TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 18, 1917.
CHANGES IDE IN
DRAFT IMPORTANT
university returned to the campus to
day, as guests of the student body at
the annual home-coming. During: the
morning they were entertained by a
soccer game between Oregon and O. A.
C, and in the afternoon occupied a sec
tion among the rooters at the Oregon
California football game.
During the ' noon hour nearly 1000
people filed in and out of the men's
gymnasium, where the women of the
university served a "Hoover" luncheon,
and the university band held forth in
concert.
The day's festivities ended tonight
with an informal ball at the Eugene
Armory, which -was attended by more
than 350 couples. Among those in at
tendance were a score of uniformed
men students who left their university
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New Regulations Will Permit
Shipworkers to Remain at
Work in Yards.
How Great Britain Solved
Labor Problem Told by Sir
Stephenson Kent.
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Judicial Authority Vested In Exemp
tion Bodies and Local Police
and Postal Machinery Will
Aid in Procedure. ,.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. New regru
lations under which the remaining
availables of the 9,000,000 men regis
tered for military duty will be draft
ed for service with the colors were an
nounced today by Provost Marshal
General Crowder. The new regulations
are coincident with the division of
eligibles into five classes, and the cir
culation of the official questionaries
which have been discussed in previous
announcements.
The new regulations, as has been
announced before, repeal all preceding
regulations, cancel all exemptions and
discharges granted under the old sys
tem and restore every registered man
to his original status. He will here
after be required to undergo all ex
aminations anew and present his claims
for exemption again.
As the new classifications make more
liberal provision for leaving men with
dependents in the classes to be called
last, it is practically certain that every
man who had a legitimate exemption
on the ground of dependency under the
old regulations will get the same under
the new ones. The first class, which
embraces men wholly without depend
ents, is expected to bring in fully 2,000.
000 men. The questionaries, beginning
December 15, will be circulated among
the registrants at the rate of 6 per
cent of each local registration each day.
Volunteer medical and legal boards
being organized in each district will
assist registrants in making out the
forms and supporting affidavits which
are very complete.
Important Change Made.
Where the registrants are away from
home districts or in other cir
cumstances, application to the local
board for a questlonaire is required.
The most noteworthy change in the
regulations, outside of the creation of
an emergency fleet to permit ship
workers to remain at their Jobs, are as
follows:
"Local boards are granted virtually
Judicial powers to summon witnesses
and obtain information. Local police"
will see that any witness responds.
"A definite programme of correspond
ence between the boards, state officials
and the Provost Marshal General's of
fice is provided to keep this aspect of
the business decentralized and moving
smoothly.
"The entire postoffice machinery is
drafted to aid local boards in tracing
registrants, and right of way for mall
connected with draft proceedings Is re
quired."
Local boards are authdrlzea to rrant
partial exemption for partial physical
disability, reserving the men in this
status for "special and limited military
ervice."
Skilled Men to Be Grouped.
Authority is granted to form special
classes of men highly skilled in particu
lar trades or professions and summon
them under this specia heading regard
less of their grouping in the general
classification plan. The Secretary of
War may revoke original classiflca
tion, except that no man granted de
ferred classification because of depend
ents may be advanced in any way or
called for service out of his regular
order. When deferred classification
ha3 been granted for industrial or agri
cultural reasons, a specially qualified
registrant may be summoned out of
his turn.
Under the new regulations, district
boards become purely appellate bodies
before which can be heard only evi
dence originating before the local
board. For additional facts the case
must be returned to the local board.
It is made plain that men already
held by local boards for service will
continue to be sent forward as needed
until such time as the new class one in
each district Is sufficiently organized
to care for drafts from the district.
All pending appeals will then be wiped
off the slate and the ney system will
apply in full.
Volunteers Provided For.
Another change permits enlistment of
registered men in the Navy and Marine
Corps, where they are so far down on
the call list as to make certain that
their action will not delay the task of
Army building. No credit is given for
such enlistment on Army quotas, how
ever, and local boards are judges
-each case.
Provision for voluntary enlistment in
the Army and Navy is made by means
of a voluntary waiver classification
and the automatic advancement of the
registrant to class one and his induct
ion at once into the military service.
. Where the registrant has dependents,
his waiver must be accompanied, how
ver, by waivers from those dependent
on him, if not minors, or by affidavits
showing that minor dependents will be
adequately provided for, if there are
minor dependents. A waiver by a mino
cannot be accepted.
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LEGISLATION NEEDED HERE
Miss Maude E. Savage.
SALEM, Or., Nov. 17. (Spe
cial.) Miss Maude E. Savage,
who succeeds Miss Esther Car
eon as assistant secretary to
Governor Withycombe, ha3 the
distinction of being the first
woman to handle the entire cleri
cal and stenographic work in the
executive offices. Miss Carson
resigned recently to become the
bride of Hugh McCammon, of
Seattle, and with her resignation
the executive announced that he
would discontinue the position of
stenographer in the office and
combine it with that of assistant
secretary. Miss Savage has been
acting as stenographer for the
Governor for several months. Her
home is in Salem.
work to enlist in various branches of
the Army and Navy.
CIVILIAN IS GIVEN BEATING
Man Who Refers . to Uniform as
"Rag" Attacked by Crowd.
JERSEY CITY, Oct. 30. A civilian
who told a soldier on a Pavonia-avenue
streetcar here that his uniform was a
rag" was attacked by other men in a
crowd and injured so severely that he
died in the City Hospital. The civilian.
who was Identified as Gustav Roselle,
of Fourth street, Bayonne, formerly an
employe of one of the powder plants
of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.,
continued his insults to the soldier,
who ignored him, until other civilians
in the car interfered.
When Roselle left the car he was fol
lowed. He continued his remarks about
the uniform and the soldiers, it is said,
until blows were struck. He was
knocked down and his skull was frac
tured. Edward Ganzle of 388 Mon
mouth avenue, Jersey City, was held on
a charge of manslaughter. The soldier
did not leave the car.
CATHEDRAL SALE IS OFF
Historic Columbus Edifice, 213
Years Old, to Be Taken by Cuba.
HAVANA, Nov. 1. The proposed sale
of the historic Columbus cathedral
here by the ecclesiastical authorities
and fear that it would be destroyed
have aroused such a storm of opposi
tion that the edifice, which is 213 years
old, probably will soon pass into the
ownership of the Cuban Government as
a permanent national monument. The
cathedral was completed by the Jesuit
fathers in 1704, and it is asserted that
the bones of Christopher Columbus
were removed from Santo Domingo to
its crypt in the following year, though
this is disputed by Santo Dominicans.
The bones were removed by the Span
ish officials at the evacuation in 1900.
Just 100 years ago a man was per
mitted to sell his wife In the open mar
ket at Dartmoor, England, for $11.
METHODIST MINISTER.
LENTS WHO DIED
RECENTLY.
CAMPUS LIFE RECALLED
FORMER STUDENTS OF I'MVKRSITY
AT ANNUAL HOME-COMING.
Oil's Pnsraniu Include Football
Games. Luncheon, Band Concert
. and Dance In 9rmory.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene,
Nov. 17. (Special.) Three hundred
frraduates and former students of the
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Rct. WllHajm Frederick Browne.
Rev. William Frederick Browne,
whose death occurred last Sun
day, was born in England on
July 6, 1866. When he was 17
years old he located in Canada,
where he afterward became a
minister in the Methodist church.
In 1894 he moved to North Da
kota and became a member
trial in the North Dakota Co
ference of the Methodist Church.
He was ordained deacon under
Charles McCabe in 1900, , and
three years later was ordained
elder under Bishop Fitzgerald.
In 1904 he was transferred to' the
Oregon conference. His last ap
pointment was at Lents.
He leaves two brothers, one In
London and one in Vancouver,
B. C: also two sisters In London.
He is survived by his wife and
four children, two sons, Morley,
who Is 20 years of age, Cecil, 18,
and two girls, Grace, IS, and
Mabel. 10.
Head of British Munitions Commis
sion Explains Situation Across
Waters and Similar Action
Slay Be Taken in America.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Nov. 17. Shortly after this
country entered the war Lord North
cliffe ventured the remark that the
United States could learn much and
profit greatly by studying and avoid
ing the early mistakes of England, but
he coupled this with the further re
mark that he did not expect the United
States would profit by those mistakes,
but would blunder along for a time
and learn rather by experience. His
prediction, to a large degree, has come
true.
No problem that has arisen In the
United States since the outbreak of the
war has so hampered the United States
in its war preparations as the labor
problem. And that was one problem
that had been most carefully worked
out by Great Britain during the first
three years of her conflict with Ger
many. In solving that problem Great
Britain made many and costly mis
takes, but by the time the United
States joined the belligerents mistakes
were no longer being made in Great
Britain; the labor problem, so far as
it bore on war industries, was solved.
Two industries, both of them vital,
have been cursed with labor disputes in
the United States during the past seven
months, the shipbuilding industry and
the coal-mining industry. There have
been sporadic troubles in other indus
tries, but they have been relatively un
important. Great Britain had Identi
cally the same trouble, but she had no
precedent to guide her; the United
had before it the precedent set
in England, but the United
States did not choose to follow the
British example. It Is just now making
the first step in that direction, but
further steps will have to be taken,
and probably will be taken when Con
gress comes to review the accomplish-
ents of the past half year and makes
further appropriations to keep war in
dustrles going for the next fiscal year.
LeglMlatlon Demand Sure.
There will be a serious demand for
legislation this Winter which will
make strikes unlawful during the con
tinuance of the war. When that legis
lation is proposed it will open up In
Congress a general discussion of labor
conditions in this country and the usual
coterie of Senators and Representa
tives whose greatest fear is opposition
from organized labor will quickly jump
to the front opposing any and all anti-
strike bills.
It is too early to predict what labor
legislation Congress will enact, but if
facts are developed fully showing how
the shipbuilding industry has been held
back by strikes and walkouts, how
costs of construction have mounted to
unprecedented figures because of the
ever-increasing demands of labor, and
how the coal shortage throughout the
Linlted States Is in a large degree due
to the refusal of miners to work rea
sonable hours, public sentiment will
become a factor with which the politi
cal champions of labor will have to
reckon.
For weeks there have been demands
in many quarters for legislation look
ing to the conscription of labor for
work on war industries. This demand'
has been strong from men who have
seen shipyards idle and coal mines pro
ducing a third to a half their capacity
because of the attitude of certain labor
ing men. But the Administration is
not in favor of conscripting labor. The
arguments In favor of conscription are
many and they are strong, but with the
Administration arrayed against the
conscription of labor, with Samuel
Gompers opposed to it, and the Amer
ican Federation of Labor backing him
up, it is hardly to be expected that a
labor conscription law can or will be
enacted.
How England Solved Problem Told.
But England solved the labor prob
lem without resorting, to conscription,
and today British officials, familiar
with how England handled the labor
problem, are informing American em
ployers, that they may know what
England has accomplished and may, if
they approve, bring pressure on Con
gress to do as much for the United
States. An address in New York by
Sir Stephenson Kent, head of the Brit
ish Munitions Commission In the United
States, has started an agitation for
legislation similar to that now in force
in England, and this demand Is expect
ed to grow as the subject is more gen
erally understood and appreciated.
It was through a general munitions
act that England solved the labor
problem. That law exempted from
military service men who were needed
in the war Industries, shipbuilders, coal
miners, munitions workers, etc. Fol.
lowing Sir Stephenson Kent's address.
General Crowder, Provost Marshal-Gen
eral, announced that on the next draft
workers in shipyards will be exempted
from military service so long as they
remain at work in shipyards and on
Government contracts. This is the
first decisive step the United States
has made, showing that It has studied
results obtained in England.
One of the most important provi
sions of the British munitions law
makes it illegal for labor to strike or
to demand an increase of wages dur
ing the war. That section of the law
is being rigidly enforced. Wages in
England have increased, however, for
the high cost of living is felt in Eng
land as in the United fetates.
Cost of Necensltles Known.
Three times a year a commission of
productions inquires into the cost of
necessities. When a big increase is
found, a stipulated sum is awarded
by the government to the laboring
men over and above their standard
wages, but this is known and under
stood to be an "award" pure and sim
ple to compensate them for the raise
in prices and is not an increased wage
it is a specific allowance to meet in
creased expenses due to war prices; it
is not a permanent wage increase.
In England the labor unions agreed
to abandon all restrictive measures,
such as make for the closed shop, etc.
and the English unions have lived up
to their agreement. When the United
States entered the war faamuel Gom
pers gave similar assurance to the
President and Secretary of Labor, but
that promise has not been kept: some
of the most serious strikes in the
United States in recent months have
been based on the demand for closed
shoo in industries and in cities where
the closed shop rule does not prevail
generally.
Another thing has long been done
in England, and just being started in
the United States. A wage scale is
fixed for a given industry in a given
locality. That scale is accepted by
labor. The first move in that direc
tion In this country was the fixing of
a shipyard wage seal for tb.6 Pacific
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The-Store-of'a-Million-Friends"
Coast, but the scale fixed has not yet
been universally accepieo- very noun
the Wage Adjustment Board, which
nr.wrlhxl th WlM 8cal fOT the
Pacific Coast, is to hold hearings at
Philadelphia, ana, on inoee ucnns,
determine a ware scale for Eastern
shipyards, the Philadelphia scale to
apply generally aiong me Aiiannu
Coast. But thus far American labor
has not Blven these official wife scales
the ready Indorsement given in .ens-
land.
But it is made plain by sir btepnen
son Kent that England has never at
tempted, never thought it wise or
i nnBAplnt labor: it has not
compelled any man to work in the war
Industries. But when a laoorer un
employment he knows that his wage
v. .. i r -r n ri i advance: he knows
that he is subject to transfer, and he
knows, also, that If the cost 01 liv
ing increases he win no less man mrco
times a year -be given a government
allowance over and above his wage to
enable him to meet that cost. But he
also knows that this allowance Is a
war measure, and Is not to oe con
strued as a permanent advance of
wages.
Christmas Tree Order Placed.
CASTLE ROCK, Wash., Nov. 17.
CSnecial.' Georse Bamford is here
from Los Angeles to get Christmas
trees for the Los Angeles trade. He
has ordered 5000 trees to be gathered
near Castle Rock.
JEWS TO BE RESCUED
lOOO HEBREWS STRANDED IX JA
PAN TO GET RELIEF,
anel BXanon, Representative ef Be
brew Immigrant Aid Society, to
Stop lm Portland.
NEW YORK, Nov. 17. (Special.)
Samuel Mason, prominent Jewish pub
lisher, leader in American-Jewish af
fairs and special representative and di
rector of the Hebrew Sheltering and
Immigrant Aid Stciety of Amer'-. left
today for Japan in behalf of 1 Jew
ish Immigrants who, on their way from
Russia, are stranded there.
Mr. Mason will depart from a Pa
cific port, but before doing so will stop
In Seattle, Portland and San Francisco
In order to effect close co-operation
with society branches there. Mr. Mason
carries with him letters from the State
Department, United States Department
of Labor, the Russian " and Japanese
Embassies. Jacob H. Schiff. Louis . ar
shall, Abraham I. Elkus, Simon Wolfe,
John L. Bernstein, president of the so
ciety, and others.
The Russian Jews stranded In Japan
who are Inadmissible under -r 'aws
will be assisted to return, while proper
connections will be established for
others with
this country.
relatives
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GIBBON'. NEBRASKA. July 25. 1917.
Old Line Bankers Life Inaurance Cow
Lincoln, Nebraska,
Oentlemen: Juat fifteen years aco today while
In the harveat field a apeclal agent for your com
pany came to me and explained your policy which
appealed to me as bethir the cheapeat protection
for my money and at the aame time roaktnK a
rood Inveatment. I then applied for and received
policv No. 1iH0O. I paid an annual premium at
age H4 of $3.10 making a total paid during tna
fifteen years of S.vh 50.
Today your General Agent, Chas. M. Stewart,
hands me a draft for S7KY34 tho full caah settle
ment on my policy making a net profit to me of
HS 84 and my faiui.y have enjoyed the fifteen
years' protection in addition. 1 hare more in
aurance or I would have chosen the eurplua n my
policy which amounted to $332.73 in caah or all
that I paid in except 253.77 and had a paid-up
policy for life which would continue to pay me aa
annual caah dividend as long as I lived.
1 aurely thank this company for the pleasant
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FIFTEEN - PAYMENT LIFE
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Name of insured
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Amount of policy $1000.00
Total premiums paid
Company 586.50
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