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ALBANY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10
THE TOOTH BRUSH ASSAILED
The first certificate of gentle birth, the essential pass
word into the company of "possible" persons, the badge of
promotion from the plane of animaldom, is the tooth brush,
with its use one may be a lady or a gentleman if he behave
himself, but without it, not even the addition of all the
world's goods and graces can gainone recognition in the
circles ofthe elect.
And yet this foundation stone of social orthodoxy is at
tacked and its very right to existence challenged. Dr. John
L. Kelly, a New York dentist, is the heretic who has pro
mulgated a catalogue of crimes charked against the tooth
brush. He says it is not only the direct cause of thousands
of deaths annually through heart disease, but is in addition
a purveyor of rheumatism, gastric ulcers, kidney disease and
other ailments.
It doesn't even clean the teeth, the very excuse for its
existence, according to Dr. Kelly. In fact, he claims that it
punctures the gums and deliberately injects bacteria into
them. To him the civilized man's devotion to his tooth
brush is only equalled by the distortion of the feet of Chinese
women as a barbaric practice.
So far as known, the redoubtable Dr. Kelly stands
alone. He admits that the brothers of his profession do not
approve his attacks, but he says that he is getting support
from eminent forces outside of the dental schools. "How
soon this badge of hygienic respectability is to become taboo
in polite society he does not predict, nor does he offer to tell
us what he is going to give us in its stead, if indeed there
can be a substitute.
A CHANCE FOR TEXTILES
The wool fabric industry is in a rather decsript condi
tion, although it has a busy year ahead of it. Whether the
outlook means lower clothing prices or higher remains a
deep, dark mystery.
According tc a leading English wool journal the ma
chinery of the industry is wholly inadequate to produce the
cloth needed to clothe theworld. Nearly one-third of the
world's textile machinery is out of commission "for one rea
son or another. All the. machinery in the United States is
operating, but in Uermany it is practically idle, while a
large proportion of that in the other continental 'countries
is also quiet at present.
In this country, where all the machinery is in working
condition ana in regular use, workers are demanding short
er hours of labor, and thereby reducing the tctal output and
slowing down the manufacture of wanted goods. At the
same time there is a world-wide demand for the new, rich
fabrics. These handsome materials are much more slowly
produced than the staple varieties, and their manufacture
does its part to slow up the whole production process.
Women are particularly at fault in creating the ab
normal demand for extra fine fabrics. Their softness and
beauty do not mean longer service. They are rarely so dur-
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able as the standard weaves, and they cost a great deal more.
Any serious thrift campaign should have as part of Its pro
gram a general determination to refrain from the purchase
of luxurious fabrics until the textile industry has had a
chance to catch up with itself.
Comments of the
State Press
No Need for Auto Show
Other cities in Oregon are staging
bijr auto shows and dealer are find
ing it a stimulus to their talcs. In
liOM'burir, the dewier cauml hifd
cheir cars long enough for even s good
exhibit in their sales roows. let alone
getting enough together for a show.
lio-eburg Review.
Live School Kow
A live row in the public tchool may
nly be an evidence of the renewed
life and interest lh.it has come to Ku
cenc within the jit year. A live local
fight over any isur is generally an
indication of a hutling community.
Eugene Guard.
Newsprint Shortage
On the g:itlcys in the Journal's
ontpoiiig room are IS columns cf
ettcrs from the people, all ready for
auhlication. Hut. because of ihe news
print shortage, there has been so
i.ir literally no room in the paper's
rowded columns to give them publi--aliou.
Correspondents will le.irn
from this why there is delay. They
rill a!-o understand from it the im-
lorfnnce of compressing their con-
nbutions withi,, the shoriesi pos-ihle
tpace. It is physically Imtras-ible to
print long letters. If correspondents
do not cut them the paper will have
10. Oregon Journal.
Native Poetry j
THE PASSING
By liuy Fitch Phelps
Some drops of rain upon the fallen
leaves, .
Some shadow leangthened on the with
ered grass;
An icy breath which moves a naked
tree.
And some strange spirits whimpering
as they pass.
A twilight bird that faintly sings re
mote, As when a widowed thing in anguish
grieves;
A pulse of life all faintly quivering
From out the broken and exhausted
heart,
Like far off songs which mournful
singers sing,
A dying spell which lingering yet will
cling, I
Like withered vines along a crumbl
ing wall, !
A half heard voice which seems to
softly call.
And culling pass, each haunting tone
until
The tide goes out to turn again no
more,
A drench of waters on a lonely shore.
i AllMlla 1119 LULUMs
v-BY F. P. NUTTING -----
Timely Comments and Cleanings of Nsws fro lUrs, There and
Everywhere by Former Editor of the Democrat
A recer event In Portland nf In
terest to Albany people was a birth
duy purty given In tumor of my young
friend, Mrs. F. M. Westfull, a former
resident of the Hub City. All present
but one were women, most of them
also formerly of Alliuny, and henre it
is an easy matter to secure the flg-i
urea, for women always like to give
away the ages of others of their sex. I
Multiplied together the llgures make
4l.
The affair hapicncd at the home of
Mrs. Westfall's daughter, Mrs, Marry
Duy.
The heroine of the afternoon re
reived a shower of beautiful flowers
and hearty congratulations from her
guests, by whom she is helnved. The
following were present: Mrs. M. West
Parker, Mrs. Lottie Ketrhum Longtin,
Mrs. L. Carroll Day, Mrs. Lou Kader,
Mrs. Will Humphrey, Mrs. Sue Hus
ton. Mrs. Artie lluxton Collier, Mrs.
K. I'. Nutting, Mrs. Mary Powell, Mrs.
Jennie Knox, Mrs. Kim Parker
Anderson, Mrs. Mary I'arkef, Mrs.
L. Hehell, Mrs. Sarah Ilenton, Mrs.
V T Wynun. Mrs Mealry. Mm. J J.
lUitnuille. Mrs. I. II. ('nil. .Mrs. Or.,h
llilliervillc Koine, Miss Oral) Hark-
I nesa, Mrs. Alice Ittchards. Mrs. C.
W. Cruwder, Mrs. Harry Duy, and
liek Hay. '
In keeping with this llmeriek age,
Here is one f
Wherever I hapM-n to roam,
From mountain to raging foam,
I'm always pmud of the fuel,
fall. Mrs Will Simpson, Mrs. ('. C. Tl-at Albany has la-en my home
We Rap What We Sow
Doleful predictions of an era of
lard times in prospect are heard on
every hand. Whether we have it or
not depends entirely upon ourselves.
We reap what we sow. If we want
Yrd times and create hard times, we
vill undoubtedly have hard times
but it is not at all a necessity. Wc
r.ake the conditions, they do not
rome, they are created. Capitul Jour-
al.
Bigger Vision
The famous "mirclr man" is re
ported to have worked many wonderful
rures on the afflicted of Portland. Wr
'lope that a certain editor of that city
ook advantage of the opportunity to
wcurt a bigger vision, and wr are
not referring to Frank Irvine, the
Mind editor of the Journal. Astoria
budget.
How to Raise Babies
The department of justice tell
housewives to bring down meat
prices bv buying the cheaper cuts
About the only things on which the
l"partment of Justice ha not yet
idvised the public are how to raise
babies and the best remedy for cat
fleas. Oregonian.
Do You Know That j
.
Sponge fishing in the Americas is
rather a modem industry but it pro
duces more than two-thirds of the
world's supply in weight, though the
fisheries of the Mediterranean pro
duce about one-half of the world's sup
ply in value.
The United States is the greatest
producer of tobacco, and also the
greatest consumer of it, the greatest
exporter and the greatest importer,
too. The per capita consumption,
counting each man, woman and child,
is seven pounds a year.
It has been said that everv no..
sible necessity of a man's life, save
tne water he drinks and the air he
breathes, may be supplied cither di
The United States consumes one
fourth of all the sugar produced in
THE REMEDY
By T. E. Haurigan, Eugene, Ore
The cost of livin's risin' high.
It's bumpin' up again the sky,
But I'm not worryin', no, not I.
I've got my garden spaded;
My radishes are in the ground.
My turnip seed is scattered round
And lettuce planted by the pound.
I ve done It all unaided.
What matters now how prices soar,
Aur surly neighbors rant and roar.
And peddlers tramp from door to door
To sell their peas and spinach?
1 II garner greens from moor and fell,
I'll husk my beans and pumpkins shell,
I'll hoe my spuds and I'll live well
On cauleflower and cabbage.
What matters how expenses crawl.
What matters now how wages fall,
What matters how the teachers bawl
For Rutherford's down coming;
I'll eat my lettuce and my spuds.
I'll drown my foes in onion floods.
And save my bones to buy some duds,
To put me in the running.
Tis simple when you know the how
To knock these farmers with their
plow.
And fill your cellar and your mow.
With carrots, beets, and cresses;
And you'll have left a roll of blls,
A cure fbr various human ills.
An antidote for chilly thrills.
And kale for Susie's dresses.
TODAY'S EVENTS
Wednesday, March 10, lff'JO
A conference of the Interchurch
World Movement will open today at
Spokane.
Memphis will he the meeting place
Unlay of the annual convention of
the Southern Retail Lumber Dealers'
Association.
The U. S. Bureau of Mnrkrts will
hold a public hearing at Charleston,
S. C, today with a view to establish
ing permanent standards for milled
rice.
The tran-fer of the remaining
German warships to the Allies is to
take place lodav. The vessels o be
given up include eight battleship.,
eleven cruisers and twenty-two destroyers.
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