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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1904)
PAdfi FOUR." ASTORIA; OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5. tfte morning JMorian r.STAHLISIIKI 1873 PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. RATES. By moil, per year $0 00 By mail, per month 50 By carriers, per. imuth CO THE. SEMI-WEKKLY ASTOIUAX. By mail, per year, in advance ?1 00 ASTORIA'S GREAT. NEED. Astoria's greatest need is a modern hotel. Ev eryone who follows the progress of the city Avill real ise this, and everyone with the interests of Astoria tonestly at heart will assist in every possible way to secure for the city a large modern hostelry. Just how the people of Astoria should go about to secure a hotel can better be determined at a public meeting. Certainly, there is no scarcity of money, for a comparatively trilling amount is re quired. If the 7500 people who contributed so lib 'erally at the time could secure so great an enterprise as the Astoria railroad, surely the 15,000 or more present-day residents of the city can be depended upon to furnish $125,000 for the hotel. The growth of a city rests largely with the .pub Be spirit' of its citizens. City-builders are usually public benefactors, who erect magnificent buildings without any hope of immediate reward. The people f Portland built the Portland hotel and for 15 years never received a penny in return. But their kotel advertised their city and was largely instru mental in making it a great metropolis. The late Henry Veinhard was actuated as much by a desire to build up Portland as by the hope of financial re turn when he covered the Oregon metropolis with landsome structures. So it has been with all other krge cities their wealthy men have liberally fur nished the money to build up their towns. - In small communities like Astoria concerted ac tion ution the cart of the people is essential. The gum named as necessary for the hotel would per- kaps be too large to expect one man to furnish, but 50 men could advance this amount without any in convenience. The people of Astoria have been af forded another opportunity to show their public spirit, and for Astoria's welfare it is sincerely to be toped the hotel proposition will immediately take definite shape. months of the year that "is, of course, houses whose owners sell heat to their tenants! In this matter hundreds of thousands of flat-dwellers are absolutely at the mercy of landlords every wiuter. and many deaths from pneumonia are due to the indirtVivuce of owners in providing the heat that the tenants buy and pay for in advance, too. No crusade against the spread of pneumonia in New York will Ihj effective that does not take cog nizance of the criminal neglect of landlords in pro viding the necessary heat for apartment houses. While there are notable exceptions, as a class flat, house owners are notoriously delinquent in this re gard. The health department "eon bring them up wi'h a round turn, if only it exercises its rather extraordinary powers. ALL- TIMES FOR PEACE. ' Objection to the president's peace conference P. A. STOKES "The Store That Does Things." MEN'S OUTFITTERS O00$O0$00000000 o () o o () o o (?) o o () 0 !.) o o o o () o I EOTIBIIM TO PREVENT PNEUMONIA. The municipality of New York has appropriated $10,000 with which to pay for an investigation of the alarming .pread of pneumonia in recent years, with a view to formulating measures that will oper ate to check the ravages of the disease, says the Commercial of that city. The work is to be done by i special commission of expert bacteriologists under the direction of the department of public health the first session of tiehody to be held about the middle of October. This investigation is a most 'timely and important one, and the results' expected of it will no doubt have a beneficial influence far beyond the confines of the metropolis that provides for and pays for it. Ilealth Commissioner Darlington says that the records of his department show that, while the death rate from most diseases is steadily decreasing. the death rate from pneumonia in New York has Iteen steadily increasing for the past 20 years. Pneu monia is known to be due to infection and the micro organisms responsible for the disease do not multi ply to any extent outside of the human body. As these germs are communicated directly from one person to another, the disease certainly must be pre ltentable, Dr. Darlington declares. "The difficulty Ees," he explains, "in the wide distribution of the germs and in the fact that they are often present in the normal respiratory tract. They produce no symptoms until developed by some outside influence . . , tif f men as exposure, coia, a surgical operation, injury, atreme fatigue or a spree." Any of these conditions may. so reduce the resisting power of the individual that the germs will multiply and thus infect. And it a likely, therefore, the commissioner says, that the methods of prevention to be finally recommend ed ty this expert commission will be of a simple sort, that any one can follow. "There wiU doubt less be recommendations as to cleaning, disposal of dust and ventilation," he adds. fc-r V ii A lti wow, inasmucn as exposure to coxa is given as the first and chief condition that develops the dormant pneumonia germ as all the world knows, pneumonia grows almost exclusively out of "colds," a called why not adopt preventative measures Mgttjheref "Why should not the department of public health adopt a system of inspection that would compel' the proper heating of apartment and tenement houses throughout the eight cold or cool proposal as ill-timed, such as are reported to bei lengths made in the Russian press, are not well taken, says the New York Tribune. The idea seems to he that a peace conference while two great nations are at war would be improper, and would seem to be an at tempt to meddle between the belligerents. Tho lat ter susrsrestiou may be dismissed at once. There is uo thought of meddling. America, in common with other powers, deplores the present war, and would be glad to see it ended. It would doubtless be glad to use its good offices as a mediator, or as a means of restoring peace, if such was the desire of the bellig erents. But it has had and will have no thought of intruding into the quarrel More than six years ago this country gave European powers to under stand that its controversy with Spain, then tending ominously toward war, was one in which it could not recognize the right of any other power to in tervene. It accords to Russia and Japan the same right to fight their quarrel out between them selves without alien interference. As to the idea that a time of war js not a suit able time to talk of peace, it does not appeal to rea son. All times are fitting to talk of peace. It ha9 long been proverbial that in times of peace men should prepare for war. Logically, then, in time of war they should prepare for peace. Why not? A peace congress would not be retroactive. It would not meddle with a war that began before it was summoned, any more than did the former congress at The Hague attempt to dictate a settlement of the dispute between Great Britain and the Boer States, which was then rapidly moving toward war. It may be " a question whether Russia and Japan would be willing to send representatives to be fel low members of such a congress, though no con vincing reasons appear why they should not do so just as they both send representatives to be fellow ministers at various seats of government. With the clear understanding that they would not be called upon to compromise their independent standing as belligerents, or have their conduct in the present war called into question, there is really no good reason why those two powers should not take part in the proposed conference provided it is called before their war is ended, as it may or may not be. Certainly we cannot subscribe to the theory that no peace congress can properly be held as long as there is war in the world. Neither can we agree to the declaration of the Novosti of St. Petersburg that international law is a polite myth of which every item is violated when ever it suits the convenience of some strong nation to do it. We are under no illusions concerning in ternational law, but have frequently pointed out in these columns its vagueness and the difficulty of enforcing its putative provisions. Nevertheless, we believe it is true that many of its important prin ciples are respected by. civilized powers, and are obeyed by them, even to their own inconvenience. We are certain that in the Spanish war this country obeyed prescriptions of international law when it would have been to its advantage to ignore them, and we believe that in the present war both Rus sia and Japan are doing the same. We are, more over, inclined to think that out of this war will grow a more definite and explicit international code for the regulation of belligerent operations in fu ture and that it will be acepted and respected by the nations of the world. OYKCOAtS" . We have 'em from the short top coat to the pop ular belted back, double breasted fifty-two inch Made from neat, catchy patterns, u : i s will appeal to all good dressers, and price is' a secondary matter. 1VU7 $7.50 TO $30.00 M MM j i rt wj 1 1 i., ""U I II Oil ,,-jh- HirtSchltflKT 1 IT tUadTlond j Men's Suits a) O o Is) o (If) 0 o (0 0 0 This is the department we take especial pride in calling your attention to. Here 'we have everything thnf is wnrth mpntlnnino- ...... -- fc g, in the ''Sartorial" world, g We arc showing some hand- Q some suitings in browns and grays, both in the homenpun and worsted effects. To buy a suit here is to it t Jasntonably dressed. f One Price to All1 $IO.OO to $30,00 be? l tl(M IM kf Mart P. A. STOKES "The Store That Does Things." MEN'S OUTFITTERS! s - Ootobcr 27, 23 and 29. World' fair excursion ticket to Chi cago, St. Lou! and all euntern rltlei will be sold by the CnKAT NORTH ERN RAILWAY on October 27. : and 29. In addition to October 3, 4 nnd 6. 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If you want a reliable medicine for liver and kidney trouble, stomach disorder or general debility, get Electric Hit ter. It's guaranteed by Chas. Roger. Only EOc. The cause of the scarcity of afrricultnral students goes about as far back as total depravity. The trou ble does not begin, in the college, but in the kinder garten. Almost as soon as the boy goes into school he finds a schoolma'am who tells him he is too good a fellow to be a farmer. If he is bright he must go to college and be a minister. So he goes to a classical college, and in just about 60 cases out of 100 turns out a nonenity. It is to be feared that some of the teachers in the agricultural colleges exert the same influence as the schoolma'am al luded to. Levi Stockbridge. s In the death of Postmaster-General Payne the nation loses one of its best officials and the, state of Wisconsin one of its best citizens. 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