East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-04-17


designation as accurately as another.
The natural thing for such people TO
do is to look to the personal quail
fications of candidates and to the
causes they evpouse, than to register
so as to give the most forcible express
sion possible to their views.
This is exactly what local friends
of DIR. smith are doing and they are
within their rights Because wo-
father may have been listed with a
certain party does not mean she must
wear the same tag. She may register
as she wishes and vote as she wishes.
1t is her privilege, and the law allows
her to change her mind as often as
she sees fit.
To claim such a course means per-
jury is absolutely bosh. 1t is the ap-
plication of common sense to politics.
There is nothing wrong about the
matter SO long as one is sincere. To
register so as to name weak cam
diiate in order to get him defeated is
a different matter, of course. That
smacks of chicanery.
Register so as to show your true
preferences and principles. Inde-
pendent thinking is not a crime but is
the highest of political virtues.
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With rabies prevalent in Baker
county and in some other sections of
eastern Oregon the
Preventing anti-dog campaign in
Hydrophobia- Pendleton this spring
has been particularly
timely When a town becomes filled
up with stray dogs they become not
only nuisance but a menace. Be-
cause they are neither fed nor water
ed with regularity the homeless dog
is especially susceptible to rabies.
Therefore he should not be tolerated.
III olcSoIi anu III OlutI SldltS pto-
pie are being informed more than in
the past as to the causes of hydro
pected cases. 1t is good information
to have abroad because hydroprobia
when once developed is always fatal.
Many people still believe that the
dog, or other animal, afflicted with
hydrophobia. is dangerous only in
warm weather. Hydrophobia is a per-
il at all times of the year. whether in
the dead of winter or the sultriest part
of the summers season The belief
that summer is the season for visi-
tations is traceable to the fact that
dogs and animals generally subject to
the plague have more ranging ground
in the hot than the cold seasons So
the person who omits precautions
when cold weather sets in is inviting
disaster
Another common mistake is to COM
pass the immediate death of the ami
NAL suspected of causing the infec-
tion. In the first place, the premoni-
tory symptoms of hydrophobia are
obscure and as yet lily defined. They
do not always accurately correspond
to the popular notion of frothing at
the mouth and extreme and savage
irrita bilty. Often it is difficult to
in the impulse of play or of temper
and the dog who is infected with rab-
les The safest course is to lock the
animal up and subject it to observa-
tion. In few days, if rabies is pres
ent. it will make itself unmistakably
manifest. If the animal is killed i'm
mediately suspicion is reused it may
never be settled whether or not it suf-
fered from hydrophobia. The germs
may not have developed in the brain,
the natural culture ground. In the
meantime the patient is exposed to
the agonies of suspense. If little
patience is observed il can be estab-
lished beyond doubt If the animal and
therefore the patient, is infected. And
should infection prove to be present,
there is ample time to apply the
abortive Pasteur treatment.
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