The Sunday Oregonian., November 04, 1917, Section One, Page 5, Image 5

TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAM), NOVEMBER 4, 1917.
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WILSON BLIND
IE EYE, HE
SAYS
Excessive Reading Blamed for
Defective Eyesight by
- High Executive.
ADMISSION IS SURPRISE
Jfelllier President AVilson Nor Colo
nel Roosevelt Knew of Other's
Ierect I-'n til Secret Leaked
Out Recently.
OREGOXIAN SEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Xov. 3. "Me frind TIddy, I
obsarve. Is blind In one eye, and me
frind Woodrow can't see out of the
other." observed an Irish wit. by way
of comment on the recent disclosure
of the afflictions which beset the two
rreat Americans. Now that the truth
is out, the President may expect, at
ome future time, to be accused of at
tempting to steal the Colonel's thun
der, for not until after Colonel Roose
velt confessed to having lost the sight
of one eye In a boxing match 'way
back in 1905 was the public let in
on the secret that President Wilson,
by excessive reading, had rendered one
of his eyes practically useless.
The President and the former Presi
dent may each be blind in one eye, but
nobody would have known it from
looking at them. There is no out
ward indication that Mr. Wilson or
Colonel Roosevelt is short on eyesight,
and the secret is one that both might
have kept indefinitely, and probably
would have kept, had not the Colonel,
after a period of training, taken the
newspaper men into his confidence,
and told them of the boxing contest
with Colonel Dan T. Moore, of the
Field Artillery, back in 1905.
Admission In Surprise.
At that, the Colonel did not disclose
the identity of the officer whose fistic
blow "put out one lamp." It remained
for Colonel Moore to confess, he hav
ing been the only artillery Captain on
duty at the White House during the
Rosevelt Administration. And. as he
mow admits, he did not know at the
time, or until Colonel Hosevelt had told
his story, that he had deprived' the
strenuous President of the use of his
good left eye.
As for President Wilson, he engages
In no boxing contest; that is out of his
line, but he is by nature an exten
sive reader, and during the past three
years has been compelled, by reason
of the world war. and later by reason
of our entrance, has been obliged to
read more than under normal condi
tions. It has not fallen to his lot to
read only clear print; he has been
obliged to read great masses of print
ed and type-written text, and some
script. Diplomatic correspondence, in
great masses, has passed through his
hands and been perused carefully; con
fidential reports in various forms have
come under his close scrutiny; legis
lation and drafts of legislation; reports
and recommendations, and all manner
of written matter has had to receive
Presidential attention, and much of
this could not be read to the President.
The result has been a strain upon
his eyes, and one eye gave way. Prob
ably President Wilson has been forced
to work longer hours than any of his
predecessors; he has had much to oc
cupy him at night, and it has been
then. when, he was free from interrup
tions that he has done much reading.
It was this strain that told.
President Also Affected.
But the President,' if his other eye
holds out and It appears that the
good eye is equal to the strain will
get through. Colonel Roosevelt, on the
other hand, is barred by his physical
defect from realizing the great ambi
tion to take up an Army career. Un
der Army regulations, defective eye
sight bars a man from the Army,
though perfect eyesight is not re
quired. Those regulations require that
a. man must have at least "twenty
fortieths" of vision in each eye; with
out it he cannot be given a commis
sion The Colonel cannot meet this
requirement, and on that ground alone
he is. or can. be barred from holding
the rank of Brigadier-General, which
he so much coveted.
An interesting thing about both Colonel
Roosevelt and President Wilson is that
both are endowed with keen eyesight,
though handicapped as they are; they
are both quick and comprehensive ob
servers. In a crowd the Colonel is as
quick as any man to "spot" his friends
and acquaintances, and little goes on in
his presence that he does not observe,
if it is worth observing. -President
Wilson, according to friends, is quite
as perceptive as the former President;
he has, in deed, a great eye for de
tail, and those who ride with him fre
quently comment on the amount he
for ha is nrone to comment on
what he sees, and he usually takes in
more than those who accompany mm.
ALSACE-LORRAINE FRENCH
(Continued from First Pagg.)
language which Berlin has forced upon
them. Eh bien! Do you know how
manv Alsace-Lorrainers deserted from
the German army when the war broke
out and are now fighting with France?
Thirty thousand. It is an honor to
say that they are the bravest among
the French; but that is so. Because,
if they are caught as prisoners, what
then? Pouff! M. le Kaiser is not fa
mom for his kindness to deserters.
"Therefore you can see how much
those 30,000 love the Germans. "Stay
In the rear where you will be safe,' say
the kind French commanders. 'No,
monsieur put us in front where we
can shoot; say the Alsace-Lorrainers.
Perhaps that is loyalty to Berlin.
"German papers will tell you that be
cause we speak the language that has
been forced down our throats we are
content. That is the thinking of Prus
sia. But can the Prussian tell us why,
while we were a part of France we
never spoke bitterly of the govern
ment? Why, under that kind German
rule we have protested by our repre
sentatives at the Reichstag? Why our
young men have emigrated to escape
military duty, while our citizens in
numerable have gone to Imprisonment
for expressing their affection for
France?
Intereatlns FJcurr Given.
"Despite the mills of industrious
kultur, which strive forever to pour
everything into a hideous German mold,
Alsace-Lorraine is today overwhelm
ingly French. If you wish, I will re
cite some figures. Our population is
1.900,000 altogether. Of those 1,500.000
are natives, almost without exception
totally French. There are 400.000 Ger
man immigrants are descendents of im
migrants. There is no difference what
ever between those who speak French,
in Lorraine, for instance, and those in
Alsace who speak a patois mixed with
German, but which the Germans can
not understand."
"Germany cannot possibly substan
tiate her claims that your provinces
have been Germanized." I agreed.
"German logic is-able to think both
ways, like a donkey with two heads.
She has well learned the speech, 'What
Is yours belongs to me and what is
mine is my own.' Since the beginning
of the present war the German Gen
erals have made no hesitation about
declaring that they consider Alsace
Lorraine an enemy country. How much
better than Belgians have we been in
the sight of Prussia? Look at the
thousands of Alsace-Lorrainers who
have been deported to slavery and an
swer for yourself.
"When they are candid which hap
pens seldom the Germans admit that
they have no faith in the loyalty of
Alsace-Lorraine. They mistrust us be
cause we do not admire the goose step,
do not regard the sign "Verboten" as
more beautiful than our mountain
scenery. Thus it is that Germany
longs for der tag when. we shall be
dragged by the hair of our heads Into
further despotism. Endlessly her pa
pers discuss our future and what they
will do to dismember us and what con
stitution we shall have as a monarchic
and autonomous state of the empire.
We are uncomfortable to her, like a
little stone in the big military boot.
Alsatians Have Suffered.
"Monsieur, loyalty and love are not
bought without price; that you know.
The martial courts have sought to si
lence us with frightful grimaces. We
have spoken our love for France at the
cost of our lives. Executions have
been many and thousands of years of
imprisonment have been ordered by
their councils of war.
"France was wise to send you here
on her high commission." I suggested.
"France knows that I am, like the
heart of Alsace, all French," said M.
Daniel Blumenthal. "My own country
must be returned to France or there
can be no lasting peace. We will ac
cept no sedatives from Germany, no
hypocrical offers to become an au
tonomous state in the German Confed
eration. It is not alone that France
wants her Alsace-Lorraine. Alsace
Lorraine wants her France."
Those round black eyes began snap
ping again with the Joke of it when I
referred to his . escape into France. It
was not so humorous, perhaps, in that
July day in 1914 when the Huns ap
peared with bayonets on their rifles
and stood sentry on the good Mayor of
Colmar.
Americans Act Suddenly.
"You Americans do things tout a
coup all of a sudden what you say?
Maybe no Mayor from these United
States ever resigned himself from office
so quick as I took myself out of the
Mairie of Colmar.
"You see I had not been loved for
some time by Berlin, because I had
refused to receive decorations from M.
le Kaiser or to acknowledge that
Deutschland was uber alles In Colmar.
We Alsatians are not pacifists. We
knew for quite a while that war would
break over us one of these days and
that the Boches would come marching
in with the kind of kultur we hated to
think about. One of my daughters
thought of what to do, so she said to
me:
" 'Papa, when war comes you must
be the first out of Colmar.'
'So we talk it over often en famine.
Nothing was omitted. For we knew
that the name of Blumenthal was i
the head of the list of those to be arrested.
Bein! It was the day of July 31,
1914, that very polite German officers
and soldiers arrive to my office in the
Town Hall of Colmar. They show me
proclamations from the general com
mandant, which I am. with greatest
politesse. requested to post. Those
posters say haw danger of war is pro
claimed. Colmer la to go under mar
tial law. That is sufficient.- I am still
considering my programme when more
gray soldiers come in with ."till more
politesse to inform me that I am now
an ex-Mayor. A German Judge at the
Court of Appeals Is to take my office
I see my daughters! The day Is
pleasant for motoring! I say: Why not
little trip to the station! They are
delighted to take the air. But when
we arrive to the tram soldiers are
there already with bayonets to say
that no one shall pass.
Papa." says my daughter, 'would
It not be delightful to tour toward the
Khmer
"Admirable! We all go touring away
for an agreeable excursion toward new
scenery. But when we reach the town
or eubraisach we are completely halt
ed by more German bayonets. The offi
cer is full of anger and all puffed up
with rules, like every German. What
ao I mean by driving up to a guarded
city with my motor? Do I not know
the rules of war? It makes me nothing
when I tell the Herr Lieutenant that 1
am -a peaceful avocat and do not know
nnymins aoout war. tie arrests me
and sends my daughters back home In
the automobile."
GERMANS
RO
RETREAT
AISNE FRONT
been removed. The same story comes
from many other places.
It is suggested that the Germans are
preparing for an early retreat In Bel
gium, similar to that which took place
In France last Spring.
Superhuman Efforts of Ger
mans to Hold Positions An
nulled With Heavy Loss. .
AILETTE BRIDGES BURNED
Germans Are Dismantling and Be
strojlng Factories and Work
shops In Belgium and Ship
ping Material to Germany.
BOY'S WISH IS FULFILLED
Sure Way to Get
Rid of Dandruff
BERLIN", via London, Nov. 2. Com
pletion of the German withdrawal from
the Chemin Des Dames plateau at the
Aisne front was announced by the War
utlice today. The movement, which
was effected on Thursday night, had
not been detected by the French up to
midday on Friday, it is declared
(By the Associated Pre. )
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN
FRANCE, Nov. 3. The foreshadowed
retreat of the Germans at the Chemin
Des Dames took place yesterday, when
tne immediate after-effects of the re
cent, rrencn victory Involved a Uerman
retirement along a 15-mile front. The
superhuman efforts of the Germans to
hold this rampart at the cost of im
mense losses were thus annulled.
1 he best elements of the German
Crown Prince's armies lost the greater
part of their effectives and were com
pelled to go to the rear to reconstitute
their diminished ranks. Those Ger
mans left along the crest of the Chemin
Des Dames had been compelled to suf
fer daily and nightly an inces
sant enfilading fire from the French
guns emplaced in positions wrested
from the Prussian guards division dur
ing the battle of Malmaison.
Food Problem Serious.
It was impossible for the Germans
to keep their front line supplied with
ammunition or food, the carriers of
which were obliged to pass through a
tornado of shells and machine gun
bullets while crossing the valiey of
the Ailette, where their every move
ment could be observed by the French.
Eventually the position uecame unten
able and the Germans retired during
the night to the northern side of the
Ailette Valley.
The French are keeping in the clos
est touch with the enemy.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 The British
and French forces in Flanders have
kept engaged about half the total
German forces on the Western front
without any success beinr recorded for
the German arms, according to a re
view of the situation made public to
day by the French high commission.
The statement deals with operations
beginning early in June, when British
forces opened the battle of Flanders.
In a summary it says:
"We can conclude that the strength
and the continuity of the Anglo-French
offensives which have until this day
prevented Germany from undertaking
offensive operations on a large scale on
the Russian front will perhaps re
strict tne help which Germany would
give the Austrian army on the Italian
front, up to such time as the situation
can be retrieved on this front."
TO Divisions- Employed,
There is clear proof, the statement
says, that the Germans were forced to
employ successively 70 divisions to
hold the allies In check in the battle
of Flanders, or about one-half their
total forces on the western front, and
that they suffered enormous losses.
The statement says the exact strength
of the German troops sent into Italy
to make possible the present Austro-
German offensive is not known, but it
points out that the new French offen
sive on the Aisne has cost the enemy
in two days the loss of several villages
and important heights, besides 12,000
prisoners, of whom 200 are officers, and
120 cannon, without counting the large
war material."
PARIS, Nov. 3. The French are ad
vancing between the Oise Canal and
the region of Corbeny and have reached
the south bank of the Ailette River,
the War Office announces. The Ger
mans have retreated to the north bank
of the river. The bridges across the
Ailette were destroyed by the Germans.
Since October 23 the French have cap
tured 422 guns and 720 machine guns.
LONDON, Nov.- 3. According to in
formation received from Belgian
sources the tiermans are systematically
dismantling and destroying factories
and workshops throughout Belgium.
In the Liege district the blast fur
naces have been taken down and th
machinery and materials sent to Ger
many. At Ougree preparations have
been made to pull down three blast
furnaces, and seven rolling mills have
Sheridan. Lad Who Wanted to Go to
Harvard Put There by Uncle Sam.
SHERIDAN. Or.. Nov. 3. (Special.)
Although his desire was to go back
to Harvard) University when he grad
uated from the Sheridan High School
last Spring, he sacrificed the ambition
and enlisted in the Navy. Now he is
in Harvard, according to a telegram re
ceived here this week, and he Is there
by the special grace of his own apt!
tude and Uncle Sam's beneficence. The
student is Ed Stafford, son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. E. Stafford, of Sheridan.
His physical condition at the time
of his enlistment was so exceptional
as to call forth praise from the exam
ing physician, but after entering the
service he was unfortunate, having
successively had measles, mumps tnd
mastoid trouble.
A vacancy In the radio school gave
him the opportunity he had long
waited, and on entering he advanced so
rapidly that he passed over one class
and is now a member of the first con
tingent sent from the naval radio
school at San Francisco to the one at
Harvard, where the course is to be
completed.
WILLIAM O'MALLEY GUILTY
Jury at Bozeman Returns Verdict ol
Manslaughter.
BOZEMAN. Mont.. Nov. 3. William
O'Malley, of Butte, was today found
guilty of manslaughter by a Jury in
the District Court. O'Malley was tried
on a charge of killing John McNamee
during a brawl in front of a roadhouse
near Butte early one morning last
Spring.
Because of the young man's high
connections in Butte, a change of venue
was secured to this county. The max
imum penalty is ten years' imprison
ment.
INFLATION HAS BEGUN
CHANGES IX ECOXOIIIC ORG.IMZA.
TIO!V ARE ESSENTIAL.
WOULD-BE AVIATOR DIES
Dan Geddlngs Suffocated in Fire of
Unknown Origin.
BUTTE. Mont.. Nov. 3. Dan Ged-
dings. a carpenter, 3a years old, was
suffocated in his Walkervllle home
early this morning by smoke from
blaze that broke out from an unknown
origin. The man was rescued from
his home by the Walkervllle fire de
partment, but died a few minutes later
in the city hall.
Geddings had prepared to join the
Aviation Corps.
GOTHAM CAMPAIGN CLOSES
(Continued From F!rt PagrO
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table and correctional Institutions have
been managed efficiently.
The side Issues of the campaign have
been the Cary School plan, and a bitter
religious controversy arising out of
charges made against the conduct of
Catholic child-caring Institutions by
Mayor Mltchel's Commissioi.er of the
Department of Charities. Mr. Mitchel,
by backing up his man. Incurred the
hostility of part of the Catholic vote.
In the case of the Gary schools, mod
eled after the plan In use in Gary, Ind
many believe that the plan was ex
tended too hastily In New York, and
agents of Tammany have made the
most of resistance to that which Is
new. Their propaganda resulted two
weeks ago in riots by school children.
n which school windows were smashed
and the police had to be called out to
protect school property. It was Inti
mated at the time that some of the
teachers had fomented the disturbances
because the Gary plan Involved more
work on their part and longer hours.
At present Mayor Mitchel is engaged
In a hard-hitting campaign, in which
he daily taxes the Tammany candidate
with cowardice in failing to meet him
in open debate, dares his opponent to
answer the slurs which have been cast
upon his personal record and loyalty to
the Government of the United States
and asserts a straight out-and-out
brand of patriotism, which he has been
professing since the preparedness
movement began in this country with
the early Plattsburg camps.
Mitchel la Ga:alnx.
Fusion, Tammany and the Socialists
all predict victory in the election. Ben
nett, the Republican nominee, is out of
it. Although the Socialist vote may be
as large as 125.000, or even 150.000,
which would be five times the vote of
32,000 at the election in 1913. a Socialist
victory is not thought likely. At this
stage the contest seems to be between
Mayor Mitchel and Tammany, with
Tammany slightly in the lead and
Mitchel gaining rapidly. .
The election depends upon the extent
to which the Socialist vote will cut Into
the Tammany districts and the rapidity
with 'which the antl-Hylan sentiment
throws votes to . Mayor Mitchel and
fusion. The vote will be a close one
Tf fusion should be defeated, a possi
bility against which time ana me ny- ;
lan disclosures are working, tne aeieai
will be attributed by many to the early
management of the Mitchel campaign,
which allowed the Republican nomina
tion to go almost uncontested to Ben
nett at the primaries, and the delay
in beginning the aggressive campaign
which is now being waged with Colo
nel Roosevelt's assistance. A division
of the anti-Tammany vote, such as is
brought about by a contest between
the Republican Bennett and the fusion
Mitchel, always works to Tammany's
benefit.
Bennett May Get 75,00 Votes.
Fusionists predict that Bennett's vote
will be almost negligible and give him
75,000 as an outside limit. For the rest,
the most hardened forecasters are
chary at giving figures.
"In the New York section our faith
ful Socialists are making enormous
gains all along the line. Hearst. Hylan
and Tammany are sympathetic with our
cause and rendering valuable aid. Vic
tory over Mitchel, only anti-German
leader, is assured."
Thus might the Imperial German gen
eral staff report to the Katser the
progress In the warfare on the "Amer
ican front," which will culminate in the
battle at the polls next Tuesday over
the election of a Mayor of New York
City.
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There is one sure way that never falls
to remove dandruff completely and that
is to dissolve It- This destroys It en
tirely. To do this. Just get about four
ounces of plain, ordinary liquid arvon;
aoDly It at night when retiring; use
enough to moisten the scalp and rub it
In gently, with the finger tips.
By morning most, if not all. of your
dandruff will be gone, and three or
four more applications will completely
dissolve and entirely destroy every sin
gle sign and trace of it, no matter how
much dandruff you may have.
You will find, too, that all itching and
digging of the scalp will stop Instantly,
and your hair will be fluffy, lustrous,
glossy, silky and soft, and look and feel
a hundred times better.
You can get liquid arvon at any drug
tore. It la inexpensive, and -four ounces
is all you will need. This simple remedy
baa never been known to fall. Adv.
Member of Federal Reserve Board Is
sues Warning to American Bnsl
nesift Men and People.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 3. Warning
that Inflation, has begun, causing the
rise in commodity prices, A. C. Miller
Federal Reserve Board member, today
said the American business man must
not undertake to carry the war as an
"extra," but must see the great changes
in economic organization essential to
victory.
He said the American people annu
ally save tl5, 000,000.000, the war ap
propriations this year are 1 20,000,000,
000, and $5,000,000,000 must be added to
the savings to meet war expenses.
Regarding labor, he said four men
are needed to maintain a soldier on the
front, making 4.000,000 necessary for
an American Army of 1.000,000. Ten
million additional are necessary to pro
vide supplies for Europe, thus taking
nearly half the American labor supply
of 30,000,000.
Br" " IS
Xapavine Auxiliary Elects.
CENTRALIA, Wash., Nov. 3. (Spe
cial.) The following new officers have
been elected by the Napavine Red Cross
auxiliary: Oscar Main, chairman; J. W.
Helmick, vice-chairman; R. B. Patter
son, secretary-treasurer, and Mrs. Fred
H. Swayne, manager of the sewing de
partment. A military girls' club has
been formed by young women of Napavine.
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