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Newspaper Page TextTIIE 3IORXIXG- OliEGOXIAX, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1 1917. PORTLAND. OREGON. Entered at Portland (Oregon) Postoffkce aa second-class mail matter. Subscription rate -invariably is advance: (By Stall.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year ,.$8.00 Ially, Sunday included, six months 4.25 Iai!y, Sunday included, three months. Xaily, Sunday Included on month. ..... .75 Daily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Dally, without Sunday, six months...... 3.15 Daily, without Sunday, three months.... 1.75 Daily, without Sunday, one month GO Weekly, one year .... H. ............... l.OO ffunday, one year. .................. .... 2. SO bunday and weekly..., .,. 9.50 (By Cajrler.) 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MEMBER OF HUE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to tho use for republication of all news dis patches credited to it or not otherwise cred ited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dis patches therein are also reserved. PORTLAND, SATURDAY, KOV. S, 1817. , EXHAUSTED BCSSI.V8 APPEAL. Premier Kerensky's assurance that Russia will stay in the war accom panies the admission that the country is economically exhausted and must have help in the shape of money and materials from, the allies before it can a grain become an aggressive force. Having already lost enormously by the defeats and treason of the last three years, Russia has been com pletely disorganized by the revolution. By destroying Czardom the people de prived Germany of one set of tools, but the Kaiser found a new set in the Bolshevik!. But in order better to understand conditions they cannot be fully understood until history comes to be written years hence we must go deeper. The one absorbing question is land. Common ownership by the village is the traditional system, but was being broken down by the creation of large Individual estates. Under the Czars an attempt was made to strengthen individual ownership by dividing com munal and selling crown land among the peasants, who clamored for di vision of the great estates among themselves. When the revolution broke out, attention of all interests was turned from the war to this do mestic controversy. The Socialist workmen and Intel lectuals of the cities saw an oppor tunity to realize their Utopia, and they enlisted the aid of the peasants, who comprise the majority of the army, by promising to gratify their land-hunger. The land owners, hop ing to cave their property by some chance, are accused of having schemed to postpone adoption of a new consti tution by prolonging the period of dis order. Tho Soviet (the name into which Soldiers and Workmen's Coun cil has been abbreviated) opposed en forcement of discipline in the army through fear that the Generals might use it for counter-revolution or , at least to prevent execution of their plans. AH parties, except the Bolshevik!, favor continuance of the war with a "but," namely, that they will give first attention to their internal, economic interests. The result is workmen who will not work; soldiers who will not light, at least until they have held a caucus on the question of obeying orders; railroads on which trains run at the pleasure of the train crew or of the crowd at each station; famine in a land of plenty; and armies which are forced to retreat for lack of muni tions or discipline, even when they wish to fight. It is a positive paradise lor the German spy and propagandist. Kerensky says Russia cannot again become active In the war without much help from the allies, and sets up a claim to this help on the ground that "Russia began the war for the allies, saved England and France from disaster, at the beginning bore the whole brunt of the fighting, and has been fighting one and a half yeays longer than England." ' He forgets that during the first two years of the war France and Britain did some terrific lighting at the Marne, Ypres and Verdun;, that they made the disastrous campaign at Gallipoli to help Russia by diverting Turkish forces from the Caucasus, and then they sent vast quantities of material to Russia, which were either handed over to the Germans or destroyed through the treachery of Soukhom linoff and his kind. Notwithstanding these experiences, the United States is willing to give more aid, provided it is used against the Germans and pot abandoned to them. The letters of Mrs. Dorr, which have been published in The Oregonian, do not encourage much hope that good use would be made of any material help that might be given. Before it would be of any benefit to the allied cause, Russia must have a disciplined force which is willing to fight, back ing up a government which can en force respect for its authority upon the civil population, and which will dispose summarily of the swarm of German agents. Were it not for diffi culties of transport, an army of a hundred thousand Americans around which the Russians who wish to fight could rally might be the most effectual aid. Despite the jeers of those who de nounced General KornilofI as a reac tionary, The Oregonian holds to the opinion that his movement held out ' the best prospect of developing such a force within the embryo republic, and that he is as sincerely devoted to democracy as Kerensky himself. This opinion is supported by the admission of Savinkoff that until Korniloff's pur pose was deliberately misrepresented by Kerensky's agent, Vladimir Lvoff, Kerensky and Korniloff were acting in concert to crush the Bolsheviki. As matters stand, the best that the United States and the western allies can do is to give the aid which Kerensky asks, but it should only be given on the condition that the Russian army will be reorganized into an effective fighting force. Unless that is done. the supplies sent would be worse than Wasted. Kerensky's confession and the Jtal ian disaster serve to impress more than ever upon the American people the tremendous burden which they have assumed. They must finance all of the four great powers among the Kuropean allies, must supply all of - them with munitions and those in the west with food. They must also ex pand their own Army and Navy and arm, equip, feed and transport them to Europe. Italy's reverse imposes on us the duty of sending a larger army than we had contemplated. All of this means - drafting more men, building more ships, producing more supplies of every kind and borrowing more millions. The whole burden of car ing for Russia and Italy in these re spects is thrown upon us. When we contemplate the immen sity of this load, we cannot but con sider how greatly it might have been lightened if we had entered the war two years earlier. The sinking of the Lusitania was a crime of such magni tude and such barbarity as to consti tute ample cause, and Germany's de fense aggravated the offense. The evil purposes and the evil methods of Germany had been clearly revealed. If we had then entered the war, we might, by joining in the blockade, have hastened the economic exhaus tion of Germany. We might have in fluenced other nations to join then in the fight for democracy. We might ere now have had five million men under arms and have completed the new Navy and transport fleet which we have just begun to build. - With our -aid France and Belgium might have been already emancipated, Serbia and Roumania might have been saved, Turkey and Austria at their last gasp, Germany unable to deny the certainty of final defeat and the war near its end. We are likely to pay dearly for our two years of hectic prosperity and for the patience which was blind to every portent and which applied the phrase "nervous and excited" to the men who waVned us to prepare for that which now has come. JCST ENOUGH REFORM. A diligent reporter of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has been investigat ing the local vice situation on his own account. He Is unable to verify the statement of General Greene, that there is a vice syndicate between cer tain professional and experienced pro curers and sundry unnamed "higher ups"; but the town is or has been practically "wide-open" and there is an easy tolerance of, or actual part nership in, the situation by the au thorities. The investigator makes this interesting and 'comprehensive sum mary: It would hm a tedious story to describe all the ramifications of vice in Seattle. Aa one worldly-wise man expressed it, "It's everywhere and the police have let it itet away from them." Unorganized, It has es tablished itself, while the people had their minds on other matters, principally on the smashing; of bootlegging- Joints. The reputation enjoyed by Seattle of be ing "the best town west of New York" bas attracted denizens of the underworld In large numbers. They were here before the soldiers came and the assembling of the new Army has had no particular effect beyond slightly Increasing: that part of the population which lives on "easy money." Seattle re-elected its present Mayor, Hi Gill, once recalled, upon certain mushy promises of reform; and it elected him again, on his, record. He had proved that he was the same old Hi, and Seattle was pleased. The conclusion is Justified that Scat tie sticks to Gill because he gives Seattle what it wants. He has made his own peculiar contribution in lift ing Seattle to its proud eminence as the "best town west of New York." It is not easy to escape the opinion that Seattle Is anxious now to reform a little, but not much; only enough to satisfy General Greene. TJNGBATEFCL. A report from Salem is that a German-born woman responded violently to a request to sign a food-pledge card , by denouncing the President as a traitor, predicting failure of Amer ica In the war, describing as false news statements in the American press, affirming her faith in German papers, and concluding: I will not hang- a card In my window. No body can make me do it. Undoubtedly such cases are excep tional. No fair or observant person will fail to testify to the entire loyalty of American citizens and families of German blood. When their fathers took the oath of allegiance to the United States, and particularly abjured all fealty to the German Kaiser, they acted of their own free will, and meant what they said. Nearly all of them have continued to Bean it. Their sons and daughters are keeping the faith. This misguided Salem woman Is the victim of ignorance, prejudice and falsehood, imbibed from German news papers and from similar sources. Yet, curiously enough, she asserts her American independence. "Nobody can make me," she says. She left a country where any petty official could require her to regulate her life, down to the smallest detail, to suit him or the government for which he spoke. so as to be free from all such re straints, to live her own life, and make her own fortune, and enjoy it. Now she would use her privileges and op portunities to injure and ruin the re public which welcomed her, and pro tects her in her right to be a free human being, so as to aid a tyranny which abused, ' repressed and pauper ized, and all but enslaved her, and which for these reasons she long ago abandoned. The ways of some women and men are past finding out. WHI NOT GOAT'S MttKf The solution of the milk problem may prove to be the milk goat. When dairymen are complaining of the high price of feed, are raising the price of milk and are selling their stock for beef, the natural disposition is to look for a substitute. Enter the goat. Angora goats have been raised in this country for mohair for many years, but breeding of goats for milk is comparatively new, the first regis tered stock having been imported in 1904. The industry has grown rapidly and has many enthusiastic advocates, though Uncle Sam forbids importation through fear of hoof and mouth dis ease. It is claimed for the goat that it is free from tuberculosis, to which cows are subject, that its milk contains twice as much butterfat as cow's milk, and having smaller globules of fat, is healthier for babies, causing less stomach trouble. The meat also is as good as mutton, not being dis tinguishable from that of sheep in taste. The goat Is also said to be cheaper to feed than the cow. One breeder is positive in the statement that a goat can be fed on the vegetables and grass cuttings of the average city lot and will give at least .two quarts of milk a day. Fine cheese is made from the milk, Roquefort being a good example. Nanny is a large source of wealth to Switzerland, Italy and Norway, exports of her products from each of those countries running Into the score of millions of dollars yearly. Since the cow is becoming such burden to maintain, and since her milk Is rising to such famine prices. why not try the goat and her milk? In four months 382 automobiles have been reported stolen in this city. Many have been recovered, of course. but the number missing is large enough, to call for punislicient of the crime adequate to stop the practice. It is not right that the unfortunate owners be compelled to stand the cost of repairs, though the thief seldom has even the price of "gas." Prospect of a long term in jail will put whole some fear into the heart of the man or youth contemplating such a theft. FREE PORTS ARE PROPOSED. One of the first recommendations of the Tariff Commission is to be that a number of free ports be established on the several coasts of the United States New York, Boston, Philadel phia and Newport News on the At lantic Coast, New Orleans and Galves ton on the Gulf Coast, and San Fran cisco and Seattle on the Pacific Coast. This recommendation is expected at the next session of Congress. The characteristic of a free port is that goods from any country may enter its bounds without paying duty or any other charges except port dues, which are low and uniform. The port thus becomes a place for assembling goods of all kinds from various coun tries to make up cargoes for reship ment to other countries. Factories grow up there which consume raw material from the interior or from abroad, and have a particular advan tage in combining domestic with im ported materials. When goods pass the boundary of a free port into the Interior or other ports, they are sub ject to the regular import duties. Hamburg is the greatest free port In the world, and by Improving its harbor and the channel of the Elbe River end offering inducements to manufactures had become the third largest port in the world at the out break of the war. Free ports were numerous in Europe and the East Indies during the middle ages and down to the French revolutionary era, but of late years many have been abolished, the bonding privilege being substituted in some cases. Existing free ports include part of Copenhagen, Sulina in Roumania, Kola in Russian Lapland, Malacca, Penang, Singapore Hongkong, Weihaiwei, Aden, Gibral tar, St. Helena and Macao. THE HIGH COST OF AMUSEMENT. PORTLAND, Nov. 2. (To the Editor.) Why don't you write an editorial on the Injustice of our moving pictures and other shows raising prices i'5 and 33 1-3 per cent to onset the lo per cent war tai? A good many of us have been expecting you to do this regardless of tho fact that they are good advertisers. Talk about patriotism of the wage-earn ers! How can you expert wags-earners or anyone else willingly to pay their share of the war tax when you see publio Institu tions of this character dodge the tax by raisins prices to their patrons, far and be yond the tax asked by our Uovernment. The American people are long-suffering and charitable, but this "is the limit," and I Jrust the public will condemn it by re fusing to patronize the theaters who have done this. We don't mind paying their war tax for them, but we do mind letting them make an excessive profit, out of it. A. Ci. MATTHEWS. Let us first get the facts straight. Several of the "other shows" includ ing the Orpheum, Heilig and Baker theaters have not raised admissions higher than the war tax. When a patron of any theater pays an additional one-tenth of the admis sion he Is not paying a war tax Im posed on the theater, but a war tax imposed on his own amusement. The war revenue bill definitely provides that the admission tax shall be paid by the person paying for such admis sion. The theater is merely the col lector. It follows that a moving picture house which formerly charged 10 or 15 cents admission and has now raised a flat 6 cents and pays tho war tax out of that increase has, in fact, increased admissions 3 cents and no more. This is true of the former 10 cent houses, because a tax of 1 cent is levied on each 10 cents or fraction thereof paid for admission. The moving picture houses advance some pretty strong arguments to sup port this 3-cent Increase. We all know that they have been confronted by a steadily mounting cost of almost everything necessary to maintain a theater, and also by a progressive ap petite on the part of the public for costlier and better films. Miscellaneous expenditures affect the continxious performance more vitally than they do the two-a-day or one-a-day performance. Cost of ushers; music, tickets, posters, advertising in general, and other necessities has risen down the line, with the excep tion of light and rent. Tlve theater managers assert that had there been no war tax an increase in admission prices would have been necessary. The only way to combat their assertion is to prove that they have been enjoying large returns and can stand the in creased expenses. That we have no means of doing, nor do we know that it is true. But there are two things always to be borne In mind: They are that the 2 cents paid as war tax in the pur chase of a moving picture ticket Is not a donation of the theater's war tax, but a tax imposed by law on the individual who attends such entertain ments, and that if the theaters make an exorbitant profit out of the accom panying Increase the Government will make them disgorge a goodly propor tion of it in corporation taxes, excess profits taxes and super-income taxes. SHIPPING BOARD ON TRIAL, The change in the sentiment of the business men of the country toward the Shipping Board from one of "the most enthusiastic and unanimous op position" to one of "effective and en thusiastic support" is hailed with satisfaction by Raymond B. Stevens, a member of the Board. In the Na tion's Business he calls attention to the opposition of shipping men to Federal regulation and control before the war, and places it in contrast with their actual recommendation to the Board, after war began, of the policy which they had formerly opposed. But this change of front implies no change of opinion as to the best policy to pursue under normal conditions. It proves that shipping men, inspired by patriotism, recognize the necessity in time of war of adopting a -policy which is unwise in time of peace. Nor did they oppose Federal regula tion before the war; they opposed certain regulations contained in the La Follette law, while approving the most important and the great major ity of the provisions of that law." Mr. Stevens attributes to them a desire for suspension of that law, when, in fact, they ask only for suspension of the few obnoxious provisions which they deem hurtful to the merchant marine. They opposed Government construc tion and operation of ships in time of peace, but they recognize its neces sity in war, since ships, in common with all other resources, must be at the disposal of the Government for prosecution of the war. They no more approve Government construction and operation of merchant ships as a per manent policy than the people at large I would approve permanent adoption of the drastic food and fuel regulation which is now in force. . The Shipping Board has not yet justified the confidence which it claims. It has not yet made good. On the contrary, its course in the last six months has added force to some of the arguments which were advanced before the war against Federal con struction .and operation of ships. It has been slow in getting to work, it has wavered in policy, it has wran gled and wasted precious time, and it has shown itself to be susceptible to the influence of sectional, and business interests. Its attitude toward the wooden ship has been prompted, per haps unconsciously, by these influences and by Ignorance of Pacific Coast shipbuilding possibilities. Of necessity, the people must look to the Shipping Board to provide ships for military purposes and to carry our commerce. It must perform the func tions which Britain entrusts to the Minister of Shipping. These Include decision which regular lines shall be kept in operation, which ships shall be employed, on them and what com modities shall be carried. When there is such urgent need of ships for war purposes, carriage of non-essential commodities should be restricted in order to economize tonnage. William Hard in the New Republic shows that there has been a great increase in imports of coffee and cocoa from South America and in exports of auto mobiles and tires to that continent during the last two years. Much ton nage could be saved by cutting down this trade. Mr. Hard also raises the question whether ships would be better used this Winter in sending across the ocean "that notorious one million tons of raw materials bought by France and lying on our Atlantic seaboard, three thou sand miles from the perfectly trained soldiers" who could use it against the enemy, or in carrying more American soldiers who still need much training. Should we not do more effective serv ice at present by sending abundant supplies to the French, British and Italians who are already at the front, and who urgently need them, than by sending more men, to supply whom still more ships will be needed? These are questions for the Council of National Defense to decide, but it should be the function of the Ship ping Board to carry out the decision, not only by building ships but by operating them as transports. The Board should have the capacity to operate all transports in military serv ice as well as to build ships, and should be given that duty. Upon the degree to which it demonstrates that capacity will depend the amount of authority which the people will be willing to entrust to it after the war. It has not yet proved its capacity for the more limited power reposed in it. The time has not come to sing peans of praise in its honor. The increasing severity of sentences imposed upon those who conspire to weaken the hand of the Government in time of war shows that all are beginning to realize that the time for temporizing has passed. It is good news for the loyal citizens of the country that a Federal judge In Okla homa has sent three leaders in the anti-draft plots to prison for ten years, while a South Dakotan will have five years to reflect upon the enormity of a similar misdeed, and his associates in a movement to obstruct the selec tive draft will spend terms of from one to two years behind the bars Here in the West the slackers are also finding out that it is a serious business to ignore the law. Heavy sentences are justified and will meet with gen eral approval. One effect of them will be to emphasize the fact that the country is at war, which even now seems not to be comprehended by many persons who have arrived at the full age of responsibility. Chairman Hurley, of the Shipping Board, calls "Full speed ahead" to Atlantic Coast shipbuilders. Let him issue the same call to the Pacific Coast, and put on full speed himself in employing all of the ways all the time. Bootleg whisky may be useful for medicinal purposes in war hospitals. but only after elimination of the in gredients which have been added to take the place of the real corn juice and to give it a "kick." Several hundred people of Astoria have asked that many places of amusement be closed, the better to safeguard young girls. There is wis dom in the move, but there is more in parental vigilance. An advertisement tells how a marl who handled the boss' money increased his salary "from $90 a month to S3500 a year," but it must have happened before the cash register was perfected. General Greene holds the whip hand over Seattle, for by keeping the soldiers away from that city he can remove the chief inducement for keep ing the city "open." Mr. Myers, who sells stamps at re tail, is the only dealer in town who can add 50 per cent to anything and get away with it without a public pro test. The schoolboy who learns to knit thinks he is doing something, great. but his-activities will produce better results on the woodpile.- Cranberries are going higher and scarcer, and the worst of it is there is nothing just as good with the Thanksgiving turkey. If Hoover keeps at it, what is to be come of the high cost of living as a reason for raising wages and prices? We . blush in acknowledging the honor. The - new train to the south and back is called "Oregonian." A married woman who goes back to the job she left to marry is likely to retain it to the end. These little mutinies in the German navy are results of German plotting, of course. Perhaps the name of Sparappelhoek irritated the British airmen to bom bard it. Colonel, or Major, or Judge Gan.. tenbein is meeting difficulty in finding himself. President Wilson can make his Thanksgiving proclamation this year a classic' Seattle has begun to clean up in spots the very bad spots first. Colonel Dunne invites you to a great show tonight. What Germany Needs. BY HERMANN- HAGEDORN of The Vigilantes. -A FORMER editor of the New York XI. Call, Herman Simpson, who differs from the Call's present editor Inas much as he is vigorously pro-American and anti-German, has called the atten tion or the Vigilantes to the following passage from a book published in Ger many ten years ago and entitled "Ger man Colonial Policy and the Coming Crash" by a man who Elarns himself Parvus": "The evolution of France under Nana- leon III culminated in Sedan and the Commune. The evolution of Germany s also rushing towards a German Sedan and a German Commune. But Capital ism, the differentiation of classes and the development of the world-market, have assumed at the beginning of the 20th century much vaster dimensions and far more acute antagonisms in the sphere of production as well as of politics than was the case in 1871 in France. Hence the effect must also be much greater. Sedan that is, the collapse of the state. The Commune that Is, the political rule of the proletariat." (From IJie Kolonialpolitik und der Zusammen- bruch," by Parvus, Leipzig, 1907.) In the light of Russian affairs, the prediction . of Parvus is particularly significant today. What is also signif icant is that Parvus is himself a Ger man Socialist, whose real name is said to be Hclfond. In 1907 he saw what his country needed, namely, a Sedan which means a crushing defeat such as the French Empire suffered in 1870 with the consequent capture of the Emperor and the downfall of bis dynasty. what is the matter with the German Socialists? Parvus, who saw his coun try's need so clearly in 1807, is today an agent of the Imperial German gov ernment. He has been reported as working busily in Stockholm trying to bring about a separate peace with I'.u.isia. The Kaiser is evidently twisting the German Socialists about his little finger. Those who are not at Stockholm for him seem to be hobnobbing with him in most friendly fashion in Berlin. Anyone who expects these Socialists to start a revolution will be disap pointed. The only way of making the German people revolt against their imperial dy nasty will be the way marked out by Parvus in 1907. First Sedan then democracy. But first Sedan! COBRA'S TERROR NOT IX COILS Li Grande Naturalist Finds TVatnre- Fakt n Figure of Speech. LA .GRANDE. Or., Nov. 1. (To the Editor.) The old saying, "Beware of the lion in his den," might be changed to read, "Beware of the editor in hla sanctum." Witness the efforts of the Corvallis Gazette Times genially to put The Oregonian in a hole. The trouble with the Gazette -Times is that a de batable question was seized, and the debate is now on. More care should be taken in an attempt to spear the editor of "The Thunderer" on the point of his trusty pen. The last clause in the closing para graph of the splendid editorial, "Cier many's Economic Defeat," in The Ore gonian, October 31, offers a fall mark, and it is so seldom that a mere reader ever has an opportunity to put one over on the learned Oregonian that your correspondent cannot refrain from setting the editor right, even though it be but a slip of the pen, as it were. The clause in question closes with the words, "caught in the coils of a cobra." I submit that, as the cobra la not a constrictor, but a venomous rep tile, the coils of the cobra are not the menacing terrors that a pe rusal of the editorial would suggest. The python or the boa constrictor was evidently in the mind of the editor when he Indicted his really graphic epitome of the condition of Germany todty. and the reptile editor evidently failed to pass on the copy. W. D. M. Perhaps, for the sake of alliteration. the writer of the editorial did nature fake a little. , LONG TRADE BOYCOTT FAVORED Correspondent Would Put l'p Bars Axslnit Germany After War. PORTLAND, Nov. 2. (To the Edi tor.) With all due respect to President Wilson. I think there are thousands of Americans who disagree with him when he says "we are not fighting the Ger man people, but the clique that runs them." The present generation of Ger many have been inoculated with that rotten poison "kultur" in other words, dishonesty, brutality, f rightfulness. They are stabbing our boys when they sleep, as witness the transport that was sunk a few days ago the forerunner of many, I suppose. Therefore, in conjunction with mil lions of Americans I would like to see a bill passed by Congress something like the following: That for a period of ten years after the war no German ship should be allowed to enter a United States port and that no United States ship will be permitted to enter a Uer man port. We have proved to our advantage that we can get along without Ger man goods. They know we won't buy goods marked "made in Germany, but as Will Irwin writes in the last issue of the Saturday Evening Post, they are getting command of Swiss factories and will mark their goods "made in Switzerland." Therefore I hope the Government will see to it that no goods will be allowed to enter tne united States unless they are satisfied as to their origin. TWENTY -FIVE-TEAR SUBSCRIBER. TREES. I know a place where the fir trees grow. The red and the Douglas fir; Deep in the woods where the partridge broods And the wings of the pheasant whirr. I know a place where the pine trees moan And sigh their sad refrain: Yet ever and aye they seem to say. Lift up your hearts again. I know a pjtee where the cedars grow. Dark on the mountainside; Hemlock and yew, and tamarack, too, Spread feathery branches wide. Grand and stately Oregon trees. Awaiting her sons of toil; Knew they the ring and joy of grow ing things. They'd hasten back to the soil. MRS. THOMAS MOFFETT. 875 Northrup street Effect of Hydrochloric Arid. PORTLAND, Nov. 1. (To the Edi tor.) What is the effect, of hydro chloric sold on the system? What is the cause of practically no hydrochloric acid in the system, and what docs it lead to? N. O. SMITH. The effect of administering . hydro chloric acid is to stimulate the glands n-hns dutv Is to nroduce it naturally. Las an aid to digestion. Deficiency may be due to various causes, but usually Is not particularly alarming. Decoration of Wife Debated. Judge. "Yes, sir. It will cost you a thousand dollars to have this house redecorated." "Good heavens! Why, I could almost have my wife redecorated for that.'. "NONE," IN ITS SEVERAL MEANINGS Quotations Given' Show Word Does Not Always Mean "No One." VALE, Or.. Nov. 1. (To the Editor.) Nothing delights us more than a grammar scrap in the columns of The Oregonian. When a country editor at tacks the philological grammarian of that paper the barrage of ink poured over his exposed trenches is as ruth less as the Hun invasion over Cador na'a flyaways and he is as effectively put out as the fire in Lllliput. The Corvallis 16-inch shell failed to explode. The charge was good, but the gas pressure light. We have frequently admired the wary side-stepping of the alert Oregonian grammarian than whom none may ex cel and from his enlightening columns we have been taught exceeding wari ness in criticising the language of oth ers. If there Is any one thing a country editor knows less about than another. It is grammar. There are exceptions, proving the rule: Over in Grant Coun ty is one, and mayhap the Corvallis educator is another. Whose pen slides smoothly o'er the paper With n'rr a blot nor silly caper. But as for "none," said Macbeth: Throw physic to the doss, I'll have none of It. While the witches told him: Thou shall set kings, though thou be none. As for us, attempting to gather meanings, our ear Unattuned to the music of language precise. li Dut the meaning understood crude words suffice We care but little how splits the infinitive If but our mind grasps the meaning de finitive. In our pleasant and pertinent per siflage we pretend no presumptious ef fort to advise nor to correct, but merely show the truth of Dryden'a words: "And torture one poor word ten thou sand ways," as well as to suggest with Diogenes Laertius: It used to be a common sayinir at Mvson's that men omit not to seek for things In words, but for words in things; for that things are not made on account of words but words are put together for the sake of things. - Said- the immortal Milton: True eloquence I find to be none but the eerious and heurty love of truth. The poet might have said "nothing" rather than "iione," but it seems that the Corvallis interpretation of always no one" ought to have occurred to the educated intellect of the great bard. In 1'elrs Plowman we fynde: I bydde thee awayta hem wele; let non of nem esca ps Said Howells: Catalonia is fed with monev from TPrann but for Portugal she hath little or none of it. And once again, "while none but the brave deserve the crown"!?) we great ly fear that our Corvallis grammarian has View'd his own feather on the fatal ilart And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his neari. But as for us, having passed through the outer door, we sing: Alns! that all sea not the light; Alas! that none can see It all; For in Grammarians' fancy flight There's none but they may see at all. Singular what singular people dis cuss singular and plural. JOHN RIGBT. Hides Go to Waste. PRINEVILLE. Or.. Nov. 1. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonian October 29 I saw an article stating that the West ern Association of Shoe Dealers have cut the height of shoes three inches in order to save a small piece of leather, at the same time remarking about the feminine shapely shanks having to go bare. There are thousands of cattle hides going to waste every year in Eastern Oregon, which the owners will not save, nor let anyone else save, which if saved would give the poor feminine creature at least enough leather to cover her sundry adorable curves and shapely shanks and have leather enough left for several thousand pairs of shoes. Why not do something so that this annual loss can be saved and save the feminine shanks from shivering? AN KASTEI'.N OREGONIAN. Looking; for a Flat. Chicago Tribune. "There's only one objection to these apartments," said the agent of the building. "From these two windows you can't help seeing everything In the dining-rooms of the neighbors on both sides of you." "What's the rental?" smilingly asked the portly dame who was looking for a flat. ABOUND THE WORLD WITH THE NEWS GETTERS IN THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN IS NEW DANCE REALLY GREEK? If it isn't, then what in the name of Terpsichore is it ? Barbara Craydon, in the Sunday issue, is very entertaining as she attempts her analysis of the modern dance steps that have been heralded as a return to the classic gam bols of ancient Greece. Some dkta on the discussion and a number of charming photos. SKETCHES FROM LIFE Another page of the "Among Us Mortals" series, sketched by W. E. Hill for The Sunday Oregonian. Prowl ing around the book department of a big store, the artist has met a lot of people with whom we are acquainted and has sketched them just as they are, with a deftness of treatment that sets the char acters before you. These pictures talk. PERSONS AND PLACES IN PHOTOS What does that spot of Lon don look like that has been strafed by a raider's bomb? The actual photograph brings a clearer conception than any paragraph. In the special page of pictures, appearing tomorrow, is such a one, with a dozen others from far and near. HAS UNCLE SAM CORNER ON GOLD? The basis from which an answer may be drafted is the fact that America now possesses, in coin and bullion, one-third of all the precious yellow metal in the world. Nor does that computation take into account the plate, jewelry and gold fillings in teeth. Something about America's profit if the value of gold, disturbed by the great war, should increase. CHURCH AND SCHOOL A page department for each in The Sun day Oregonian.. Read the complete sermon, by Dr. Joshua Stans field, of the First Methodist Church, concerning dollar slackers to God and country. All the news of Portland's schools and of Port land's churches; well edited and reliable information. THE SERVICE FLAG In the needlework section of the Sunday issue will be found directions for the fashioning of service flags which designate the home from which have gone soldiers to the service of America. The service flag is easy to make and both dimensions and materials are discussed in this timely article. FIGHTING GERMANS WITH STEAM SHOVELS That is how Frank G. Carpenter, special contributor to The Sunday Oregonian, styles the toil that is incessant in the iron mines of the Mesabi Mountains, Minnesota. His story is certain to revolutionize a great many of your notions about iron ore, where and how it is found and in what manner it is mined. WHO IS NUMBER ONE? The eecond episode of this enthralling mystery serial, by Anna Katherine Green, appears in tomorrow's issue. It is captioned "The Flying Fortress,'' and that ought to pique anyone's curiosity. While the serial is appearing in The Oregonian, the pictures are on in filmland. COME ON, NOW! You may deny it, but of course you read the comics. And, honestly, there are none better than Polly and Her Pa, and Neewah, and Old Dock Yak and Yutch, are there? Youll find them each week in I beg your pardon! Of course" you know where to find them. Not a Member of the Family Slighted. THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN Just Five Cents. IV. In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Oregonian. November 3, 1892. Ottawa. Advices received here state that Japan is preparing for a crusade against the seal poachers next sea son. Washington. The Treasury Depart ment' today purchased 797,000 ounces of silver at prices ranging from $0.8548 to I0.S560. The offers were 1,301,000 ounces. The price of cattle throughout East ern Oregon is outrageously low, says the Pendleton Tribune, and some action ought to be taken by the stockmen, not only of this section but of the Eastern Oregon ranges, to protect themselves from the beef combine that has been formed throughout the coun try. Honeyman & Company have complet ed the change of the grates of the boilers of the city water and light plant. A saving of one cord a day ia guaranteed by the change. New Orleans. The threatened gen eral strike in the city ts off for the present at least. The arbitration com mittee agreed this morning that the men should all return to work In the positions they held before the strike. An agreement was also reached as to hours and wages, but the question as to the employment of union men is yet to be settled. WEIGHT LIMIT FOR PHEASANTS Sportsman Suggests Adaptation of Trout Law to Protect Young; Birds, GASTON, Or., Nov. 1 (To the Ed itor.) I have been reading the notice in The Sunday Oregonian regarding the proposed closed season on China birds, to the effect that the Game Com mission close the season next year on Chinas and open it on quail, with a 15 day season; then close it on quail in 1919 and open it 15 days on Chinas. Having had my name mentioned in The Oregonian on several occasions as being a prominent sportsman, I would like to' make a few suggestions. We all know the gratifying results that have been obtained by the protection of female aeer and pheasants. Why not also protect the hen qunil? Our ducks are getting scarcer every year. I would also suggest a closed season on hen ducks. Our game warden says the scarcity of Chinas this year is due to there be ing so many young birds, which makes them hard to find. Protect them. Put a weight limit on them, say 10 ounces. similar to our trout law. These are merely suggestions. J. H. WEiCOTT. Origin of "Yeoman. THE DALLES. Or.. Nov. 1. (To th Editor.) What is the meaning of "yeoman," which we see in connection with the Army or Navy? I can't find any satisfactory answer in tho en cyclopedia. It seems to refer to old times and to have no modern interpre tation. A SUBSCRIBER. A yeoman In early English history was a common menial servant, but after the 15th century the term de noted a class of freeholders, forming the next grade below gentlemen. Later the name yeomanry was applied to a mounted branch of British volunteers, owing to the fact that they were re cruited from the yeoman class and thus were able to support the necessary cavalry charger and equipment. In the United States the term Is used only in the Navy, where a yeo man is a petty officer rated or en listed to perform clerical duties. Not Much of a Fighter. Louisville Courier-Journal. "That dog of yours seems fond of chasing trains." "Yes." "I wonder why?" "Well, he Isn't much of a fighter. Trains are about the only thing he gets a chance to chase." Little Things Cause Worry. 4 Exchange. "It's the little things that cause us the most annoyance," said the parlor philosopher. "That's right." agreed Mere Man. "The people who live next door to me have seven children, the oldest be r.fc 10."