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9 SALVATION DRIVE STARTS OUT WELL VOLUNTEER COMPANY OF PAINTERS. PAPERHANCERS AND DECORATORS PRACTICALLY COMPLETE LIBERTY TEMPLE. in!iiiiiiiii(iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiig The Era of Prosperity Is Here Because of it hundreds of new comers are making Portland their home. Enthusiastic Gathering at Au ditorium Furnishes Inspi ration to Army Workers. Lot of Workers Characterized by Germans as Martyrdom to Great Cause. i: THE 3I0KXIXG OKECOXIAX. MONDAY. 3IAKCII 18. 1918. GERMANY IS FAR FROM STARVATION MUSIC STIRS AUDIENCE Organ Ket-lial hy Lnrlra K. H-kr J I'ollowrU hj ionioiunitj Mn( and Solo by ell-Know .n Mjor MakM A.lrfrc. ". irrir fmr nrf jntution and pret ty nnmltuh" Ttjt m how Mayor Or ore I Rik'r rt arai tnad th f'alvatton Army yicrriav to hi aUrr In th MuntitpAE Am1. torture. mhT m lrt rr mMrr was hId in rally th for. and off ci:y opn Cie drive for "Thr Diur to this drtTe than th arc pron raiisV aid th Mlr. "In I h- pmmt re har bn ih in k tcs too much of ourt)Tf, of m.jny and materia! thlnjr. !i a all in. how raih rouM we make; what in to t onr satn. T la to rf Self I saw mother ay fooftMf to her to boys today on a tailor In f h y. th other an officer In the Army. Thr ra all ahc had and at i.ier lrft hr worua wer. t;od Mm u ll a about lira- w all dtj little thinklns in that d trriion. It a about tim w put aelf aid and put od above evertthinr. ThM Salvation .trmr haa been dotnc oar work: It wtllitW to rnntmut to do our work f-l it. I know it thl drive la Koine over the tp strong. It a irotnaT b'vUM it la a nia; work Th" Mayor wa applaudrd nthui atirallT. In fat. II was an enthu-t- astte sathrinc throushoui. Dr. W. V Ynunsaon. nral In rhar of tha driv. prr idd and introduced I ha ntalcr. The ftalvattnn Armr band piavrd tnMrtnzt. lurtn K. Becker avc an ir(n recital at the opening and accompanied the community aln Imi mm with true alvattott Tim y W. II. Rover. lalS Vethodlat fervor. The btc Kherlfia: made the audito rs um rtni with the horuaea of wrrl patriotic air and with the aoectal aonc written by lean foil ma. Keacue tha ollter toy." nunc to the tune of tha olt hmn. " f t-ue the t'ertahtna; " When antsera nt to "The Battle mn of the llepuM!c. Mr. Itoyer mas reht in hia element. Toin our on the rhorwa. he called. "Now. la. la-la; (O tt mII. Glorv. it lry. Hallelujah !" and the people aanv. as Ir. Tounjsaon com mrnlH. "Like an olt-fhioncd efh-o-ltM ramp nieetins:. The enthualaam of the apcakers and leaders waa rlec trif mi Mr. Jane Hurn Albert aane Keep the Home Ktrea Hurntnc. by rcqueat. and the andleme Joined In the refrain. Bishop Matthew Sim paon lluchea de clared he deemed tt a privilege to be I In the drM and do all he can. (.him to Beeeaae A at a tie. "We're fufnr to set ao uaed to theae drtvea after a ohlle It'll become auto matic for ua to stve and we'll rouae up tn our lep and make an offertnc" be predicted, "and we miahl aa well set u-e. to the drlwn for we are iroina; to put thia one over and keep on pultlna: them over until mwrrjr can walk the fae of the earth in aafetv and vt tthout having to wear a caa maak and a ate helmet. . M. riumnier added M alncere tea t moir to the not worda of the other apeakera In praiatnc the worthy work f the Saltation Army. tr. nibert Moore, of I'hlcaao. Nelaon Tike and Ke. K. II. Iene were amonf other ho partictpatetl. and Kev. Alexander tier r a pronounced the benediction. The colon' If. tnembera of t he executive board and aeveral other of prominence, tocethcr with tha Salvation tncra and bandsmen, mcupted the alaae. The worker til aaaemble at 'clock tin mvminc In the Portland lltrl. They will deoart on their mla-ai-n by I and will return with re port at 3 o'clock. "Be ready for them" la tr Youncaon request. FRENCH TOIS PLEASED ruNTLM KOMI! MAklin LITTLK Ctf t of treeratory iebool fro Idea aooabiwe foe Many hlldrea ffeHac la llewoltaU 1. it tie Krrnrh la da and laaaiea. ttt ha have Buffered the hardahlp of the ar and who are ronvaleaclna; In an American hospital at KVtn-le-Uatn. France, are to receive toya. book, war muffler, aw eat era and a few penniea each, becauae of the humane trnputaee which Impelled the puplla of the preparatory School of Portland to end their iThrtatmaa money Uat Ie member to the children tn thl hoapltat The money waa aent to lr. Kdmond J. Labbe. of Portland, now atatloned at the American hoapttal at Kvtan-tee-Haln. and the local achoot children have received a wvrm lettrr of thank from tr. Uahbc. ider date of Jinu rr i:. "The bl chek for the moner ou aved and aent for the poor children of Krifict arrived today. a Ir. loibbe. "I am voire to thank ou for them, fur you are going to make many nice Ittt: gtrta and boy a very happy. I have p ted our letter and your name on the hull-ttn board ao that the mother an. I father who come to aee th;r aick chiUlren :i the hepitl may aee what fine hoya and atria we hae In Portland and how we all want ao muth to help them In thlr troublea. "At thta hoapltal we take rare of all the auk children who hate been driven away from their homea by the tier maua. lie re they are given good food a 'id nie chovolatae to drink and wtrnty cf good bread. "With y our money I am going to buv them and book and warm muffler, and aweater and perhapa give them a penny or two for their lrkt. French children think they are rich tf they have three or four pennie. and they think a long time and plan wry carefully how to apend It." Orrtoit in I'arttiali i0 Ilut. WA.H'llNGTON. March IT Quota of boa whivh each atate ia to forntli In tho campaign to erlit a Hoya Work ing Keeerv of iiO.Otta for tha far ma. which open tomorrow, waa announced h the lepartment of ltbor tonight. U'yeraltig will furmah ISve. Jdaho 4v. WiiiBrteQ J.aiHr and Ore goo fjOO. t I TTKU !TRUTIItK .D TEMPLE NOW READY Painters Practically Finish In terior Decoration. WORKERS' AID APPRECIATED Spf-ial Hromr Rntlon lo He (ilrcn (or !naltr Mion In Kntrr prNr Dedication to Take Place Tomorrow. Tutllnc from early morning till noon. the volunteer company of painters, paperhanger and decorators. pratlcall completed work on Lfherty Temple yea terday. the sightly Oreclan structure In liberty Plare which will house all executive arfivltlea of the Portland Lib erty Loan Committee throughout the third drive. Owing to rain yesterday It mas im poaalbl to complet painting opera tlona on the exterior, but this work will be completed at the earliest posslbl moment. Yesterday noon, when their labors were completed, the craftsmen were entertained at luncheon tn the temple by a committee compad of Mr. J. A. t'ranaton. Mr. Ouy W. Talbot and Mrs, fe - H Julius l)er. Mis T. K. Duncan. Mias K. Harvey Cigars were I. of Allen A Lewis. Interior work waa under the super vision of l i Kltshugh. hla foremen being Henry llenntman and C. J. Jen aen. The following workmen were en gaffed In the Interior decorative work A. Kaetman. Paul lllegel. W. I. Kllla, Herman MoM. loe Ambroae. 1-1 hi Kdward. J. A. t'arr. R. Beck. C. R J nelson, f. O. taPtrom, ieorge Ant on. S. I Pierre. K. F. Turner. I- A. San del. J. F. AVella, U K. yuam, H. 11 Reevea. Otto Hemes. A. Thompson, K I Fall!. W. A. Sharp. K. Hurrell Ceorsre Lark In. James Jerabek. I. IX Smith. Kred Krandorf. A. West and IL B. Hartley. All workmen who gave their aerv tcea to the rearing of Liberty Temple will receive special bronme button In commemoration of their Invaluable apirlt and asalatance, bearing a replica of the tempi' Flanked by two Ikfa-aiied atatue of the Lioddeea of liberty at the Morrison atreet entrance to Liberty Place, it court thti-kly aet with splendid shrub bery. Uiberty Temple rises in testimony of Portland's pledge to the third loan. Many of the office In the temple will be occupied today, and the preliminary detail of the rftnrpalgn In Portland wlil henceforth be carried on In the newi atructurr. Indication x rcfaes for Liberty Tem ple will be held tomorrow at noon, and will include band selection, community lngtna. a liberty bond talk by J. L. Ktertdge. of Morris ttros.. and a dedica tory addree bv Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, BOY IS SEEKING FATHER .CRI:0 JkHICK. A(.EO ARRItEJ PORTLAND I XATTKUKI). Lad Ml. Father I. - l.4.w ele.arr mm4 rmt Ulm Tlrkrt t. .k. trai Daft.a. M..C Alfred tlu.k. C )ttri ol.l. la not the Jut worried about brine placed in limbo uf unclaimed frelcht. but th nnit. he has lost hla add t the,end of a Ion a and companlonles trip and hla father, the ronKlnee. hat not appeared to claim hiru. The little bov arrived titirdr morninc at th. North Hank dapat. on train No. 3 of the S P. tin, billed Ihrouch from Dutton. Mont. On tha ft lev. of his coal he wora a white barter, on which ha bn panelled dl- rectiom (or bia delivery, faded and . ; - . ;. i ' ' T . 1 pile ; vill ORhK WHO DO ITKI) THKIR TIMK, TAKEN VKSTKRDAV BY AX OHKI,OMA Tr F I'll()TtOK trilKR. undecipherable waa the Breater part of tliln important advice when Alfred ar rived. "I am aoina; to rurtluml. Or., to tell " Conductor fliamberlln. who received chare, of Alfred at Hpokane. wak In ferplexiiy when hi train reached this city. Hand In hand with Alfred lie youcht .Mrs. Cora K. Hullock. of thi travelers" aid department of the Y. YV. C. A., vho spent a futllo forenoon in attempting; to locate the small trav eler's parents. Meanwhile. Alfred wat a ituet of honor at the V. W. C. A. "My father is a window cleaner, and he climbs all over the biff storesand thina-s.' explained Alfred. "lie "sent my uncle a ticket. My uncle's name H Kred Dorman. and he lives at f'owers. on a farm. Probably my father is play ins; pool somewhere. The agent's notation, accompanying the boy's ticket. Is dated at Dutton. Mont.. March 15. and asks that he h taken care of. Kvldently the cloth badge was relied upon for further in strurtions. Alfred explained, with gravity, that his uncle was the owner of an auto mobile, tn which they Journeyed to Dut ton. where he took tho train: that his father expected him. and that he had liot seen hla father or mother for some time. "I clunno If I'll like it here or not." ' J: TT.iX'?-4',- 4 Alfred Krfceek. ka l.oat Hla Ad- dretM I. Tra.Mlf Front Moataaa 1. l. '. A. Awaiting Word J Fraaa Hla Pa rest.. 4 h. puxsled. "At my uncle'a I had lots of fun playing in. the snow. Where's your snow?" Th. boy is dressed In a gray suit. with brown knit cap and gray over coat. He is fair, with blue eyes and brown hair. Officials of th. T. YV. C. A. .'Ill aend a message to Dutton. seek ing Information to aid in locating his parents. R.W.SMITH FUNERAL TODAY Sun of II. G. Smllli Dies. After Lon; I lilies, at Age of 2.1 The funeral of Reginald YV. Smith. who died last Saturday, will be held at the chapel of i. P. Klnley & Son at II o'clock today. He was the son of H. O. Smith, of JsS I'pper drive, man ager of the Astoria branch of the Warren Packing Company, and a grand son of Mrs. s. Y. Jerfcott, a pioneer of Portland. a. He was IS years old. born fTi Portland June t. liSS. He was a student of Lincoln High School, leaving that school in 1912. lHath followed a lin gering illness. Pallbearers at the uneral will be Robert Rogers. Lloyd Tupper. Roswell Strohecker and Clif ford, Raymond and Ralph Jeffcott. Rev. A. A. Heist will officiate. Kx.Dean of Yale Dies. NET HAVEN. Conn., March IT Henry Parks Wright, ex-dean of Y'ale College, died at his home here tonight. Phone your want ads to Th. Orego- eian. Main 7070, A 605. TO BE TRIED Second Attempt to Be Made to Prove Murder of Lucy Carter. NEW EVIDENCE RELIED ON rr-iiinony In Cnc of Dominic Aqulna, Acquitted of Crime, Pros ecution Asserts, Strengthens Circumstantial Evidence. Frank Gaudlo, tried 10 days ago for the alleged murder of Lucy Carter, will be tried again shortly, and th testimony of Dominic Aquina, an leged conspirator, who waa acquitted of the murder by the verdict of a jury Saturday night, will be used bv th prosecution to strengthen the chain of circumstantial evidence which the state has woven about the defendant. This was the assertion yesterday of Chief Deputy District Attorney Collier. At his first trial the Jury was unable to establish either the guilt or inno cence of Gaudio and was discharged after deliberating for many hours. It was reported later that th. jurors stood nine to three lor conviction. Gaadio'a Testimony Kefated. YVIsile a witness In his own defense, Gaudlo asserted that both he and Aqulna were in the kitchen of his apartment at the Cadillac Hotel De rember 22, last, when he saw Lucy Carter plunge from a third-story win dow to her death on the pavement be low. He admitted they had been drink ing freely of wine. This testimony was refuted last week by Aqulna during his own trial. He asserted that he had left the room be fore Lucy Carter plunged through the window, and the alibi which he estab lished to substantiate this theory won for him an acquittal. The prosecution now clings to the belief that Gaudio threw the Carter woman from the window during Jealous rage, inasmuch as the testi mony of Gaudlo himself was to the effect that Aquina and the Carter worn an had been in each other's company much of the time during the drink ing party and that he had several times attempted to get Aquina to leave and go home. Jealoaay Believed Motive. Gaudio anS Lucy Carter, the testi mony showed, had been living: at the Cadillac Hotel as man and wife for several months, and Gaudio. according to the theory of the prosecution, was naturally enraged when he found her turning her affectiona to Aquina. Accepting th. verdict of the Jury, which evidently held that Aquina had lft the room before the Carter woman fell to her death, the prosecution at the next trial will contend that as soon as Aquina left the room Gaudio at' tacked the woman and then threw her through tho window. The fact that several ribs had been broken in such a manner that it was almost impossible for them to- have been fractured when she fell, together with the fact that every theory tends to show that the bedroom window. Was raised quietly and stealthily, will help to bear out the contention of the prose cution on this point, Mr. Collier said. Chaage of Veaae Refaaed. All efforts by Gaudio's attorney to secure a change of venue to Clacka mas County met with failure when Pre siding Judge Morrow decreed that he should be retried before one of the local judges. Paul Dormiuer. attorney for Gaudio, soucht to have the case tried before Circuit Judge Campbell, of Oregon Cify, on the ground that he is "the proper man before whom the case should be tried." "I will not concede that Judge Camp bell should trythis case any more than any other judge," was Judge Mor row's assertion. "I hold that any one of the judges of this district is quali fied and competent to hear this case. and I will not grant any change of venue.' G DO EMACIATION IS OBSERVABLE Death and Disease on Increase. 'Biru Rate Decreases Greatly. Vital Statistics Are Withheld. Legal Rations Inadeqnate. GERMANY AS IT IS. For five months past repre sentatlvea of the New York World on Germany's borders and agents within her borders have been gathering the facts of present-day conditions dn the empire. A series of 20 articles has been prepared and they embrace every phase man-power, food, cloth ing, finance. Socialism, overor- ganlzation, railroads, effects of embargo, privations of the peo pie, etc.. Altogether they give a remarkable amount of informa tion concerning Germany and her prospects. BT CYRIL. BROWN. (Copyright, J918. by the Preia Publishing Company. Published by arrangement with the .New lor world.; STOCKHOLM, Fen. IS. (Special.) It is true, beyond a shadow of doubt and German propaganda both for home and foreign consumption is Incessantly emphasizing the fact that food con ditions in the winter of 1S1T-1S are better than during the "turnip YVin- ter" and. "hunger Spring" of 191S-17. It is certain that Germany can hold out, as far as the food supply is con earned, until the new harvest of 1913 but beyond this point no responsible German is prophesying, though It seems reasonably certain that a total or even partial crop failure this year would prove fatal. There Is general agreement with the proposition th Germany cannot be starved out: and yet Germanys available food supply continues to diminish with the inevit ableness and regularity of a law of mathematics. Topic Is All-Absorbing. Food continues increasingly to be the almost all-absorbing subject of thought and conversation on the part of the German public until food talk today amounts almost to a national obsession. There is appreciably more food talk in 191S than a year ago. YY'henever two or more Germans get together they are very apt to tell each other what they last had to eat, as be ing the most interesting news of the day. And food, too. is the leit motif of most private letter writing. In the last consignment of informa tion I received from Germany, ray cor respondent featured the fact that he had eaten a glorious hare, with real cream sauce, for dinner, and, there' with, some real tea punch. He added that the Berlin restaurants still of fered considerable range of choice of good dishes at reasonable prices. Hardship. Almost Unbearable. Through all the food discussion among the masses, however, rings the monotonously uniform note of intense and rising dissatisfaction, of almost un bearable hardship and real suffering. This note sounds with particular in sistence from among the workers in the war industries, and the attention of the governmental authorities is con stantly being drawn to the fact that urgent relief is needed In order to stem the rising tide of dissatisfaction among the war industry workers. The workers are embittered less by their own scant rations than by the high cost of even the poorest living and the fact that the well-to-do are able to live in comparative food plenty, thanks to the cancerous growth of the illegal clandestine food traffic whose ramifi cations permeate the social tissues of the whole empire. M'orkera Lot Martyrdom. The lot of the workers has been characterized by Germans themselves as a martyrdom wnich the suffering workers have so far patiently borne. with, at most, the occasional threat of short-time demonstration strike. And while as yet no germs of revolu tion have been discovered among the restlesa and dissatisfied underfed work ers, warning voices are not wanting to prophesy that a catastrophe is certain unless the "untenable" food conditions re changed. These warnings have proceeded most ly from those in a position to gain first-hand Information regarding the living conditions of the masses, from Socialists and Catholic leaders. More guardedly, though with equal . fre- uency. the inevitability of a catastro phe unless energetic remedial action be taken has been voiced by local magis- tratea. aldermen, executive government officials and peoples representative in Parliaments.. Every effort is being made to Induce the agriculturists to make even greater food sacrifices in favor of the hardworking, underfed industrial population. One of the most Interesting and de batably involved phases of the confin ing food scantinesa is Its effect to date on the health of the German na tion and its probable future cumula tive effect. Apparently the national health has not as yet been noticeably ndermined. The official contention is hat the health of the German people haa remained normal throughout the war. This, too, is the physicians' view. There is even a school of medical pinion which claims that compulsory ieting has Improved the health of the German people. Doctor after doctor will tell you that he has fewer patients than in peace time, and that the aver age health of former patients averages p to and better than In peace time. Hardened valetudinarians have bean miraculously cured as a result of the enforced war diet. Diseases of the stomach and intestinal ailments have ertainly decreased very markedly. The same phenomenon is vouched for by German doctors to hold good for all seases directly or indirectly due to overeating. TTiuaclstlom I. Observable. But malnutrition and emaciation are distinctly observable, extending from the lowest well into' the middle classes. The malnutrition is widespread. Thus far it has resulted only in a very no ticeable lowering of the working ef ficiency of the individual. Those show- g symptoms of underfeeding will as- ure that they feel perfectly well; In some cases they even claim never to have felt better in their lives, but tbey 11 complain of a feeling of weakness nd admit that they can no longer do full peace-time day s work. Men . A man's banking connection is very important in establishing his credit in a new town. This bank, with its prestige of nearly three-score years of reliability, should be considered in placing your account. . Savings Dept. Open Sat . . urday Evenings, 6 to 8 LADD & TILTON BANK Washington and Third and women engaged in physical labor will tell you that it takes them longer today to do a heavy piece of work, that they tire more easily and quickly and that their powers of endurance are lessened. - It is a fact that the productive ef ficiency of industrial workers is far less today than in normal food times: the average efficiency of not specially favored labor has decreased at least 25 per cent. The ability of the miners in Germany's coal and iron amines too is admitted very much poorer than in peace times. Even favored labor, the so-called hard workers in the war in dustries, who receive extra rations, show a lowered efficiency, though not as great as in the case of the com rades who are forced to live on the legal maximum rations. Death aad Disease Increase. Though the normally healthy still manage to stand up under the war diet, the ravages of death and disease among the aged and the young, the weak and the invalid and those pre disposed to sickness have increased to startling proportions. It has been repeatedly admitted by Germans in a position to know the facts that the ravages of tuberculosis have greatly increased among Ger many's civilian population, though no tuberculosis war statistics can be obtained. A Berlin alderman was re cently quoted as saying that it was 'high time to do something if tuber culosis is not to spread with terrible destructiveness." The lack of fats. In particular, is beginning to make itself noticeably felt in the public's health. This holds good especially for the hard-working industrial popula tion. As one observer in the Rhenish industrial section put it, "the lack of fats begins to stamp itself on the health of the population, particularly of the children." Statistics Are Withheld. . Full and reliable vital statistics for Germany during the war are withheld by the authorities, but a certain mount of statistical material war rants conclusions regarding food short age and national health. There has been a great increase in the pressure of the public, and particularly of charity patients, on Berlin's hard taxed hospitals. The official figures for the last year would undoubtedly be astonishing and illuminating if available. There is evidence of heavy and growing increase in civil ian mortality in many parts of Ger many: The statistics are closely held, but some cue is afforded by the star tllng jump in the number of crema tions. The number of cremations in Germany increased 23 per cent inOc tober, 1916, as against October, 191a, while for Greater Berlin the increase in cremations during one year was 56 per cent. If the burials kept pace with the cremations the total death rate should be averaging over 23 per cent higher than a year ago. Birth Rate Decreases Greatly. The decrease in Germany's birth r,ate is even greater than the increase of the death rate, and is, in the est! mation of some scientists, very largely due to malnutrition and, more espe cially, the fat shortage. My attention was first attracted to this phase Germany's food problem by a leading Swedish specialist, who was authority for the statement that there had been during the war an amazing increase in the number of cases of "delusion of pregnacy" among the women of Ger many, with a synchronous sharp drop of the birth rate, and that German medical science Inclined to attribute both connected phenomena to the lack of fats in the diet of the masses of Germany's potential mothers. The increasing delusion or preg nacy" and the railing Dirtn rate are both characterized by Interested spe cialists as alarming. The decline of the birth rate looks even more startling when one com pares 1917 with the peace half of 1914. The number of live born was 42.6 per cent less in January, 1917, than in January, 1914, and the birth rate dropped 44. 8 per cent In April, 1917, as against April, 1914. , . Legal Ration. Inadequate. The effect of scant food rations on infants is a great question in Germany today. Complaints that the present legal rations, including the additions allowed by law, are inadequate, are loud and frequent from expectant mothers and nursing mothers of the working classes, but the best consen sus of opinion is that these complaints aro absolutely unfounded. The food regulations allow nursing mothers cer tain additional food allowances calcu lated and fixed by scientists and guar anteed by these authorities to be en tirely adequate to enable mothers to nurse their infants. Even during the pinch of the fourth war Winter, nursing: mothers receive. in addition to their regular rations, an additional allowance of at least seven ounces of pure wheat flour weekly, at least one pound of oatmeal per month, three-quarters of a quart of milk and one and a half ounces of beet sugar daily, German war science calculating that 2800 calories daily are the . mini mum required to enable a mother to nurse her infant. This is one of the few really bright spots in Germany's food position. The special and ample provision made tor mothers and infants, when rationing was first introduced, has borne fruit in a slight decline in infant mortality. Once born, German war babies get a fair start in life, thanks to the pater nal care of the state. Of Germans of all ages, the nursing infant class is said to be best off; nor does this new born war babe show any diminution of vitality as compared with the peace time new born. Older ( hlldrea Saf fer. In sharp contrast to the favorable condition of mothers and infants is the sorry state of the older children. These show the effect of scant rations as does no other age class of Germans. II is probable that the experiment suc cessfully tried last Summer of sending city children into the food provinces will be carried through this year on a wholesale scale, and that hundreds of thousands of city children will be sent out on the land. YVhile every effort is made by the food authorities to ameliorate the lot of tlie sick and the convalescent by liberal extra food allotments, it is growing more and more difficult to scrape up the amount of additional food necessary for tho sick and the weak, particularly as their number has on the one hand increased and on the ether many easy-going practitioners have in the past been found who could be prevailed on by well "patients" to prescribe milk and cream, wheat, flour, oatmeal and other rarities for their only ailment a hearty appetite un satisfied by regular rations. RELICS TO BE BRITISH CAPTAI.VS COLLEtTlOX TO BE HERE WED.VKSDiY. Trophies Exhibited Indcr Auttpices of UritfMh Red Crow Society at Meier &. Frank's Store. Bringing J he observer into a closer touch with the life of the poilu and the Tommy and the Anzac and all the allied soldiers who have battled for three and a half years on the western front, the famous collection of rcli-es gathered .by Captain Thomas X. Barker, of the Duke of Leicester's Own Regiment, British army, the prim reminders of fierce conflict seem to tell each a story as if they were animate things. Hundreds of odd souvenirs picked up all along the line from Ostend to Ypres will be on exhibition next Wednesday in the audi torium of the Meier & Frank store. The collection will be shown under the auspices of the British Red Cross Society, and may be viewed free of admission, although donatiops will be accepted for wounded Oregonians who have returned from the front. The col lection comes to Portland after having been exhibited in tHe six largest cities of Australia, throughout Canada and in the United States. The trophy which is expected to re ceive most attention is a full-sized scouting monoplane of the Caudron type. The machine held the record at the time of its destruction of being the fastest "ship" turned out by its makers. After a shell had wrecked its engine it was condemned and Captain Barker secured permission to export it to Australia. A Belgian service, rifle is another unique relic. It bears the scars of 30 bullet marks made when its owner, a Belgian Guard, stood in a trench in de fense of the line at Haelon. In the en gagement 116! men of the First and Second Belgian Guards were wiped out in 40 minutes by the enfilading fire of concealed German machine guns. An incendiary bomb of the Thermit type, which heats to 5000 degrees, brings back memories of the raid on South End, near London, May 10. 1915. The bomb is described by a govern mental note as being the one which killed the only victim of the raid. Then there are helmets French, Belgian and German caps, shoes, uniforms, swords, bayonets, bullets, shells, spurs and like articles. Particularly interesting are the fac similes of proclamations issued by Ger man military authorities, demanding of civilian populations indemnities and the observation of restrictions. For its completeness and authenticity the col lection is considered the best and most interesting ever shown in this country or Canada. SENATE TERMS CONFUSE CANDIDATES THUS FAR HAVE SOT ASKED FOR OPINION. Whether Senatorial Aspirants Can Run for Both Long; and Short Terns Is Pnrely Speculative. SALEM, Or., March 17.(Special.) So far no request has .been made to Attorney-General Brown for an opinion as to whether one candidate can run for both the long and short terms a can didates for the United States Senator ship. It is understood that the Attorney-General's mind is already made up on the point and only the mechanical process of dictating the opinion would be required to settle the issue. As an instance, it was announced from Eugene some time since that 1. E. Bean might become a candidate for the short term, in event none of the avowed candidates for the long term announced for both the long and the short terms. If he does not become a candidate for the short term in the United States Sen ate it Is understood that Mr. Bean will endeavor to return to the Legislature and if the candidates for the Senate hold off their decision to the last min ute it might cause Mr. Bean some (jviclc thinking to determine just what lie in tends to do. Robert X. Stanfield made the state ment shortly after Attorney-Oeiicral Brown rendered his opinion .to the ef fect that there are long and short torrid to fill, that he would be a candidate for the long term only. Other candi dates seem to be holding off aa tj jrat what they intend to do, and from th fact that Attorney-General B-own baa , received no inquiry as to whether on andidate can run for both piio-n, it might be inferred that no juch atteinrt will be made. None of the candidates for t.ie Sen- atorship has filed his formal declara tion with the Secretary of State up to this time.