THE SUNDAY tJREGONIAN, PORTLAND, APRIL 19, 1914.
PUBLIC SERVANTS AND PORTLAND'S IMPOLITENESS ARE THEMES
Too Many Municipal Vacations, Says Letter to Editor Defense of - Tuberculin Follows Dr. Rossiter's Recommendation Commercial Navy Plan Is Suggested.
8 -
Ralph C. Matson, M. D., De
fends Use of Tuberculin.
Sled leal World t'anuot Afford to
Ignore Any Helpful Factor in
Treating Uiene, Sbj Doctor In
Repljvto Br. Rosstter.
PORTLAND, April 18. (To the Edi
tor.) My attention has been called
to an article in The Oregonian, March
29. by Dr. Rossiter. condemning: the
use of tuberculin in the treatment of
pulmonary tuberculosis.
Words of defense should be unneces
sary as there is no longer an open feud
against tuberculin. " but in justice to
those who may have had their hopes
blasted again, permit me to present the
other side of the argument. Of course,
each is entitled to his own opinion and
we only claim the right to oppose er
ror. esDeeiallv where it results coun
teract progress urgently demanded by
the state of affairs. It is indeed de
plorable that this threadbare con
troversy must be discussed in the lay
press. But if it must, one would think
the doctor would be extremely careful
to quote more substantial .and recog
nized sources. The following four pub
lications issued in 1913, by Swiss, Ger
man, English and American authors,
are the recognized authorities:
1. "Tiber Tuoerculin Behandlung,"
Professor Doctor Herman Sahli.
2. "Lehrbuch der Spejifischen Diag
nostik und Therapie der Tuberkulose."
Bandolier & Roepke.
3. "Tuberculin Treatment," Riviere &
Morland.
4. "Tuberculin in Diagnosis and
Treatment," Hamman & Wolman.
A study of them will disclose abun
dant proof that tuberculin is not only
harmless, when properly administered
in suitable cases, but of considerable
value.
Contrary to Dr. Rossiter's statement,
that tuberculin is becoming less popu
lar, there has been a steady numerical
increase in the proportion of sanitoria
which have combined tuberculin and
hygienic-dietetic treatment.
In Germany, the percentage of the
institutions using tuberculin in 1905
was 29 per cent; 1907 was 57 per cent;
1910 was 70 per cent; 1913 was 87 per
cent. i
Drs. Riviere and Morland recently ob
tained the views of 24 European spe
cialists on tuberculosis. Of this num
ber, eight, with large personal experi
ence in the treatment of tuberculosis,
were enthusiasts; eight in favor of an
extensive application of the remedy;
four in favor of its employment and
four regarded it with disfavor. Among
the German tuberculosis specialists the
value of tuberculin may be regarded as
an accepted fact since their annual
meeting in 1907.
I'se of Tuberculin Is Cited.
Tuberculin is now employed as a
routine measure in over 200 institu
tions in Great Britain, in a.11 the Gov
ernment sanatoria in Holland, 90 per
cent of the sanatoria in Switzerland
and in practically all first-class sana
toria in France, Austria and America.
Furthermore, it is extensively employed
iri all the medical clinics in Vienna,
Berlin. Munich, Bern, Leipzig, Wurz
burg and Freiburg.
While it fcs true that harm has re
sulted t,rom the use of tuberculin, it
occurred during the first historical pe
riod of tuberculin treatment. The ear
ly results were not only discouraging,
but actually repulsive, arid occurred be
cause the first attempts were made on
unsuitable cases, heedless of the warn
ings and cautions of Robert Koch and
now nowhere in vogue. The few more
recent unfavorable reports are all to be
referred to faulty application or un
suitable selection of cases, and not a
single case has been published in which
harm has resulted from the modern
system of injection.
The value of tuberculin is more im
pressed upon us when we see men of
very high scientific attainment as
Meissen & Schroeder, formerly oppo
nents of tuberculin, becoming advo
cates of it after working for years with
the mild method of treatment.
It is possible to overlook, to a cer
tain extent, the prejudice against the
remedy which was caused by its mis
use, but the members of a learned pro
fession like medicine should not allow
the misuse of'a measure to blind them
against its proper application. Why
do not these same men condemn
strychnine, because overdoses produce
convulsions and death, or chloroform
and ether, because when carelessly
given they overcome the patient?
Ever since the discovery of the cause
of tuberculosis, efforts have been made
to discover some absolute cure for it,
analogous to antitoxin in diphtheria,
but after many years of untiring re
search, no such serum for tuberculosis
has beeir found. Still we have accu
mulated sufficient favorable evidence
from the administration of tuberculin,
that its value can no longer be denied.
Hope Restn In Future Researc-lt.
Futuro research may perhaps succeed
in tindmg a remedy, a universal pan
area for the disease. We hope and de
sire it. But the present generation
cannot arford to wait for this, and
Physicians and patients are thrown
back on the remedies now available,
and in the interest of a successful fight
against tuberculosis, extended use of
tuberculin seems a necessity.
We wish to state that our argument
is Tor the use of tuberculin on a plan
guided by present knowledge. How
ever interesting the historical data are;
they need not be mentioned here. What
LINE DIVIDES THOSE FOR AND AGAINST CHRIST, SAYS
BY REV. WALTER S. HINSON".
. Matt. xxrl:Sl. "What shall I do with
Jesus?
WHAT shall I do with Christ?. Why
do anything with Him? Why
not be indifferent to Christ as
to Caesar? Why think any more about
Jesus than about Jupiter? Why not
with whatever politenes is possible,
but with all firmness bow Him out,
and shut the door, and be done with
Him forever? But then tomorrow morn
ing you sit down to read your busi
ness letter, and you read "1914!." That
is not barring Christ out! But it is
bringing Christ in, for you mean 1914
years after Jesus was born.
The other day your child said to
you: "Why do we have a holiday today,
and celebrate Lincoln's birthday?"
Your child asked: "Is Lincoln Day to
Lincoln, what Christmas Day is to
Christ?" And you said, Tes." "Then,"
asked your child, "if Lincoln Day
proves Lincoln existed, does Christmas
Day prove Christ existed?" And your
answer . was, "Yes." You see you
could not get rid of Jesus.
What was It your little child said
to you when talking about reading the
Bible in the schools? "Is the Bible a
good book?" And what did you say?
"Yes." "But of whom does the Bible
speak?" Now keep Him out. And you
replied, "Jesus!" At your knee some
boy recited his little poem, that he
had prepared for the entertainment.
is desired, is to know the results of
tuberculin in suitable cases.
Arguments are to be restricted to
modern data, and only the statements
of those who have had an extended ex
perience with tuberculin are to be ac
cepted, and not of those who, thinking
it dangerous, have never tried it-
W e shall give no personal statistics
of the results of tuberculin. This self
denying ordinance has been dictated by
several considerations. In the first
place, it has been done recently by Dr.
Larawson Brown, of Saranac Lake; Dr.
Inman, of London, and others, amongst
whom Radcliffe writes: . "A comparison
of the immediate results is so much in
favor of tuberculin that It is difficult
to understand the opposition to its em
ployment:" and. in the second place,
there are certain available statistics
comparing a large series of cases,
treated with and without tuberculin, in
institutions in both this country and
Europe, covering the last 15 years.
Probably the best measure of the
value of tuberculin is the duration of
life in treated and untreated cases. The
treatment that adds the most years to
a patient' slife is. in-all probability, the
most efficacious treatment. .These sta
tistics, covering many years, would not
be possible were it not that a few care
ful observers kept cool heads during
the early tuberculin era and recognized
that tuberculin could be used without
danger to the patient. They saw that
tuberculin was not altogether without
merit and believed it deserved a further
trial, and after 10 years of patient work
and careful observation succeeded in
rehabilitating it among the useful rem
edies. These men are to be honored
for having realized that because tuber
culin was being misused was not a rea
son for throwing it away, but a reason
for using it correctly. Among these
men were Ehrlich and Guttmann, Bie-
dert, LIchtheim, Aufrecht, Fraenkel
and Trudeau in our country.
First Large Summary in 1001.
Goetsch in 1901 published the flrst
large summary of cases treated, and
from that time the number of special
ists using tuberculin has enormously
increased, in spite of fierce attacks
from academic opponents, until today
the list is long, but among them are
recorded such authorities as Amrein,
Aufrecht, Beraneck. Brown, Denys, H.
Engel, Hammer. Hawes and "loyd.
Heron, Jochmann. Kartulis. Kehl, Klebs,
Krause, . Kremser Langenbach and
Wolff, Mitulesen, Moller, Nagel, Neu
mann, Nourney, Paquin, Petruschky,
Philippi. Phillipp, Pottenger, Raw,
Rayewsky, Rumpff, Sathoff. Sahli.
Schmoeller. Trudeau, Turbart, Ure,
Ruck. Wilkinson, Wolff-Eisner.
Many more names from at home and
abroad might be added. Space does not
permit quoting their statistics. We
mention these names here simply as an
Indication of the trend of sentiment
among individual workers. They are
witnesses to the good character of tu
berculin, and are competent to testify
on account of their extensive experi
ence with it, covering many years, and
represent a numerical and living proof
that there is no danger of harm from
the use of tuberculin guided by pres-r
ent knowledge.
Reliable statistics covering life-dura-lion
are those from Saranac Lake,- the
first tuberculosis sanatorium estab
lished in this country. They cover a
space of 15 years, and show that the
tuberculin cases do better, - especially
the moderately advanced.- In the in
cipient class the balance ' in favor of
the tuberculin treated is not large. The
exact figures are shown in the follow
ing table:
With Without
Incident: Tuberculin. Tuberculin.
Apparently cured $S 7S
Disease arrested 77 7S
Active 33 27
Moderately advanced:
Apparently cured ...... 9t SO
Disease arre&tcd .48 45
Active 41 22
."The ultimate results are expressed
in percentages of those living one to
15 years after discharge, proper allow
ance being made for the varying num
bers In each year and class."
Years Needed to $how Result.
Unfortunately, it takes years for the
results to be evident, therefore the
main argument must be based on the
results of sputum examinations at "the
time of discharge from sanatoria. The
presence of tubercle bacilli in sputum
Is an objective fact, with careful ex
amination by competent men. The re
sults are rid of subjective doubt. If in
a given case tubercle bacilli disap
pear from the sputum, it is certain
that a definite improvement has taken
place.
We now present the sputum -sta
tistics, figures which from their objec
tivity and their almost indubitable
meaning, are extremely valuable. They
speak strongly for the healing effect
of tuberculin.
Kromser chose 110 patients expecto
rating tubercle bacilli, treating 65 of
them with tuberculin. The patients
were not selected,-but were placed in
the groups alternately as they were
admitted. Of those treated with tuber
culin 22, or 40 per cent, lost the bacilli;
of those treated without tuberculin
only 16, or 29 per cent.
Philippi finds that in his second-stage
cases 58 per cent of those treated by
tuberculin, against 19 per cent of the
untreated, were rid of bacilli in fhe
sputum: and in the third-stage cases 21
per cent of the treated, as against
only 7 per cent of the untreated.
Turban reports that of 86 open cases
treated by tuberculin 47.7 per cent lost
their bacilli. Of 24 untreated, only
zi.4 per cent.
Bandelier reports 500 cases, of whom
202 had tubercle bacilli in the sputum.
On discharge, after an average of five
to six months, 129, or 63.9 per cent, had
xne sputum cnanged from positive to
negative. Of the 79 In stage second
87.3 per cent became negative. Of the
I
What did he call it "The Wreck of
the Hesperus!" Do you remember how
he asked you the meaning of the line,
"Christ, save us all from a death like
that on" the reef of NormaaVs Woe?"
And he asked you if Christ could save!
And you thought you had barred Him
out; but through the shut door He had
enteredV and stood in your presence.
"Help me." said that same boy to
you, "help me as I parse this sentence,
"Over whose acres walked those
blessed feet, that were, for our ad
vantage, nailed to the bitter cross.' "
Said your boy to you: "Who is the sub
ject of that sentence?" Now keep
Jesus out! You said "Christ." and your
boy asked, "Why was He nailed to the
bitter cross?" and you said, "why, look
at your sentence, for our advantage."
You cannot keep Him out.
Jesus In Sighing of Trees.-
You saw the lad cheating at the
game, and you said: "Here, that is not
right. Play fair. Don't you know the
Golden Rule, 'As you would that others
should do to you, do. you thus to
them." " And the rosy faced little
fellow said: "Who said that?" Now
you thought you had got rid of Him!
But you answered, "Jesus." O, He
shines in every star, and His name is
on -every wind. It is uttered by the
wild sea, and by the sighing of the
trees at night. You dismiss Him. you
say, "I am done with Him forever."
and then there comes a sunset touch;
113 in stage Ihird. 50 per cent be
came negative. Bandelier challenges
the production of similar results with
out tuberculin, and says: "They are
unparalleled in the literature." These
figures are remarkable, yet they are
based on a respectable number 202
cases.
It is important to note that these
percentages are closely paralleled by j
those f E. Lowenstein, who quotes the
gratifying number of 682 open cases.
Four sputum examinations were re
quired to establish a case as negative.
Under the tuberculin treatment 361 of
the 682 cases finally showed negative
sputum a percentage of 53. Such a
result, he maintains, cannot be ob
tained in any other way than by tu
berculin. His analysis of the results
of 20 years of hygienic-dietetic cure
without tuberculin gives only 15 per
cent
Figures Held Significant.
The striking figures on the sputum,
coming as they do from competent ob
servers, dealing not with compilations
but with their own material, are sig
nificant and important. The percent
ages are not dubious, but are heavily
in favor of tuberculin! and form an ex
cellent reason for the furtherance of
tuberculin therapy.
After a careful inspection of the evi
dence brought to -us by the users of tu
berculin, one deduction is salient: Tu
berculin alone is not a "cure" of tu
berculosis no more than hygiene, or
rest or diet or climate, or any other
favorable factor alone, and in making
the above -statement we have really
Stated what tuberculin Is, not a cure,
but a favorable factor.
But we ask the opponents of tuber
culin, who today only call themselves
skeptics, what would be left of the
whole armory of our treatment of tu
berculosis if the same demand were
made of any one of- the generally rec
ognized curative factors?
Whether tuberculin is a more or less
favorable factor than rest, fresh air or
diet, for instance, will probably never
be known. Such things cannot be
"weighed in the balance," and until
we find some one thidg that, in itself
and without any other measures, can
cure, we cannot afford to ignore any
helpful factor. This is scientific prog
ress. RALPH C. MATSON. M. D.,
Medical Director of the Portland Open
Atr Sanatorium.
Portland People Impolite,
Says Traveled Observer.
In No City in I'nlon la There Snch
I'tter Disregard of Common Rales
of Courtesy, Avows Barton Bar
low. PORTLAND, April 18. (To the Edi
tor.) Portland" people are impo
lite. I make this statement after calm
deliberation. In all my experience, cov
ering almost every large city of the
Union, I have never seen such an utter
disregard of the rules of common cour
tesy as is evidenced at almost every
public meeting . which draws a crowd
in Portland.
Last year, at the Christian Congress
which held meetings at the Multnomah
Field, the speakers were annoyed bj
droves of people leaving tfie grand
stand before the addresses had been
finished. You will see the same thing
in the theaters; an inexcusable indiffer
ence to the feelings of other people
seems to be the rule of conduct for
most of the people of Portland, for
they will leave their seats in the mid
dle of an act, thus spelling what other
people may be enjoying.
Sunday night, at the White Temple,
where Governor Patterson was speak-:
ing, those who wanted to hear what he
was saying were disappointed by the
ill-mannered. barbaric, discourteous
peregrinations of dozens of people, who
did not have the common decency to
keep their seats, until the address was
finished. It was not that it was unin
teresting, for it was deeply interest
ing, but the-indecent exhibition of Sun
day evening was entirely in keeping
with the 'behavior of a large number
of Portland people at any public gath
ering. ' -
The same thing may be seen In the
streetcars of this city. It Is seldom
that e. man will give his seat up to a
woman in this city, although this is
the custom in civilized communities,
strange as this may seem to Portland
men, and there is no excuse for it.
If Portland were a community of
foreigners such as are some other
cities, it might' be excused on the
ground of ignorance, but we are sup
posed to have the flower of American
civilization here. If we have, the
flowers have become seriously faded.
BARTON BARLOW.
LAD GETS COLD BATH
Plunge Into Icy River Made to Res
one Companion.
rA.SSAfC. N. J. April 15. James
Pasqualin. 1,9 years old. plunged into
the Passaic River and saved Abraham
Einfrank, 14 years old, who, with three
other companions, had been thrown
into the water from a capsized canoe.
Pasqualin saw the struggling boy
being carried down the river in the
swift current. Disregarding warnings
from friends, he removed his coat and
swam to the rescue. He managed to
dragv Einfrank to the shore, although
suffering from the cold and fatigued
from his fight with the strong current.
"The Great Divide": Sermon Preached by Rev. Walter
a flower bells' fancy: someone's death,
and He is there! Ybu walk into the
darkness, and His arresting hand is
on your shoulder,. You shut your Bible
and nut it away out of sight; and some
text comes to haunt you, and straight
way you are reminded of Jesus! And
you can not get away from Him.
But, Pilate, "why do anything with
Jesus?" Let him go. He is a. perplexity
to you, and a rebuke, and an anxiety,
and a menace. So shut him out. And
Pilate says, "That Is jilst what I have
tried to do, but failed." Yet Pilate sees
a way out of his dilemma, and he sends
Jesus off to Herod; and then he rubs
his hands in fine relief, and congrat
ulates himself upon his clever trick.
Now let Herod take the problem. Ah
but Herod will send Jesus back to
Pilafe. And so all he did was to dodge
the Inquiry, and delay the study of tho
problem. Then a letter was brought
in to Pilate as he sat on the Judgment
seat. And he opened it and read it.
It was from his wife. "Pilate, have
nothing to do with Jesus.'Mand Pilate
passed his hand across his brow as
he said, "By all the gods of Rome, I
wish I could heed the woman's coun
sel: but I must do something. There
he is and I cannot get rid of him, and
it is Imperative that I do- something
with Jesus."
No Third Is Possible.
You see it is in accord with Christ's
old word that "He who is not for me
America Older Than Asia,
Declares R. D. Riley.
Assertion of Mr. Harriet Chalmers
That Trace of "First Americana"
Wm Found Recently In Far East
Discredited.
ASHLAND, Or, April 17. (To the Ed
itor.) In its issue of the 11th
inst. The Oregonian publishes an article
headed. "First Americans Found,"
wherein Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Adams
states she believes she has found the
ancestors of America on the east coast
of Asia. " '
With all due respect to those who
have spent so much time and money in
the effort to trace the origin of those
who dwell on these shores, we can
safely assert, without the slightest fear
of successful contradiction, that Amer
ica was not settled by Asiatics. On the
contrary, it is more than likely the
reverse.
Civilization always has and always
will travel westward, and were it not
for the word Eupnrates in the book of
Genesis the whole fabric of archeologi
cal research would be affected.
We do not know the antediluvian
name for the Euphrates, but we do
know that the ancient traditions of Af
rica and Asia had their origin on this
continent. Every town on the west
bank of the Cabul River in Afghanistan
is named from an American ruin. Ca
bul itself, which they say meant "mys
terious hand." no doubt received Its
name from an ancient American ruin
called Kabul "helping hand," where the
sick were brought to be healed.
Ask any highly educated Brahmin
where his race first originated, and he
wil point .vou to America. Sldl Ho-
hamid Ta Eiber Is right when he as-
ferts that "when India and China were
n their swaddling clothes America was
full grown. Egypt and India have not
a gray hair in their heads but America
is hoary with age. and Professor Fet-
rie, the most noted Egyptologist of
our day, said 30 years ago that "If it
were sworn to on a stack of Bibles a
mile high" he would not believe Amer
lea was ancient. Now he say, "the civ
ilization of Egypt extends back 6000
years B. C, but the civilization of
America is from 100,000 to 200,000 years
old." be that as it may, we can be as
cured that Asia was not the progeni
tors of our race In America.
Mrs. Adams In her travels no doubt
saw the ruins in the ancient city of
Angor Thorn on the shores of Cambodia
In Southern Burmah. These ruins are
so similar to those in America one
would be disposed to think that both
were built by the Asiatics. On the con
trary they were built by American
missionaries who crossed the Pacific,
as Mrs. Adams says; in boats. These
missionaries were called Naacals
(meaning exalted). They went directly
across the ocean, - leaving their sign,
the hand dipped in a red pigment, on
the rocks in the islands of Tahiti and
Otahiti, finally reaching the southern
shores of Burmah. Later they settled in
the province of Deccan in India.
In countries like India and Chaldea
the "g" and "r" later took the place
of "c" and "1." and Naacal became
Naagar, afterwards corrupted to Naga,
so that the Nagas of India were evl
dently descended from" America.
Europe has often twitted us with.
"Oh, but your country Is such a young
country, you have no ruins. They don t
know what ruins are. We have them
on this continent as beautiful as those
of Babylon and older than anything in
Egypt or Chaldea. There are 70 pyra
mids in Egypt. In America, between
Georgia and Panama there are 3000. In
the state of Arkansas there is said to
be a buried, city whose population must
have been three times as large a
Greater New York. There is another
buried city in the state of Guerrero, in
Mexico, that had a population of 1,000,
000, and their pyramids and temples
covered with earth give the land the
appearance of a country of hills.
In the fourth century of the Chris
tian era the Cocomes came up from the
south into C-ntral America, drove out
the Itzaes and ruled the land till the
11th century, when they In turn were
conquered by the Nahaults, who con
trolled the country 400 years.
There was an invasion of this conti
nent by the Chinese In the 12th cen
tury, but that had nothing to do with
ancient America. R D. RILEY.
North Jetty Built Is Money
Lost and Menace, Belief.
Construction South Jetty Gives Sta
bility, But Even This May Be De
stroyed, Says Writer.
PORTLAND. April 18. (To the Edi
tor.) The approaching opening of
the Panama Canal and the preparation
of Pacific Coast ports to benefit there
by Is the excuse for. the following sum
mary of the operations for the im
provement" of the Columbia River bar,
the removal of which is by far the
most vital transportation question to
all the territory adjacent or tributary
to this greatest river of the Pacific
Coast.
The completed south jetty has ac
complished two necessary results. It
has, stopped the northerly drift of
sands from Clatsop Beach, the only
serious drift, and has prevented the
formation of a swash channel across
the spit which occurred intermittently
before the Jetty was built. As a result
there has been produced what reason-
is against me." Two, and no third!
No third in the world! "He that gath
ereth not with me gathereth abroad."
No third in the world I say! You must
do something with Jesus.
You left the mark of -your fingers
across your child's face. Had you had
eyes to see you would have seen the
red- welt across the cheek of Jesus.
You poked your idiotic, satanic fun at
the diamond drops trickling down your
child's face; but Jesus beard you. Now
listen; you had better have hung a
millstone, about your neck, and gone
off Morrison-street bridge. You see
you cannot behave like the devil to
your child; but what you come up to
Christ!
You when 'the man or woman was
praised in your hearing shrugged
your shoulders and nodded your head
and smiled and intimated that you
could, if you would, say something.
And Jesus Christ listened to your lie
against him. who said of himself, "I
am the truth." And by "that shrug of
the shoulders and smile of the face,
you shall move hellward In the day of
account. You cannot get away from
Christ.
Over in cold Russia they tell how a
sentinel one night was pacing to and
fro on his solitary beat, and the cold
grew ever more Intense; and a person
going homeward heard the tread of
the sentry, and approaching him, said.
"Wear my coat till the'morning, I am
going home and you are on guard."
ably appears to be a permanent condi
tion of .stability.
With a stable condition established.
the necessary and effective means of
maintaining any desired depth of chan
nel was the use of a suitable dredge to
remove the short- crest of the bar.
thereby concentrating the ebb dis
charge, as the scouring force, without
any interference with the free entrance
of the first flood, which the p'alr of
Jetties will do.
The Port of Portland-, instead of
acting to secure quickly a suitable
dredge, has donated 1475,000 to help
the Government engineers, build the
north - jetty, .which, when completed;
will probably cost over 94, 000, 000.
From the day of Galileo, and long be
fore that time, the proposer ofa truth
or correct theory opposed to or con
trary to the beliefs of the majority and
of those in authority, has almost In
variably been subject to abuse. It
therefore requires soma temerity to
make the statement that, so far as any
effect toward improving bar conditions
is concerned, the expense of construct
ing the north Jetty represents Just that
amount of hard cash thrown into the
sea.
The operation of a suitable dredge
before the completion of the north
jetty may serve to hide this fact and
save reputations, but the money spent
will nevertheless be a clear loss, for
the south jetty and the dredging will
be the only causes of improved depth.
Moreover, it Is . reasonably certain
that if the north Jetty Is completed be
fore much dredging Is done, either or
both jetties will be seriously Injured
or even destroyed at the outer porT
tions. Because greatly increased cur
rents will be forced against one or
both jetties, and each having no other
foundation ( than the unstable sands,
current and wave action will Inevitably
destroy one or both of the jetties.
The effect of the construction of the
north jetty will be, in short, to up
set the condition of stability now es
tablished by the' south jetty and to
create a real danger of destruction of
the latter.
The south Jetty, built largely as an
experiment and without precedent to
guide, has in reality failed to accom
plish the results expected of it, but by
establishing a condition of stability
has become a success, and a valuable
and necessary forerunner of perma
nent improvement through dredging.
The north Jetty is clearly unnecessary.
and Its cost a waste, and its construe
tion will create grave danger of up
Betting the favorable and stable con
ditions now fortunately established by
the south Jetty, and may result In the
destruction ot the latter or obliterate
Its value.
The money so wasted should be saved
and put to use for some of the other
'necessary projects for the Improvement
of the river elsewhere.
GEORGE RAE.
Commercial Squadron Sug
gested to Congress.
Thomas J. Thorpe. In Discussing Free
Tolls Issue. Proposes Way for
Lawmakers to Advance Interest of
Public.
CORVALLIS, Or, April 16. (To the
Editor.) Free tolls for our ships
engaged in our coastwise commerce
make up the largest factor of benefit
that can come to our people as the
result of our construction of the col-
lossal highway connecting the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans.
The conquests of this Nation have
extended its sovereign authority over
the domain known as Panama through
which our canal is built, therefore our
sovereign rights as a Nation are not
necessarily conditioned by the terms of
any treaty with any nation touching
our civil and military authority over
our domestic and coastwise commerce
of the United States, including the com
merce of Panama. We challenge all
comers to point out in what treaty
now in force can be found any term or
terms which prohibit our Nation from
regulating our interstate, coastwise and
domestic commerce as Congress shall
see fit;
Our Federal Constitution makes it
the duty of Congress to regulate our
domestic commerce, which includes our
coastwise and Interstate commerce, and
also to promote the general welfare.
The construction of our great canal
was to secure these very objects, which
were made obligatory upon Congress by
our Federal Constitution. and we
submit that it does not now lie in the
realm of treaty stipulations to -frame
up an embargo or check to the exer
else of our National rights In and to the
great maritime canal built by our Gov
ernment within the limits of our Na
tional territory and across our own
public domain.
It is possible that Congress may con
cede the repeal of the free toll act, bu
there Is one surrender that no Congress
can make and survive the most severe
censure and criticism of an outraged
Nation. The surrender of the custody
care, management and protection of our
canal to any alien autliority whatso
ever under treaty stipulations will bo
opposed with great rigor by every state
in the Union and will consign those
who propose it to everlasting oblivion.
To make the security of the objects
for which the canal was built more cer
tain and enduring, the following plan
of action by Congress is herein sug
gested.
Pass an act of Congress and in its
preamble let there be stated the sov
ereign right of this Nation in and to
Panama and -H of its public instltu
tions, roads, railroads and canals.
Provide In this act also for the crea
tion of a Department of Commerce in
B. Hinson, at White Temple.
And the morning never came for that
person, for he died in his sleep; but
when with wide-eyed astonishment he
walked into the eternities he was met
by Christ, and Christ said, "I am glad
to see you, it is morning now. It was
night when you loaned me your coat."
Christ In Peasant.
And the peasant said. "What?"
And Christ replied.: "I was present
in the person of my child, a Russian
soldier, last night, and you loaned me
your coat; and now I give you a throne
nd a crown."
You cannot get away from Christ!
He will speak to you in the thunder.
And he will whisper to you in the
night, when you suddenly waken. His
name will appear on the old letter that
you dig out of the trunk. And the
rippling of the water will suggest
Jesus.
And your little child will ask you
questions that stab you like knives.
For, as I said this morning, he is
the storm center.
Talk about labor and capital, war and
peace, and you are talking about
Christ.
And your name is Pilate!
And yeur problem is Christ!
And dodge the problem you cannot.
And evade the responsibility you can
not. And you have got to say, as the
Roman said of old. "What shall I do
with this Jesus, who Is called Christ?"
Well, what did Pilate do with him?
the United States Navy, to be known
as the coastwise squadron of the United
States. This squadron should consist
of from 50 to 100 ships to be selected
by the Secretary of the Navy from the
ships now In the service of his de
partment. All such ships shall. If re
quired, be dismantled and equipped for
the coastwise commerce of the United
States. The officers and crews of the
coastwise squadron shall be transferred
from the Navy and receive extra com
pensation for active service In the
coastwise departments under the com
mand of a Rear-Admiral. The crews for
the coastwise squadron shall be mus
tered into the service for three years
and shall be In the line of promotion
for meritorious services and shall wear
the standard uniform of the United
States Navy?
The rates to be collected by the coast
wise squadron for passenger and com
mercial traffic shall be fixed and es
tablished by the Interstate Commerce
Commission and all moneys so collect
ed shall be paid into the treasury of
the United States.
In time of stress and public peril
the coastwise squadron shall co-oper
ate with the armed squadrons of the
high seas and with our Army and thus
compose the connecting link between
the Army and the Navy whenever the
President of the United States shall so
order as Commander-in-Chief.
The creation of a commercial coast
wise squadron out of the armed obso
lete out-of-date battleships will trans
form a vast amount of dead, nonpro
ductive capital Into active, productive
resources, upon which this Nation can
absolutely rely for practical results, and
thus add to the general welfare.
We have an idle Navy, with scores
of idle ships.. and a vast coastwise com
merce and a canal built expressly for
the deliverance of our people from the
extortions of combinations by sea and
land, therefore Congress will do well
to supplement the struggle of our peo
ple by creating .an active coastwise
.commercial squadron in our Navy, with
plans and purposes to save for our peo
ple a hundred million dollars annually.
THOMAS J. THORP.
Fewer Holidays for AH Pub
lic Servants Is Plea.
Firemen. Policemen. Teachers and
Other. Officials Now Paid for Work
- Not Done. Asserts Opponent of
Plan in Vogue.
PORTLAND, April 18. (To the Edi
tor.) I believe "the laborer is
worthy of his hire and he that will not
work neither shall he eat." I tin
prompted to write because our paid
public servants (?) teachers, city and
county officials, firemen and police
men arc constantly receiving money
for which they do not labor. They are
always clamoring for more pay and
getting more holidays. s Why shquld
any man ,be paid when he takes a
holiday? Is it not a fact that when
a person accepts money as pay when
he has rendered, no service therefor he
is on the plane of the pauper?
Make It a rule that no public
servant of the classes mentioned shall
be paid when not on actual duty and
you will find quite a change in their
view point and also as to their actions
regarding holidays, etc. .
How are we ever going to reduce
taxes If wo are constantly going to
give public servants pay for holidays
and when we are continually giving
them more holidays. There is much
talk about efficiency and economy in
administration, .but I fall to know
where in any instance we are getting it.
Take as an Illustration one of our
smallest departments called the Park
Department. Formerly wo had a su
perintendent that was a working co-
laborer with the other men. Now we
have a high salaried superintendent
and assistant superintendent with their
automobiles and all the accessories,
and to do what?
It Is so in the Police Department
and in the Fire Department- Honey
combed through all the departments
are a lot of high-priced men that could
not begin to secure the pay in private
employment where they would have to
work' In their positions now they
actually become debilitated with
laziness to such an extent that they
become indifferent and inefficient of
doing anything.
My opinion is that we as taxpayers
are cultivating a lot of snobs.
TAXPAYER.
HUSBAND NEVER HER HERO
Former Giulia Moroslnl Says Life-
savins Story All Myth.
NEW YORK, April 17. Apparently
not content jvlth seeking an annull
ment of her marriage to Arthur M.
Werner, a former policeman. Mrs. Giu
lia Moroslnl Werner has pushed her
husband from his place in the hero
class.
It had been assumed for six years
that Werner, while riding his beat.
stopped a runaway and saved the life
of the then Giulia Morosini, thereby
earning a place In her regard that
eventually brought about their mar
riage.
Mrs. Werner authorized, through
friend, the statement that Werner
never saved her life. The runaway,
according to Mrs. Werner, was a myth.
Napoleon was the world's greatest
General for quite awhile, but he finally
met someone who could whip him.
Which Is the common lot of fussy folks.
I Let peace prevail.
Ah, let me detain you a moment by
suggesting what he might have done.
My soul, what a glory would nave been
around the name of Pilate If he had
dared to do what he said was right.
Had he summoned that Roman guard
and said, "This man. in whom I find no
fault shall be released." Had he died
there for the safeguarding of God's
Son. how we should have spoken of
great name after great name, until, at
the very climax, we should have said,
Pontius Pilate! But what he did we
know; and. In 50.000.000 prayer books
on the face, of the earth there is writ-H
ten down this sentence: "Crucified un
der Pontius Pilate." And there is not
an Episcopal Church in the world but
today, in the recitation of the creed,
says: "Crucified under Pontius Pilate."
"I find no fault In him." said Pilate
of Jesus. Then his plain duty was to
release him. Find fault in him?. Who
ever did find fault In the question,
"What will you do with Jesus?"
What will you do with him? For
you must do something. What will It
be? What are you doing with Jesus?
Listen! Are you for him or are you
gainst him? There is a line running
through this church, not straight; O,
no, but so crooked! And on one side of
that line, up and down these aisles and
along these galleries, on one side of
that line stand all those who are for
Christ, and on the other side stand
those who are against Christ. And
the line is at your feet while I speak.
And you are on the one side or the
Dog Is Useful as Protector in
Home, Says Owner of Pet.
"Jack" Gives Alarm by Barking and
Frightens Array Intruder on Porch
at Maht.
PORTLAND. April 18. (To the Edi
tor.) The writer has been a reader
and generally an admirer of The Ore
gonian and its editorials for 20 years,
but with some of the latter she cannot
agree the one on the utility and keep
ing of dogs, especially in the city. We
most willingly grant you that dogs
should not be allowed to be a nuisance
to anyone, anywhere, and while occa
sionally there are nuisance dogs, yet,
like the human family, the trouble can
usually be traced back to a lack of
training and abuse, and the owners
not the children or the dogs should be
held responsible.
Now, I am touching upon a matter of
boundless import the betterment and
elevation of all mankind that will sure
ly follow more Intelligent Inbred study
and contact with all created life help
less ana speechless. That day is now
fast dawning, and even from a selfish
standpoint we can Illy afford to lose
our opportunity of assistance.
telx years ago a little black mona-rel
tramp part bird dog and the other part
"just dog" was brought to my door.
He very unwillingly consented to re
main, but soon became our loval friend
and stay-at-home. The neighbors all
nave a good word for "Jack." who Is
obedient, "high-toned," attends strictly
to his own business and learned our
ideas of dog duty almost before we
thought of teaching hn.
About 9:30 last Friday night I eat
writing alone in my house. The shades
had not been drawn, which allowed
good outside view of the lower floor.
Without a sound of a step on the ver
anda I heard a key clicking in the
night latch. Supposing it to be an un
usually quiet return of a member of
the household. I did not resist the con
tinued quiet effort. Suddenly, with a
terrific bound and barking. "Jack" left
his lair in the basement, but before he
could get out the intruder had run
Into the street. The dog's alarm saved
my opening the door and probably
sharing a worse fate than my neigh
bor met a few days before. When my
neighbor heard someone t his back
door at night he opened it and was
slugged with a gas pipe or hose,
knocked down and his nose cut. Being
a strong man, he got to his feet and
gave chase, but the fellow jumped from
an open window and escaped.
This is but one of a number of in
stances In which we believe "Jack" has
saved us from serlfus consequences,
and these coupled with his $1S license
fees in the city's coffers, makes him. In
common with many other well kept
dogs, of proven utility and usefulness
even in the city.
Muzzling to prevent spread of rabies
has its Justification, provided the an
imals are not so neglected or abused
by It that the disease Is superinduced.
There Is much said concerning rabies
that is either a mistake or is said for
effect.
Mr. Relderdorf, the late manager of
the Oregon Humane Society, showed
this by a report at one meeting, of
two cases. A call -ame from Dr. White's
office reporting a mad don tied at the
side of Section Line road some miles
out. Answering Immediately, the found
a poor suffering dog with an apparent
Injury in his head. The dog tried to
wag his tail and look his gratitude.
He was placed in the auto receptacle
and headed for the city, but died be
fore It was reached. From the dog's li
cense tag the owner was traced. He
had let him go with a hunting party
the morning he met with the accident.
Just after that experience the hu
mane officer was summoned to St.
Johns to dispose of a rabid dog which
had terrorized the town. Arriving there
he found a very sick ore that had been
chased and abused, but no rabies. This
dog soon responded to doctoring and
kind treatment and is now on of the
"good doggies." A. BERRY.
TAFT PRESCRIBES DIET
In IiCtter lo Major, He Tells How He
lxst 7 5 Pounds in Year.
CAMBRIDGE. Mass.. April IB. May
or J. Edward Barry, who worries over
increasing weight and is well past the
260-pound mark, heard that William
II. Taft had obtained great success
from a svstem of dieting. Mr. Barry
wrote him at Yale and Mr. Taft for
warded the diet which he says caused
him to lose 75 pounds after March 4.
"My diet has not been severe," Mr.
Taft wrote. "I have not drunk more
than a glass of water or two at meals:
I have given up bread and toast and all
farinaceous food, all butter and fat.
confined my meal to beef and mutton
and fowl and eschewed pork and veal,
have omitted fat fish, like salmon, and
have taken no sweets of any sort. Eat
all vegetables but potatoes and truit
that has not too much sugar.
"Take moderate exercise every day.
Try a game of golf or walk four or
five miles each day. Do not lose too
rapidly, because It Is likely to Injure
the muscles of your heart if you do.
Above alir be examined by the best phy
Blclan you can get. If he. will allow you
to pursue this diet and you sttck to it.
I think you will reduce your flesh."
In a postscript Mr. Taft said: "I don t
smoke or drink Intoxicating liquors."
PASTOR
other. What will you do with Jesus?
It was suggested to me today, "You
must be getting tired of talking about
Christ." I do not wonder that the sug
gestion came. .To talk about the same
parson four or five or six times every
week; to think about the same person,
study about the same person. O. how
sick I should have been of talking
about anybody else all these years. But
with him it Is so different. I have not
to whip myself Into doing it. I have not
to drag myself up to where I now
stand. "I sing, but as the linnets
sing. I sing because I must."
I preach him as the sun shines, be
cause there is nothing else for the sun
to do. There Is nothing else for roe
to. do; and I think the last thing I
thanked God for before I came out of
my study tenight was the opportunity
of speaking for Christ again. And he is
here and you are deciding what you
will do with Jesus. O, I wish I could
take you to him and make you say,
"My Lord and my God." But I have
done all I can to help you. If I knew
any unspoken word that would help. I
would say It. And if I knew anv
thlng I could do that would help you,
I would do It. O. may the spirit of the
living God come now in his wonderful
power and open your eyes that you may
see how awful Is the choice you are
making, as you cast your vote for or
against Jesus Christ. For you must
do something tonight. Ah. yes, you must
accept or you must reject. You must
do something tonight!