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4 HOME AND FARM lAGAZINE SECTION Editorial Page of Home and Farm Magazine Section Timely, Pertinent Comment Upon Men and Affairs, Following the Trend of World Newt; Suggestions of Interest to Headers; Hints Along lines of Progressive Farm Thought. TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers in this locality who wish to fully cover all sections of Oregon mill Wash ington and a portion of Idaho will apply to local publishers for rates. General advertisers may address 0. L. Bur ton, Advertising Manager of Oregon-Wasliiug-ton-Idaho Farmer, Oregon Ian Building, Port land, Oregon, for rates und information. TO READERS. Readers are requested to send letters and articles for publication to The Editor, Or egon - Washington - Idaho Farmer, Oregonian Building, l'ortland, Oregon. Discussions on questions and problems that bear directly on the agricultural, live stock and poultry interests of the Northwest, and on the uplift and comfort of the farm home always are welcomed. So letters treat ing of religion, politics or the European war are solicited, for the Oregon-Wash Ington-Idaho Farmer proclaims neutrality on these matters. Comparatively brief contributions arc pre ferred to long ones. Send us also photo graphs of your livestock and farm scenes that you think would be of general interest. We wish to make this magazine of value to you. Help us to do it. PRIDE. A QUEER thing this pride. Few people but have pride, but the things upon which they pride them selves are often widely different. What one person may be proud of, another may be ashamed of. What one person prizes above anything else, another may look down upon with scorn. Pride is most elastic. Miladi Knickerbocker can point with pride to generations of noble ancestors, in whose veins ran the blue blood of royalty. That notable scions of her race had been degenerate whelps with no manhood or ad mirable qualities does not lower her pride in the strain of kings from which she is descended. Mistress True, on the other hand, finds pride in the sturdy, honest, God-fearing race of which she is a worthy representative. The breath of scandal has never been associated for a moment with the stock from which she comes, and she is proud of this. Pride of ancestry is but one form which pride may take. There is the lad who is proud of his college athletic record, and the boy who takes pride in his scholarship. There is the man who takes pride in his keen wits that baffle the lawmakers, and the man who is proud of his ability to trace the lawbreaker. " In the municipal court of a large North western city a few weeks ago, appeared a woman, guilty of breaking all of the ten commandments, as well as numerous man made laws. She perjured herself without concern while being cross-examined on the witness stand. She used language seldom heard from the lips of vile men. In short, she had plumbed the depths to which a woman can fall, and court attendants looked on with' a mixture of disgust and pity. " and this woman was sitting in hef room, doubtless smoking, when the plain tiff " The prosecuting attorney was in terrupted by a shrill cry from the woman. "It's a lie!" she shrieked. "You found some cigarettes on my table, but a friend had left them there." She drew herself up with what dignity was at her command. "I never' smoked a cigarette in my life!" And this was pride. love of fathers and mothers for their sons, but it does mean a public recognition of boy hood as a public asset. The Boy Scout movement is perhaps one of the greatest National factors toward developing manhood in the youth, in teach ing the youngster the true values of right and wrong, in shaping the twig that the tree may be straight. The corn-growing clubs, so numerous in the Middle-Western States and now being introduced into the Northwest, and all ,of such have a valuable work to perform. The Y. M. C. A. may be commended for its efficient work in train ing boys, through their own efforts, for the fulfillment of their obligations to themselves and to society. All this is social engineering of a superla tive kind. The method of social engineer ing is as admirable as the result, for it ap plies the old, eternally sound principle of "helping others to help themselves." It enables boys to solve "the boy problem." The conservation of boys and the guidance of their energies, to the end that their poten tial capacities and powers may rightly be deevloped into the dynamic forces of the social America of tomorrow, constitute one of the geratest duties which we. owe to our experiment in democracy. side of the world, i consummation, to quote' Haiulet, "devoutly to be wished for." For inasmuch as we appear to be thwarted in our search for the individuality of Infin- -ity, as intimated by Zophar the Naamathite in the great dialoguo in Job, perhaps we shall find solace in the study of mankind and his history. Even so we shall be well re warded. In connection with the" discovery of this city mentioned, it is added that the Amazon has been traced to its source, where, as a stream not tw.o inches wide, it trickles from a mountain nearly 18,000 feet high in the mighty range of the Andes, a no small achievement by the way, and one of great value to geographers. THE BOYHOOD OF THE COUNTRY. OF aU the "movements" which give gooa promise for the future of Amer- ican life, none is more important or more valid than the boyhood movement. We are growing more appreciative of the value of boyhood, and we are showing it in better ways, This does not mean a new ANOTHER "LOST CITY." ANNOUNCEMENT is made from Los Angers of the discovery, confirmed by photographs and relics brought back, of another "lost city of the Iucas" in Peru. The story bears all the earmarks of truth and there is no apparent reason for doubt ing it. In the unexplored areas of the South American Continent, as well as in Central America, evidences of a very ancient civili zation have, from time to time, been found, and while, in the past the professors and savants of the nations have given Egypt and the other countries bordering on the Medi terranean almost exclusive attention, it be? gins to look as if these later finds will in future constitute a basis for active- study and exploration. There are evidences of a civilization as old as that of Memphis and of Thebes in the two countries mentioned, and it is by no means improbable that it was as far ad vanced. Certain it is that there are points of similarity both in architecture and in hiero glyphics as compared with the Egyptian. ' Pyramids have been found which, while not so large as those of Egypt, are of similar shape and it is related that many inscrip tions bear a close resemblance to those found in the land of the Pharaohs. These circumstances have been considered by believers in the existence of what has been designated as the lost continent of "At lantis," as proof that that land of mystery once extended from South America to the Continent of Africa and when destroyed by an immense upheaval of the earth which caused the waters of the great deep to flood the larger part of its area, either the sur vivors of the catastrophe on the western side, or their predecessors in exploration, founded new homes and new nations in the northern portion of South America and in Central America. Of course all this is chiefly supposition, but there is a possibility that when thorough explorations and excavations have been made, that the wise men of our own gener ation may solve the mystery attaching to the birth and growth of the human race on this "CATCHING COLD." TIIE recent cold spell in the Northwest was heralded by a chorus of sneezes- everybody catching cold, except that fortunate, and offensively boastful few who "never catch cold." Why ? The reasons will be helpful in avoiding cold. The Fall epidemic of colds comes for these reasons: That the closing of doors and windows against the outdoor chill suddenly shuts off the supply of clean fresh air, which is a sovereign safeguard against colds; that with less outdoor exer cise most people continue the heavy diet that the outdoor exercise of Summer en abled them to get away with nicely; and that hermetically-sealed interiors form hot beds for the spread of the germs that cause colds for a cold is a germ disease and is coutagious, and its germ is, moreover, dan gerously friendly with the germs of wnsil itis, diphtheria, pneumonia, etc, A Philadelphia doctor gives this good ad vice: "To avoid colds' avoid overeating, overdrinking, overwork, exposure and other persons who have colds." He should have added, avoid foul air and cultivate fresh air. "Everybody up nt our house has a cold." Ever hear that? Many times. Think of that, and then of that Philadelphia doctor's advice about avoiding "other persons who have colds." Colds run through a family, for the Bame reason smallpox might run through a family because one gets it and gives it to the rest. And don't scorn a cold as a little thing. Generally it is a little thing, but when it Is you are lucky. ".Just a cold" covers a mul titude of perils; for a cold often suddenly strikes at a vital point and plays the very mischief. Avoid colds by cultivating fresh air and temperance in food, 'drink and work, by keeping up outdoor exercise as much as pos sible during the Winter months, and by" avoiding contagion. And when you get a cold, be careful of yourself. The warring nations have been invited to the biennial congress of the American Peace Society. At which, remarks the New York Sun, they ought to be able to stuff a pillow with dove feathers. They are now. making mock-turtle soupi so well that the only people able to detect the difference is the man who tastes it. If it be true that the hookworm is in Panama, it is evident that Colonel Qoethals hasn't learned about it yet. Venus has nothing on Gertrude Hoffman, the vaudeville dancer, and Gertrude hasn't much on herself.