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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.
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(!) 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lawn were repealed she ceased to be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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
KeaturcH of I'nlatliil Hleaumblp Kervlre: Do luxe milieu with hath
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