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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1920)
Women Celebrate the Victory of Suffrage PLAN TO WATER VAST DRY AREA To Make Round the World Trade Cruise Project Up to Congress to Re claim 4,000.000 Acres at $250,000,000 Expense. TURN DESERT INTO EMPIRE Members of House Committee on Ap propriations and Group of Western Colleagues Make Inspection Tour of Government Projects. Unfurling lli<- suffrage flag nt ttie headquarters of the Nutloi il Woman’s party in Washington was the occasion for a Joyous demonstration hy party workers. Miss Alice Paul, halrman. Is on the balcony. The tlag lias 30 stars, the last added representing Tennessee. k JO.tXXl.tXK) marks, a large portion of which belongs to the state, is also rep- sented on the board of the Govern ment Holding company. The Bavar ian Lloyd held a commanding position in transport work on the Danube and neighboring rivers, hut lost the great er part of its vessels at the end of the war. Negotiations are, however, pro ceedlng between the different govern output of 100.000 kilowatts and, be ment departments and others inter sides running the nitrogen plant, sup ested to put the company once more plies current to the Berlin Klectric on a commercial footing. The German works, nnd will shortly extend this ship-salvage company “Odin," Berlin, supply of energy to Lelpsl'c and the with a capital of 5,(XX),(XX) marks, was province of Saxony. The Central Ger originally formed to carry out work man I’owcr Works company comprises in connection with the salvage of the central power station at Senften- transports and other shipping in the lierg, formerly belonging to the Alum Baltic. The company was not very inum works, Luuta, with an output of successful owing to the unsuitable ! 00,000 kilowatts; and the Niederlau- methods of salvage adopted. It Is now sltzer I’owcr plant, near Spremberg, proposed to divert the company’s ac with adjacent lignite mines, and with tivities to towage and lighterage work an output of 20,000 kilowatts. Up to According to a resolution adopted hy the present the electric energy devel- the German Metal Economic league, j oped by these two plants has been util- reported hy the Wolff Telegraph Bu I Ized In the manufacture of aluminum reau, the export of DO per cent of all and nitrogen. In the future It will also pig metals coming from German mines be employed to supply electricity for during May, June, July and August the surrounding Industrial districts. Is to he permitted. No limit Is placed The East Prussia central station, upon the export of all partly manu which was recently erected to provide factured metal products, provided they the province of Kast Prussia with nre not sold nt prices under the do electric power, Is controlled, as also mestic rntes. Germnn manufacturers Is the Alz works, Munich, which was may Import raw metals, if they do formed In 1018, In conjunction with not pay more than the standard prices the Dr. Wacker Alexander company, in the world mnrket. German export for electrochemical manufacturing, to ] prices on semi-manufactured iron and utilize the water power of the lower steel products have been materially Alz. The output Is, roughly, 20,(XX) | lowered during the last few months. kilowatts. The Württemberg Itural Bar iron selling at C.330 marks in Klectric company was reorganized in April has been cut to 4,(XX) marks per 1010 t5 enable the state, with the con ton for export to Holland and Switzer sent of the Württemberg government, land nnd to 3,050 to Denmark, the lat to take a dominant Interest in the ter being the same as the domestic supply' of electricity to the province of rate In Germany. The Iron industry Is protesting against further payment Württemberg. Great efforts were made during the of export duties. wnr to put the manufacture of nlmn- Intim on a firm footing, In order to BLAME DISASTER TO CARL make Germany Independent of foreign supplies. Plants were erected and the Austrian Collapse Charged to Emper manufacture started at Horrem,, Bit or’s Conflicting War Orders, terfeld and Itumnielsburg, each factory Says Commission. having an output of ll.onn tons of alum inum per annum. In 1010 the Krft- Vienna.—Chief blame for the col werk company was taken over hy the lapse of the Austrian forces on the government nnd reorganized with a I’lnve river, in the Austro-Itnllnn cam capital of 2.ri.000.(XXI marks. The paign, Is plueed on the former Em brunch works of Ibis company, In Gre peror Carl hy the report of a commis venbroich (lower lthlne), have been sion appointed to investigate war de fitted up to produce 12,000 tons of linquencies. aluminum per annum. On the fateful November 2, 1018, the Iron and Steel Mills. report says, the then emperor issued In regard to Iron und steel mills the three conflicting orders within a few llseder Smelting company and the hours. The first was for the conclu Pelner Boiling Mills company are con sion of an armistice. Forty-live min trolled. These works have a capital utes Inter this was revoked and 05 of 20,000,0(K) marks, of which the gov minutes afterward It was Issued again. ernment holds 25 per cent. The chief During this period, it was said, the features of this undertaking are that emperor consulted no one on the mat the tallies producing the ore are In ter. close proximity to the smelting und "We must ask," the report says, rolling plant, and that, situated ns “whether the emperor and Ills advisers they are In central Germany, they have were not guided hy the fear of the an advantage over I lie competing army flooding hack on Vienna rather works in Westphalia in placing their than hy any other circumstances. It output in adjacent districts. In pre may he, perhaps, not by express Inten war days ihclr yearly output of ore tion but rather subconsciously, that amounted to l.ixxi.txx) tons. the desire prevailed with more than The lluvnrlan Lloyd Shipping com one of these men that the troops had pany In Begenshurg with a capital of better not return home nt all." G erm an W o rk s R u n B y State Economic Bureau Looks After Electric, Steel and Aluminum Plants. BUT EXTENSION IS DELAYED Nationalization of Coal Mines May Have to Wait Change in Makeup of Reichstag— Holding Com- pany Formed. Washington.—Since the conclusion of the Spa conference, at which Ger many agreed to Increase Its coni out put In order to bring the deliveries to Franco up lo approximately 2,< mn ),000 tons per month, there has been re newed agitation among the miners for the nationalization of the mining in dustry In the hope that better work ing conditions and pay may he ob tained under such a condition than xvilh the mines owned and operated hy lingo Si limes and Ills few associate coal barons. Other sections of Ger man industrial life are also likely to ho ultimately run hy the state, al though It will probably be necessary for (lie German people to elect a more radical relchstag to effect these changes, ns the present cabinet Is not pledged to any great extension of the principle of public ownership and op eration. In the meantime, however, as the re mit of earlier agitation for govern ment control and operation of the lead ing Industries, the national economic bureau of (lie German treasury de partment lias quite a few Important government controlled Industrial plants to look after, according to a Minmiary of Its activities recently pub lished In the German press and quoted from In commerce reports. The most Important of the government factories me the arsenals and naval construc tion yards, which are now engaged on mm-mllltary construction. This In clu d e s the manufacture of steel, thfl making of all sorts and descriptions of machinery In large quantities, especially for agricultural and do mestic purposes, and the repairing of rolling stock and locomotives. Small- arms works are being maintained as such so far as Is consistent with the provisions of the pence treaty. State In Control. "In order lo consolidate the govern ment Interests In these different un dertakings a company was formed in ] »eeeniher, 11)10, called (he German In dustrial Stock company, with a capi tal of 1(Xi,(XX),rtOO marks (nominally l*23,8(X),000; nt current exchange, about $2,250,(XH>) ; the whole of the shares being In the hands of the government. The state thus exercises either full or partial control, according lo the num ber of electrical, electrochemical and oilier undertakings. The huge generating station nt Zschornowlx- near Hltterllehl, belong ing to the Klectrle I’lant company. Is controlled. It provides the current for tlo> slate nitrogen works In Witten berg, obtaining tin* necessary find from adjacent lignite mines. It has an Washington.—Plans fur putting 4.(X hi .(XX) acres of land on the agricul tural map of the United States by a program of reclamation calling for the expenditure of about s°f>n OOO.OUO over a ten-year period are to he considered seriously hy congress when It reas- sembles. Members of the house appropria tions committee nnd n group of West ern colleagues who have been making nil Inspection tour of the government’s reclamation projects nnd of the nntion- nl parks in company with officials of the department of the interior, after traveling 10,000 miles by train nnd 4,000 milqs by auto and viewing the irrigation achievements since 1002 have come hack earnest converts to a big reclamation plan. Arthur I*. Davis, director and chief engineer of the reclamation service, who accompanied the congressional tour, is now in the West visiting other projects nnd preparing his recom mendations for the annual estimates to be submitted to Secretary Payne. Secretary Payne, who has just in spected two of the government's prin cipal reclamation projects at Yakima, Wash., and Shoshone, Wyo., has be come an enthusiast regarding the de sirability of utilizing America’s unde- The former German liner Vcn Steuben, which Is being fitted out In New York for a trade cruise of 12 months all around the world. She will be re christened the United States and will carry American goods into every port of importance. vc* 1 oped resources by building new commonwealths in the arid West. While the reclamation service is re stricted in its estimates to $8,000.000 or $9,000,(XX), equivalent to the amount received hy sale of public lands, sale of water and returns on Irrigation de velopments, Secretary Payne has al ready declared his Intention of asking congress for $12,000.000 to open up 100,(XX) acres of reclaimed land in small farms, with special considera tion of the Shoshone project. Representative Will R. Wood (Rep.) LACK OF SHIPS HALTS TOURISTS * Tu rn Desert Into Empire. Senator Charles L. McNary of Ore the land of his birth for a visit. All Available Accommodations ing It to was recently said hy the head of gon wrote a favorable report hist De Are Booked Three Months a large line in speaking of tariffs, that cember from the committee on Irriga in 1514 a man could purchase a tour tion and reclamation of arid lands. He in Advance. ist ticket including rail fares and hotel pointed out that under the reclamation accommodations for a trip half way act passed In 1902, the government has around the world for the same sunt expended in construction work a little that he Is now compelled to pay for a over $123,000,(XX), that water for ir one-way ticket from New York to a rigation purposes has been made avail able for 1,780,000 acres of land, which Mediterranean port. had been lnrgely barren, desert waste Records of departures and arrivnls "Ships, Ships and More Ships” Is Plea and unproductive. . It is now worth ns kept here by the Steamship Men’s From United States Ports— Travel association show that despite the very from $100 to $750 an acre, with an Only Half What It Was apparent rush, travel is only about average crop value per acre of $03.00. in 1914. “Out of the uninhabited and almost half, as to number of passengers, what it was in 11)14. In May and June worthless desert has been carved an New York.—The slogan of "ships! of that year there sailed from Amer empire of nearly 2,000.000 ncres, in ships! and still more ships!” so effec- ican to transatlantic ports 104,300 per tensively cultivated and producing itvely used during the war to speed sons of whom more than 100.000 were crops whose annual average gross re up America’s ship-building program classed ns third class. In the same turns per acre are about double those as a defiunce of the submarine cam months of 1920 the outgoing total was I of the rest of the country,” says Di paign still Is heurd in American sea 80,323 of whom 50.000 were third class. rector Davis of the reclamation serv ports. ice. Arrivals Show Slump. It comes, however, not so much from While the hill introduced hy Sena Of Incoming passengers in one those having freight for transit as it month of 1914 there were 105,100 per tor Jones calls for $250,000,000, the does from those who desire to make sons. The corresponding month this reclamation service is now working on trips to foreign shores on business or year showed 45,120 arrivals. 30 projects which call for a total ap pleasure. The rush this year nnd the difficulty propriation of $302.000,000, hut re Steamship accommodations for all In getting accommodations is account turns would he coming In from some lands, despite more than a doubling of ed for by tile fact that there Is need of the earlier construction before the pre-wartime tariffs, and rigid restric ed “ships, ships and more ships!” of entire expenditure was made. Of the tions as to passports’ are at a premium. the passenger-carrying class. Avail 4,000,(r00 acres which It is proposed All Accommodations Booked. able tonnage, due to the ravages of to add to the farm lands about one- Representatives in New York and the war, is greatly depleted. The third is public land belonging to the other terminals of passenger-carrying North German Lloyd and the Ham- United States government. lines say that all available accoramo- I burg-Americnn lines, which prior to Director Davis lias figured out that dntions are booked as far as three the war carried a large percentage of the nvernge value of lands in the months ahead. The unfortunate busi- I the transatlantic travel, do not exist, projects did not exceed $10 an acre, ot ness man faced with the need of mak- In addition, many of the big liners $17,(XX),000, when the government Ir- ing an unexpected trip abroad, is of allied flags are gone, ns for exam- ! rlgatlon was started in 1902. nnd that forced to depend on possible cnncella- | pie, the Lusitania. Almost all the today they easily represent Increases tlons of previously engaged passage | ships of the pre-war fleet of another | in land values of $556.000.000 due to on the part of someone who nt the last large British line were submarine vic I this work, nnd has prepared a de- moment is prevented from sailing. tims. Other ships were of a necessity (alien report on this for congress. He On many ships third-class accom laid up for periods of more than a figures that only 3.5 per cent of the modations hold men nnd women who | year for reconditioning due to their i total ultimate cost will be finally nre financially able to travel in the accommodations having been ripped charged against the government. best that the ship affords. It is no out with axes to make them Into troop infrequent occurrence for n stnld carriers. An exnmple of this Is the hanker, or a wealthy hend of a large j huge Olympic, which hut recently was i business house to be found booked ■ returned to her passenger-carrying j Rattlesnake and Old with the humble alien laborer return- I trade. PASSPORTS AT A PREMIUM Man Fight to Death Airplanes for the Rifle Meet Indians in Annual Canoe Race Separated for 41 Years, Then Kiss and Make Up When Mrs. Mary Wttlrad ami Charles I.. Walratl, each seven ty-six years old. met at the Sol- tilers' home at Leavenworth, Kan., recently, It was the first time they hint seen each other in ■41 years. It was also the llrst time Walrnd had seen Ids daughter since she was five months ohi. Mrs. \\ nlrnd lives at North Miami, Okla. Slit“ and her husband separated In Joplin, Mo., In ISTI». Three weeks ago Walrnd locateti Ills wife, the meeting wits arrangisi, they kissed and made up anti will live together again. of Indiana, a member of the appro priations committee, says that he nnd others who have just inspected these projects have been converted from their previous reluctance to make such large appropriations nnd now believe that it is a national duty thus to cre ate opportunities for its citizens to establish themselves In permanent homes on such fertile areas, wrested from the desert. Many who opposed the “farms for service men” proposition in the last cong-ess on the grounds that it was camouflaged reclamation hnve pledged their support to an out-and-out irriga tion development. Senator Jones of Washington intro duced a hill in the last session which seeks an appropriation of $250.000,000 for reclamation work and the interior department has drafted a program that calls for more than that. This Is one of the two airplanes which the United States army r Ir service has sent to Cainp Perry, Ohio, to participate In the national rifle meet. This will provide the world’s first competitive aerial shooting match. Every form of offense nnd defense developed hy alrplnues In warfare will be demonstrated uuder competitive condition». ■»¿sift 0 ..0 of the most spectacular sporting events In Canada is the annual meet ing of Ihe tribes In their canoe race. The race course is over a distance of two miles down the Royal Gorge to a point In front of the Empress hotel at Victoria. B. C. The picture shows the canoes assembling for the start. Atlanta, Ga.—Word has been brought to Atlanta of a remark able fight to the death between an aged farmer, living near Buckhead, nnd n giant rattle snake. The farmer, Mnok Richards, who is well ndvnnced in years, was nandlng a fence when be disturbed a rattlesnake so large that when piled In a coil Its head was more than two feet above the ground. The snake struck nt ldin nnd would have reached Its mark if it had not been deflected by heavy briars. Before it could coil again, Mr. Richards seized a rail, nnd plr.red the snake against the ground. He tried to call for help, hut none was near. The snake, hy ntnln strength, twisted Itself out from under the rail nnd prepared to strike again. This time Mr. Richards got beyond striking distance, hut the snake followed him nnd contin ued the attack. Mr. Richards picked up a short er rail and with it gave battle, finally killing the reptile. It measures six feet In length.
