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THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON.
WHERE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION WILL BE HELD
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itn lor of tlio I'oIImcuiii In Clik-iiifo, wLrru, iiccordlug tu llio dc'clolua of the Jteubllcan nutloiial committee, the
tttlon of ID'.'O will bo held.
ope's Drop in Birth
Rate Causes a Scare
tion More Vital Than An
other War Or Than
v Ten Others.
O'J SPECTER IS SEEN
I States Looked To Stvlor,
i National Decay as War's Aft
rmath Middle Class Most
Affected Babies Fewer
I In Germany.
Inn. "Well, It's not my funeral."
!m) (tpitni'ty ilrt-HKfil young l'lig
n with it tollnr of prc-wnr Klt
rfiidlns out tbw followlim pnrn
In tho comer of h Inln club:
lilrlli ruto .i-r l.x0 I'eraoim
In EtiKliiiiil mm Wnle In IBIS
T.7, compiin-il with 34.1 per
in the ten yours 1851-flO. Th
i ChCKliIro l only 10.0 Mr 1,000,
at In Lomlon 10.1. The end of
nr .hmvs no tbeek In what Is
tinCoiial sulclile.
tu t ty.y fiinei ul,M h reperwl.
it !!.
an txt't only his funeral, but rnr
?sp funeral of a race. "Dn
ity " hnh the Irh)hiunn. "What
fterlty ever ihuio for mc?" The
tin In anylne Iho nnrin.
i .i no neiire. It I a fact. It la
vllnt than nnother Kuropean
r than ten others. It l more
than the lnfluen.a. It la more
ouh than tin anarchist bomb In
street. For ICurope, It Is the
Uirtg that ma iters.
: a very old world,
j lu London at election time wo
,0 giant ladders nld by Kldo up
'O of ono of our tallest buildings.
results come In, the figures on
dderg, reiirenontlnir tho Liberal
ry parties, race each other tip
aidinc Itearlng their bolght
Europe's wenry, war worn
i, two ladders are seen today.
Is tho figure of death. On the
tho figure of little roy child,
racing against life. And death
iiilng,
"Thd End of the Race."
End of the Knee," a current
rt, nhows Europe's Inst baby In
ir 2.0O0. A halo Is shown about
xt-nod head. Its bones show
h tu tortured akin. It Is aur
(1 by adoring millions of aged
niis of both aexes, tho last of
race. It Is only a cartoon.
le death thnt conies In the roar
uo and tho crash of a Hbell wo
orgottoii tho death of tho great
nty years ago Frnnce used to bo
ip as Europe's horrible exam
ranee, the country where,
America, the bnby was king,
are those who say today that
ar has completed what the
i nation began. There are
sociologists who believe thnt
, once tho glory of the old
Is dying dying because she re
to live. Patriotism and prldo
:Ioh(xJ tho mouths of her groat
But Is not today's Europe a
France?
pt la this one thing figures can
le to prove anything. But tho
nntlcs of birth and death are
ible. There Is no room for
ipp, to vise a pungent American
"on (he toboggan." There aro
ns portentous and Inevltnblo
it ., pinking fooling before Roa
s. "Bonuses for babies" Is En
Hero In England we have
f rnlsi'd that S. O. S. Krnnce
and failed. Will Europe?
above applies to nil classes, but
'middle class It comes with fit to-
nudity. a
Iddle Class Most Affected,
e, with better conditions, it full
alh rale among tho working
has during tho lust 30 years
o extent compensated for n full
Ih rate, the accentuated full of
Idle class birth rate hns no fall
tth rate of any kind to compen
sate. A prominent medical man lias
Jimt written In the Times : "What we
aro witnessing la the death of tho mid
dle cIiihs." Upon tho coffin of that
class will bo Inscribed tho epitaph: "A
flaws that died tiiHituso It could not
Ilvo." Not lioeiui.Mo It would not, but
because It could not. Are we going to
sen Europo given over to tho working
class? And then?
The once grent middle class, In Its
litKt struggle for survival, will be
forced Into one of two things; either
to sell out and go over bodily to or
ganized labor, or to form a European
middle class trado union, both for of
feiiMe and defense. It will sny to
Europe: "if you want doctors, law
yers, clergymen, you must pay for It.
or wo won't servo you."
Hut Europe, alnsj Is beginning to
do without tho clergyman. The state
lawyer Is beginning to supplant tho
private practitioner. Only tho doctor
la left, and ho, poor devil, Is letng
nationalised under national health reg
ulations. Here In England the middle class
family of four or five hns became
two or three. Medical men, without
exception, aro united In their opinion
rtmt" "during tho pt ten years the
birth rate of that class has been going
headlong to jierdltion.
Now com. tho flKttrea of the mar
rlago age, published a few days ago.
Between 1011-M .19 pc "st of B"
bachelors nmrrfrl; .in 1017 only 27.0
per cent In ISWUxTbO per cent mar
ried. The proportion of bachelors who
marry at over thirty-five has been
steadily rising, with a awlft upward
climb In 1010 and 1917. Only 54.8
per cent of spinsters marrying during
1917 wero under twenty-five years of
ago.
Among the middle classes the ago Is
rising at an alarming pace. It looks
as though within a ' comparatively
short time here In England the mid
dle class will, with tho Increased age
of marriage, give to the race only
those stunted specimens of child life
which are ho often, though not always,
tho fruit of Inte unions.
It Is significant thnt no single per
son has come forward to contest the
above. It cannot bo contested. We
aro looking on the passing of a class.
Members of parliament are begin
ning to sit up and take note.
Babies Fewer in Germany, Even.
Even Germany, tho nursery of Eu
rope, which produced Us million bnblea
at the bidding of the war lord na
food for his ennnons, Is fnst depopu
lating. The wnr has done this. The
Oermans of the cities refuse to have
children. "Wo ennnot feed them,"
they say. "We cannot even feed our
selves." During the war tho German profes
sors solemnly debated polygamy as a
remedy. Some of them approved It.
But Oerninny Is no Utah and Berlin
no Salt Lake City. Today's Father
land Is strictly monogamous. Econ
omy Is the father of morality. The
modern German finds It hard enough
to keep ono wife. He does not want
half a dozen.
For ten years before the war Eng
land, like the rest of Europe, had be
gun to yield herself to the pleasure
croze. With the wnr and thnt frnntlc
desire to forgot which became n cult,
that crnzo pnssed Into frenzy. Today,
over 12 months after the war, the
music halls and picture palaces are
crowded to the doors. I have- made
the experiment of listening to the con
versation of 17 couples Of business
glrla In the enrly trams nnd busses. Of
this number no fewer thnn 11 used the
expression : "Where nre you going to
night?" but what hns all this to do
with tho birth rate?
Everything. Pleasure to the English
man, as to tho European, hns become
a narcotic ns essential ns tobacco or
alcohol. Pleasure costs money. Pleas
ure excessful means selfishness. Pleas
ure means effort and effort absorbs
vitality. Pleasure means the breakup
of the home. Tho modern European
hns to choose between plensure nnd
children, lie chooses plensure.
Tho Unborn Suffers.
Then conies the cost of living, the
European's nightmare. The war has
Man Wills $65,000 to
Girl He Robbed of $2
Osage, la. A strange legacy
hns Just come to an Iowa girl,
who has received a fortune of
$0.1.000 from a stranger who
robbed her of $2 In 1912 by en
tering tho homo of her uncle,
where she was visiting. When
a man, evidently a tramp, Jerked
open tho door of her uncle's
home, sho made haste to hand
over the $2, which tho man took
and then left the house.
Itecently the young woman
was notified of a bequest of $03,
000 left her by a trump, John
Brunsvlk, who died a year ago
In Minnesota.
prnctlvally halved Incomes. Wage
nnd salary Increase has done little to
balance tho lift In tho cost of living.
The middle class man who before the
war Just made both ends meet on
$1K) a year Is fighting fate upon the
$7!0 that Income Is now worth. Eu
rope Is suffering from a shortage of
bricks nnd mortar. The war has pul
verized billions of bricks and mil
lions of tons of mortar. The Ger
man housebreakers alone have knocked
tho buildings of the host part of a
country Into smithereens. People are
snuggling together In single rooms.
They herd like. the beasts that perish.
And they do perish.
Take London. London today Is the
problem of seven millions crouching
over a chalk pit. That seven Is soon
going to be ten. During the war alone
Iindon, the octopus, sucked In another
million. Possibly a quarter of a mil
lion need houses as I write. The Lon
doner Is becoming i. sort of city no
mad. He shifts from room to room.
He crouches under the slates. lie Is
a troglodyte. He burrows Into the
earth. Building has scarcely begun.
Crowd humnn beings and you kill
them as surely ns If they were rabbits.
And many of these hunted, harried peo
ple aro rabbits. Nibbling at adversity.
With the brains of rabbits. Seeing to
dny but neither yesterdny nor to
morrow. But that Is a picture of Eu
rope Itself.
Will such people have children? Can
you expect them to have children?
Can you expect them to think of the
dignity of the rnc! tradltlonless, hope
less as they are? Can you be
lieve that they will give heirs to pos
terity? "D posterity! What has
posterity done for us?" you would henr
them sny If they could speak. But they
are pnst speech. It Is that which
makes them dangerous.
Yellow Peril Seen Afar.
And all this In tho face of yellow
millions. Articles are once more
streaming the European press about
the yellow challenge. A book Just
written upon the awakening of Asia
by one of the most brilliant living
Englishmen has focussed the atten
tion of thinkers In every country.
One can see the multitudinous babies
pouring out In a resistless yellow
stream of slant-eyed young devils
from the overflowing cornucopta of
the east. Bright eyed, Interesting, In
terested young devils I Tho yellow
challenge. The yellow peril.
And all this In the face of young
America.
Europe Beems to look more and more
to America. Today It Is an uncon
scious groping across tho Atlantic, as
of n blind man. Tomorrow It Is going
to be a conscious call. Europe's S.
O.SI
Can America do It? Can America
give to Europe the desire to live? Can
the land of exuberant vitality nnd ex
uberant effort give to the mother from
whom she drew her own life a trans
fusion of youth? Can she? Shaw Des
mond, In New York Sun,
'FLU' MICROBES ON SCHEDULE
Germs Recur Every Thlrty-Three
Weeks, According to London
Investigators.
London, England. Influenza ml;
crohes have n regular schedule by
which they recur In cycles of 33 weeks,
according to the medical research com
mittee. The next cnll Is expected In
January and February, It is said.
Tho recent actors strike Lu New
York caused a loss to the theaters of
more than $2,000,000.
FOSSIL SEARCH
NEEDS EXPERTS
Scicntific Expeditions Made Up
of Men Who Are Trained
Geologists.
AMATEUR RUINS SKELETONS
American Mueeum Hunters Are Under
Direction of Curator of Fossil
Vertebrates Search Is Serb
cus Work.
Washington. The expedition of the
American Museum which for several
months hn been searching for the
skeletons of ancient animals In a sand
stone quarry at Agate, Neb., has dis
covered many bones of the little rhinoc
eros. Tho deposits containing these
bones have been cut Into blocks which
will be shipped to the museum, where
the bones will be placed on exhibition.
The little rhinoceros, or dlcerather
lum, as he Is scientifically called, was
about tho size of a half grown calf
and roamed at large during the mlo
cene period. He had two horns sldo
by aide In front of the skull Instead
of one or of one behind the other. The
expedition has been working under the
direction of Dr. William D. Matthew,
curator of fossil vertebrates at the
museum.
Few persons have any Idea of the
vast amount of care and work that a
large scientific Institution takes in
planning and preparing for an expedi
tion which aeelfs the remains of these
ancient bensts In the hope that they
will shed additional light on the dim
nnd distant evolutionary periods of an
enrly world. They have various objec
tives In view. Sometimes they nre
planned to fill In a gap of scientific
knowledge.
Must Know Many Things.
It may be desirable to know what
animals Inhabited n particular region
which has remained unexplored, or t
find out what kind of animals lived In
a partlruhir geological epoch, or to
trace the ancestry of some species of
animals back to geological times. A
scientist setting out on such on expedi
tion must have as a preliminary a
general knowledge of geology, and of
the geology of the region which he
Is to explore, ne must be acquainted
with the areas where the formations
of the geological period he Is to visit
are to be found. He needs to have
many records of fossils that have been
discovered In the past. Scientific Insti
tutions have many observations of the
occurrence of fossils In regions in
which they. ore Interested.
One of the most remarkable fossil
birds ever discovered was brought to
light three years ngo In the Big norn
basin In an area which had been thor
oughly explored by fossil hunters since
1S91, and yet practically no trace of
this great bird know as the dlatryna
had been found there.
American museum explorers have
gone over many old stamping grounds
which had been searched again and
again, and have discovered romething
new.
It Is Important thnt such kind of
prospecting and mining be done by
trained men. An Inexperienced nan
who undertakes to remove such skele
tons Is pretty sure to ruin them, and
the chances are that he will render
them entirely worthless. ,
r To become a successful collector, If is
not so much a matter of the technic
of collecting as It Is a practical field
knowledge of formations. The collector
must have a trained Judgment In order
to know what prospects are worth In.
vestlgatlng, and how best to go about
It. It Is for this reason that the Ameri
can Museum and other Institutions
have had to decline offers of voluntary
assistance on expeditions.
Four Men Go Together.
Generally speaking, a collecting ex
pedition. Dr. Matthew nM, ef.nits
of from two to four men. It Is not con
sidered good for n man to be slone
and take risks. It does not pay to have
more than four men, otherwise they
are likely to be In one another's way.
Expeditions are usually organized at
a town or railroad point where equip
ment may be shipped to them.
In prospecting for fossils encl. mem
ber of the expedition usually sets out
In a different direction In the morning.
He takes with htm his lunch and a
canteen of water, and explores as
much ground as he can before night
fall. He Is Intent on finding what ap
pears to b!m a good prospect on which
to begin work.
The Instructions always Issued to
such expeditions are not to take risks.
Yet the collector In his zeal and en
thusiasm for his work would scarcely
be human If be followed these Instruc
tions to the letter, and he frequently
takes risks of many kinds. In such
expeditions of the museum It Is not re
called that any of their men have been
dangerously Injured. They have had,
to be sure, attacks of mountain sick
ness which Is a sort of fever.
Looking for fossils Is a serious work.
The prospecting must be carefully
done. If a big skeleton Is to be re
moved a good deal of digging Is re
quired, and this must be done with
extreme care. Sometimes It Is neces
sary to blast a ledge. The work of
prospecting a specimen" Is anything
but easy. Big specimens must be re
moved In several blocks, and great
care must be used In handling them
nnd In preparing them for transit as
they frequently must travel from 1,-
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Model spouse Dies at lui;
Stayed Horn? Every Night
Bancroft Abbott Bailey of Chi
cago who died at South New
bury, Vt, a few dnys ago, was
more than one hundred and ono
years old. He never spent a
penny on tobacco or liquor,
never was Inside of a theater
nnd never spent an evening
awny from his family. He went
to Chicago when It was a little
settlement and built a cabin
near what Is now Palatine, III.,
where he reared a family of 11.
Chicago had a population of
about 500 when he first moved
there, and Indians were plenti
ful on all sides.
000 to 3,000 miles to reach their destination.
WILL VIEW ALL BEAUTIES
French Claim Right to Feast Eyes on
Charmers From All
Land .
Paris. "Men have the Inalienable
right to feast their eyes upon the femi
nine beauties of all nations."
Such was the reply of the fashion
able Epatant club to the protest
against the display of English prize
beauties at the Marigny theater, when
French women rose in indignation and
cried:
"Aren't there enough beautiful wom
en In France?"
"What object Is there In beauty un
less It Is destined to fascinate men?"
inquired Maurice de Kobra, speaking
on behalf of the club. "From the ir
Uest times a man has never admitted
that It Is his duty to find his mate
within his own country's borders. The
boulevardiers of Paris and all France
emphatically claim the right to wel
come the beauties of all nations."
SPELLS DEATH OF
PERFECT WOMEN
Famous South Sea Belles Are
Now a Drunken, Degraded
Race.
LIVE IN UN ALLURING EDEN
Remnant of Marquesan Race ! Be
yond Redemption French Can
Only Allow Natives to Die Off
as Speedily as Possible.
Washington. "There can be no
doubt that today this drunken, dlsease
rldden remnant of the Marquesan race
is beyond redemption and all the
French coloulal administration can do
ta to pursue its present policy of nomi
nal supervision and let the natives die
off as speedily as possible."
Such Is the pathetic epitaph, written
by John W. Church, in a communica
tion to the National Geographic so
ciety, of a people whose Women were
pronounced the most beautiful in the
south seas, whose dances were the
most Joyous, whose tattooing was a
fine art and whose Island home was
an alluring Eden before the white man
came.
"To describe the dainty, graceful
Marquesanno as she unquestionably
was, will, I fear, lay me open to the
charge of exaggeration," writes Mr.
Church.
Attractions Beyond Compare.
"When a woman possesses beauti
ful, luxuriant hair, fine eyes, perfect
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Scene at the launching and christening of the S. S. Koscluszko at pier
26, Brooklyn. The ship was christened by Rev. Dr. Kwlakowskl. The
Koscluszko was purchased from the United States shipping board by tho
rolIsh-Amerlcnn Navigation corporation with money subscribed by oyer teu
thousand Pollsh Americans In. the United States, '
teeth, a slender, graceful form, a skin
of velvet texture and unblemished sur
face, and these physical attractions
are combined with a vivacity of spirit
and action exaggeration becomes diffi
cult and unless all chroniclers of the
Islands have for several centuries
agreed to deceive the world such was
the Marquesanno, and so she Is today
when sickness has not diminished her
charm.
I doubt seriously if a more carefree
or contented maiden ever existed. Her
domestic duties were light and agree
able. The furnishings of her thatched
shelter consisted of a few pandanus
sleeping mats nothing more. Outside
on the stone platform was an assort
ment of bowls, crudely carved by the
men In their Intervals from warfare.
These held polpol, fish, fruit or what
ever of food might be prepared for the
only dally meal.
Then there were dainty 'conut
shells, ground thin and polished by
rubbing on Btone under water, often
carved, which held the coco oil and
other preparations for the toilet, dear
to the heart of the Marquesanne.
"I have mentioned the use of coco
oil by the Marquesans. Probably no
race ever attained a greater skill In
the art of massage certainly none
ever practiced It more constantly. The
oil was obtained by filling large wood
en bowls with the meat of broken co
conuts and placing them in the sun.
Into the oil thus drawn the Intensely
fragrant blossoms of pua or the seeds
of the spicy, aromatic lime were
thrown, scenting it with a delightful
perfume.
Much Time Spent at Toilet
"Mei and women alike were dally
massaged with this scented oil, every
muscle being gently manipulated, with
a skill seldom found In a modern mas
seuse. Usually two or , three hours
were required for the operation. At
Its conclusion the skin was like velvet
In texture, without a trace of olliness.
They treated their hair In a similar
manner and the wonderful, luxuriant
tresses were probably due to the at
tention given them In the use of coco
oil and massage.
"Beyond the preparation of the sin
gle daily meal, her massage and such
tappa or mat making as desire or ne
cessity prompted, the life of the Mar
quesanne was devoted entirely to
pleasure.
"The marriage of the Marquesan
maiden to the youth of her choice was
an Interesting ceremony. A home for
their occupation was built by their
friends and the various necessities for
connubial happiness placed therein.
"The maiden was taken in charge by
several young matrons, to be mas
saged with perfumed oils nnd her hair
and body decorated with wreaths and
garlands of flowers. The youth was
consigned to the ministrations of two
older women, who rendered him a sim
ilar service, besides smoking him thor
oughly with the fuinos of sandalwood.
At the appointed time the scented and
garlanded pair were escorted hy the
village to their fae, or hut, where tho
king with much ceremony declared
them tnpu for two weeks. , ; ?
"For the period of the tapu,,none
might speak to them or in any way
disturb their honeymoon. Food was
left each morning on their terrace, to
gether with baskets of flowers to be
woven into wreaths and garlands by
the happy couple." "
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