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fb -. M wiu ; kMM ran ', 'i, TS3F ' 'WEnronT) matt; Tumuyrc, medfort). ok moon, rXtiwday, may 22, 10m .' n 'o- NEGLECT BREEDS SMDKS LONDON SJUMS Lurfe PrefwHefl f Enfllshmen Un fit for SoMiery, Due to Factory Life,. Hence Army Is Small, Says Charles Edward Rns$II, Who Tells ef Effect ef Poverty Upon Masses. r (!) CbnrlcH Edward Itnfisrl news, jmper editor, mHKr.ino writer nnd economist, who i.s writlnp from the vyar wuio exclusively for tl! newspa per.) (Copyright, lDlfi, iy thr New.pnper Enterprise association.) LONDON, May fi. When nil U -aid hud done, the. potent reason vhv flrrnl Britain docs not tnnke nn army like lhtk army of (lenunuv is because ftlic lifiKn't tho matorinl to make it of. Here Ik the x''ct lesytn of nil. She has the numbers hut not the material. The stalwart among her sons, by the thousands ami Iciw of thousand-, have gone to the war. llravc, vigor ous of hotly, alert of nntul, they will terforni nn valiantly ns thp young, wen of any other nation on earth. They nru Mm childtrn of suffic iency. Itut that it nil. What or the vast remainder! , So we come now to the heart of thr natter to Kugland'ri depressed nerve center and tho. tgu of her jjrvat af fliction. Why Not Takn The Men? Walk in London anywhere east of AMpfllc; ro over to Southwark; visit the jrreat manufacturing districts of the Midlands or the north. Here arc Men and men and men.. Come, Rovcm ment; yon want men. You cover the wall and fill the newtpaen with in siHtcnt demands for men and more cn. Well, look upon these endless swarms of men, thousands upon thou sands of men, street 8 full of men, men well within the nj?e ljmit of your de maud. Hero is array after army for you. AVIly don't you take thcinf Why not? Well, this i whv not. Listen, nerveless dull-eyed, with hol low chests pallid faces scrawny fornix What! Will ou make sol. diers of thesef Ouee, year ago, the recruiterK tried that cxcriineut with Tesultft well known iiv the secret his tory of the army. They will not try it again. Traditionally, the HritiMi yeoman waft the strongest man of his inches that went in shoe leather. While the nation tlepl on this tradition a pro found revolution had taken place. Up to 3840 the country had been largely agricultural. When the corn lawn were repealed she ceased to be -h nxneitiiur.il unci oeveiopcu inio me greatest niaiiuluetnnnjc nation in the world. A vast army of producers gradual ly exchanged agricultural employment for life in the back" alleys, dark courts sub-cellars and attics of the crowded manufacturing cities. Also they exchanged open-air life for the rindiiiK monotony of mils, the froph air of the fields for the Mcnc.hcH of slums, and tho rough, hearty l'nrra fare for tea, salt fish nud jam. HtvnitH In Itepuhtivo ItcgtoB Tho MH'oud and third generations under these conditions furnish those atrnntfo beings that, inert nud hopc Jessly inefficient, now hie and Nwami in tho most rcpulhivt) regions of ev ery British city. They represent tho price that Knjf land is paying for her uejpVet of her less fortunate. They nro not ulone feeble in body, hut eijually feeblo in mind. If you -were to try to talk with some, of them you would find that they do not un derstand you, nor could you well un derstand them. You would find in Ihcir rickety frames, horribly wreck ed by a faulty 1iulu(rinl Hystcm, a wu' p mcuupart and 'H ony the rniliments of human inlelli'enee. You would find, for instance, that some of tjicm ncemJfj have fprfltten Jujw to lauylu tlint they have ul'iuotr no r'Jtn'owledg of pnsfeiiur oventa and the world about them, that they barely ? know there Th a wli r. You would find incn lTvealinj; the stigmata of degen eracy arc not les than nppalliuvr. lirthcrmoi-c. it is unfortunately true that the mill Hint produced these specters continues to ncratc. To this day a ery hxrjje pait of the toil in millions neer jjet enouch to cat, inhabit gloomy or uiiMinitnrv dwcll iiigS work Iour hours at dreary em ployments and as a rtsult aw thin blooded, smnlMioncil and without am bhirtn. And that is one reason why (Ireal Britain has no such armv as (.iennany's and will hae none. It was the aftermath of Boor war revelations that jolted the nation to some of these facts. Js'obodv should have been surprised; there had been, wnmincs enough. For yen in the un- j heeded prophets had been jHunting out , Hint the conditions to which the ma jority were condemned were eatnur out the strength of the nation. There was no strength, they said, iu the for tunes of n fewt nor even in factories, ships and trade. The only asset of national strength was the physical well being junUiutcllcctuai develop ment of the masses. When these were, neglected the nation was walk ing the sure road to tumble. Itltliest XaiIihi ts lNvormt .Ynllon When the jnr eamo and those- wottt proved true there were- iuvcsticutioiift that showed stnrtlim; facts. H ap pearol, for instance, to he literally true that what had hi en called the richest nation was in fact the oir esL Of the total population of -12,0110,-000 it npjwarod that about H.OOO.OOO lived on the starvation line r below it. and or these 1,800,000 pore in Lon don. 1'ovcrty was so general and so acute that one erson in every four must lie bliried at nublic exieu!e: or in ntherxonis, a n iauHr. A census of the east end of London snowed aoout .i'U,(l() ersous as members of families domiciled in but one room to n family, and that some times a cellar or sub-eellnr. Terrifying- statistics were produced showing the rapid increase of insan ity and disease among the submerged millions. Further investigations proved that between the well-to-do castes and the toiling castes was a steadily widen ing margin of physical differences. The average height of the well-to-do was found to he almost three inches greater than the averaee height of the inferior castes; their chest meas ures, arm measures nud leg measure were distinctly different. The factory toilers were becoming n. race of beings stunted nnd dwarfed. MEN BEHIND THE THRONES IN THE ITALIAN CRISIS -SN ." O.OioIotiti! "Exxmarx .v5oTxn fcrzo ltniMii Sidney Sonnino, again for eign minister for Itah, known as "th trainer of Italian cabinets," is one of the Incn Prince lluelow, the kais er's envoy, is trying to influonie against war. Sonuino has been u hit; political power iu Italy and much pressure is being brought to bear on him, it is nid, even to the extent of large offers, tit prevent war. (Heater than Sonuino in the estimation ,,f tb (lennan nations, however, is 0. (lio lotti, former president or the min istry nud still looked upon ns one of the powerful men of Italy. It i in timntcd that the flenuaus nud Aih trinus hne tned to siuade him to obtain his obi place as premier and inert war. "Prince ErjLcIo-vv thay)y(ikytithey erecji out of their Widen; mi, by wight creepbocfe .ugain iv mwi: tiiL-uiiiiii uiiiai. iuii noiuu find (hut to get something' to cat and - to find Home plane to sleep constitute 1 lor thwit) children of God and breth in fif yours tho hoiizon of life. j I'MUrfed m Majority 1h JtmAou '. ,H is.a horrible fact that in Loudon ' Mm? iiiwlerfed and the ill. fed are iu a , NiMJrity-itftr all tkso centuriert of itvuiMMUoHtiepe in ulvilixatiou' cei- Ur. .ltym'jwe loo attentively datifiitty'tit ike treet,s J.oJtjymdd he how trH hM js, The proporfion f ywuiifr ihh mol plainly ill-noiir- , hIiim! Btttl lb iMpoiUwi of young A .New Kind of Hhmm Xature Society was produeini; n now kind of human crc.iture, inferior nlivsical- ly, inferior meutully, without physical stamina and without the spirit of re volt, dull, sheep-like, submissive, un imaginative, weak and retrogressive Will you make soldiers of these! On the revelation of these appall ing facts the government undertook remedies. It is on this account and this alono that we have bail the nc- cident compensation law, old age pon sions, rudimentary reforms in (and taxation, insurance against unem ployment, the sudden and short-lived crusade foi better housing for the poor. For such a crisis ns this, these tbingn are too late and too little. The mass of poverty has not been relieved. Therefore Great Britain's nrmy after nine months of prodigious work has reached a total believed by op timints to exceed 2,000,000, against tho 9,000,000 or Germany and the 7,500,000 that Great Britain ought to have. )i, you say, Germany, too, ha undergone u rent industrial develop ment; Germany, loo, has become a great manufacturiiii; nation. Yet Germany shows no sign of-physical breakdown. Ah, yes. And Hint is -the point. Great Britain, amid these changes, has held steadfastly to the policy oi letting the toilers look out for them selves. Germany, under the innini- tion of the tWilu Bismarck, has made its first concern the health nnd phys ical welfare of its toilers. ticrntany Careful of Her Manse For thiity-fhe years Germany ban been assiduously careful of these things. Com)ensation for accidents or disability, insurance agaiiM un- iiuploymcnt, old ago pensions, puro rood, sanitary dwellings, physical lie velopment ami trnining are old stories in Germany. Ilcnco sho turns out ns a capable army ono to seven of her population and Great Britain turns' out one to twenty-two. Poverty is the deadliest foe. For years a nution may walk its way and disregard the enemy within. Then the lest rif war comes and it has for de fense one in (wenty-two of its popu lation iuslead of one in seven. A Itellnblo Hair Tonic. It Is an easy matter to prevent dis eases of thetscalp by using Meritol Hair Tonic. It should bo used reg ularly to keep tho sculp free- of germs, as these germs are the causo of the majority of cases of dandruff and later, baldness, We are author- lied to guarantee Meritol Hair Tonic. Hasklns Drug Store. Exclusive agency., price C0c and 11,00. .tf MEXICAN CAPITAL STILL SHY OF FOOD WASHINGTON, May "JJ. -Mexico City continues to suffer from short age of food, especially com. State department dispatches today said that mheii mi attempt was made yes terday to distribute to 8000 ieoplc there was not a sufficient supply and about 'J."0 fainted during the ertih. Several demonstrations lime taken place, the oflieinl di-patehes say, and in one such estenluv a crowd iuvad id the chamber of deputies where a convention was in session and cried, Wc nni hungry." Cnrrauzn ngeney dispatches todav say Carranra tntups under General Gonzalez marching on .Mexico City nre near Otuuiha. FIO E ROGUE RIVER BANK IHE ARRESTED BUT BREAKS JAIL The thief who rob bed the llugne ltler hank five weeks ago was ur. lested iu California, but sawed his wn out of jail, according to infor mation givju to Chief of Pollen Hill nun h n Piukerton detective who passed through Med ford this week for Portland. The suspect was held awaiting the arrival of the sleuth, but when he nnived the bird hail floun. Tho knowledge the police lime- of the nrvest was given from lite steps of a noilhliouud pns"er, ,,ll Ibere was nut much time Tor expluwalniy details except that a man aiicslcd 'for xngrancv became talkative to a cethuate unit houstod of Ins deed lit ,ltoe.ui llixer. The cellmate told the sheritf, who notified the Piukerton naeiic. Meanwhile the desperado who tlnew nnunonm in the face of Cnshur Kocr became suspicious and milde u successful bieak Tor lib erty. Outside assistance is believed lo have been ulven. Pictures of tin suspect weie taken and copies will be mailed lir tho local nlllboiities. Muring the Inst week several rob berics have occnried in San Fran cisco, waercin nnunonm was used to subdue the victim, the drug being more effective and less dangerous than the old lvlo wnv of bitting him oxer i ne neiiii uiin a leail iiiik' or pumping lead into his anatomy. GOOD YEAR T AND REPUBLIC R S HAVE QUALITY VI HAVK KXTIt.l VWTH AND TIM K IIV DOING Ol'lt OWN ADJUHTING Crater Lake Motor Car Co. DLslrilmtoi-H 1'or Soutliorn Oi'ogon NM8 R. Fir Htrcot. Afodfonl, Oregon I, lUktu, Miu(rr mul Itoklrnl ?5r kfahmv ir bi. joiir ng niwi Ben Sheldoh h.is ivrined a letter I from Charles F. Murvui. ehuf of the weather bureau, ueeepliiiu' the inula lion of the Commercial chili to stop, here and investigate liit hand tb conditions of the allev resM'eting" irosi warning service. u is unpen this Ms,t will help iifotfrinlly m the j A roedmif filtTrocf Ho,t vallev s secunnir such fedrral eo Op- loulrd in lb eUr ol r rtjlhoc m on eration as it needs for Hrfecting fu- I ilirci Ium lotlia Eipotiiioa Cioum!. I I KATES DctMhalBsui rrltih k Hta jli?BsE- SAN FRANCISCO ture service in this regard t tnnntn.3fni.Aj)nuM4 Take a a'nlvcrtaf Bu direct to Hotel I SOil BY DfMCCtSTS EVEKYWHERE ......l! Motor Cais The Chalmors Motor Company plant cover 30 acres; employs 4000 trained, skilled workmen M On this Rock- Quality -I mean Wm m to build my Business Wm m Hu$h Chalmers Nov 2 2 19 07 VM HI IbwSbc46 at fl,40O Light Slx-48 at &,GS0 MatfrSU-64 at $2,400 t(ftW3 WSB PERRY ASHCRAFT Jr., Agent EXCURSIONS EAST VIA CALIFORNIA EXPOSITION l.nw Hound Trip Karcrt direct to eimteru rllles by the North lliuk Komi and Northern Pacific or (Ireiit Northern Hallwiiys, "NORTH HANK ROAD" WATER LEVEL RAIL. 26 HOURS OCEAN SAIL Portland lo SanFranclsco Same Time nnd Kate as All-Hail Meals iindBcrths Included in Fares "North Hank Itond" water lne rail, SO bourn ocean null, Portland to Hint rranrlnto, ' SS Northern I'arllln mills May S3. .11; Juuii I, K, 12, tl!, SO, SI, SS, Steamer train Icavm I'ortlunil tl u. in. 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