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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-11-11
.CUNARD LINER SUNK
BYSUBMARINE,, CREW
IS REPORTED SAVED
CARIA Is VICTIM OF DtGER IN
MEDITERRANEAN IN NEW
WARFARE.

LONDON, Nov. 1.-The Cunard
liner Caria has been Summarized
and sunk The locality of the disas-
ter was not announced. The crew was
saved.
1t is regarded as likely she was one
Of a series of victims Of the new
Mediterranean warfare Of German
and Austrian submarines
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-11-11

II the persistent reports Of the
death of Crown Prince Frederick
Wilhelm OF Germany are truo. the
heir to the throne is now the second
son of the kaiser Prince Eitel Fried
erich.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-11-11
ACTION OF THIS
NATION DEPENDS
ON TWO MATTERS
Was Warning Given and Was Sub.
marine Austrian or German Are
Now Questions to be Settled.
SHIP MAY HAVE DISOBEYEO
International Law Says Vessel Must
Halt and Submit to Search When
Commanded to do sO-Captaln of
AncOna Declares Diver Did Not Sig
mai Him TO Stop Vessel.

WASHINGTON. Nov 11.-Action
OF the United States over the torpedo
ing Of the Ancona will depend on
whether the vessel was warned before
being sunk and whether the subma-
rine was an Austrian or German.
No protest will be made if il is offici-
ally established the Ancona did not
observe international laws requiring
submission to a search after being
overhauled
LONDON, Nov. 1.-THE Anconas S
captain declared the submarine did
fired first, according to a Tunis dis
patch After the Ancona's engines
had stopped, the pursuer continued
10 shell the ship while coming up he
said. The last shells and torpedoes
that finally sank her were fired from
distance Of 800 yards. killing many
Of the passengers in lifeboats.
BLOOMINGTON. H., Nov. H.
Fears that Eugene Savage the artist
perished on the Ancona were re-
moved today. His wife received a
cablegram from him saying he was
not on the bessel
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-11-11
TORNADOSWEEPS
THROUGH STATES
LEAVING WRECKS
Nine Persons Reported TO Have Met
Death While at Least 100 Have
Been Seriously Injured.
GREAT BEND WORST STRUCK

-Four Persons There Are Killed and
90 Injured-Many Buildings Ruin
ed by Terrific Wind storm-Esti-
nAte OF Damage Impossible 10 As
certain az This Time.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-11-11
TEUTOMIC ALLIES REPORT
CAPTURE OF 1000 SERBS

BERLIN. Nov. 11.-Cornered by
the Teutonie allies, 1000 Serbians
have been taken prisoners south of
western Moraya river where they
were retreating toward Montenegro.
the war office announced.
Bulgarians under General Boyal-
ejeff are cooperating with the Ger
mans in driving the Serbs from the
MOraya territory
PETROGRAD. Nov. 11.-Constant
Russian attacks from Riga TO Cali
eia are preventing the Germans from
constructing strong defenses such as
mark the western front. Won Hin
denburg is slowly losing in the north.
The Russians are having success IN
Courland.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-11-11
10 ADVERTISERS.

The East Oregonlan has the largest paid
circulation Of any paper IN Oregon. east Of
Portland and over twice the circulation IN
PendletOn Of any other newspaper.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-02
WHY HAIR TURNS WHITE.
A Theory Of Evolution. Depigmenta-
tlOn and Unfit.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir. Per-
nit mo to correct the lamentable error
into which Dr. Wyeth and others have
fallen concerning the Wilderness OF
human hair. OF course no truly scien-
thc person believes the stories told of
the sudden whitening of the hair. and
all students of human anatomy know
that the turning OF the hair is due to a
diminution of the supply of ,oloring
matter In tho body.
But the point is not there. pro-
found study OF the subject has after
years Of stupendous bulgings of tho
Uranium. convinced me that the highest
developed man .s the one with white
hair. that the proper hue for the human
haid Is white. and that evolution car
ricd to its uttcemost would produce a
race of superhumans whose hair would
be colorlcss
The coloring matter In the hair Ike
the vermt'ular appendix the spint
bones OF the horse. the tail Of the man
monkey and the murder instinct NJ the
warrior, is relic Of the prehisior ic
period. and marks the epoch when man
Was cave dwcller and but little
higher than the beasts
Look az the different races Of men
and see for yourself All savages. all
low grade Orientals, nearly all criminal
neR"fefates. nave DARK mar. In me
blending Of race types the hair be-
comes lighter In hue as the types I'M
prove in intellect and character II is
also true that when q man gets rid Of
his hair pigment he generally knows
more and is worth more than he was
before.
The highest civilization is that OF the
lighter haired people There Is no get
ting away from IL. Until science finds
some way to pump the Adamic mud out
of our systems we must bc imperfect.
Hhoppng ont appendices, pulling bad
teeth and digging out adenoids are we'll
enough Tn their place hut the real way
TO uplift man is To get the paint out
Of hts capillary vegetation and glorifv
his Brobdingnagian brow with crown
~ snow.
ZEBiSA FREnRlE, n. u, II. prof Tons
House. or THOUGHT. May l.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-02
To an Esteemed Centenarian.

THE Sun has deferred until the
proper moment the pleasant duty Of
congratulating the NOrth american
Rcrie,r upon n rounded century Of
useful and honorable existence. It
il our senior by eighteen years and
foilr months The whole year 1915
Is being celebrated in the anniversary
way by the North American, but its
actual birth month was May in 1915.
and II Is therefore just entering upon
its second great cycle.
4 long succession Of able editors,
including some Of the most eminent
Of American men Of letters, has given
uninterrupted distinction TO the pages
Of this review and impaired consid.
cradle variety to Its policy and style.
No other editor Of the North Amcri-
ran has dared 10 attempt 40 marked
n departure from conventional lines
AS that which has been noted since
Colonel GEORGE HARVEY concentrated
his intelligent energies upon the con
duct Of the venerable publication.
In past days the North american
may have hecn edited at times with
equal wisdom and equal dignity, but
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-02
BARON STEUBEN.
Ponltney BlgelOw Hints AT what
George Washington suffered.

To THE EDITOR oF THE SrS-Sir: Pray
permit mo protest against your sever
ity in dealing with the Rev. Dr Thomas
Hall lie is an ornament to theolog lcal
scholarship and courageous in the en-
preston Of his beliefs hut temporarily
and for the duration of the war his spir-
itual vision suffers from certain
shrnkage OF facts. an informing Of In
tellectual processes that has alta cked
many OF my formerly rational friends
all detected 10y this Muensterberg
Meyer. Adler. Dernburg propaganda
The famous Steuben obtained his rank
in the American army 10y "A pious prus-
sian fraud. He was only "A Major out OF
job IN the land Of Frederick the Great
and that thrifty monarch took particular
pleasure IN reducing his salary account
and at the same time driving his suffer-
numerary and least important officers
To other armies. whore they might ac-
quire experience likely to serve MIN a..
a later day.
II my esteemed friend Dr Han will do
as did when permitted by the German
Emperor to peruse the hundreds OF
manuscript reports of Prussian officers
who left Prussia after the Seven Years
war and sought fame and food in other
armies, NO viii then realize the agou,
OF our great Washington. who spcrt
much of his valuable time in settling
the petty disputes of alleged patriots
WHO came 20 him with bogus titles to
rank and sought for tho triumph OF
American liberty only in Sc FAR as a sal
AIRY followed In it's wake
Steuben was a good drill sergeant ana
ala good service as such Had he been
more than that Frederick the Grcat
would have kept him AT home.
PorLTSEy BrGFI.ow.
MAIDEN HI'pSnN Ma.
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surely never In the twelve hundred
months Of its respectable life has it
been edited with so flexible u wit.
with 10 keen sense Of the relative
value of actualties. with ~ expert a
knowledge Of what written things are
Of human interest
Colonel HARVEY has made Of the
old magazine a vehicle of real power
and a creature of real grace: u trip
hammer and bibelot: the sort Of
engine which it used to he the fash
ion to describe rs capable either "
coming down hard enough to pulver-
lie a steel ingot or Of descending 20
gently as TO rest on watch crystal
without crushing it. The latter treat.
ment Is that which the Hon. WOODROW
WILSON seems to he getting.
We beg leave to renew to the North
American and fits admirable editor
the assurances Of our distinguished
consideration.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-02

To the correspondent of Lc Petit
Parisien our own Mr.. BRYAN Cooked
strangely like bird Of prey"
But BfzuQUET of Tarascon looked
like u Saracen suffering from raging
blood thirst. With his parchment
complexion his great beak Of nose
and his bristling mustache he was
the type Of an Algerian pirate. Yet
REzUQuET was not n Saracen. No
more was he an Algerian pirate. lie
was an apothecary, an apothsary
as gentle and timid as a girl. and he
lived with his mother. who continu.
ally c0idled him.
And then there was ExCorRBIANfs.
likewise Of Tarascon. He looked like
one of PIzARRo's conQuistadors. But
he was not q conquistador. He kept
littie dry goods shop. If he rolled
flame darling eyes on you as he
wrapped up two cents worth of thread
il was no more an oc'a sion for shiv-
ers and gooseilesh than 1t was when
the apothecary BfzuoUET, the very
image Of a Barbary coast cutthroat,
gared down on you as he sold you
stick of liroricc.
Eliminating the Tara sconian aura
which envelops our Mr.. BRYAN, per-
haps he did look strangely like bird
of prey to the French correspondent.
Had the correspondent seen him on
the rostrum. from which he has been
known to address his American fell
low citizens. Mr.. BRYAN might have
looked to him strangely like an ora
tor. Action. uttcrance. the elastic.
capacious mouth. the sOnorous rever.
berating voice and the wide sweeping
gesture. n perfect histrionic imitation
Of man saying something. Yet Mr..
BRYAN would not have been saying
ANYTHING. He would only have been
beating dim. harmless little chautau-
uuackeries at 500 down and half the
gate receipts after the first $500 was
taken in.
Our friend the French correspondent
Is all at sea as to rhe significance Of
Mr.. BRYAN's eagle beak. II Is only
in a purely Tarasconan sense that
it is the beak Of n bird of prey. What
the physiognomiSts call acNuisitive.
ness, thrift. has been associated with
noses Of the mould of Mr.. RRyAN's.
We might conceie thrift to the curve
of Mr.. RRyANs nose. But bird Of
prey. never.
All. beautiful sunny Tarascon. where
nothing Is reality save the mirage and
nothing solid but the windbag.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-02

To THE EDITOR oF THF SrN-Sir what.
the matter with mother II she broke into
THE SrN on Friday In honest quest Of in
formation, why did she no, ask her oues-
tons properly How long does II take to
cook an egg7" she asks and never A
word as 10 whether II Is 10 he fried. or
boiled, or poached or scrambled Even
~ she meant boiled no ono could an
swer for all, as ono insists that two
minutes and half IL enough, while others
would give II any Old time up to ten
How long does 1t take to cook potato?"
Again. how Baked, boiled fried or
stewed' And then It Will take longer to
cook hig potato than little one or
an old one than new. "How lons Sp.r
II take to make tea?" Well, how do Won
like your tea. mammal II you like II as
40 II VIII take just long enough 70 !st
the hot water drain through the leaves
and who cares how long that is? SIT down.
woman, and drink your tea and lot the
girls alone, Para
NEW YORK May l.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-02
General PearsOn's New Campaign
Against England.

That arch enemy Of Britannia SAM
VEL PEARSON, ex-burgher of the Trans
vaal, is again camping on her trail.
He has cited the Allis-Chalmers Com
pany and other corporations into q
wisconsin court to ascertain whether
they are not engaged in conspiracy
with the Bethlehem Stecl Company
land others to manufacture and
transport shrapnel shells Ia nations
now at war In Europe lin violation OF
the laws OF Wisconsin" Plaintiff
who deposes that he has valuable
property interests in Germany and
holds securities ISSUED by the German
Government, maintains that II the
sale OF arms and ammunition to Great
Britain and her allies is prohibited
"the duration Of the war will be APP
probably lessened'-we quote from
a Milwaukee despatch, which de-
scribes PEARSON as "a wealthy resi-
dent and prominent In State politics,
who became General OF Boer di-
vision in the war
How prominent PEARSON is in Wis
consin politics must be left to tho
imagination or to party leaders in
the Badger State. If he has become
wealthy the lawyers retained by him
in his celebrated case are 10 he felici-
tated. But we do not remember him
as General Of a Bocr DIVISION In
q letter to THE Sun published on De.
eeD1l,er 20. 1900, during the Bocr war,
which began on October II, 1899, and
soded in May, 1902, SAMUEL PEARSON
called himself Assistant Head Com
missa ~ General for the South African
Republic" and explained that he was
lin the United States ION furlough
awaiting orders whenever my services
may be further required" The letter
was written in rejolnder 10 J.. IOuTER
VESSELS and CHARLES ID. PIERCE, who
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-02
The NOn-COmbatants.


why should We mourn that shot and
shell
Are sweeping lives away,
When each man has his private he'll
And dies anew each dav'
Upon the bloody field whore death
His laundering summons calls,
The men who face the lannon's breath
May win to glorys halls
Mixed in that elemental strife,
Perhaps they may forget
The heartaches that We bear through
life,
The sorrow. the regret.
Swcetcr by far the lot they choose
Than ours who stay behind
Who tind what we would gain we lose,
Unbound what we would bind.
We envy them the deaths they die,
Our hearts must die each day.
We greet with sad and hopeless eye
Each morn's returning ray.
They fall. to live forever more
In glory's brightest page.
We live In sorrow to depore
The bars around our cage.
The gods on high, II gods there he
To comfort or condemn,
Shall, II they Judge with equity,
Lament for us, not them.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-02
The Real Question at Issue IS TO the
American Navy.

There seems to be no disposition
on the part Of the satellites Of the
Administration to see in the agita-
ton for an effective modern navy
anything but petty politics or the re.
sentiment of contractors foilcd in their
designs upon the trca sury. Secretary
DANIELS publishes brief for his he
partment which ignores the real Ques-
ton at issue. and his array of figures
and partisan evasions are accepted
as q demonstration that the navy IL
al that 1t should he. When Repre-
sentative A. Il. GARDNER shows how
misleading and disingenuous the Sec
retary's reasoning is. Mr.. GARDNER is
denounced as a demagogue. We think
that the people. who remember the
service Mr.. GARDNER rendered in fore
ing committee hearings upon the
shortcomings Of the navy. will agree
with him that at did not take two
newspaper columns to prove that our
navy and its equipment must continue
to increa Sc So long as Congress con
tinues to appropriate for them"
The Secretary's case practically
amounts to this. that more dread
noughts and subma rines are building
more ships are in comm ssion. and
more war material Is being manufac.
tured than in the last two years Of
Mr.. TAFT's Administra ton. when. as
Mr.. GARDNER points out, he had q
But it cannot be denied that the sud
den expansion Of the navy TO be noted
recently and the improvement which
Mr.. DANIELS claims for IT was largely
due to the agitation that this same
demagogue GARDNER started. Con
gress rose to the emergency because
the people demanded action after
Rear Admiral BRADLEY 4. FIsKE. Rear
Admiral A. NJ. KNIGHT, Commander
YATES STIRLING and other officers had
told the truth about the backwar,lneS
OF the navy as Il fighting machine at
the hearings before the House Naval
Committee. Those officers, whose pro-
fessional ability and sinCleness of
purpose are unassailahle. have not
changed their opinions.
The navy makes n fine and brave
show in battleships mot. however. Of
the first line), also in personnel. hut
IL Is not effective in the sense in which
the British and German navies are
effective. That is the unpalatahle
truth. and it cannot he disguised by
abusing those who ask only that the
navy he lifted Ia the same level OF
efficiency and offensive power in
units as the establishments OF the
greatest European Sea powers.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-02
KEEP THE GIRLS EMPLOYED
The Work Of the Vacation War Relief
Committee.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir. The
American Clearing House has made sew
eral appeals for garments for the
refugees and convalcscent soldiers. Tho
need Is most urgent. and though A'neri-
rams have been more than generously
helping this winter. the need during the
coming months viii be far greater. The
Vacation war Relief Committee has
since September sent garments to the
value Of over $4,000 for the refugees
and hospitals In Europe. II some OF
your readers realized that We have now
on hand thousands of garments for men.
women and children that have been made
In our temporary work rooms nv the
women and girls who have been thrown
out OF work. would they not perhaps he
willing to give us an order? by doing
- IL would enable us to keep a large
number of girls employed until they
could ind permanent positions. and AZ
the same time help the splendidly eff
cieut relief work that Is being done.
No money received by the Va alton War
Relief Committee leaves this country.
our work rooms are giving work to 400
girls daily and our employment bureau
IL finding permanent positions for APP
proXimHtely 60 per cent. OF the girls
who apply
We believe one Of the reasons for rhis
large percentage OF placements is that
We are able through tho work rooms
to reach the girls 50 quickly. and also
because the girl looking for work is not
worn out by anxiety and lack OF food
because Of the temporary tide over"
wage We pay her.
VIII you he so courteous as to give
space In your columns 10 this urgent
appeal OF ours 1t will help us and those
I'm Europe that need all We can do FOR
them. GERTRrpE RoRiSsoN SMITH.
chairman Vacation War Relief Conn
mittec. 3S West ThIrty-ninth street
NEW YORK, April 80,
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had protested that the General did
not represent the Transvaal Govern
ment and was not person Of any
consideration whatever. The point We
want to make is that. whatever SER
vices SAMUEL PEARSON may have rem
dered the South African Republic, he
was not a General Of division. In
Who's Who" Of l0OSO0 the prin.
cipal in the Wisconsin suit appeared
for the first time with the following
sketch Of himself:
Mining Engineer. born in s. Africa.
January 2. 1862 educated $. Africa pub.
schs. and Hilton College. Entered Boer
service as pvt, 1899, serving through
Boer War q. m.-sen. Boer Army, 1900 /;
sp'l agent OF Beers in U. g., 1so0-io; 10
an exile. having been refused passport to
s. Africa by British Govt. Dir. and
consulting engr Kentucky Transvaal
Mining CO., Pina-Mayee Steal Co. Con-
trib'r to maya"
The autobiographer in his letter to
The Sun on December Is. 1900. had
disclsinied being Boer envoy. In
who's Who of 101O11 his sole
business connection was given as
President Am. SO. African Commerce
Co. His name has not appeared in
that publication since. SAMUEL PEAR.
SON was in Monterey, Mexico, in De-
cember. 1902. and he had been In that
country for considerable time. ON
December 90 despatch from Mon
terey reported him as saying that
plans for an invas sion Of Canada by
pro- Boer Americans had been spoiled
by the death Of EDWARD VAN NESS Of
New York. who was to have furnished
the sinews Of war. The widow Of
Mr.. VAN NESS made the comment
when interviewed about the matter
in this city: There Is no founda-
tlon for such story az General PEAR
SON tells. My husband knew Genera
PEARSON. hut never had anything 10
do with him and had no faith in him"
In 1908 the General WAS president Of
the United Coal. Iron and Lumber
Corporation with an Office In this city.
1t sold stock in cooperative City
NJ Equity" which was to he n grea t
industrial centre In Kentucky, where
25O.OOO acres Of coal, timber and
farming land had been acquired. &C.
coriing to the prospectus.
1t would he interesting to know
how General SAMUEL PEARSON came
10 he the protagonist In the judicial
drama that Is staged in Milwaukee
to confound Great Britain and her
allies by cutting Off their supply Of
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-02
Statement by the Com missioner Of Ae-
counts

To THE EDITOR OF THE SrS-Sr'
Every now and then II is stated I'm the
columns Of the press that the appro-
nriation made for this office for the
year 1915 is some 10000 In excess Of
that Of last year such statements
ignore the fact that this years budget
allowance for this Office includes the
appropriation for the efficiency stan, the
Appropriation for which was last year
included in the appropriation Of the
BOARD OF Estimate and Airport comment
Comparing this years appropriation for
this office, including the efficiency stan
with that Of last years appropriation
for this office and for the efficiency staff.
the net result shows decrease In the
expense Of conducting the combined
offices OF $4,000
| shall thank you TO give this COM
munication publicity with a view to cor
recting an entirely erroneous impression
LEONARD VI. WALLsrEIN.
Commissioner of Accounts
NEW YORK. April 80.
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LOST TO THE GOURMAND.
Is There Hope for Return to Good
Eating In New York?

To THE EDITOR OF THE SrS-Sir
Where are the once famous estaura nts
where amid stately surroundings and
dignihed silence one could pay homage
to Gasterea and Bacchus? Who de-
throned these protectors OF the res
taurateur's art and put Terpsichore upon
the pedestal? Who permitted the dane
ing slipper to rule there the napkin
ought to hold sway? Who put the
restaurant business on the verge OF
bankruptcy by permitting the tango
Who IL responsible for the execrable
food, drink and service prevailing in
many New York restaurants OF to-day
II is no one but the restaurateur him
self who put the axe to his own fruit
bearing tree.
The immediate cause OF these de-
plorablc conditions IL undoubtedly to
be found IN the ever increasing number
Of restaurants. Competition was so
keen among them that recourse was had
to other attractions than good food,
good drinks and good service. Attention
that was paid to cabaret performers and
musicians should have been devoted TO
cellar and larder.
The cabaret singer took the fancy OF
the public about ten years ago and
held his own until he had to share his
popularity with the professional dancer
But all OF sudden. overnight AZ II
were. everybody danced. Most Of the
dining room space was soon covered
with an expensive dancing floor. and
while the attendants stood gasping at
the unwelcome intrusion the diners
danced before the oysters and after the
oysters. between courses and between
cocktails--mostly, though between
cocktails.
Nothing illustrates conditions better
than the advertisement OF an old Fifth
avenue restaurant That the dance
could invade this stronghold Of the fast