities in Oregon. McMinnville's patriotic interest in the taxpayer's welfare is easily under stood. But, unfortunately for the interest of these Tamhill County tradesmen, the law does not read that way. The highway act provides that the road must run through Dallas. It does not contemplate that Dallas shall be placed on any sidetrack or spur. To be perfectly frank about it. the law was drawn that way for a pur pose. . The framers of the law. doubtful of its reception by the farmer tax payers, ingeniously planned the high way route to take in all of the larger cities and towns in the state. The re sult of the bonding election proved the wisdom of the plan. The towns voted for the highways; the rural communi ties voted against them. The towns had the most votes. Now, that the meas ure Is a law of the state, it would seem the plain duty of the Commissioners to carry out its provisions in good faith, especially as they are but creatures of the law. It Is not at all surprising that Mc MinnvlUe wants the highway to run straight south through Polk County Her Interest in the route is purely selfish. It will not do for her peopl to claim that their sole desire is to see the highway laid down on th shortest and most direct route from i-ortiana to corvauis, tor were it so located, It would miss McMinnville en tirely. By running direct from Dayton to Amity, and leaving McMinnville to the right, the distance would be re duced four or five miles. Few, if any travelers now coming up the Valley by way of Newberg go out of their way to pass through McMinnville. But it would seem the part of com mon sense to route the highway through McMinnville. if the road is to benefit the greatest possible number o people, and that is what it is usually considered roads are for. So must the road come through the northern por tlon of Polk County to Dallas, if Ore gon would escape the -oft-repeated charge that this highway is to be merely an automobile pleasure path to enable tourists to travel from the California line to the Portland hotels in the shortest possible time, and a the least possible expense to them selves before reaching the metropolis. if, by building the road on the route favored by a two-thirds majority of the commission, we shall increase the run ning time of these tourieLs only a few minutes, and at the same time provide a better road for one of the richest and most thickly populated fanning com munities in Oregon, it would seem pretty good business to do it. J. C. HATTER. SOLDIERS' FATHER WOULD WORK He Offers to Take Striker's Job in Order to See Shipw Uo Ahead. PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 27. (To the Editor.) I want a job in a shipyard where there is a strike on. I can do rough carpenter work or common labor. There must be several thousand like me in Portland who regret to see work stopped in this crisis. Our boys are in the war. They are working hard and cheerfully for a dol lar a day, with no say as to place or conditions of work, and this is proper, but should they be the only ones to make sacrifices? They, too, were earning J4 to ?j per day before they enlisted, but those left behind are not willing to continue at work unless they can dictate the con ditions under which they will work. Nay, more, they are not even willing to continue at work under a promise from -the President that they will be fairly dealt with. Even though they re misled by pro-German agitators the effect is the same as ir they were openly disloyal. Vv hat is the remedy? An aroused public opinion which would not toler ate any attempt to change the existing status during the war, by either em ployer or employe, would help some. In the meantime let the loyal men of Port laud come to the aid of the shipyards by taking the place of the men who bave gone out. What did you do to help win the great war?" That will be an em barrasslng question in the years to come If you do not do what you can, all you can, now. I will go into any shipyard In Port land where there is a strike on and will work there at such wage as I am round entitled to until such time as my place can be filled by someone who can do the work better or who needs the place Slid can do it as well. How many others are there who will do the same? I have two sons who enlisted soon after the war broke out. We are glad to 'have them go. We hope they will come back, but their chance of doing so is being directly menaced by this cieiay in tne completion of ships. Measured from an economic stand point every day I work in a shipyard would be a considerable economical loss to me, but I want to see the work go on ana puoiic sentiment aroused. My telephone is Marshall 2569. CITIZEN. When the Dove Returns. By James Barton Adams. When sacrificial war shall cease for ever on the earth's broad face and the long exiled dove of peace emerges from Its hiding place, 'twill see a nlcture hat will tell a thrilling tragic story: ee a million graves of men who fell at will of heartless monarchy. 'Twill jo a devastated land all mangled by he deadly shell where erstwhile upon very hand there raged a fiery battle hell; the ruins of ten thousand homes. nd cities, once the people's pride, laid level by the bursting- bombs and lurid ires on every side: cathedrals In which thousands prayed to God for his protecting hand into but crumbling uins laid by fierce Invaders of the land. Its vision then may turn to rest far from the battlefields upon a host of stricken women dressed in mourn ing garb for loved ones gone, their faces bearing stamp of pain, their eyes et red from floods of tears, and wounded hearts that ne'er again will hrob with joy through coming years. In ortmans' homes, as bees in hives, twill see great swarms of little ones whose fathers sacrificed their lives be neath the fire of deadly guns, some yet too young to realize they ever knew nother home, and some, with ever watchful eyes, believing daddy yet would come. Perchance it then may wing its flight to some lone spot, somewhere on earth, some distant isle ncircied tight by an imprisoning ocean girth. A figure there might meet its iew, a man bent neath a load of care. nd sighing oft, as one who knew the bitterness of dark despair: the man re sponsible for all the graves and wreck- ge it had viewed a monarch grieving er bis lau a captive in that solitude. 1 In Other Days. Half a Century Ago. From The Oregonian. September 2S. 1SR7. Florence When the arrest of Gari baldi became known partisans in this city were greatly exasperated, appear ing in the streets in crowds and mak ing violent demonstrations. The dis turbance developed into a riot and only with the firm hand of the government was the disturbance quelled. The Gari baldian volunteers were forced to dis perse. Mr. Haines, superintendent of the tel egraph company for the northern dis trict, is making repairs between Van couver and Monticello. W. T. Shahahan is among the passen gers on the Oriflamme. which left San Francisco for Portland yesterday. W. W. Upton, of Portland, addressed the guests at the Washington County fair yesterday after the day's pro gramme. The discussion was on rail road questions. J- W. Cook, of this city, has patented a vertical picket gate. It has an at tachment by which the gate can be opened without dismounting from a carriage and similarly closed after passing through. The gate is to be on, exhibition at the state fair. Twenty-Ktve Tears Age, From The Oregonian, September 28, 1802. Cleveland's letter of acceptance is be ing sharply criticised by leaders of the Republican party. Some critics say he said as little as he was able to about the absorbing problems of the day. Cleveland is leading the National League with a percentage of .725, and Rnstnn la a . . . - ...... .1 . : . v. coo W. C. Cheney, electrician of the Port land General Electric Company, who went East with General Manager P. Morey, several weeks ago, returned home yesterday. Mme. Le Van way, the most fashion able modiste ot tan Krancisco,' has ar rived and will exhibit her gowns at Mrs. Dora Crane's, Washington block. Mme. Marie Barratta Morgan, the gifted cantatrice, toured the exposition building yesterday. She said her ideas of the Pacific Coast and its resources were rudely, but pleasantly, shattered on her trip through the building. SOLDIERS AVATt HI.G SHIP STI1IKK When Army Drglas to Urowl Yards Will All Start Work. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Sept. 2. (To the Editor.) Without the editorial page of The Oregonian I would be lost. On it each morning I find ample mental food lor the day. In this I refer to two editorials pre sented this morning. One relates to the strike in the shipyards, the other to socialism. Had you headed one article "Go betweens" andthe other "Competition. " you would have named the two in fernal curses of the United States. Our shipyards are tied up while gobetween contractors compete, with labor unions for which sha'.l have the profits from certain Government work. If our Government kicked thn mid dleman out, this action would dissolve every labor union in the country. The people govern the United States, thus the people would set wages for all labor. If we Americans were as loyal to our Government as we are to private cap italists Germany would soon be licked. I know whereof I speak when I say that our Army is watching this striko fandango mighty closely. It at this moment is not interested in contract ors' dividends or union wages, but is figuring . on ships to convey it to Prance. It this fool strike continues uic ii my win jirowi, ana wnen it aoes President Wilson is sure to sit up and take notice. We must not forget that the United States Union is "the biggest of all unions and that it is a Springfield union with a dam strong spring. Therefore it may be taken for granted that when It gives the word to stop" fooling and play ball that all shipyards in the country will start up and that neither contractors nor unions will ask any questions. A. BOMBARDIER. "WORK OR FIGHT," SAYS VETERAN Civil War Soldier Indorses Plan to Settle Snip Strike. FOREST GROVE. Or.. Sept. 26. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonian. Sep tember 26, is an item from the pen of Comrade Chamberlain which sounds good to an old veteran who touched elbows with ust such comrades on the fighting line during the Civil War, and who inflicted serious mishap to the enemy "up North." Comrade Chamberlain did not say It. " I will, however. Ther is Kultur" money and influence behind the ship yard strike, and when our Government issues the order to the shipyards and strikers, "Go to work or go into the Army," business will increase in tho shipyards,' and there will be a percep tible Increase in the Army and Navy. Were workingmen examined for phy sical endurance before being admitted to the shipyards and steel works? A man who is in condition to earn his per diem in the steel works or any shipbuilding yard should not be re quired to undergo a physical examina tion for service in the Army or Navy. If he has not taken out his first nat uralization papers he should be com pelled to do so before becoming eligibls to the Army or Navy or any shlpbuild-. Ing yard, either private or National, and I will add iron or steel works of any description. W. J. A. BEACH. Another Sayat "Work or Fight." PORTLAND, Sept. 27. (To the Edi tor.) It is a digraceful stand taken by the""men in the shipyards. In this critical hour, when our coun try calls for real men with red blood in their veins, when men go forth bravely to face death and pain un speakable, what shall we do with those stav-at-homes wno, too, aro ready to fight but only for their selfish inter ests? If a man nas a cnance to make fair wage these days he is blessed Indeed: and if unionism" means "me first, and country go to the dogs," then we know where the unions belong, and where to look for slackers. I say, with the "Navy Man," send them to the trenches and teach them to fight for a good cause and a. manly ideal. E. M. HENDERSON. Shakespeare's Epitaph Cryptogram f PORTLAND, Sept. 27. (To the Edi tor.) "W. J. P." seems to have a taste for working out cryptograms. Perhaps he has an easy solution of the Shake- peare epitaph: Good friend, for Jesus' aake forbears. To digg the dust encloaaed heare: Bleste be the man that spares then stones And curst be he that-moves my bones. This cryptogram has been puzzled over perhaps more than any other. Perhaps "W. J. P." can enlighten us? N. REEVE. Monument to Ills Memory. Lamb. Longmore The former clients of Smith, the divorce lawyer who died last week, are going to do a nice thing. Short What? Longmore Show their appreciation by erecting a monument to his mem ory. Short Have they chosen the design? Longmore Not yet. A number of them want something along the. lines f the Statue of Liberty, and the. o-hers favor a colossal granite cleaver.