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TWO THE EVENING NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 0, 1018- THE EVENING NEWS BY B. W. KATES BERT O. BATES ISSUED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. Subscription Kates Daily. ' Per year, by mall....... Per month, delivered ................ .ou Weekly. Per year ?3.00 Sli months 1'0U Entered as second-class matter, November 6, 1909, at Roseburg, Ore., under act of March 3. 1879. MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to' the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of spe cial dispatches herein are also reserved. v WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 0, HUH WOMEN WORKERS IN FRANCE. A munition plant in France which maintains a model nursery for the ibabiea of ItB women employes 1b de scribed by Dr. Eater 'Lovejoy, who is attached to the Red Cross in Paris, In a letter to Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, chairman of the woman's committee of the Council of National Defense. "I have been assigned to work in Paris," she writes, "and have been visiting Institutions for the help of women, and children in hqspitals, maternities, clinics, prenatal homes, homes for nursing mothers and nur series for chlldlron whose mothers have replaced men in industries. At a munition plant I visited recently, provisions for pregnant women, who are obliged to work, andi for nursing mothers and ther Infants are inter esting indications of the trend of things under the pressure of econom ic necessity. "Six thousand women are employ ed at this place and there is a model nursery for the care of iniants. When the mothers return to the- fac tories after their confinements, their infants are taken, free of cost, and cared for by trained nurses, in a home built for babies, not a corner in a house built for grown people. The mothers of these babies are al lowed half an hour every three hours to nurse their babies, and at night there is one bottle feeding, whtclrar rangement permits the mothet to go home at 6:30 o'clock and rest all night without being troubled, by the baby. The babies are always loft in the nursery during the night. If ideas of this kind are put in prac tice during the war and developed auerward there will be some good at least come out of the evil of it all." Dr. Lovejoy went to Paris as a member of an American medical unit. Wihen the medical unit system was abandoned, she was appointed sec ond medical assistant in the chil dren's bureau of the Red Cross in Paris a bureau which includes wo men as well as children. I PAUUIEfBEPERICK i MUCH Nil! AMONG OFFICERS Report That American Soldiers Are Drinking to Excess Is Contradicted. . , SAYS HIGH AUTHORITY Vice Admiral Sims and Colonel Slo cum Declare Thut. the Charges , Are False Cases Isolated Ones They State. At the Antlers Tomorrow and Friday. CAST THE RASCAItS 'OUT. The senate commerce and military committees are rendering the nation immensely valuable service by prob ing governmental shipbuilding and the letting of contracts for military supplies. Already enough is reveal ed to warrant the deliberate declara tion that we are facing the greatest scandals since the war with Spain, perhaps the worst known in Ameri can public life In 50 years, says the Spokane Review. Take the case of the Sloan- Ship yard corporation of Seattle, which has a contract to .build 16 wooden ships for the government for a total price of $7,840,000. The concern is in a bad way and to protect itself the government has had to take a 7BO,000 mortgage on the plant. In the course of his Investigations AdmiraUBowes lound that the Seat tle corporation had paid $400,000 to the CltncnTleld Navigation Com pany. "What was that for?" the admiral asked Of the organizer and headl of the Seattle concern and the answer was that It was for broker age or commission for obtaining the $7,840,000 contract. Rakeoff, but why rakeoff to a hornlng-in concern between the gov ernment and the company that was to build the ships? That seems pretty frenzied finance, but it l "small potatoes" compared with the larger Interest in the revela tions of the contract entered Into by the government with the American International, a company in which the firm of Stone & vv ebster, of Seat tle, is the chief figure, for the erec tion of a steel ship fabrication plant near Philadelphia. In this deal the government ad vances $21,000,000 or more to build the plant; in other words, puts up al most the entire capital and running expenses, promising the company $6,000,000 of lees fees on 120 ships, all the costs of building which are to be paid by the government! The salary roll of this concern is outrageous. Several men are paid in excess of $2u00 a month. A "pub licity manager" is paid $10,000.00 year, and his two assistants receive $8000 and $60u0 $24,000 a year for "publicity" more probably for sec recy. "In view of these salaries," asked Senator Johnson, "have you any com plaint to make against skilled me chanics, men who work with t'heir hands in ship building, should they ask high wages?" "It is very natural and 'human for them to do so," replied Meyer Bloom field, of the labor organization of the shipping board, who was the witness on the stand at the moment. There is the poison of it, more de moralizing, Infinitely inoro demoral izing, than the mere squandering of public funds, bad. as thft is, lor 11 hri'Cds unrest and fosters st tikes at a ime when our allies are begging us t seDd them ships and save the grcal cause that Germany is trying to scut tle with her submarines. . Turn, now, from this Inquiry to the other disheartening investigation by the senate military affairs committee. Charles Eisenman, vice chairman of the council of national defense, ad. mittedf on the witness stand Thurs day that nine firms that had their representatives on this contract com mittee got army supply orders from the committee that totaled' $129,000, 000. The witness asserted, however, tnat ail but $15,000,000 of these con tracts was placed before the con tractors' representatives became con nected with the committee. There are other astounding revela tions, but these are enough to justify public indignation and scorn. The senate committees are righteously aroused, and Chairman Chamberlain, of tne military committee goes to the heart of the evil with his bill to create a new cabinet member, to be known as the secretary of munitions and have complete charge of all war material purchasing. A number of greedy, unpatriotic rascals have wormed their way Into tne volunteer service at the capital. They should be cast out and scourg ed by public proclamation of the president. Public safety, the good name of the government and justice to tne host of honest men who are giving their service without thought of reward, all cry out insistently for mac action. If the government is to forbid the manufacture of left handed plows, we tremble for the left handed screwdiriver, monkey wrench and auger.' And what about left handed baskets? For the years in which this coun try lived in a fool's paradise it must pay a price, but now every possible effort must be made in order that our fighting may be efficient. President Wilson has sent his cast off clothes to Belgium, but it is un derstood that his shoes are to go in 1920 to some poor but deserving American statesman? TO President Wilson's message to con. gress yesterday will probably nut a quietus on all talk of peace terms as far as Germany is concerned and It is about time, anyway, to get away rroin overtures of peace. There Is only one thing to do and that is to simply wipe-the kaiser off the map and progress In this respect snomu not be retarded by "croom ing" the peace dove. It" Is a case of hitting her up" on the western front all the time and getting the kaiser lined out for a rear attack that will pusli him off tho boards for all time to come. It's a fight to a finish. There will be no peace until the free democracy takes the place of bnrbarism and savagery.. As If they were not unpopular enough, the White House pickets have been endorsed by Emma Goldman. We Cater Woman's to your wants and Shop specialize to meet for demands of our Woman's varmy of customers U 1 . Bellows Rumors that the Shasta Limited may be removed from Southern Pa cific schedules as a step toward traf fic! economy under federal control are vigorously denied by John M. Scott, general passenger agent of the Southern Pacific, who recently re turned! from a company conference at San Francisco. "There is no intention of with drawing the Shasta from service," said Mr. Scott yesterday, "nor has such a proposal been discussed. I am at a loss to know where the ru mor originated. We cannot speak for the future, but for the present no change of such nature is even con templated." A circular -as been issued from the offices of the Southern Pacific general freight agent and general passenger agent whose headquarters are in this city, advising that aside from the discontinuance of soliciting uusness there will be no change for the present in the service. Agents will continue to furnish shippers and passengers with all in formation available on request, as nas been the practice in the past, but no suggestions will be made as to the routing of freight or passenger trav el, the choice of routes being left en tirely to -the discretion of the ship per or passenger. LITERALLY BATHED IN The following, from the San Fran cisco Call of January 2 tells of the death of a former Eugene woman: "Following a three,days' New Year celebration during which dozens of bottles of champagne and Scotch whiskey were consumed, the police say, Mrs. Maude Hudson Smith, aged 45, of Portland, is dead today and her husband, Rod E. Smith, fire in surance agent, of Portland, is in a serious condition at his room In the Clift hotel. . "The couple's! dirlnking was) so heavy Saturday night and Sunday. just after they hndi arrived from the north that the hotel management Monday refused them more -Honor. The Smiths secured additional sup plies Dy teiepnoning a downtown gro cery. "Mrs. Smith's bodv Was fnnnri Inst nleht by -F. H. Hood, a cousin, whn had prevlouslylnade unsuccessful at tempts 10 get tne pair to moderate their potions and who called to see how the pair were faring. He found fehe woman in the bathroom dead and Smith lvine-on tha hod in n,t ;"Por. A physician who was summon ed! at once declared that 'excessive annKing undoubtedly was the cause of death. ' 'Jewels valued at more than t.tnnn and over $100 in cash were lying on tne aresser. .Mrs. smith was left val uable property by one of her nnrflnfn some time ago and Smith also is said to oe weaitny. ' LONDON, Jan. 8. Much indigna tion has been cause .among Ameri can army and navy officials and other Americans in London because of reports circulated in the United States that American soldiers andt sailors in Europe were drinking to excess. The indignation has been In tensified by. a charge maue in his sermon at the city temple Sunday by the Rev. Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, of Iowa, the pastor, of drunkenness among American soldiers in England. "When I see American boys stagger ing in the street drunk, I hate Lon don," was one of the utterances of Dr. Newton. Vice Admiral William S. Sims, commander of the American naval forces, and Colonel S. H. L. Slocum. military attache of the American em bassy in Loudon, today declared that the charges of drunkenness were false, and that they also were a re flection on the American forces, as well as an insult to Great Britain. Admiral Sims said there never was a time in American history when there was so little drunkenness among the American fighting forces. He has been here for eight months, he said; and had! visited the American flotilla base and' various cities in England and on the French front and never had seen a drunken American sol dier or sailor and no case of drunken ness in the navy had been called to his attention. "The Americans did not come to Europe to get drunk,'' Admiral Sims continued. "This war is a serious business with them. As far as the navy is concerned, the young men who are hunting for submarines real ize that they must have all their wits about them. Besides, there is a fine feeling of honor among them. They know the navy's orders. They are here to aid their country; they are here to make a record." Colonei Solcum also declared that he had never seen a drunken Ameri can fighting man on this side of the water. Walter Hines Page, the Amer ican ambassador and the secretaries of the embassy, the American consul general and the officials of the con sulate, all made similar assertions that they had never observed an in toxicated American soldier or Bailor on tne streets or London or any where else in this country. The Rev. Dr. Newton, in a state- .ment today, said that he was called recently to Eagle Hut, the Y. M. C. A. headquarters, andl that there were three American soldiers there who were so intoxicated that they could not take off their clothes and go to bed. One of these men, he added, had been baptized by him years ago. "I have seen Americans drunk in the streets," Dr. JS'ewton continued. "I am as proud of my country as the army and navy officials are, but I am thinking of these boysi' ' An investigation today showed that it was the general opinion that any ui uiuieuuess uu tins siae, or jnneri can soldiers andl sailors is .(Confined to a few isolated cases, and that Dr. Newton s remarks are deprecated by British officials. One of these officials said today: "Dr. Newton's allegations regard ing intemper.mce generally are in striking contrast with known facts. Regarding drunkenness in London at the present day, the total number of cases during the recent Christmas and New Year holidays showed a de cline of 69 per cent, as compared with the figures of 1915. Over the whole of Great Britain a reduction well over 70 per ecnt has been achieved by the regulationswhich have been in force since 1915." FOR SALE Baled '. andi fcose oat and vetc.h hay. Phone 13F12. FOR SALE General mdse. store at Melrose, re 8 miles from Rose- . burg; corner roads; doing good business. 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