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- 1- t x x t t i 1 1 v t t 1 vir " u . w - PAG3 FOTTH" KGirr FAGTai DAILY EAST ORECONIAN, FEyTOLETO??, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1918. LACK OF. CARS NOT CHIEF SOURCE OF FREIGHT DELA Y &Qigftongri 1 1 1 X w Published Dally and Semi-Weekly . at enrfleton, rs"on, by the BAST (JKKOOKIAN PUBLISHING CO. Entered at the poatofflca at Pendle ton, Oregon, as second-class mall natter. , SUBSCRIPTION KATES (IN ADVANCE) Daily, one year, by mail Daily, aix months by mail Telephone I Daily, three months by mail . 1 : Daily, one month by mail i Daily, one year by carrier -J5.00 - 2.50 . 1.S5 .60 fV Alf.K lltf nTHRR rITIRS i " ' ' ' Imperial Hotel Nevi Stand. Portland : Daly' months, by carrier. S.75 Bowman News Co, Portland, Oregon, j Daily, three months by carrier. 1.95 ON FILE AT Dally, one month, by carrier .5 ChlcMTO Bureau. 0I Becurlty Build- ; Semi-Weekly, one year, by mail 1.50 Washington. D. C, Bureau 801 Four- :fcmI-Weekly. aix months, by mail .75 teenth Street. N. W. . i Semi-Week',-, four months by mail .50 T1IE SCARLET CROSS. Whaf Is IL that you do today, who lift the Scarlet ! -" Cros For all the withered world Is down In ruin and in loss. And all the world hears clashing . sword, and hears no sound less plain What can you do who lift the Cross, but heal to fight again T We guard the women left alone, heartbroken for their dead. We save the children wandering where all save Fear has fled. We raise again the broken towns . swept down ty shot and shell. We heal again the broken souls hopeless from learning Hell .... Oh, they who saw but Griff and Hate see now our red Blgn plain We save the sad world's -seul , alive that War had near .. . , ly slain! , , Margaret Widdemer. whether it be conscious or un conscious. A crop of lies was incidiously sown by the propagandists to ioment trouble between vari ous religious sects. The slight est inquiry develops the fact that irrespective of religion or pontics men of courage, patno tism, and ability are recogniz ee, mere should be no uouti- cal or religious questions or eco nomic affiliations considered. Plain Americanism is all that is worth while. AMERICA WILL WAR WIN THE , A WAR MESSAGE FROM THE NORTHWEST (By Gov. Stewart, of Montana) j juiik as Luis nation is confronted by a resource ful and desperate enemy. agitation and settlement of do - mestic problems, save only in so Z far as they concern the success- f ul and vigorous prosecution of the war for liberty, should be held in abeyance until peace is declared. ? No thinking man will deny that there are problems clam bering for. solution, but now is Hot the time for exhausting our energies by internal contro- versy while the enemy batters at our gates. , J Of what concern is it to us what political party or econo ,. mic Bystem prevails, when if J we lose the war we shalljhave nothing to say as to now we will J be governed? ' Suerman propagandists, wnue spreading lies as to conditions w in our army and navy and con- cerning the work of our public men, are many times unconsci- ously aided by persons who J have reforms which they be '. lieve. would remedy the evils of " which they complain. The re- f- forms may have merit, but they may well wait, so long as upon ' ' their solution the winning of the war does not depend, until this Nation has ceased fighting ) ' for its very, existence. It is time that Americans, no ' matter what their ideas of re- form, religion, or politics may be, join hands to scotch treason, TVMERICA has more than X half million men now in rrance according to an nouncement by Secretary Ba ker yesterday. It is known that we are sending men at the rate of about 100,000 a month inrougn tne selective service law we have the facilities for keeping this stream of men pouring into Europe indefini tely. We are making machine guns at the rate of 500 a day. We are carrying out the great est airplane making program of any belligerent nation. This work is now under criticism, there may be some room for criticism, but confidence in Am erican ways and methods of manufacture justify the belief that on the airplane subject as in other lines, we will meet re quirements. The United States war wag ing efforts are proceeding on a gigantic scale. We ' are past the preparatory stage. We are delivering the goods as is shown by the fact we have 500,000 soldiers abroad, thou sands of them in the fighting line. Our navy is. protecting our shipping with such success that for effective purposes the submarine has been robbed of its terror. In other words the United States is every day becoming a greater and greater factor in the war. It is the factor that is going to bring victory to the allied cause. This is as certain as the sunshine. We are going to make the world safe for democracy. WHERE WE NEED BEWARE BY JOHX K. LATWltOP. (Special Correspondence from Wash ington.) ' WASHINGTON. May 9 Why Is It that freight has moved so slowly be fore and since the war? Business men and the ultimate consumer have Protested for years against the delays in deliveries of commodities and it has been stnted with truth that the rising costs of living were In part due to the Inability of shippers to get shipments through within specified spaces of time. The conditions -were so general that there arose a universal demand for more cars, and " car shortage was commonly given as the reason for the annoying and expensive Belays. Car shortage never- was the funda mental cause. It was Instead Inade quate terminals and slow loading and unloading. In almost all Instances. Suwoptlhlo of Proof. This is easily shown by facta Which the citizen Inexpert as to railway truf fle regulation and movement m.iy un derstand. The average movement per. freight car per day was 24 miles, before the war. ThiB was one mile an hofcir. Yet freight trains move from 14 to IS miles an hour. The dtffenmce 11 to 17 miles an hour was caused by time consumed In terminals in hold. Ing cars. Some time must thus be taken. But the use of thjrteen-fourteenths of the time in termbial delays Is on the face of the matter, enormously In excess of normal requirements. Four elements enter Into the utll izatlon of a freight car: 1. Time used in loading; It by thfe shipper. 2. Time required to move it out from the terminal. 3. Time consumed in hauling It to) the destination, 4. Time that elapses from arrival o Its un loading andvfinal release by the con signee. If, therefore, the time for actual hauling be one-thirteenth of the time the car was set apart for that partic ular shipment It becomes apparent that it Is not shortage of cars, or lack of engine motive power, but delay In terminals that has caused the delay. Some Illustrations. In 1915 between Harrisburg and Altoona, Pa., J saw a solid -line of freight cars on the tracks between stations a thnee-hour run by a pas senger express train and these cars were waiting to pass the Hai risburg terminal for movement to seaboard for export shipment. Assume that someone sought to cure that freight glut by adding cars and engines to ' the Pennsylvania railway's freight service on that di vision. Assue that 100,000 cars and thousand engines had been placed on the tracks and In thie terminals westward from Altoona. The con gestion from there to Harrisburg would not have , been 'helped, 'but made worse.' If the cars already in. commission on the 'division could nat be moved east. It Is obvious to the tyro that 1 000 more cars could not be through, - . A Coal Minor Plliiht. In 191 J an Indiana coal miner ten miles west from Evunsville, ordered a car of pumping' machinery from Pittsburg and sent a man to ride on the freight train with the car prob ably to deal out some cigars to oil the car's 'way along the route and It arrived In Bvansvllle In surprising, ly brief space of time. There the car-accelerator thought his troubles hail ended, that, the car would hove quickly through the Kv ansvllle terminal, and so he took a passenger train on to the mine. The machinery actually1 arrived at the mine ten miles away several days later; In tho meantime the mine flooded, and It cost $18,000 to pump It out besides loss of production for a month. lUKtaiKf (THlllI IIO MllltlplllHl. One could cite ense aftor case, .but most persona are familiar with the fact of delay in freight movement. - Take the . transcontinental service. It Is approximately 3000 miles from Portlnnd to New York. For years .t was regarded ns good fortune to get a shipment throush in 30 days. That was an average of four " miles an hour far above tho riutional average for rrelght movement. Yet there .were imensely long hauls in the plains country where a train would actually move 20 miles an hour, or at the rate of 298 miles a day. Thi excess time consumed was lost in ter minals. Xot Ituro Cases. I have not selected a few cases which, although true, are rare. It is of common knowledge that such de lays have been characteristic of Am erican transportation and business life for years. If, therefore, the control of the railways by the government result in expanding terminal facilities, render ing them adequate to traffic needs. the one fundamental Improvement de manded for ' American railways will have been given. Additional cars and locomotives of course are needed to replace wornout equipment. But at a given moment is plainly to be seen that reform of terminal handling and expansion of terminal capacity and furnlshmcnl would do more good. , Jim 11111's opinion. The late James J. Hill was popular ly believed to know something about railroading. Some years before he died he said: "A billion dollars a year for ten years for railway terminals would only keep pace with growing traffic demands. And It is in terminal ca pacity a railway's efficiency is meas ured." Mr. Hill did increase trainload ca pacity also. - But his whole careel proved his understanding of tho fun damental value of terminals and their essential control of freight car use efficiency. It is the "neck of the bottle'' prin ciple If you enlarge the bottle and not its neck yuu -get no more fluid out when your f.ry to pour. So. with out expanding terminals, added roll- moved j ing stock and motive 4ower are of only small value, comparatively. from war strain. Politics and propaganda are the things to beware of. The retiring leader of the mi nority in the house has sound ideas as to the place of partis anship during wartime; let it be hoped his views as express ed yesterday will be shared by the congressional leaders, of both parties, who are not retir ing. HE army will not fail, the Fully three fourths of war navy win not iaii, rne casualties are wounded cases: government will not fail in meeting the obligations of wartime. These facts may be set down as assured. There may be set backs and mistakes. But they will be quickly over come. Our war wagers are go ing to be equal to the occasion.! Where men fall down they will be replaced by men who can succeed. The only possibility of fail ure on the part of the United States is a remote one. It con sists in the possibility of a breakdown in the morale of the people. This could be brought about through disruption, over politics or other causes, over enemy propaganda cleverly worked, or from intense war strain. We are so fresh in the fame the country will not break remember that when the Red Cross drive is on. Uncle Sam is making good as a warrior. jsW ft4a1ftiir Haattatliat UUSUSr aapsalMitst " Balatiev '""flBlltsBW aate Practical .Pakrioiism If you want to do your part toward food conservation you can do no leu than follow Hoover 'a advice "Use more vegetables."" 'The best way, the most economic way. Is to grow your own. And it'a easy, pro vided you buy the beat seeds in other words, Morse's. Get the right start for your garden by preparing the ground now. Morse's 1918 Garden Guide teals how also tells what to plant and when to plant for best results. There is a eopy waiting for you. Write today. We'll aead it free. C. C MORSE & CO. 7 rial Sm Su Fm fr'f SmJ mm mU k, FktA 28 YEARS AGO B (From the Dully East Orpgonlan May 18K0.) J. M. Ed ward w and Fred Doerfer have started a cut rate ticket and em ployment office near the Bowman house. Both are energetic young men and will doubtless make a .success of the venture. ' John Armstrong, while currying a horse last evening, was kicked In the left leg by the animal. He will be laid on the shelf for some time. 1" h r Ogle Brothers came to ' town from their ranch near Kldge with a four horse load of hides. Wood Dibballs. a miner who tramp- e4 it from Woodburn.to Pendleton, a distance of 160 miles, will return In a few days to the mines. A novel method of arousing Interest in the protracted meetings at the M. K. church has been Introduced by the preachers. Printed Invitations are be ing passed around among sinners of all ages and conditions. Geo. C. Coe et ux to City of Stan field, a corporation, SW 1-4 KB 1-4, section 5, township 3 north, range 29. Geo. O. Coe et ux to Ore.-ron Wash ington Kailroad and Navigation Co., 085. sV 1-4 NK 1-4 section 0, town ship 3 north, range 29. ' The Townxtte Co., to Claude Mey ers, $1. NB 1-4 SK 1-4 section 2. township 3 north, range 29. 'Western 1-And & Irrigation Co., to W. H. Gulllford. SI. NB 1-4 NB 1-4 NE 1-4 NW 1-4 and S 1-2 NW 1-4 NW 1-4, section 14, township 3 north range 28. WE ARE S a e lk s ': Commencing May 15th no more coal will be delivered in sacks, unless the consumer furnishes his own sacks. We are forced to MAKE ,THIS , CHANjGE ON ACCOUNT OF THE SCARCITY OF SACKS. COAL WILL BE DELIVERED IN BULK or in Carrying Sacks. JFIX A COAL BIN AND FIX IT NOW. GET VOUR COAL IN EARLY VAN PETTEN LUMBER CO. Y SMYTHE-LONERGAN C. BURROUGHS & CHAMBERS, Inc. OREGON LUMBER CO. call In the Spanish-American and Civil wars, were all Teutons, Judging from their features. They look more like Hlndenburgs than like Mortons, Whltcombs, Clarke or Logans. Although the features of Miss In diana, who raises her hand 318 feet above the ground, are not distinctly visible, It Is probable that the Ger man artists have stamped on her face the lines of a German frauleln. , The monument is one of tho most magnificent in the United States. SEIZES GKHMAV8 I .AND II Kit 1-3 FOR WAR GARDEN CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 9. When the war Is over one German sol dier will find thatsthe owned a war garden In Cleveland. Mlns Evangel ine Bishop, 1557 E. 118th street, la responsible for it. As director of neighborhood Bervice at Rice school. Buckeye road S. E. and E. 118th street, . Miss Bishop started out to hunt vacant lots avail able for war gardens. ' There Is no playground In the dis trict. The war gardens were to be the means of keeping the children in the neighborhood occupied during the suipmer months. "The boys would do the gardening, the girls can the vegetables and help In keeping the accounts. Klght at the beginning of her quest Miss Bishop found a lot 200 feet deep and 60 feet wide, which had been left In tho care of friends when the owner returned to Germany to Join the army. The lot was commandeered for patriotic purposes- Ui Coniimious Chain Ol DO gives easy starting, quick and smooth acceleration, power and mileage, in Red Crown gasoline. inns minis' BTANDARDOILjCOMPAMY y XIaX V "C I I mi irmmmjtm aVi V X.T.riaSilrV, . A mjmml ! Ll" " firTrT hi' eswrJ ' H "mi mil i H. G. Jack, Special Agent, Standard Oil Co., Pendleton, Ore. IRISH LEADKIl M AY (X).Mli TO Sl;U WILSON. . n fK If " n I) ( What W Wi t nniTU Tfiiuprrno I T I . LAWRENCE O'JXEIL. Lawrence O'Nell, Lord Mayor of Dublin, may come to the United States to present to President Wilson Ireland's case against comu-riiitixn Kepresentatlves of the Natlonuli' 8inn Fclners. Laboriles and O'Brlon ites are said to have united In this step. HOOSIKIt IIKItOKS Altl-J I'AitVKD ah ;ki:mns Deeds. Geo- R. Roberts et ux to Wierman F. Itoberls.l. Mete and bound NW 1-4 section 32. township 3 north, range 29. C F. Hnllth et tlx lo Horace Ed ward Payne. IS 5- Lots 1 and 2, II and 12, block 5, Knowlton'a Addition Athena. A. rt. Iteimann et ux to W. P. i Itelmann, 600. Lot 1. block I7. I'enaieton. Irrigation Heights Land Co.. to , terlstlc features of INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. May 9. The state of Indiana has not yet inn do ar rangements fur honoring her heroes In this war, but when she does. It h, practically certain that she will not .allow a ;erman architect or a Ocr- insn acuiptnr to no the work. The Holdfers and Bailors monument which stands on the Circle In lnldan-1 spoils. In tribute to the memory of Hooslcr sons who have fallen In olh er wars, was designed entirely by Germans. J Bruno Srhmlli was the architect, j Rudolph Kohwartx was the sculptor. Roth lived in tlermany. As a re sult the kaiser moustache and the Teuton features are stamped on prac tically every statue. Even tho negro. !'ln the group representing tho cutting of the chains which tied hlni during jthe days of slavery, has the charac- nun in nis tare. WE will make you the best tailored suit in the county at prices fiom $45 to $65 WE will sell you a custom tailored suit that is strictly guaranteed from $30 to $45. WE will do your alterations, remodeling -repairing and pressing and guarantee the best service in the city. WE know we can please you as we have had twenty years experience in . high class tailoring. ' . : Lindgren & Franseen TAILORS 735 Main St. Phone 4GG James E. Vannon fSOO. 10, Peadletoa. Lot 10. block The soldiers and sailors which In idlana sent in answer to the nation's!