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Wow that Conn-ess has made liberal appro-
Ipriations for Oregon rivers and harbors, we
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-including county and state. I Democratic majority yet went fatuous-
, fHUii Bates 12 to 18 pages. i cent. ij ly aneaa with its programme to im
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co to o pages. cents: 62 to 7 pages. 5 1 pose upon the people a $45,000,000
cents: 78 to a2 pages, cents. Foreign post- 1 appropriation for rivers and harbors.
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JPOBTIAXD. 60TJAY, JAN. Z4. WIS.
By this
; within the next lew mourns, xier vw improvements were cared for,
;orous forces thrown into the balance We think they will be again; but,
at a critical Juncture might turn It in I whether or not they shall be. It is clear
i favor of the allies, with whom Hour that the project that is not willing to
nanian svmnathies are naturally stand before Congress on its merits,
active. The little country has plenty and is ready to be tied up to every
e , t?.,.,! hut thieving scheme from every part of
. uu 0a Uwbw o - I .V.-. - Hit v ?; anno Hit a I OT-rl
; ;one so bitter as against the Turk and probaDly rejected. The greasy pork-
Magyar. i.ariy in tne raieenm """ barrel era is over.
tury, when Turkey was expansive, her I The people of Oregon cannot In
troops overran the eastern territory I conscience say to Congress: "If you
::f tho Rnnminlans with those incl-I will give us what we deserve we shall
dents of horror which always attend- help you to give others wnat iney ao
.d Mohammedan conquests. At about not deserve." une oaiem paper us, ui
-ho cam. timo the Mae-vars eained course, ready to dicker and trade and
possession of the Roumanian country sell out, Put xne uregomaat is not.
: west of the Carpathians, the region
much as you can and face it out. until lit would not affect the Socialists, ior
trapped. Then confess and beg for I such an enterprise from a municipal
standpoint is even more socialistic
than municipal electric railways. A
jitney service can be established
without a great amount of capital. A
hundred or a thousand individuals
may go into the business, each on his
own account. In one large city. If the
jitney proves to be a permanent profit
maker no district that has decent
highways need lack rapid transporta
tion, and new opportunities will be
opened to countless persons of small
capital to engage In business for them
selves.
For a city to engage in Jitney
transportation Is for the people as- a
whole to compete with themselves.
Because a detriment to individual
private enterprise It likely would not
receive much encouragement. Tet
municipal railway lines may have the
same aspect in a more subtle way.
The street railway corporation is often
but the physical expression of. the
combined capital of numerous citizens
of the same city In which a municipal
line engages in competitive trans
portation. . By such concrete examples
as the proposal In Seattle to save the
face of city railway management by
embarking more generally into com
petition with private enterprise may
the eyes of many persons be opened
to what municipal ownership of rail
lines really means.
unbought minority, led by Burton,
and supported by almost the entire
free press of the country, conducted
a filibuster, and forced a surrenaer
by the organized grafters.
kottmama. . I A $20,000,000 bill was passed, ana
Roumania may be destined to play the Army engineers were authorized
decisive part in European affairs l
known as Transylvania. Ever since
"those unhappy days the Roumanians
";'have vainly longed for the reunion of
their divided people. They have risen
repeatedly for "liberty," as they call
;'lt, but each successive effort has been
put down with increasing atrocities.
I.Transylvania's population is more
than half Roumanian today In spite
-icf centuries of Magyar tyranny.
". The Hungarians have always been
'zealous of their own liberties, but It
"never has occurred to them that the
; Roumanians had any similar rights.
The original inhabitants of Transyl
vania have been oppressed with more
' than. Russian severity. The Czar has
not striven to extirpate- the language
and national feeling of the Poles with
half the rigor the Hungarians have
used toward the Roumanians for a
, similar purpose. But oppression has
been in vain. The subject Roumanians
retain their traditions and their
6peech intact and no doubt always
. will, whether they throw off the Hun-
FIFTY YEARS.
The San Francisco Chronicle on
January 16, 1915, Issued an elaborate
Jubilee edition, celebrating the com
pletion of its fiftieth year. It was an
issue worthy of the occasion. There
were many special articles dealing
with the history of journalism In Call
fornia, with other subjects of Interest
and Importance, and including a fine
showing of the forthcoming Panama-
Pacific Exposition. The Illustrations
were admirably selected and printed.
There is nothing remarkable about
the fact that a newspaper may have
survived the obstacles that beset all
journalism for a period of half a cen
tury. But it Is remarkable that any
newspaper should remain under
single direction all that time. The
Chronicle was founded January 16,
1865, by Charles and M. H. DeToung,
brothers. Charles DeYoung died at
the assassin's hand In 1880 and since
that time M. H. DeToung has been the
sy unuw uu. iu """" I . nd nnhiishor. In that
garian yoke or not. In the heart oir"'rJ-""-"--a ,
Transylvania Is an old Saxon colony
completely surrounded by alien na
tionalities. Like all colonists in such
circumstances these Saxons are more
German than the Kaiser. They care
fully insulate themselves from all
Magyar and Roumanian Influences
and preserve their language and loy
alty with ferocious fidelity. Were the
Roumanians of Transylvania to join
more with tne growin or tjamorma.
and is now, as it has long been, one
of the conspicuous dally newspapers
of the United States,
The Oregonian notes that some of
its contemporaries, in bestowing de
served congratulations upon Mr. De
Young, say there Is no present parallel
of a publisher or owner who has re
mained in "active control" of any
; xne a.u . tt ,XThP7r metropolitan newspaper for so long a
- would prove a formidable foe to their f ,,,. e rrv,
national aspirations.
East of the Carpathian Mountains
dwell the division of the people who
! are commonly called Roumanians.
Thev formed an independent kingdom
in 18S1, after a series of struggles
with the Turk and Greek, Russia al-
ways openly or secretly favoring them.
I But when a convenient moment came
; for plundering her old friends, Russia
did not hesitate for a moment to an
nex their province of Bessarabia
which circles around the Black Sea to
the northeast. The Roumanians are
time as fifty years. The Oregonian
feels that it ought. In the Interest of
historical truth, to point out that the
statement is an error. Mr. H. u. Pit-
tock, of The Oregonian, came to this
paper in 1853 nearly 62 years ago
and soon thereafter became Its pro
prietor. On February 4, 1861 nearly
fifty-four years ago he founded the
Morning Oregonian, and ho Is still at
the helm.
SEATTLE'S LOSING .TENTUBE.
Seattle is having a most enlighten-
mountaineers with all the vigor and I ing experience with municipal owner-
: manly virtue which naturally belong ShiD of electric railways. The city
; to such people. Ii their old wars now has two divisions in operation
with successive invaders tney sougmiand In XJecemDer tney snowea au
; safety, like the British Celts, in the operating loss, to say nothing of in-
mountains. where they found pastur- terest and depreciation charges,
. are for their flocks and natural fort-I amounting to nearly $1500.
resses for defense. Here they dwelt i -Ve do not recall how long seatue
and multiplied, while Goths, Avars, has been engaged In this unprofitable
, Huns, Bulgarians, Magyars and Tar- I enterprise, but we assume that it has
tars swept devastatlngly over their been for some time, as Mayor till!
i country. After each invasion they avers that ''the city has acted as fairy
crept slowly back into the plain of godmother to the Lake Burien Cm
the Danube and began anew the build- I derella long enough." The division
, lng of their civilization, only to see that sustains the greater . losses oper-
everything they had done harried into ates to a' section known aa .Lake
ruin by the next deluge of barbarism. I Burien.
t If God keeps a record of .human mis- I Mavor Gill's -observation was con-
ery the page wnicn is consecrated to talned in a veto message in wnicn ne
; the Roumanians must be stained from disapproved the submission of a bond-
, top to bottom with blood. How they ing issue for the purchase of Jitney
have lived through it air is a mys- buses. On its face tne proposal was
' tery. or would be did we ribt know so a bond issue of $50,000 for motor
Veil the survival power"-of man. buses to connect the two municipal
Had misery been able to extir- railways. Mayor Gill thought he saw
.rate our race earth-' would have Been a subterfuge therein. The amount of
the fast of it thousands of years ago. I the bond issue was excessive for the
The Roumanians count among their I purpose named and he inferred that
ncestors whole legions of Roman jt was the intent of those back of the
. soldiers, who settled An the land of I movement to operate city buses In
the Dacians after they had served out the downtown districts In competition
their time in the army. Colonists with the privately-owned street rail-
i from Italy also flocked to the lower wavs and also in competition with in
plains of the Danube after Trajan had dividuals who might engage In tne
I Jitney business, and thereby attempt
to retrieve the fortunes of a losing
municipal venture.
The. tendency in municipal owner
ship of street railways is either to
build into districts where private cap
ital recognizes that a new line would
be unprofitable, or to buy up some
pacined the country. The mingled
blood of the Italians and Dacians has
1 given us the modern" Roumanians,
' hardy,' handsome and progressive, yet
. picturesque with many a world-old
i tradition and costume. Their language
.Is fragrant with Latin memories.
'"Flange" means mourn, "moartea" is
death, "verde" is green and so on by property which has failed to produce
the hundred. It is in truth a fto- the revenues demanded by private cap-
mance language with older flavor ital. From Mayor Gill's veto message
than any other. Up to very recent it may be inferred that the Lake
times the Roumanians had little lit- Burien line In particular was acquired
erature except their translation of the or constructed with a general lack of
Bible and some ecclesiastical trifles business sense. Its patrons have ac-
which their devotion to the orthodox cess to other lines, and the municipal
Oreek church made indispensable, but railway does not take them to the
they have always possessed a rich business center of the city. Nor ap-
store of folk sonps. Many of these I parently can It be extended pending
re collected and translated in Tereza the construction of permanent bridges
Stratilesco's "From Carpathian to over the Lake Washington canal and
Pindus. which may be obtained at the acquirement of common user
the Public Library. It gives an enter- privileges.
talnine and sympathetic account of I When a city once gets into the
the Roumanians from earliest times, transportation business a clear mind
with picturesque descriptions of their and a steady hand usually are needed
national customs. I to steer it straight. Mayor Gill seems
Of late years the progress of mod- I to possess both. The jitney bus Is
frnization has been rapid in the lower I practically an untried business ven
Danubian region. Roumania has two I ture. It has operated in some sections.
national universities, which are well
attended. The larger, at Bucharest,
has more than 4000 students. There
;ls also a system of free public schools.
at an apparent profit, but whether
these profits will not ultimately be
wiped out by rapid deterioration of
the vehicles Is problematical. Proba-
Should-the Roumanians of the east I bly the Seattle Councilmen who pro-
-and west succeed in forming a united pose entering into the new transporta-
'natlon it will be one of the most vig- I tlon enterprise can produce calcula-
orously progressive In the world. . I tlons which show that the city, by
I changing its municipal electric rail-
Fraudulent politics appears to be I ways into gasoline motor bus lines.
-the principal means of livelihood in I cannot possibly lose more than it
, "Terre Haute. Charles Lamb's Aunt I does now. But that is cold 'comfort
Betsey cared nothing for whist unless I to the taxpayer who foots the losses,
''played "tth the rffcor of the game." We -should think a proposal by a
jlf politics Is a Same it must have city to go into motor bus transporta-
rules and tne man who breaks them I uon would open me eyes or many wno
Is a blackleg. The one conspicuous I have been committed to municipal
.rule in Terrs Haute la to cheat aa I ownership in 411U phases. Doubtless
WHICH IS SHE AMERICAN" POIJCYT
Two Ideas of American duty in
Mexico are set forth in President Wil
son's speech at Indianapolis and in
Senator Borah's reply delivered in the
Senate. ' They should be read together,
In the light of recent and present
events in Mexico, that we may fully
understand their respective merits.
The facts in Mexico, are that hun
dreds of Americans have been killed,
hundreds have been brutally abused
and Imprisoned, and thousands have
been robbed, their homes and prop
erty destroyed and themselves reduced
to poverty by the several warring fac
tions which have contended for su
premacy in Mexico. These Americans
had been encouraged, if not actually
Invited by the former government of
Mexico, to entrust their lives and for
tunes to Its protection. Many more
Americans have been killed or
wounded In border towns by Mexican
bullets. Nothing has been done to
obtain Justice for these wronged Amer
icans or to bring about the punish
ment of their murderers and plunderers.
This is why Mr. Wilson has done
nothing, as stated by him at Indian
apolis:
I hold It as a fundamental principle, and
so do you, that every people has the right to
determine Its own form of government; and
until this recent revolution in Mexico, until
the entr. of the Diaz reign, 80 per cent of
the people of Mexico never had a "look-In"
in determining who should be their Governor
or what their government should be. Now,
I am for the 80 per cent. It Is none of my
business, and it is none of your business,
how long- they take in determining it. It
is none of my bualness and it is none of
yours how they go . about the business. '
The country is theirs. The government
theirs. The liberty, If they can get It, and
Godspeed them In getting It, la theirs. And
so far as my Influence goes while I am
President nobody shall interfere with them.
This is Mr. -Borah's view of what
Mr. Wilson should have done:
I am desirous of peace with Mexico;
want no war; and I know we shall never.
take any cart of the territory of that re
public, but above- and beyond that and more
Important to my mind Is the fact that we
smmld at least protect our own citizenship,
securing our women against ravishment and
murder at the hands ox those rerocious men
who prey upon our nationals wherever they
find them in their territory. There are
some things which are dearer to me than
peace.
Mr. President, tne mistreatment oz Ameri
can citizens in Mexico Is due to the fact
that there has pasesd into the Mexican
mind ja. firm belief that we will not protect
our citizens, and I say whatever criticism
shall come to me from those who love peace
more than tney love honor, that the nag
which will not protect Its people is a dirty
rag that contaminates the air in which it
floats." We cannot have peace, we cannot
have honor unless we are prepared to protect
our own citizens, and I believe, verily be
lieve, that we may do so and still have no
war with Mexico.
We leave it to our readers to de
cide which of the two men voices the
truly American sentiment. Other
nations succeed in enforcing respect
for the lives, liberty and property of
their citizens in foreign countries. Do
they succeed by the Wilson policy or
by the Borah policy?
fund and that the" Legislature specif
ically appropriate so much thereof as
is needed for protection and propaga
tion of game and game fish, and that
the balance be devoted to other use
ful purposes.
Game is a state resource and be
longs to the whole people. The license
is payment, in part at least, for the
right to convert this resource to pri
vate use. The state has another re
source, for example, in the potash de
posits of Central Oregon. If the state
permits the conversion of these salts
to private use It will exact a royalty.
It is as unreasonable to hold that this
entire royalty shall be expended in
policing pipe lines, checking sales and
shipments and in aiding private en
terprise to develop new reduction
works, as to contend that all the rev
enues from game shall be expended
to conserve game or provide more
of It.
A PROTEST AGAINST WASTE.
To the Medford Mail-Tribune ' The
Oregonian "seems drunk; with power
over its success in organizing tne
Legislature and electing a Republican
Governor." To The Oregonian the
Medford Mail-Tribune seems drunk
with something else. Without a doubt
our little friend in Southern Oregon Is
seeing things."
The complaint this tune, from our
petulant contemporary is that through
advocacy of a different method of
handling the fish and garne t und The
Oregonian is bent .upon organizing a
political machine. ' We are open to
instruction. If there Is' a better scheme
for organizing a. political maehine
than the- one presented by -(existing
fish and game laws we should like to
be enlightened. ' '-'
There can be no political maehine
without political hangers-on, yet the
Mail-Tribune fears that a change In
the method of-handling the funds will
deprive the state of game protection
and. game propagation. . In other
words there will be fewer deputy
game wardens, fewer game-farm and
refuge keepers, fewer biological ex
perts, fewer office clerks and stenog
raphers, fewer trouthatchery em
ployes. It Is the common tinderstand
ing that an army of officials, who owe
their positions to a common head is
an essential of a political machine. It
is only a befuddled brain that can dis
cern possibilities of a political ma
chine in a proposal to cut off useless
jobholders.
The proposed change in the game
laws is a part of a practical economy
programme. Nothing more. Nobody
asks that the Game Commission be
deprived of money actually needed
for game protection and game prop-
gation. The demand is that the sur
plus derived from the sale of hunting
and fishing licenses be expended for
the public's benefit.
In the twelve months ending No
vember 1, 1914, the fishing and hunt
ing licenses produced more than $119,-
00. This money was deposited in the
office of the State Treasurer subject
to the warrants of the Fish and Game
Commission. In effect it was as thor
oughly in the control of the Commis
sion as if It had been deposited in a
National Bank subject to the order of
the Commission. Every dollar was
expended and part of a balance car
ried over from the previous year as
well. The Oregonian believes that the
Commission spent all the money be
cause it had it and because the fund
could not be used for any other pur-
pose not because that much money
was needed for carrying out the func
tions of the Commission.
The proposal now is that the li
cense money be paid into the general
EMERGENCY MEASURES NOT ENOUGH.
' We are frequently informed that the
war has created an emergency which
requires prompt and extreme action
in this country. Our supply of chem
icals and dyes from Germany was cut
off, and immediately there was much
talk of producing these commodities
ourselves, not only for our own needs
but to supply Germany's other cus
tomers. There Is scarcity of vessels
to carry American commerce, and
the Administration proposes to meet
the emergency by authorizing the
Government to subscribe 61 per cent
of the stock in a corporation" to be
managed by the Government, which
should buy and build ships. Secretary
McAdoo says this is the only way in
which we can meet a "critical emer
gency. He says the proposed snip
ping board would give large orders to
shipyards in order to encourage them.
Much capital, labor and technical
skill are necessary to establish a chem
ical factory. This would probably oc
cupy two years. The building of ships
would occupy at least a year and
half. The longest estimate yet made
of the duration of the war
three years. It has already con
tinued for nearly six months,
leaving only a year . to eighteen
months during which our new ships
and our new chemical factories would
have the advantage of the emergency
which the war has created. After
that period German chemical manu
facturers and foreign shipowners
would re-enter the field, and our
manufacturers and shipowners would
be exposed to the same competition
which kept them out of the field be
fore the war.
No temporary measures will meet
the emergency. No man will make
the large investment necessary to
chemical factijry, with the prospect
of being killed by competition a year
ortwo after he has begun operations,
If the Government builds ships and
retains our present laws as to opera
tion, it will have to operate them
itself at a loss for an indefinite time.
for no private capitalist will take them
off its hands.
The only measures which will meet
the emergency are such as will permit
the industry to continue and to grow
after the emergency has passed. To
build up a chemical industry we need
development of raw materials, cheap
waterpower and the broad extension
of technical education that we may
have an ample supply of skilled labor,
To build up a merchant marine, we
must be able to build and operate
ships in competition with the world, in
peace times as well as in war. times.
The measures which would make this
possible can be passed as quickly and
would show their effects as readily
as would Mr. McAdoo's emergency
measure. Their beneficial effects
would continue after normal condi
tions were restored, while the good
effects of purely emergency measures
would pass away with the emergency.
wilL " But it would be better to en
courage building of ships in foreign
yards for American commerce than
not to have them built at all. .
' This is no time for half measures or
for 6purious remedies such as Govern
ment purchase and operation. It is a
time to offer Inducements for mil
lions of capita? to flow out into the
shipping business. By inducements
we do not mean subsidies; we mean
simply removal of the shackles which
still bind the industry. Our country
overflows with the commodities which
the world needs and will need for
years' to come, but we cannot get the
ships to carry them. We are prac
titcally dependent on British ships
such as Britain will spare from her
war service and her own commerce.
The control of the sea Is not yet de
cided; it will not be decided until Brit
ain and Germany have fought out
their quarrel on the sea. If a Ger
man naval victory were to liberate her
cruisers to ravage the sea while naval
supremacy remained in doubt, our
commerce would be paralyzed, for It
is carried chiefly in British ships. The
only hope of safety and expansion for
our foreign commerce is to provide
more ships, sailing under the Ameri
can flag, and giving preference to
American commerce. That requires
building of: new ships, not buying of
old ones.
worth having on such terms, but
little reflection may change their
minds. After all, eating and drink
ing are" not the only Joys in the world
BITI.U MORE SHIPS.
The greatest present need, not of
this country only, but of the whole
world, is more ships to carry com
merce. The war has caused nearly
the whole of the German and Austrian
merchant marine to be tied up; it has
caused destruction of many ships of
the allied nations, of Germany and of
neutrals; it has diverted great fleets of
ships from commerce to military uses.
Shipyards in Great Britain, France and
Germany are probably so busy build
ing and repairing warships that few
merchant ships are on the ways. The
other neutral nations cannot build
ships fast enough to make up the de
ficiency thus created. The decrease in
the number of vessels available for
American commerce is estimated at
30 to 40 per cent, and Senator Fletcher
says that in some instances charter
rates have advanced 400 per cent In
sixty days.
The consequence is that, while all
the world is crying out for our prod
ucts, we have not and cannot get ships
to carry them or can get ships only
at prohibitive rates. . Our export lum
ber trade Jjo Europe has been killed
by double or triple freight rates and
war-risk Insurance. Cotton, which is
worth 19 cents a pound at Hamburg,
is worth only 7 cents at Southern
ports, the bulk of the difference rep
resenting exorbitant freight. W. N.
White, of New York, informed the
House committee on merchant marine
that it costs $1.10 a box to send apples
from New York to South America in
twenty-one to twenty-five days, while
apples go- from Tasmania to England
in forty-two days at only 66 cents.
The only way to bring down freight
rates to a normal basis is to increase
the world's supply of ships, but Presi
dent Wilson proposes purchase of for
eign ships by the Government as a
remedy, which resembles swapping
jackknives. True, his ship-purchase
bill permits Government construction
of merchant ships, but the tonnage
which could be built with the pro
posed capital of $30,000,000 would be
but a drop in the ocean and the Gov
ernment would proceed with Its pro
verbial slowness. The Wilson policy
would not materially Increase the
number of ships available to carry our
commerce and would not appreciably
reduce the prohibitive ocean freight
rates.
In order to get more ships, Congress
should make it profitable to build
them, in either American or foreign
ports, and to operate them under the
American flag. The war offers only a
temporary Inducement to shipbuilding
unless owners are permitted to oper
ate ships at equal cost with foreigners.
If Congress will revise the shipping
laws in such a manner as to equalize
operating cost, Americans will be
tempted to build ships. Owing to de
pletion of the supply by war's destruc
tion, freights are likely to continue
above normal not only throughout the
war, but for some time after its close.
This may induce capitalists to pay the
extra cost of building iu the United
States. They would more willingly do
so If given freedom to engage in
either foreign or coastwise- trade at
DIET AND HEALTH.
Dr. Louis Faugers Bishop has some
new theories concerning life and its
preservation which people approach
ing middle years would do well to
heed. It Is commonly understood that
a frequent cause of death in later
years is arteriosclerosis, a word which
signifies hardening of the blood ves
sels. With it goes a general weaken
ing of the bodily frame, stiff joints and
flabbily useless muscles. At about the
same time the kidneys begin to idle
and the heart throbs wearily or with
feverish energy. All these symptoms
portend dissolution. By the time they
make their appearance the pitcher
has already gone far too often to the
fountain, the wheel Is broken at the
cistern and the golden bowl will last
but little longer. The cause of arterio
sclerosis is more or less mysterious.
Some attribute it to hard work, others
to idleness and high living. Both fac
tors no doubt play a part In bringing
it upon the foolish victim. Many have
preached that alcoholic beverages are
the prime cause of brittle arteries and
diseased kidneys, but Dr. Bishop
thinks otherwise.
We dare say alcoholic drinks are re
sponsible for a multitude of untimely
deaths. The chances are that the
average of our lives would be a great
deal longer if their use were given up
once and for all, but it seems likely
enough that they have very little to
do with that breaking down of tho
circulatory system which opens the
bodily fortifications to death like a
traitor within the gates. The secret
of that great disaster, says Dr. Bishop,
is to be sought in defective metabol
ism. In- the economy of the body
metabolism follows digestion. . The
stomach and its humble allies turn
the food we eat into liquids which
are sucked up into tne circulation
through the walls of the intestines.
Then metabolism begins. It is the
sum total of those chemical changes
in the bodily cells which keep up the
supply of energy for our activities and
repair waste. The word is long and
forbidding, but. its meaning is com
paratively simple. -Nobody pretends
to know quite what these chemical
activities are in the deepest reality,
but ' scientists understand perfectly
their outward laws, which in many
cases are wonderful to think of.
The metabolism of each individual
follows ways of Its own. The cells of
our bodies are singular, squeamish
and irrational. It is never possible to
predict how they will feel toward any
given article of food until it has been
offered to them. If they accept It,
well and good. That is the food we
should choose and cling to. If they
reject a substance, it is poison for that
man. Just as some cannot aoiae a
gaping pig and some a harmless nec
essary cat, so the cells of some bodies
shy at strawberries and shrink with
horror from fried chicken. Popular
wisdom has enshrined these facts of
metabolism in proverbs. "One man's
meat Is another's poison," De gustibus
non est disputandum, and the like.
On facts of this nature Dr. Bishop
builds his dietetic sermon. Food
which the cells dislike is a poison to
the man who eats it. Not only does
it deprive the cells of their necessary
nutriment, but it sends waves of male
ficent substances ' throughout the sys
tem. In particular It hardens the
walls of the blood vessels. It Is not
strong drink, therefore, nor too much
food nor excessive luxury that brings
so many elderly people down to un
timely graves but eating the wrong
kind of food, the kind that their bod
ily cells reject with loathing.
Now learn a mystery. We cannot
always tell when the cells are dis
gusted and poisoned. The process is
secret, esoteric, insidious. There may
be no pain to warn us. There may
even be an exaltation of what seems
delusively to be health and energy.
Let the man of 50 who. feels "younger
than he did at 20" beware. His ex
uberance is probable due to heightened
blood pressure and that again comes
from lurking poisons in his system.
Almost certainly he eats something
from day to day which his cells reject.
Normally a man should not feel
stronger at 60 than at 20. He should
be perceptibly weaker and should tire
more readily. There is still an enor
mous amount of good work In him,
but he must husband his resources.
There is some valuable preaching on
this text In The Autocrat of the,
Breakfast Table. Usually the treach
erous poisons which thus invade and
undermine the body are of the nature
f proteids, lean meat and the like.
Physicians well know the symptoms
of incipient arteriosclerosis. They are
heightened color in the face, brilliant
eyes, cheery voice and a treacherous
feeling of well-being. Of course there
in also that increased blood pressure
which always portends 'death and
from which the other symptoms flow.
Perhaps the worst of all is inability
to sleep in the small hours of the
night. One drops off into sweet slum
bers as soon as the head strikes the
pillow, but at 2 or 3 o'clock wakeful
ness begins. The mind starts grinding
some worthless grist and keeps at it
our after hour. At about the time
when a person ought to get up and go
to work he falls asleep again. This is
as dangerous as it is exasperating. It
indicates something wrong with the
circulatory system, probably arterio
sclerosis. The patient should go to a
physician and follow the advice he
gives. Usually he will counsel less
meat, more fresh air and relaxation
from w.orry. A spare diet largely of
graham bread, cold water and an oc
casional cup of weak tea will make
elderly people healthy, wealthy and
wise. To come. 14fe max not seem
DEFICIT DUE TO BI.rTEKS.
In a plain recital of facts Represen
tative Steenerson disposed of the fic
tion that the war is responsible for the
decrease in revenue and in the treas
ury balance. He showed that the
cause has been Democratic blunders
in over-estimating income and in un
der-estimating expenses.
In his final speech on the tariff bill
on September 30, 1913, Representativ
Underwood estimated customs revenue
for the fiscal year 1915 at $249,000,
000, revenue from the income and
corporation tax at $122, 000, 000s an
total revenue at $1,026,000,000, whil
he estimated expenditures for that
year at $1,008,000,000, leaving a sur
plus of $18,000,000.
President Wilson has attributed the
deficit in revenue to a falling off in
imports and consequently in customs
revenue due to the war, but Mr. Steen
erson showed that the actual revenue
from that source for eleven months of
1914 with an estimate for December
added, fell short of Mr. Underwood
estimate by only between $5,000,000
and $6,000,000. Had Mr. Underwood
other estimates proved correct, there
would still -have been a surplus of
more than $12,000,000 and no deficit
taxes would have been necessary. But
revenue from income and corporation
taxes fell short of the Underwood es
timate $51,000,000, while appropria
tions for the fiscal year 1915 reached
a total of $1,094,168,102 Instead of
$1,008,000,000.
Thus total revenue fell short of the
estimate by more than $57,000,000
and total expenditures exceeded the
estimate by more than $86,000,000
This explains the decrease in th
treasury balance from $144,000,000 to
a little more than $66,000,000. Had
the much maligned Payne tariff re
mained in operation, it would hav
produced more than enough additiona
revenue to offset the deficiency from
Income and corporation tax. for
produced in excess of $311,000,000 I
the fiscal year 1912, or $68,000,000
more than the Underwood tariff pro
duced in the calendar year 1914
Indisputable figures prove that th
Democrats fall short $57,000,000 of
making the tariff produce enough rev
enue to meet the expenses of the Gov
ernment under what they term Re
publican extravagance. They fall short
$125,000,000 of mfceting expenses un
der Democratic extravagance. They
always promise a tariff for revenue
only, but their tariffs never produce
enough revenue. They always prom
ise economy, but they always practlc
extravagance.
it
Britons and Teutons are p'anning
their fashions along widely different
lines. Paris, once the clearlng-hous
and regulator of fashions, has lost her
grip. The date is not far distant when
we shall be able to distinguish the
nationality of an individual by the cut
of his garments. Just as we now dis
tinguish a Chinaman at a glance.
Andrew Carnegie says he gained hi
fortune by concentration. Perhaps
the tariff helped a little, but if he
had dissipated his energies no law
could have saved him. A wise writer
says. "Concentrate upon essentials,'
which implies neglect of trifles, it is
trifles that worry us and often destroy
our usefulness.
Chicago is in the grasp of an epi
demic of compound hypermetropic
astigmatism. However, cheer up 1
you have friends or relatives in cm
cago. Despite the terrifying name the
"disease" is merely one of tired eyes
and, we suspect, is very largely lmagin
ative.
An effort will be made by American
manufacturers to install mush as an
article of diet among tho peasantry
of Europe. But how, we are led to
Inquire, are the peasants going to get
the necessary corn meal .'
London now takes the view that we
will not force the Issue. Evidently,
on sober second thought, the English
have reckoned with our spineless
diplomacy.
As the result of a joyride a local
youth must serve three months in
Jail. He's lucky at having escaped
the clutches of the undertaker.
While the armies appear to have
fought ono another to a standstill,
much will happen when they begin
to catch their second breath.
If Winter is going to give us a touch
of hieh life it will have to hurry. So
far we haven't had so much as a real
touch of overcoat weather.
a.
The Russians are seeking to envelop
the Austrian force in Buckowina.
Can't be done. The Austrians are too
skillful as sprinters.
The weather man thinks wc shall
have snow today. Of course if we do
have it all of us will have to admit
that ho is a wizard.
The economy rorce is' advancing
steadily and the legions of extrava
gance are reported retreating ail
along the line.
Congress has refused to increase
the Army. One day we shall attempt
to lock the barn after the mare has
been stolen.
But imagine how we'd feel If a
flock of Jap airships carrying dyna
mite were reported on the way up the
Columbia.
The crinoline, skirt is coming. Fine
news for the manufacturer of dress
goods but sad intelligence to the rest
of us.
Between the Rose Festival and the
Panama Fair we're going to have no
trouble laying vacation plans this
year.
A local club is to be entertained to
morrow by a memory expert. Unless,
of course, he forgets the appointment.
The price of oats is declining so that
we may be able to have mush for
breakfast, anyway.
Spring training camp days ap
proach and the ball fan is taking a
new lease en life.
Maybe what the Britons heard over
head was a flock of ducks headed up
he Thames.
Gleams Through the Mist
By Oris C'olllae.
Content meat.
I used to yearn to travel far.
To England's lovely land.
And wander where her cities are
Along the ocean strand;
I used to yearn abroad to roam
But now I'm strong for home, sweet home.
For here I wake at morning's call
And eat my mush In peace;
Nor fear a German bomb may fall
And caue my meal to cease;
They bounce no missle on my dome
While 1 abide in home, sweet noma.
Think how annoying it would be
If In the gardun fair.
While with some Isdy strolling fice
A bomb fell from the air
And mashed ma deep Into the loam!
This cannot hap at home, sweet lioms.
Or If I went to gather moss
Beside the ocean shoro.
Some airship suddenly across
The Dover Straits might soar
And scatter me upon the foam
Which cannot be at home, awi-ct hutne.
I fear those big aerial sloops;
1 fear their deadly aim.
Which, though 'tis p'anned for Uilii.lt
troops.
May get me just the Fame.
And so I pen this thoushtcul pninr;
I am content with borne, sweet home.
The casualty list Is something
frightful In the ranks of legislative
bills, ......
"Sir," snid the courteous office hoy,
"in spite of this Impending prohibition,
we must es till allow ttiut- "
"That what, hoy?" 1 sniffed.
"That the acorn must have its cup."
"Or for that matter tho window Its
glass," 1 came back.
"Yep; or the cotton its boll " re
torted the C. O. B.
"Or the Beavers their pitcher."
"And the orchestra its viol "
"And the river its schooner "
"And the shotgun lt Irurrel "
"Who started this, anyhow," I roarrd
as I impaled the C. O. H. on copy
hook. . e .
Kolemn Thought.
When solons meet 'tis ssd lo sr..
In this fslr country of the free,
llow many, many lobbies b.
Wrlth vim a-hum lo pry them from
Their programme of economy.
...
Vr Forveaat for he Week,
Miltladea J. Hyperbole. Hie world
famed military expert, dopes tit n
follow the war situation It "V 1 1 1
probably develop In the coming week:
Continued victories will he not-d on
the eastern frontier, the Russians nnd
German carrying all beforo tticm In
their respective advances upon HerMu
and Warsaw (see Uriiln and l'etro
grad dispatches of any date).
The center of Int.rest will move.
however, to tho French frontl -r. H re
unparalleled u- will crown in.i
arm of the French and tho Gernmiu.
each side advancing on several oc
casions a number of yards and some
time as much a a rod.
In America cases of colds in the he.iO
ill develop widely, duo to the strain
upon the soft palate, readjusting n-
lf from tho pronoiinelatitui of ruhk
and rrzeniyl, to yoissuna and A.snr.
The movement for Universal I'eai-o
will receive a powerful forward im
pulse, when member of thn Primary
Classes of tho Sunday School o Kant
Hlckvllle, Ark., conduct a parade, pro
testing against the dreadful carmine
In Europe. Tho Ladles' Uplift of Kasl
Hickvillo will engineer the demonstra
tion which is designed to he a stern re
buke upon the pride of Princes I hat
plunge nations Into strife.
...
We thought that we had dealt pretty
thoroughly with tho cat of tho car
penter, but. reading the following from
W. M. A." w e aro Inclined to slip him
the wreath:
...
Of the curpentor we've read.
But nothing's bren said.
Except things nice.
O'er looking his vise.
Dean, now we reiusl.
Tell awl the rsl.
If out of words you run.
While trylnc to pun,
.lust make up a tool,
There Is no rule.
Even you can't, swfar.
Th fellow's on the square.
He's an auier, they say. ,
Though he works by the day.
You think he's level.
But I know he's a devil,
llo'd like to draw-knlle
And murder his wife.
And so we will iorset the i-arpenter
and sing a Utile chantey of l!t!6:
The poor thing he msrs.
T saw-tcrth scars.
He was seen to plnchfr,
s'ome sny he'll lynch lier
Krom his chiseled pro-file.
He appeers to smile.
As the bits he's grlndlnt.
From those who're flndlns.
His tacks quite as heavy,
As the war stamp levy.
...
What funny beasts, most any day
About the town we find;
I've seen tho Hull Bun, rd thry ssy
That there aro liters blind. -
-
Hesitating and giane-vlmnc tu the
left, we daneo this one also:
And one who sees the tiger blind ..
Too often at his plsy,
Blue crocodiles ynsyhsp niay find
Vpon the broad highway.
...
And looking suddenly armind, wn
aw the rest of our audience besting
it through the elde-door.
...
Tho orchestra ceased iilaymR.
e e
And the Janitor came and turned out
the lights.
l ady Laughter.
Ah. my Lady LatiKliter.
fhadowa fade, atvt gloom;
Where your feot are dancing
Only violeta bloom;
Sparkling of th aunnhlnr,
t-hlmmer of the dew
Spirit of tho rose
When the skies burn blue.
Ah, my Lady Laughter,
How shall I be s-i,i
When, a golden bubble.
You turn sorrow Kind.
Rippling of a river,
.-urKing of a sea
RliiKlets of the Hhlne-gold.
Uiinple on your kneo.
Ah, my I,ady Laughter.
Spring 1 in the latrr;
Silver In the sunbeam.
Shower on tho pane;
Bulling of a bird's note.
Rapturing of a stream
Fairlea in the front yard
Bringing homo a dream.
Ah. my Lady Laughter.
After you the spell.
Morning on the hilltop.
nloFsnms In the dell;
Butterflies on lllit wings
Clover ton to clover
Suddenly the night eing.i.
Then the whole thing overt
r Baltimore un .