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13 THE 3IORNTNG OltEGOXIAN, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1918. rOKTLAXD, OKKCO?. Entered at Portland (Oregon) Postofflee as secoBd-clasi, mall matter. Subscription rate Invariably In advance: (By Hall.) Pally. Sunday Include, one year iJaliy. Eunday Included. six months. l-i!y. Sunday Included, three months... a." Xai;y. Sunday Included, one month...-, Xaily, without riunday. one year ... llaiiy. without Sunday, six noDlbl Uaily. without Sunday, on montn "Weekly, one year ............- - Hunday, one year. ........... ... . Sunday and Weekly ....... .60 .... 1.0 .... 2.R0 .... eUkO By Carrtar.) Pally. Sunday Included, ona year Dally. Sunday Included, one month..... .J tally. Sunday Included, three mont .. J " Laliy, without Sunday, one year i.bo Laiiy. without Sunday, three montna.... XaUy. without Sunday, one month...... How to Remit Send postoftlea money order, express or personal check on your local bank. Btaznpe. coin or currency are at owner's risk. Give poatoffloe address In lull. " including; county and state. Peatase Bates is to 18 pases, 1 cent; 18 to S2 pases. 2 cents; S4 to 8 pases. S cents; 60 to 00 pases, a cents; 2 to TC pases. 8 cents; T8 to pases, 6 cents. Foreign post age, double rates. Eastern Business Office Verree Conk II n, Brunswick building. New York; Verree Oonklln. Kteser butldlns. Chlcaso; Verree Conklln. Free Preaa bulldlns. Detroit. Mich.; tan Francisco representative, B. J. Bidwell. 342 Market street. KEXBEB OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press Is exclusively enti tled to the use for republication of. all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited to this paper, and also the local news published herein. a.11 rights of republication of special dis patches herein are also reserved. PORTLAND. SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1918. THE BED CROSS DRIVE. The new Red Cross drive, by which it is designed to raise another $100, 000,000 for this highly essential work In connection with the war, finds the Red Cross thoroughly organized in its administrative departments and estab lished in the confidence of the people. Not eo well known in the beginning of the war, its name has now become a. household word. Yet there are cer tain facts about it which will bear repetition for the sake of emphasis. It is doing a work which cannot be undertaken by the Government under international law. Certain privileges and exemptions are inherent in it be-' cause of its civilian nature. Its mem bers may succor the wounded between the firing lines and minister to pris oners In enemy camps. Its flag is respected by all civilized nations and sometimes by the Prussians. It sup plies the only means of communica tion between captured American sol diers in Germany and their relatives at home. But the scope of Its activities is ex ceedingly wide. Wherever there has been a call for a work of mercy the Ked Cross has tried to answer the call. It has not only co-operated with the military surgeons on the battle field, but it has maintained hospitals behind the line. It now proposes, among other things, to build 300 dis pensaries in France, to establish an agricultural training school for in capaciated soldiers and to maintain the stupendous relief system which is now in use. There has been ample testimony to the beneficent effect of the work of the American Red Cross upon the morale of our allies. The Italian army and nation were mightily heartened when the Red Cross first made its appearance along their lines. French civilians were spurred to new en deavors when it took over the care of children from the devastated villages Everywhere that the Red Cross flag has been raised it has been an In spiration. The sum which it is proposed to raise is not exorbitant, in proportion to requirements. It amounts to no more than a dollar for each inhabi tant of the United States. We are living in an age of huge figures. A (hundred million dollars in the handp of the Red Cross will go far toward mitigating the horrors of the war. All but the hopelessly uncharitable hnd the evil-minded know by this time that the Red Cross is wholly worthy of the trust imposed in it. There is no excuse for withholding aid. . But it may be well to remind some citizens that aid should not be perfunctory. Sacrifices should be made, if need be. in the giving of it. Uo possible deprivation at home will begin to compare with the miseries which the Red Cross is relieving to the full extent of its ability. NOT YET MAKING MAC II I'VE COS. Sanguine hopes raised by Secretary of War Baker on February 27 that quantity production of the Browning heavy machine gun would begin "within a few weeks in four fac tories" have been disappointed, ac cording to testimony taken by the House military committee, and there Is small prospect that American sol die is will be armed wfth these guns this year. Instead of being made in four factories, they have been limited to one, the production of which, it was brought out at the hearing, was practically nil, with little prospect of arly improvement." and another company has been called to the res. cue, with a possibility that a third will be called in. Three thousand of these guns were to have been pro duced in April, but they are not yet In sight. Even with the Browning automatic rifle, which Mr. Baker said on Febru ary 27 was then being manufactured on a quantity basis and would reach "peak production" in June, progress is only fairly satisfactory, being not fully up to expectations. The New York Sun thus sums up the small arms situation as developed at the bearing: American snldlers now brigaded with the ftrltieh and French on the western front re uslns machine suns and ammunition of loreiKn make. Even the divisions assigned to a pursly American sector are using French machine suns ana ammunition. it has been neewsrr to use foreign rifles in a number or Instances, but the American troops holding their own sector have been supplied with Springfield rifles and a xnunlllon. A large part of the machine sun appro priation is wanted tor guns to equip air. planes. A great air offensive is forecast y the estimates for sun equipment of aerial warriors. 1 Pisiitl production has been somewhat off the schedule, but ia Improving. The cause of this failure is lack of gauges, which the House was warned two years ago to provide in advance That warning was given by Represen tative Tilson, who is an expert on email arms and who had seen our deficiencies when he served in the Spanish war and on the Mexican bor der. He took a rifle to pieces in the House, explained that thousands of gauges were needed for its production, that they required a year to make but that when they were made a fac tory could begin turning out rifles in Quantity two weeks after receiving a contract. Enough appliances to make a thousand rifles a day could have been made for $275,000, but Congress did not even vote that small sum. though It authorized purchase of ap pliances. Having- knowledge from Mr. Til son's speech of the time required to prepare for quantity production, the Ordnance Bureau persisted in dis carding: rifles and machine guns for which American factories were equipped and in seeking- ideal per fection, as though the war would wait for the United States to get ready. After adopting? the Browning guns it wasted two more months be fore letting- contracts. The result of this folly is that more than a year after going to war the United States is only beginning to make these weapons. As the great industrial Na tion, a master of speed and efficiency, we were looked upon as the white hope of the allies, but our soldiers are armed with machine guns made by the women and girls of England and France, while their men bold back the Hun. It Is about time Mr. Baker stopped telling the people what he is going to do - and began telling them what he has done and is doing, for bis promises have proved worthless. FOB DIVERSIONS SAKE. The campaign having come to a close and the war news being stale, dull and unprofitable, we find casual diversion in the antics of the mad mullah of the Salem Capital Journal. Here is a specimen stunt: The hatred of The Oresenlan for the Gov ernment of the United estates Is shown by the way It proclaims the irailt In advance of any hearins of any official accused of a misdemeanor or crime. Now It has its Washington correspondence (marked "spe cial") intimate that Borslum, the -crook who has been raisins a row over the air craft work, Te only the victim of a lrame up." Or possibly its Washington corre spondent doea not write these dispatches at 11. but they may be manufactured in The Oregonlan office just to fool the public which believes them to bo resular press matter. The propinquity of the Salem paper to the state's leading institution tor care and restraint of the insane leads to the inevitable conclusion that the Journal is now edited from the violent ward; or. if not now. certainly soon. The Oregonian has proclamied no one's guilt in advance, not even Borg lum's, who is by the Salem paper de nounced in advance to be a crook. But it takes Borglura and his charges seriously and it has reported that he says he is made the victim of a frame- up. Perhaps he is. Shall or shall not there be a bearing to find out? There has been a woeful failure of aircraft production. We have not seen it denied anywhere but in Salem, for clearly it is assumed there that everything is all right, else there would not be the vehement outcry against an investigation. President Wilson purposes to inves tigate, and has asked Charles E. Hughes, famed for bis powers as an inquisitor, to take charge. Senator Chamberlain also asserts that the Senate, which, with the House, gave nearly a billion for aircraft, and other billions for other war activities, has a right to know the facts about their expenditure. The country at large which furnished the money has a par donable interest in its expenditure, and a more vital interest in the air craft blow-up and the reasons therefor. Only at Salem is there furious denun ciation of any plan to learn anything about incompetence, or ignorance, or criminality, or whatever It ia that has led to the present grave dilemma. But the Salem writer is happiest when he may deal only with his strange fancies and vicious prejudices, and ignore facts. . THE "VINDICATIOSI" OF EATOW. The public will await the election returns from Lane County with a mild curiosity, for the great question of the vindication of Mr. Allan Eaton has been fought out at the polls. It may be recalled by a. more or less forget ful public that Mr. Eaton, several times a member of the State Legisla ture, and a professor in the State Uni versity, had attended as a delegate the convention of the People's Council of Peace and Democracy at Chicago, after it had been driven from state to state because of a general distrust of its loyalty, and had defended the or ganization and its propaganda in a letter to a Portland paper. The universal attitude of suspicion. and worse, toward the People's Coun cil arose from its own proclamation of its purposes, which were to assem ble in one organization "various branches of the labor movement, farmers' organizations, Socialist bodies, branches of the Socialist labor party. single-taxers. pacifists, antl-militarists. advocates of the repeal of conscrip tion laws, professional men's organi zationsevery radical and forward- looking force in the Nation." "The President," it was also officially declared by the People's Council, "says we are to help make the world safe for democracy.' Yet every day our democracy at home is more an! more imperilled." It was also declared that "our Constitutional liberties are being assailed" because "for the first time in history it is proposed to send mil lions of our young men to fight and die on foreign soil." The official programme of the Coun cil was to "secure an early democratic and general peace, in harmony with the principles outlined by New Rus- la." It should not be forgotten that these amazing projects were hatched and promulgated about June, 1917, three months after America entered the war. Mr. Eaton pretends, we believe, that he was ignorant of the exact nature of the People's Council. No man could be ignorant of the real purpose of such an organization, if he read its literature; or, if he did not, if he as certained its personnel, such as Scott Neanng, frequently in trouble with the authorities for seditious activities; Max Eastman, editor of the Masses: Eugene V. Debs, Morris Hillquit and a long list of agitators of similar ilk. Eaton went, and stayed to the end. When he. came home it was to find himself in the midst of a fierce storm of protest, which has not yet wholly subsided. Now he has asked "vindication"? For what? For his) part in a proceed ing which he has not repudiated ? It must be so. Where does Lane County stand? Is it possible that there can be a doubt about it? A writer in the Army and Navy Journal lays down a simple rule for the cultivation of a military appear ance, wbich could be applied to ad vantage by civilians. He says that "if you will keep your shoulders well back and your stomach in, the rest will about take care of itself." There is a certain moral effect about the soldierly carriage, which many re cruits are able to affirm. It gives self-confidence which ia not less d sirable In a civilian than a soldier, and a sense of alertness and capacity which goes far toward counteracting the habit of self-depreciation and has been known to be an excellent antt dote for the blue. One need only to contrast the careless soldier he so seldom meets with the great number of upstanding young men in uniform he encounters everywhere' to appre ciate the difference. And it will be noted, too. that men not in khaki are beginning to walk straighter since the mobilization began. This is the result of imitation, none the less effective because it Is mostly unconscious. FACTS GOOD ENOUGH. The Presbyterian Board of Temper ance hastens through its general sec retary to repudiate a ridiculous and false leaflet about the effects of prohi bition in Portland. In its letter to The Oregonian it assures the public that it sought to recall the leaflet, when it learned the facts, and re paired, so far as it could, whatever harm might have been done through the spread of mistaken information. The little circular, it may be re called, had been widely circulated in New York and elsewhere. It made the remarkable statement that three brew eries, of Portland, which formerly employed 379 men. bad been turned into other industries (not shipyards) employing 4700 men. The statement of the Presbyterian board, in explanation of Its transgres sion, does not accord with the facts as given in a letter by the Information Secretary of the Anti-Saloon League of New York, which declared that it had "been unable to get any satisfac tion from the Presbyterian board, un der whose management it was pub lished." But let it pass. The Orego nian reverts to the subject merely to repeat a previous suggestion that the facts about prohibition are good enough, and that the testimony of any large Oregon or Washington em ployer of labor would be absolutely convincing which the arguments and manufactured statistics of the hired propagandist never are. The prohibition movement is yet in the hands of the professional crusader, and he is not tolerant of interference. Witness the recent controversy be tween Mr. W. H. Anderson, of the New York Anti-Saloon League, and Mr. Bryan. The eminent prohibition ist from Nebraska had organized a Dry Federation, and he was promptly denounced by Anderson as "frankly a joke so far as the prohibition move ment is concerned." It was also said Mr. Bryan was "worse thana pacifist on prohibition, and that "he was as late in connecting himself up with this great moral movement as he was in taking the American side in the controversy with Germany." We haven't heard what Bryan said in reply; but it ia not difficult to sur mise. Meanwhile, not less than eleven states have ratified the National pro hibition amendment, and the paid re formers will soon be out of a job. WHERE WILL BE THE NEXT BATTLE? Intensified artillery fire by the Ger mans after two weeks of comparative calm presages an early renewal of the attack on the allied lines. The Ger mans are in such situation that they must go on, for they are in a danger ous position, the danger of which grows as American and British troops swell the opposing armies, while to stand still is to admit defeat at the beginning of what they intended to be the decisive campaign. In Flanders the Germans have driven a wedge into the line across a plain which is confined between two ranges of hills, which converge toward the west. The British hold all of these hills except Mt Kemmel. the most easterly of the northern range, and can sweep the Intervening plain and observe all movements of the Germans. If the Germans should push westward before taking these heights, they would sharpen the point of the wedge and get into a still more dan gerous position. Before they carw safely push farther westward, they must broaden the salient by capturing. or forcing the allies to retreat from, the heights. All former attempts have been repulsed with terrible loss. While the salient which they have pushed toward Amiens is broader, it has been pushed eastward by th allies in minor actions since the big push stopped, and the allies have taken strong hold on the plateaus which intervene between the rivers, and the way westward leads into angles at the junction of the streams. The plateaus are good defensive posi tions for the allies, while the rivers make close co-operation among the Germans difficult. The heaviest forces of Germans are reported to be concentrated between the Somme and Arras, a fact which points to an effort to take the heights of Notre Dame de Lorette and Vimy, which protect Arras, and to roll up the allied front toward the north. If they should succeed, they would take In the rear the British positions on the south flank of the Flanders salient extending westward from Givenchy to Robecq, would cut out the bulge into their own line and would make it run in a practically straight line from Bailleul to the Ancre River. For this work they may have from 800,000 to 1,000,000 fresh troops which have not been engaged in this Spring's fighting. To withstand the coming assault the allies have the advantage of positions which they have held successfully against most determined attack from south of Arras to La Bacsee Canal, of others which they have much strength ened on the Ancre and Avre rivers. and a greatly Increased army. The forces of the three allied nations have been so mingled that they are a single army under a single commander. The value of this situation is indicated by the facts that the weak point in their line, where the break came on March 21, was the junction between the Brit ish and French armies, each under in dependent command; that no rout occurred and the German advance slowed down until it stopped from the time when the French filled the gap left by Gough's British army; and that the only material gain made by the Germans from the day when the French arrived in Flanders was the capture of Mt. Kemmel. The new forces sent from America and Britain in the last two months should suffice to make good all losses, and the three armies have been so welded into one that they will begin the next battle under circumstances as favorable as those under which they finished the first. There is another possibility which must not be left out of account in an attempted forecast of German plans. namely, a combined attack by Ger many and Austria on Italy. Through out the war It has been the custom of the German general staff to aim at the crushing of the weakest an tagonist after suffering repulse by the stronger, and thus to console the Ger man people for their losses with relatively cheap but much-heralded victory. That is one reason for turn ing against Italy. Another may be that Emperor Charles' peace over tures have convinced the Kaiser of the wisdom of winning a victory for Austria at the same time that he ties bis ally so securely to bis chariot wheel that the latter becomes his help less vassal. There ia also a stronger peace party in Italy than in any other ally country, and the Italians have not been heartened by the presence of American troops, as bave the British and French. But an Italian diversion would be equivalent to an admission of defeat in France, and it would give the allies time to strengthen their forces and to prepare a counter offensive. The Kaiser's boasts have imposed on him the necessity of forcing tli war to an issue in the west, and any aid he may give Austria would not be material enough to interfere with this purpose. 8 HAD. Efforts by the Government to en courage and assist the propagation of shad as part of the general food pro duction movement ought to receive the indorsement of epicures, as well as of those who merely regard all fish as food which comes into their nets. Next to royal Chinook salmon no finer fish inhabits any waters. In texture and flavor its flesh is indescribably delicate. It possesses the important merit of high fecundity. Each female averages about 80,000 eggs, although many as 160,000 have been ob tained. The hatching period is rea sonably brief and the shad is adapted readily to artificial cultivation. Popularity of this delectable food fish has been diminished only by the great number of its exceedingly fine bones. This annoyance baa been abated by the discovery by housewives that it may be removed in the process of cooking with an implement no more mysterious than a common strawberry huller, plied with discre tion at the precise stage of preparer tlon which experience has shown to facilitate removal without at the same time wasting the meat. There is no reason why the practically bone- ess shad should not become part of the menu of every diner who knows a really good thing when he eats it. The Pacific Coast has an especial Interest in the shad because it is to this part of the country that the people eventually may have to look for their supply. The shad is dis criminating in its choice of spawning grounds, and those on the Atlantic Coast have been recently polluted by factory refuse, due to the rapid growth of war industries. Experiments in transplanting shad in the Pacific about thirty years ago were successful. They were made first in the waters of California streams, and now shad is found all along the Coast, ai far north as California. There is prac tically no limit to the quantity which may be consumed, and the methods of encouraging propagation by pre venting stream pollution and in other ways are highly practical. The waters of this Coast promise to grow in im portance in future plana for the feed ing of the Nation. -men is genuine alarm In some quarters. Including, perhaps, the fac tories where safety razors are made, over th prospect that beards will re. turn to fashion when our armies come home. It has been observed that Army officers who went into the serv Ice smooth-shaven .are beginning to cultivate whiskers, with strong in clination toward the Van Dyke type. This is traced in part to the insidious influence of foreign contact. Only the British require their men to shave. rxench and Italians favor the beard, and the "poilu" got his nickname from his hirsute adornment. Russians still regard a smooth face as a sign of effeminacy. But the peril is not ade quately measured by its possible effect on, the soldier alone. If our fighting men adopt the fashion, civilians are sure to copy it. It wae so after our Civil War. It is suggested that ail who are in doubt as to an appropriate gift for a friend in the Army make it a shaving outfit and thus con tribute their bit toward stemming "the uae. The plea of Commander See, of Washington, for a permanent Grand Army of the Republic, is plausible, for the last veteran of the Civil War will pass in not many years. The Spanish War veterans are not rela tlvely numerous in these days of big armies, but the millions who will re turn from Europe may desire a name and organization that will signify their work. In half a dozen years the mat ter will be decided. ir oermany could have picked up the buildings in the occupied territory and carried them away, there would have been no shortage of houses. everything movable baa been car ried off. An ordinary cook can make a fine soup with a rock for a start by put ting in all the other things, and why not a sort of head cheese with one of those free halibut "domes"? An American-built plane, with an experienced flyer, crumpled .yesterday when 100 feet up at Hempstead field and the man was killed. That may have been an accident. . German people are facing compul sory marriage, with punishment for the childless. That is the government which would rule the world. It is rather wrongful use of the verb to say a dead person "leaves" so much or so. little. What else can he do. with it? The man getting laborer's wage who give one day's pay to the Red Cross is as good as the capitalist who gives a thousand. . Jess Willard has gone back to bis Kansas farm and -no more will fight. for he will be out of condition after the war. The best that can be said of Dr. Roberts on the witness stand is that he is not "acting like a gentleman." Hobos will not bother the girl sec tion hands at Castle Rock, armed as they are with their "No. 2's." One Mexican General will not spill the beans. Obregon has the worth of 116.000,000 to sell. The beet wife is the defeated candi date's who does not look it or say it this morning. The third liberty loan went over four billions for "your America, and mine!" Last day to "gorge" with potatoes. Now, then, three times today! While there's life, there's hope of election some time. Occasionally the defeated man lucky. Is A' Line o Type or Two, Hew te the I.lae. the Quips Fan Where They May. OS SEEING THINGS AT SEA 'Qui steels oculls monstra natantl "What form of death feared he That first beheld dry-eyed Sea monsters swimming?" Such Flaccus question. Well. I should say that we . ' Would call that guy pie-eyed x rora bumpers brimming, Or indigestion. PAN. CONSTANT readers who. ceruse this column on Mondays and Thursdays may remember the dollar-a-day cripple In Peterman, Ala.. 8. W. Dean, who subscribed fifty dollars to the Liberty oan. although, be hssn t bought flour or two years and baa four children that never had a pair of shoes. A gen tleman In Cumberland Mills. Me., sends us five dollars to forward to Dean, who may "decide the flour, shoe, or Liberty loan direction In which the check should be sent." We have addressed the postmaster at Peterman for con firmation of Dean's existence. Influence) mt m DlstlasraUhed Example. May I not congratulate the Bor Scouts of Wichita," etc. Mr. McAdoo. TOay I not thank you nersonallv for your word of appreciation," etc May or Hjlan to Sec Bake. THE MAY-l-NOTTERS, Sir: The President's persistence In may-I-nottlng, after all the adverse comment, can be explained In only three ways: tl) He aoea not read the i-lne; (S) He sees that he Is wrong, but is too obstinate to change, where no Na tional or political purpose is served y cnanglng; (2) He knows he Is right the phrase Is a courteous one. In ail tne discussion of the President's fa vorite initial phrase I have seen no.et- piaaatkon of the difference in effect between ''May IT' and "May I not?" The former locution simply asks per mission: the latter Implies that It will be granted, and therein pays subtle tribute to the graciousness of the askee. It Is thus a courteous expres sion; and one need not wonder that a gentleman of Virginia prefers it. I am from Massachusetts myself. F. M. B. E PLTJRIBUS TJNTJM. (From the Buenos Aires Standard.) A high-class "Ford" motorcar is to be raffled .for th benefit of the Irish- Argentine Tennis Club. The car Is one of the best turned out by the famous ma iters. DTD you notice the picture of See Baker reviewing a parade of American heroes? Newton had his hat on. But perhaps he never takes It off, not even wnen he is conversing. Rear the Here Mis Talk. Sir: There will be an unusually large crop of June brides. A majority of the grooms will doubtless wear conven tlonal khaki. Each bride will carry a bouquet as big as an auto tire, with comet-like appendage of knotted rib Dons and other notions trailing on the pavement or axminster, as t. c m. b. If there is anything in the nuptial realm leas artlstie than a fashionable bride's bouquet this subscriber has failed to note It, and his observations have covered the period between the tnrobbing now and the plactd days of the John Qulncy Polk administration. Some rare June not the Impending one, nor the next, but some far-away rose month a rebellious bride-to-be will start something. She will not suf. fer herself to be smothered in billowy swirls of chiffon or convoluted .drifts of organdie voile and fluffy tulle a textile frenzy signifying nothing mors than a comfortable bank balance. Her gown from throat to hem will be sheer as a slender Easter lily, and as free from frills and filigree. Her floral adornment will consist of two vivid notes: a Richmond rose will rest like poised butterfly In her loosely- colled, unhampered hair, and In her left hand will be held a long-stemmed American Beauty rose. Bo Inspiring Islon would have won from Keats another deathless sonnet, would It not? C. W. A BUT THINK OF THH EXCITEMENT WE'D MISS. Sir: I see that Heifetz fiddled to a 1S. 000 audience at a war benefit con cert in New York. When the fourth L. L. comes along can't we get him and Gallt-Curci and McCormack and Caruso to raise the whole thing In a couple of nights? I got a name already: "The Liberty Loan Quartet." C. N. D. "IT Is an axiom that a man who as sumes the right to accuse others must come into court with clean bands," says the valued Post, referring to Borglum. Nay, brother. The axiom is, "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." "My Tuesdays Are Wke-afleas." Sir: I have about come to the con clusion that your column is about the most widely read column on earth. Reason: I wrote a young poem once. I published It In the New York star with my name hitched to It. Some scoundrel pinched It and sent it in to you. You published It. I now have over 850 clippings of that poem, taken from different publications. The ones credited to the Star and me number 132; the ones credited to YOU number 222. Mr. Hoovers office has over a thousand, and over eighty authors. It is hard enough to be one poet; but itsel to have to be poet enough for two poets. To say nothing of eighty. WILL M. CRES5T. "PROBABLY every one that has tried the recipe for potato cornmeal muffins in United States food leaflet No, 10 has liked the results. -Col. Eddington, We suspect that that Is the recipe used on railway diners. THEY appear to have the Gutson Borglum. (We were going to throw that away, but along comes J. E. M. with the same wheeze, so It must be good.) IT seems that the phrase "cocoa press refers to the string of English newspapers owned by the Cadburys, who made their pile la cocoa, aesusaitleHsal tliemrr Note. (From the British Weekly.) - I do not think It has been mentioned that Viscount Merely's title of hit latest book. "Recollections." was an ticipated by Mr. William OBrien. M. P., In 1905. Both "Recollections" were published by Messrs. Macmillan. "HTOB Womens Parade to Set Off New Drive." Indianapolis Star. My dear, you should have seen them! They were immense. HOW PERFECTLY TJXKELFTSrTl (Lewis Allen Brown in Th Forum.) "We can get along without tissue paper covers and red and gold abdomi nal bands about our cigars: we can dlsoense with fluted lavender paper cups about our bonbons. W can dis pense with th bonbons." SORRY if you don't like that sort, but IT looks like a cold, wet Rummer. " There is a quality that passes current in any country and In all cir cumstances.' remarked the officer, 'and our soldiers have it. It Is common sense. " The very quality that Is lacking in so many persons at home who try to make things as difficult for the army as possible. "Australians again force Germans back." Th kangaroo bop ia mightier than the goose-step. FRUITS PLACE IV DAY'S RATION Why Kaslaaa F.srssrasrs Its Prar ttoa la Tlsae of Feed Scarcity. H W. C In Rural New York. In all this talk about food saving. 'calories" and conservation, we want to remember that life is not one eter nal round of protein, fat and carbo hydrates. A wolf has about the earn analysis aa a lasy dog. A rat would analyze much the same as a gray squir rel. I imagine horse meat would show higher food value than a good cut ot beef. Yet only hunger or the hardest privation would force civilised men to make the change. The fact that an Alaskan Indian would prefer a roasted dog and strawberries served in fish oil to roast lamb and cream-merely shows that It is a long and crooked way from Fifth avenue to Bering Strait. Famine, fashion and fruit are the things which are most likely to fore changes in diet. Fashion Is largely re sponsible for the fact that so many farmers will sell S cents worth of grain and then pay 1& cents for the same grain in the form of breakfast cereal. It is also fashion or habit which makes a man sell milk or cheese at S cents and then pay SO cents for the same food value in meat. I think I could easily show how fruit and the demand for it has changed th history of th world, both in conquest and in traffic or commerce. Again and again the old-time Huns moved out of the marshes and forests of Germany and overran Italy and sacked Rome. It was not entirely a desire for booty, for these old savages did not realise the real value of money and plunder. One force which pushed them on was the4 story they heard of the wonderful fruit In that sunny country. They were af ter the oranges, apples and grapes, and when they came to the orchards their diet was changed by fruit. Man's craving for fruit has don much to bring th world together. Th distribution of fruit acids has don much to sweeten civilisation. In normal times you will find bananas, oranges, lemons and apples everywhere, and af ter this war Is over there will be a greater demand than ever before. While England Is on short rations th gov ernment is urging farmers to plant more fruit and give It good care, whll It would seem as If every ounce of la bor force ought to go to raising grain and meat. England understands that fruit has a value outstde of any com bination of food elements. It makes disagreeable food palatable and it tones up the system and thus keeps off de pression. "Flesh for the fighter" Is an old saying, but fruit with th flesh makes the fight bear fruit. Now the family is the small unit ot the nation. Before this great war is over we shall, every one of us, be forced to practice economies in our food. It will come hard with most of us. but w shall have to stand up to it and endure. Nothing will help so much to make th change of diet endurable as a full fam ily supply of fruit and vegetables. That is why I would urge every farmer to prepare for what is coming by planting a Jul! supply o fruit. It is not too late to plant rhubarb, currants, strawberries and bush fruits, to say nothing ot peaches and plums. Do not let anyon tell you that fruit growing is not essen tial this year. As for an asparagus patch, no family has any business to live In the country without one. Kmplaysaemt ef Boys. M1LWACKIE. Or.. May 16. (To th Editor.) Is It not unlawful for a boy not vet 1C years of age to be employed on road work, doing grading, etc.I Ana, If so, what is the penalty for those hir ing such a youth? interesteu. His hours are regulated by law, but his employment In that capacity Is not prohibited unless he Is under 14 and school is In session in the district in which he resides. Msrrlste After Dlvore. LEXINGTON. Or.. May 1. (To the Editor.) If a divorced person marries before six months sfter obtaining di vorce, ia the marriage legal, providing he or she goes into another state to marry? SUNFLOWER. Such a marriage of a person divorced tn Oregon and entered Into prior to June, 1913, Is Illegal, whether contract ed in this stat or soma other state. Exempt to ef Salpvard Werkera. PORTLAND, May 1?. (To the Edi tor.) Win shipyard workers, such ai bolsteruu and rivet passers in class 1, be exempted if they claim exemption? A KtAUt.lt. All workers In th shipyards accred ited on the Emergency Fleet Corpora tion list are entitled to deferred class ification while so employed. rropou-s Shlpfealldlng Plaat. ONALASKA, Wash.. May 18. (Te th Editor.) Please furnish me with the address of the shipbuilding concern that the Dupont Interests are back of the yard that has a $75,000,000 Chinese contract. W. S. DENIO. The plant or plan has not materialized. Explosives From the Skies A Frank G, Carpenter article in THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN A etory of modern magic, UHhis yarn of National preparedness as told by Frank G. Carpenter. Black magio it will prove for the Hun, for the store of nitrogen that Uncle Sam is filchirfg from the air, near Arlington, Virginia, will be utilized in the manufacture of the shells our guns will fire in France. , Pneumonia Doomed in War Pneumonia is the ally of the Hun. To combat the toll of this disease among: the troops in France, scientists at home have taken up the gage of battle against the perm tribe of pneumonia. And they are winning out invaluable reinforcements of science in the war to preserve democracy. This is a yarn of what men accomplish when put to the test, the story of actual battle,, though fought in laboratories and it is told in the Sunday issue. In the Houseboat on the Styx Moored on the dark river, with Charon's craft cutting a silvern slice across the sable flood, the gentry of the celebrated houseboat are holding animated converse, authoritatively reported by none other than John Kendrick Bangs. In the Sunday issue Brigham Young and Henry the Eighth be come confidential. The Home Guard Every day or so someone calls up The Oregonian office to know who W. E. Hill is. They are told that he is an illustrator who has risen to international prominence in little more than a trice, and that the Sunday page whereon appear his inimita ble conceptions in crayon is a regular feature of the Sunday issue. This week The Home Guard." We all knowhem. ""o Sex War" Glad tidings, indeed, from England, and proper cans for the tight little isle to be merry. For the leaders of England's women war workers declare that trousers and mannish labor do not imply that young women will be less willing to wed when the conflict is over. A mighty fine story, with illustrations, told by Helen Jioffman. Japanese Beauty Pleads for Gay Dresses It is wartime, ia it not? The hours are gray and thoughts are heavy with dread. All the more reason why we should free a little more color in the drear old world, argues Mme. Kimura, demure little lady of Japan, who insists that bright color tones in dress will have a marked and beneficial psychological effect. Appearing in the Sunday paper, with illustrations. Scores of Features Church and School, News of the World by Cam era, Society, Drama, Music, Book Reviews, Sports, Poultry, Finance, Movies, Autos, Real Estate dosens more, not forgetting the ir repressible comics. A Nickel and Nod for THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN In Other Days. Twe-aty-five Tear Age. From The Oresonlsa of May 1. ISM. Washington. Cleveland's experience with -of f iceseekers has convinced him that the present method of appoint ments to office through political influ ence has become a public scandal. Th Northern Pacific's new fast trale will be put on May 12. shortening the time between Portland and St- Paul 18 hours. Chicago. Th report of the World's Fair committee on music has called for the resignation of Theodore Thomas. Th Astoria & South Coast Railroad Is In operation again after its Winter slumbers. Spokane Professor Alexander Tyn dall. the mind-reader. Is lying in a cata leptic condition at Spoken HoteL He gave a private exhibition at th Review office last night and collapsed when he had finished a particularly difficult test. TBalf a Ce-atery As. From The Oregooiaa of May 18. 1SSS. Dispatches stat that the vote was taken by the court of impeachment on Saturday on the 11th article preferred by th House against the President, but that while all Senators were present and the vote was in favor of conviction. it was one less than two-thirds required by the Constitution. San Francisco. Leading merchants and bankers have organised an associa tion to Investigate -all applications in bankruptcy. Missouri receives about 1000 emi grants a week. H. Johnson, of Oregon City, was elected president of the Via Patrium Society last Monday. It now turra out that the schooner Growler was not wrecked, but that she was csptured and her crew murdered by th Hydah Indians. Miss Louise Harvey will leetur en Ireland at Oro Flno Hall Tuesdsy. WORTHY ARB WE. Dipped In the blood of th brave and the free. Flung to th breese in th blue of the sky. Spotless as snowy-white clouds that go by. Flag of our fathers our homage to thee! Folds that are fraught with old rec ords of pain. Battles hard fought in th Winter's deep snow. Freedom one won we shall never fore go! Glorious flsg, that Is ours we retain! Worthy ar we, worthy are we. To lift up th flag of the brave and th free. Tested and tried by th hazards of war. Vanquishing tyrants and Tyranny's might. Immune to th reek and th smoke of th fight. Losing no luster of bar or of star. i lag of our fathers, one more in th world Despots are trampling the weak and the small. Sons of staunch sires, we answer th call. Worthy democracy's flag to unfurl! Worthy we are, worthy we ar. To bear th flag's freedom to peoples afar. EVERETT EARLE STANARD. Dlscovrrf ef X-Ray. ESTACADA. Or.. May 1. (To th Editor.) 1) Kindly stat whan the X-ray was Invented and by whom. C) I would also lik to know what I should do with my flour, I have two sacks of whit flour and 1 hav had It for a long time. Th reason I have this is because I was saving on flout, on account of its price and eating po tatoes. Should 1 send It back or keep It? . bUBSCRlBER. (1) Th X-rsy was discovered by Professor Rontgen. of th University of Wursburg. in 1895. (?) Writ to Oregon Food Adminis trator, Northwestern Bank building, Portland. Saapekets for Soldier. PORTLAND. May IT (To the Edi tor.) Is it possible to send snapshots or small photos to soldiers in France? W'a hav a number of small hum snap shots w would Ilk to send to our boy over there. Also what are the rules regarding newspaper clippings? ANXIOUS. You can inclose them In your letters. Age Limits la Navy. ASTORIA. May 1. (To the Editor.) What is the age limit in the Navy? READER. to thirty.