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THE EVENING NEWS FR1DA Y, DBCEMBEIt 31, 1017.
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COMESEEOURl
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GOODS
TO BE SURE VOU NEED TO DRESS UP FOR THE
HOLIDAY'S FESTIVITIES. LET US DO THE JOB FOR
YOU AND IT WILL BE DONE RIGHT.
OUR SUITS AND OVERCOATS HAVE THE
"SNAP." OUR FURNISHINGS FROM HOSE TO TIES
POSSESS "TONE." VOU CAN HOLD YOUR HEAD
UP IN A CROWD WHEN WE DRESS YOU.
BUT WE DO NOT HOLD YOU UP ON THE PRICE.
WE KEEP UP THE QUALITY; WE KEEP DOWN
THE PRICE. '
MIS MASTER'S VOICE
Victor Records
Come in and hear "Liza Jane
the great Jazz one-step
We have a fine lot of special
Christmas boxes for sending
Records in, and Records for
all makes of phonographs.
Ott's Music Store
FROM A MODERN PLANING
MTLIi
you can get all sorts of useful
and ornamental work all ready to
use. If you require a lattice for
the porch or arbor you can find
as much as you want among bur
mill work. If you needi railings,
or posts, or columns, or doors,
or moldings, our mill work will
provide them at a moment's no
tice. Come, see how many things
It includes. '
THE J. G. FLO OK GO.
Roseburg, Oregon.
"A Hard Not to Crack"
Is usually a good nut when it IS cracked. For example, try our
Christmas Brazil Nuts. They are fresh and crisp, and you will be
won rewaraea tor tne mue ex
tra troublo that it takes to crack
them.
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THE BEE HIVE
PHONE 01
JACKSON ST.
SOC AL REVOLUTION
ISSEEN ON HORIZON
Writer of World Wide Note
Sounds Warning Against
" All Grafts.
PROFITEERING EVIL
Government Must Place Heuvy Hand
on Monopolistic Extortion Con
centration of Wealth Greatest
Menace to The Nation.
News Advs Bring Results
NEW YORK, Dec. 20. Quoting
from the president's speech, the New
American says:
"Recent experience has convinced
me that the congress must go further
in authorizing the government to set
limits to prices.
"The law of supply and demand, I
am sorry to say, has been replaced
by tile law of unrestrained selfish
ness. While we have eliminated
profiteering in several branches of in
dustry it still runs impudently ram
pant in others. The farmers, for ex
ample, complain, with a great deal
of justice, that while the regulation
of food prices istricts their incomes.
no restraints are placed upon the
prices of tlie most of the things they
must themselves purcluuse, and slml
lar inequalities obtain on all sides."
The president is. right.
There is no question that extortion
is everywhere in evidence. It has
ceased to be an occurrence and has
become a custom. Unpreceaentedly
huge quantities of supplies of all
kinds are urgently needed by the gov
ernment or by the people.
In the face of this increased de
mand, the growing scarcity of labor,
the inefficiency of the railroad's and
other war conditions have made and
continue to make supplies scarcer.
And nearly every manufacturer and
wholesaler and retailor is taking ad
vantage of these unusual times and
unusual conditions and this unusual
scarcity to charge extortionate prices,
to make excessive profits, utterly
careless of the fact that their un
patriotic greed hampers both the
successful conduct of the war and
the successful development of legiti
mate business which must finally sup
port and carry on the war.
The congress should' clothe the ad
ministration with the price-fixing
powers which the president requests.
And then those powers should be ex
ercised by the administration with a
great deal more severity and with a
great deal more sincerity than has
been exhibited by the federal trade
board.
Government indorsement of exces
sively high prices does nothing to
satisiy the people or to ease the busi
ness situation. What the situation
demands is a fixed level of fair prices
and moderate profits.
. This is no time for any man to be
getting unduly rich at the expense of
his country and his countrymen. If
our young men are required to risk
their lives for the country's sake,
then, in fairness and in decency,
other men must be required to give
up excessive profits for the country's
sake.
It is a scandalous thing to de
mand that one citizen shall give all
that he has, even to his life, and
another be permitted to keep all that
he has, and even add to the unjust
profits which he extorts from the
necessities of his countrymen.
So far the government's limited
authority to fix prices has not always
oeen used with happy effect. The
acts of the ridiculous trade commis
sion have only tended to discredit
such price-fixing powers as the gov
ernment has had.
As a matter of fact, this trade
commission has used its powers, up
to the present time, mainly to in
uorse andl to approve and legally to
sanction the extortionate prices
unpatriotic and oppressive trusts,
controlling the production of essen
tial supplies, have scandalously im
posed upon the country.
As to the matter of war profiteer
ing, the American people are of one
mind. They are thoroughly convinc
ed that prices are extravagantly and
unreasonably high.
They are thoroughly convinced
that a comparatively small number
of men are growing richer and rich
er ' by outrageous extortion, while
the great mass of the people are
patriotically malting sacrifices for
the common cause.
And they are fully determined
that they will put an end to this
shameful and scandalous condition
of affairs.
Any policy-of government that
consents to trust extortion is bound
to be disastrous to the party in
power and to the country. Such a
policy may be only temporarily dis
trous to the country, it is true, but
the country Will see to it that it is
permanently disastrous to the party
In power.
It is impossible for the country
to consent to' the rcontinuance of
such a policy without imperiling
not only its prosperity, but the very
existence of those - orderly institu
tions of political and social freedom
under which the nation has lived its
life ever since our fathers gave it
being.
The lessons and the warnings of
history are clear enough. There are
four steps which surely lead to a
new revolutionary order of) things.
The first step Is monopolistic extor
tion. The second step is government
endosement of monopolistic extor
tion. The third step is concentra
tiontion of the wealth of the country
in the bands of a few extortioaate
monopolists. The fourth step is so-
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clal revolution and the definite es
tablishment of a socialistic system
of government.
Those of us who bolleve that a
people live to their highest advan
tage and with the most liberty and
the most happiness under the liberal
institutions of a free democracy are
unwilling' that any of these four
several steps toward political and
social revolutions should be taken.
Scarcely one American in ten Is
now anxious to see the revolution
ary results of these successive steps,
accomplished. But this revolution
ary result surely will be accomplish
ed unless the democratic government
does its democratic duty and pro
tects the people from the extortions
of monopoly, aggravated to an in
tolerable degree, during this period
of war and these times of individual
patriotic self secrifice.
The great majority of the Ameri
can people are today willingly and
cheerfully giving to the government,
in the form of taxes and other sacri
fices, a very large . share of their
profits, their incomes and their wage
earnings.
It is Intolevatble that a small
minority of the people should grow
unduly and dangerously rich, while
the rest of us are growing poorer;
that any set of men here at home
should literally coin, not only the
earnings of legitimate business and
of labor, but the very llfeblood of
our sons and brothers into enormous
profits, with which to fill their pri
vate pockets.
The indignation of the people al
ready finds expression everywhere
in their individual conversations. It
will find a louder and more co-ordinated
and a more powerful voice
unless the cause'! Is removed, unless
the restraining hand of government
is suddenly and effectively laid upon
the greed of the shameless and mor
ally treasonable war profiteers.
The congress should instantly ac
cede to the president's request. The
administration should be clothed
with the fullest powers to fix the
selling price of every essential ar
ticle which the public must buy.
The responsibility for a better
condition of affairs will then rest
squarely upon the shoulders of the
administration, and we do not doubt
that the president will see to it that
the responsibility is met, that the
demands of the people are compiled
with, and that a sudden end is put to
the pernicious and villanious extor
tion which a comparative handful of
unpatriotic citizens have been impos
ng upon the people of the United
States.
TROTTERS CLUB.
Regular (fortnightly diuice, Fri
day, December 21, at Elks hall. Mu
sic begins promptly at eight o'clock.
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NEXT U. 8. ORDINANCE
CLASS MAY GO 11. 0F0.
(By Associated Press.)
EUGENE, Or., Dec. 21. The war
department Is considering placing the
next ordnance class at the University
of Oregon, on a military basis, ac
cording to a letter received by C. C.
Jeremiah, instructor of the class.
If the change is made, a commis
sioned, officer will be put in charge
of the Instruction and the students
will be enlisted before they enroll in
the class instead of waiting until they
have completed, the work, as is now
the case. .
They will also be given uniforms
and will received the regulation pay
of privates during their course of
instruction, instead of paying tuition
as has been the case with the last
classes. It is also likely they will
be housed in 'barracks, tents or other
headquarters, as they would be if tak
ing the work at a cantonment or fort.
The next course is to be enlarged to
seventy-five studnets instead of fifty.
Instructor Jeremiah now is selecting
students for the course, which will
start early In January.
EASY TO DARKEN
YOUR
HI
Yon can Bring Back Color and
Lustre with Sage Tea x
and Sulphur.
When you darken your hair with Sage
Tea and Sulphur, no one can tell, be
cause it's done so naturally, so evenly.
Preparing this mixture, though, at home
is mussy and troublesome. For 60 cents
you can buy at any drug store the ready-to-use
preparation, improved by the addi
tion of other ingredients, called "Wyeth'g
Sage and Sulphur Compound." You just
dampen a sponge or soft brush with it
and draw this through your hair, taking
one small strand at a time. By morning
all gray hair disappears, and, after an
other application or two, your hair be
comes beautifully darkened, glossy and
luxuriant.
firflv laAfiA hair, thoucrh no dissrr&ce
U a sign of old age, and s we all de
sire youtnmi ana atCTBciive appear
ance, get busy at once with Wynth's Sag.
and Sulphur Compound and look years i
younger. This ready-to-use preparatioi ,
is a delightful toilet requisite and not G j
medicine. It is not intended for the cure,
mitisttlon or prevention ot disease. j.
II.
T STATE
There has been more shoplifting at
the big stores of the city this winter
than ever before, said one merchant
yesterday, and steps have been taken
to protect the merchants from the
petty thieves, says the Eugene Reg
ister. Aliready several women have
been apprehended with stolen goods
and their names turned over to the
officers, says this merchant. Arrests
will be made whenever.anyone is -detected
in the act of stealing anything
at the stores or -when stolen goods
are found on anyone's person.
Besides the Women a number of
children have been detected in the
act of taking things from the count
ers and shelves of tho stores.
All of the large stores where the
Christmas shopping crowds are num
erous have a detective employed to
watch for Bhoplifters and It is be
lieved that the anoyance will be re
duced to a minimum thereby.
"The large shopping bags which
tho women now carry make it easier!
for the shoplifters to ply their-trade
than before," said the merchant, "but
our detective has special instructions
to watch these handbags. If any wo-1
man arouses his suspicion a careful j
watch of her movements will be made
and If she is caught she will be placed i
under arrest."
In Seattle and Portland there is
some talk of banishing these roomy I
handbags from the stores owing to j
the greater prevalence of shoplifting .
i.lnce they came into style.
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The Best Present
"By All Means"
BODSTOGi
Get the Boy or the Girl ,
Something Worth While
If you want to make a carpen
ter out of your boy, get him a
chest of tools, the best you can
get. If you want to make a busi
ness man out of him, get him an
up-to-date typewriter. A WOOD
STOCK Typewriter is the best in
vestment you can make in your
boy's or girl's future.
By all means get the latest and
best; the most modern machine,
the Universal Standard Single
Shift key board with 42 keys
adopted! by all colleges and mod
ern methods of teaching. Don't
fall Into the error of buying a
sub-standard machine with less
than 42 keys. It is only neces
sary to know and count the keys.
The WOODSTOCK is the last,
word in Typewriters. Let us
show you its many advantages.
A. S.Huey Company
Local Representative
Only a little dime, or a nickel and a little "stick-to-it" is all
you need, to get you $127-50 or $G3.75
Bring the dime or nickel into our bank and Join our Christmas
Bonking Club. Then each week increase your deposit the same
amount. If you haven't the dime or nickel 2 cents or 1 cent will
do.
In 50 weeks: " ' ' .
10 CENT CliUB PAYS V $127.50
5 CENT CLUB PAYS 03.75
. 2 CENT CLUB PAYS 25.50
1 CENT CLUB PAYS 13.75
Or if you are "flush" right now begin with, tlie largest pay
ment and decrease your payments each week.
We also have 50 cent, $1.00 and $5.00 or more clubs where
you pay in the same amount each week.
We add 3 per cent Interest.
First State & Savings Bank
Roseburg, Oregon
Join tlie Red Cross Today. Don't wait to be asked but join now.
Give Something
ELECTRICAL
THIS CHRISTMAS
Douglas County Light and Water Co.
Too Much Molasses Candy
Makes a, sticky baby, and too much
rain makes a sticky path.
Shall We Bring You the Remedy? v
About the ONLY remedy that can be
applied during a wet season? A- ,
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Kenny Lumber Company
OAK AND PINE STS.
Join the Red Cross today. AVear a Red Cross button Christmas day.
Xiiias
Gaudies
In Limited Quantities!
Everyone must help in the conservation of sugar by using but little candy and
sweets, made largely from sugar, this Christmas. There are however, many
other things that can be be used just as well, that will in nowise deplete the
supplies needed by "Our Boys" and Our Allies over there. For '
Your Christmas Tree
Gifts and Entertainments inspect our large stock of Walnuts, Almonds,
Brazil Nuts, Filberts, Hickory Nuts, Pecans, Old Fashioned Black Walnuts,
Peanuts, Mixed Nuts, in fact most any kind of nuts.
Raisins Seeded and Seedless in packages and in bulk, the most delicious
Cluster Raisins, Figs and Dates. A complete line of Fruits Oranges,
Bananas, Grape Fruit, Pineapple and Cocoanuts. The very best prices on
Christmas Candles and Holders.
Peoples Supply Coo