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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1919)
OREGON LEGISLATURE IO JAPANESE (OKE War Is Threatened If Chinese Bare Secret Treaty. . DELEGATES W ARNED State Capitol.—The joint ways and j All condensed or evaporated skim mUk must be known as “ imitation milk” under the terms of a bill in troduced in the legislature by Sena tor Pierce. ^ The St. Helens city council has purchased a tire truck and steps are being taken to reorganize the fire department. The truck is a late model fire-fighting machine and cost the city $3750. The Umatilla board - o f education United States and England Too Busy for the Umatilla schools is preparing for the standardization of the high to Aid China, Nipponese Say— school. The building has been thor 'Militarists Said to Rule. oughly fumigated, after serving well the purpose of a hospital. London. — The correspondent of Reuter’s Limited at Pekin sends the following under €ate of February 3: "The Japanese on Thursday, January 30, informed the Chinese minister at Tokio that change in the attitude of the Chinese delegates in France was desirable. The Chinese should, he said, be guided by the Japanese in all questions of policy. ' “ The Japanese minister at Peking on Saturday, February 1, informed the foreign minister that a change of front on the part of the Chinese delegation was necessary and that Japan desired China to undertake' that she would not reveal at the peace conference the secret Chino-Japanese agreements. The Chinese delegates, he said, should work in the closest harmony with the Japanese delegates upon all questions brought before the peace conference. “ The Japanese minister added that Great Britain was so disturbed with strikes and financial troubles that no. definite political or "financial help could be expected from that quarter. Failing to receive such assurance, Japan would immediately exercise ef fective financial pressure upon China. “ The Japanese minister demonstrat ed that China was in a position to choose between returning Japan’s friendship or meeting Japan’s opposi tion. "Simultaneously the Pekin militar ists brought great pressure to bear in presidential quarters with a view to securing the adoption of the Japanese viewpoint. “ Following numerous evidences of Japanese pressure upon China in con nection with the pecyce conference, this revelation of Japan's determination permanently to secure privileges gain ed during the European war created astonishment throughout China, espe cially as fl. section of the Japanese gov ernment Is known to be opposed to the policy of force against China. “ The newspapers, however, empha size Japan's latest and greatest diplo matic blunder as proving that the Japanese government is still tied to the wheels of the military chariot %-hose purpose is to destroy China, re gardless of the fact that its action is calculated to force Japan outside the league qf nations.” Washington, D. C.—Japan’s attitude toward China in the peace conference is causing grave apprehension among the representatives of the other asso ciated powers. According to official diplomatic information reaching here, Japan virtually has threatened war if China makes public secret treaties be tween the two countries and fails to carry out an agreement to make Japan the successor of Germany in rights, property-and concessions held by Ger many at the outbreak of the European war. SEATTLE STRIKE IS CALLED OFF Seattle— Seattle’s general strike of 30,000 union men and women, the first of its kitid and scope ever called in America, ended “ officially” at goon Tuesday,’ but at. least two unions which went out Thursday last must yet suffer for their action. The International Longshoremen’s union* is declared the chief sufferer. Here the union men went back to work beside non-union employes and non-uniqn men were employed as read ily as organized dockworkers. Two months ¿go this union, it is said, for the first time was able to put the “ closed shop” plan in effect along Se attle's waterfront. Now the docks and wharves'' are again operated on the •“ open shop” plan, according to em ployers, 'and this policy will be con tinued. * Lumber Prices Go Down. * San Francisco.—The cost of lumber tobogganed Monday. Wartime prices went into the discard with a rush when tlje lumber dealers of San Fran cisco announced a 20 per cent lop-off in the ¡¿-ice of all lumber used in or dinary Building construction. It was stated that the reason for the drop in prices i$ the ¿esire of the dealers to encourage a revival of the building industry and conserve the mutual in terests i f owner, builder and dealer. The , safety first committee of the Southern Pacific company ha^ begun to hold monthly meetings for the benefit of Dallas employes. The commercial club rooms will be used one night each month for the meet ings. A joint delegation of Mount Angel and Scotts Mills good roads enthusi asts met with other Marion county road boosters at Salem Saturday to consider plans for bonding .the coun ty for hard-surface roads connecting all incorporated cities within the county. Wlllaiwette chapter, 21, American Loyalty League, has adopted a reso lution which “ commends the action taken by- the district attorney, Fed eral'Judge WoIVerton, the Jurors and the witnesses and all others who made possible the conviction of J. Henry Albers.” * In order to solve the housing situ ation in Peifdleton, a special meeting of the commercial association Jias been called and it is probable the business men will organize a corpor ation for the purpose of building homes for rent and sale. At present Pendleton has no unoccupied houses. Baker is now enjoying the heaviest snowfall of the year, varying in depth from six inches in the city to more than four feet in the mountains. The miners in this section have been ap prehensive that there would be insuf ficient snow in the hills to furnish the desired amount of water in the spring. Provision for standardizing of elec tric illuminating and creation of an unsalaried advisory commission to work in conjunction with the labor Commissioner to secure better light ing for employes, are included in a bill of Representative Smjth of Mult nomah, which passed the house on Wednesday. The biggest realty and farm deal of the year was closed at Bend Tues day when J. P. and Dennis O’Callag han, wealthy Paisley sheepmen, took over the 760-acre holdings of W. N. Wilson, near Bend, together with 2300 head of sheep. The considera tion was $75,000. The ewes were sold at $15 a head. The St. Helens schol board has asked for bids for the construction of a new schoolhouse to replace the building destroyed by fire last fall. The estimated cost is $37,500. At present the 600 children attending the St. Helens schools are accommo dated in the churches, the city hall and county fair buildings. A merger of the county fair and land products show exhibits for this year was effected at a meeting of the board of directors of the Multnomah county fair, held in Gresham Wed nesday. An effort also is being made to have the Portland dairymen join in the show. The merger of these three exhibitions will provide $9000 for premiums. Articles of incorporation of the Co lumbia River Fish company, inc., were 'filed in tjie county clerk's officq, at Astoria last Wednesday. The incor porators are George W. Warren,1 C. W. Stone and Arthpr A. Anderson, and the capital stock is $10,000. The company is to establish a salmon can nery in Astoria and the plant will be ready for operation during the com ing fishing season. The big prune packing plant of the California Packing corporation in Dal las has been working on the 1918 crop continuously since the prune harvest began and has handled prac tically two-thirds of the crop, or more than 6,000,000 pounds of dried prunes. The plant still has about 3,000,000 pounds of fruit on hand and is mak ing shipments to eastern cities and European points almost every day. At Wednesday • morning’s meeting of the port of Astoria commission, the formal contracts were signed for the erection o f . a 3000-barrel flour mill on the port property to be op erated by E. L. Smith and associates. Orders were given the port engineers to prepare immediately for construct ing the foundation for the plant. The building is to be erected by the port, but the lessees are to install the ma chinery and equipment a l l ie d army PLO T pails Vote of Peace Delegates Kills French Military Scheme. g |jy S’ CLUBS TEACH THRIFT AND INDUSTRY AND HELP TO MAKE PROGRESSIVE FARMERS means committee, in its work now Paris.— The Bourgeois proposition virtually completed, provided for total ! for an interallied military force t o 1 appropriations showing a net increase enforce peace was defeated by an of $667,661 over the appropriations of! overwhelming vote at the meeting of two years*ago, according to a compila the Society of Nations commission on tion by C, C. Chapman, editor of the j Thursday. Oregon Voter. This shows the in- ! The French and Czecho-Slovaks creases for each department and the were the only representatives voting percentage of increase or decrease, »as in the.affirmative._ The draft of the'society of nations the cas»* may be. * Mr. Chapman s figures show net de plan was then unanimously adopted creases, all told, by the committee of as a whole. The final draft consists of 26 arti $195,011, or total decreases, including cles. the removal of state aid from the The Japanese delegation presented industrial accident commission based an amendment providing that racial on figures of 1917-18, of $599,868. The biggest percentage of increase discrimination should not be tolerated Club Members Learn More Than Principles of Agriculture. went to the state exhibit at Portland, in immigration daws. Several delegates urged that this (Prepared by the United States Depart ties, a common custom— the kind of which receives 300 per cent more than ment o f Agriculture.) banking, by the way, where the char two years ago. Experiment stations would open such a large question that Agricultural production is not the acter and Industry of the borrowers great delay might ensue, and the mat get 100 per cent more. sum total of achievement by members form the major part of the security. ter was dropped without a vote. of boys’ clubs in the South. Those Iu this connection the testimony of the President Wilson was not present The fish and game code, on third youngsters below the Mason-Dlxon line president of a bank in Mississippi is at this session, having to' attend the reading in the house Monday, was raise good crops; also, they raise fine corroborative, Says he: "So far as my sent back to the game committee to supreme war council. Lord Robert baby beeves and standard pigs. Their information goes, there is not a single straighten out some objections which Cecil acted as chairman, during his sheep are of accredited breeds; their piece of bad paper in the state as a re poultry is of the better types; and the sult of loans to club boys." These in arose on the floor of the house, there absence. Greece has been authorized by the gardens they cultivate are model gar stances are taken at random. being a tangle as to the printed peace council to send additional troops dens, many o f them yielding very The influence club boys exert upon amendments. into Thrace, the Smyrna district and worth-while produce. In dollars and their fathers and upon the farmers In Objection arose against the bill on cents, the result of those boys’ efforts their neighborhoods Is very marked, the ground that it gives to the com the adjacent territory along the coast. annually mounts up to many ■ thou state and county agents say. It is the It is understood that these troops and mission plenary powers to fix the sal sands; in food supply it is o f incal kind of influence that, through prac those which Italy is about to send to aries of its employes, but it became culable value to the 15 Southern states. tical demonstration, turns skeptics in But this is only part of the story—a to converts; that makes progressive evident in the debate that a large Asia Minor districts of Adalia and following in the house will stand for Konlen will be considered as allied bare enumeration of some of the ac farmers out of “ the-old-way-ls-good- letting the commission handle its sal troops subject to withdrawal by the tivities of those Southern lads. The enough-for-me” types. council. other part is, or should be, more in aries. However, objection to the new Influence of the Clubs. This move is construed by observers teresting, for it deals with Intangible plan has not been quelled. But extension agents are not the ‘commodities— character, high ideals, here as the first step toward making only ones who note these transforma Italy and Greece the mandatory pow educational aspirations, civic pride— Attacks were made before the sen evolved from and developed through tions. Men o f affairs have observed ate committee on medicine, pharmacy ers for the territory thus occupied. the training recel-ed In boys’ clubs. In them, and right ready are they to tell In a written reply to a declaration and dentistry Monday night on the Its effort to strengthen the agricul of civic Improvements, better schools, bill of Senator Eddy, which enlarges of the French association on the soci tural extension organization the Unit more active churches, marked Increase the power of the state board o f health ety of nations which recently oalled ed States department of agriculture In the demand for better merchandise, upon him, President Wilson makes cites some Instances to show the bene new business enterprises, pride In the and codifies all the health statutes known formally for the first time his fits of the boys’ club work in the appearance of their buildings, home» into a single act. grounds, the family acres, and a high intention to return to France after South. Particular attacks were directed er type o f community morale— all Bonds v »nd Bank Accounts. going to Washington for the closing against the act by J. V. Ohmart, at In Texas there are 1,000 boys receiv brought about by boys’ clubs and com session of the American congress. torney of Portland, who appeared for munity co-operation. In this reply the president says that ing higher education— the direct re the Christian ScieiyiSt school of heal Increased production, stimulation In sult of club membership. There are he accepts the suggestion that after ing and who was backed by a large 20,000 club boys In that state who every line of agricultural endeavor for his return to Paris a great public bought Liberty bonds, War Savings the Immediate and continued prosper representation of Christian Scientists meeting be arranged in celebration of and Thrift stamps. The same number ity of their section is one of the Im both from Portland and other parts the peace conference. There is some belong to the Red Cross, and 2,000 portant functions of boys’ club work of the state. belief in official circles that the peace have bank accounts. Members of the In the Soutfl. This Is being accom conference will be able to complete boys’ clubs In Oklahoma, over 13,000, plished by Instruction and demonstra While the constitutional 40 days al awn war securities amounting to tion In correct agricultural methods by its work by June. lowed the legislature is due to expire The peace conference commission $112JJ18. Their bank deposits total the extension service of the United next Friday night at midnight, there on international control of ports, wa $67,931.80. Also West Virginia Ijas 1,- States department of agriculture and is every indication now that the ses 500 club members who have bnnk ac the state agricultural colleges. And terways and railways is considering sion will extend into the following counts. Many own lands and severnl It Is being done in the only way pos a proposed assertion of jurisdiction week or it will, at least, unless greater hundred are In colleges. Arkansas has sible— through the organized efforts of over aerial international flights. The i record of hundreds o f former boys’ the very boys who are to develop Into speed by several hundred per cent is British air ministry has already pre club members who are In college, and progressive farmers and become the made than has marked the progress of pared an elaborate convention which i'liat is more to tlielr credit, paying substantial producers o£ the future. either house from the beginning of will be submitted to the peace con their tuition with money earned from However, quite as Important a func the session. It is doubtful if there the sale of of their agricultural prod- tion of this work Is the all-round de ference. ever before has been an Oregon legis The international aviation confer* acts and prises won In agricultural velopment o f the boys themselves. lature which at this time in the ses Great stress Is laid upon this. Through ence soon to meet in Paris will also contests. sion was laboring under such congest A number of the Southern clubs the agency o f these boys’ clubs, the take up questions of great importance, ed calendars and with committees so have developed college professors, In members are taught habits o f thrift such as how far national control of crammed with unconsidered bills. structors In agricultural schools— men and Industry. They are shown the the air may go, passports, customs, re who learned the scientific method of real value of high character, the ad ciprocal landing facilities, aerial po (arming and gained their experience vantages of education, the possibilities Determined resistance will lie made lice and the settlement of damages. In boys’ clubs. Many club members of leadership, the dignity o f labor, the by Representative Idleman to the pro Civilian flights “ between nations are »re in the military service. "W e have Importance o f co-operntlon In civic af visions of house bill 283 by Represen now impossible, because of the ab hundreds of club members that are fairs and respect for others’ rights. tative Moore, which is designed to sence of essential regulations. Many officers In the United Stntes army,” The creditable desire for independ provide for general regulation of the enterprises, such as that of preparing writes a Mississippi state agent. Nor ence, for land ownership and beauty practice çf medicine. Mr. Idleman a Paris to'London air service, have have modern business methods been and orderliness In land possessed U states that the Moore bill will prac overlooked by those young husband Inculcated In them, that they may have been delayed in consequence. tically eliminate from practice In the men. In some of the states co-opera the privilege of remaining upon the tive buying, selling and marketing Is very soil that nurtured them and be state naturopaths, those who practice the regular practice o f boys’ club mem come important factors In their coun massage, Swedish treatment, physical Friederich Ebert, Socialist, bers, and the use of banking facili try’s development. culture, neuropathy or other natural Is F irst German President methods, unless those who practice it I “ take the examination that is required llke swellings on the stem. Another Weimar.—Pealing church bells' an under the bill. very good Indication is the presence nounced to the people of Weimar at In the field of n number of fallen or lodged plants. Organized labor won a distinct vic 4:15 o'clock last Wednesday afternoon The larvae o f this Insect remain In tory in the house last Friday when it that the German folk tor the first time the old stubble until November or De in history had chosen the head of their received 40 affirmative v^tes on Rep when about 90 per cent of own state.* Pest Ranks Next to Hessian Fly cember, resentative Horne’s bill legalizing la them change to the pupa stage. In Frlederich Ebert, former saddler in Eastern States. this form large numbers are winter bor organizations and denying the and socialist leader, appeared before killed In the Northern states, but se right to courts to issue injunctions the theater 20 minutes later and re vere weather also kills their natural when labor is striking in a .peaceful ceived as president of Germany those Small Grub Lives In Stems of Wheat, enemies. Without the assistance of Sucking Juices of Plant— May Be plaudits formerly marking the appear manner^ numerous parasitic enemies of the Controlled by Plowing Jolntworm, whent growing In the The bill by Horne is a replica of the ance of the monarch who one« stig Eastern states of necessity would Stubble Deeply. Clayton amendment to the federal matized the party to which President have been abandoned or the growers Sherman anti-trust law and also of Ebert belongs as being made up of men “ unworthy to bear the name of (Prepared by the United States Depart forced to adopt effective control the Minnesota act. ment o f Agriculture.) measures, say department specialists. German.” The most destructive enemy of When fall plowing Is practiced the President Ebert in his speech ac wheat, next to the Hessian fly, In the Despite stiffest opposition from the stubble containing the pest Is burled Lane county delegation, the house cepting the presidency said: wheat states east of the Mississippi deeply, thus preventing the Insect “ I will administer my office, not as river and in parts of Missouri Is the from emerging the following spring. Monday afternoon adopted a majority report of the educational committee the leader of a single party, but I be wheat Jolntworm. It is a very small Whenever this method Is adopted the favoring passage of the Patterson bill, long to the socialist party and cannot grub whlcn lives In the stems of badly Infested wheat should be cut which makes the high school tuition forged my origin and training. The wheat, sucking the Juices of the plant high, so thnt the greater majority of fund law applicable all over the state. privileges of birth already have been and causing a swelling In the stem. ^he Jolntworms will be left on the field Although this Insect Is sometimes In the old stubble and may be turned I»ane county members insisted the eliminated from politics and are being more serious than the Hessian fly, under and destroyed. In southern bill would wipe out the rural high eliminated from social life. occasionally causing complete destruc Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee and "W e shall combat domination by schools which have been established tion, very little Is done at present to other Southern and Southeastern force to the utmost, from whatever control Its depredations. The Insert under the county fund law. states where double-cropping systems direction It may come. We will found has a number of natural enemies, but are in general use. It Is possible to County courts of each of the eoun our state only on the basis of right these should not be relied upon. For plow under the stubble without Inter ties of the state may appropriate $5000 and on our freedom to shape our des tunately the Jolntworm attacks only fering with the cropping system. from the general fund of the county ' tinies at home and abroad. However wheat, which fact suggests one of the Where this Is not practicable, as Is for the purpose of erecting monu harsh may be the lot threatening Ger icost rellnble control measures, that .sometimes the case In the more North ments in honor of the soldiers who man people we do not despair of Ger of substituting crops. In the south ern states, substitute crops, such ns ern part of the Eastern wheat belt the rye, barley or buckwheat should bo participated in the great world war, many's vital forces.” Insect may be controlled by plowing grown on heavily Infested areas. under terms of Senator Handley's b ill,! wheat stubble deeply after harvest « Denver, Colo.— Protection for pri which passed the house Monday. It Is when this does ” ot Interfere with the upderstood a number of the counties j vate citizens of Haxtun, Colo., was I growing of red clover and grass. BETTER ROADS IN LOUISIANA will take advantage of the provisions asked of the slate constabulary Satur The egg from whleh the Jolntworm of the act. day by a citizen of that, town whose hutches is laid In the stem by an in State to Spend $4,674,000 in Making Improvement* and Maintenance name was withheld, because the man sect resembling a small black ant with During Year. Jurors may be summoned by mailI feared for his life If his name became wings. When a wheat plant first be comes infected no outward sign may and the sheriff not required to travel known. The Haxtun man told Gov According to figures compiled in the all over the county to summon them, ernor Shoup's secretary that a meet appear. The presence o f the worm office o f the state hlghwny engineer, can be detected when the plant la under provisions of a bill by Repre ing scheduled for February 26 at Hax nearly mature by examining the Inside $4,874,000 will be spent on road im sentative Fuller, passing the house tun might result In violence and gave of the stem, usually Just above the provement In Louisiana in 1919 in the Friday. The bill means a saving of the secretary the name of a lawyer second or third Joint from the ground. constructing of 753 miles of hlghwny several thousands of dollars a year who, he said, had boasted of hts Bol Sometimes the point o f Infestation Is and maintenance of 470 miles already throughout the state, Mr. Fuller said. shevik leanings. very noticeable, there being wart- completed. J0INTW0RM IS MOST DESTRUCTIVE ENEMY
