OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE
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THE "LABOR SCARCITY"
The industrial commission of New York State, after a care
ful inquiry into the labor situation, reports that "the labor
scarcity" is largely imaginary. There is really no labor scar
city at all. There is merely a "maladjustment" of labor.
The great war industries in the southern part of the state
are in sore need of men. The farmers up state, with a larger
acreage planted than usual, have difficulties in getting help.
But there are enough workers in the state to do all the state's
necessary work. The trouble arises chiefly from two evils :
Much of the available labor is taken up with the manufacture
of fashions and luxuries, things which are superfluous in
war time; and in many necessary industries the workmen are
not fully employed because they cannot get enough materials
to keep them busy.
The answer is, better distribution of labor and materials,
in New York and everywhere else, for New York's situation
represents the situation of the country as a whole.
We have too long permitted our economic machinery to
run itself. It does pretty well under the "laissez-faire" plan
we're accustomed to, but it nevers runs with full efficiency,
and in a crisis like the present one it breaks down. We must
come to intelligent public regulation of the labor supply. It
is more important than regulation of food supply and com
modity prices. The latter represent temporary problems, but
the labor problem is permanent.
We shall have just as much "shortage" after the war, un
less we manage properly. This is a good time to get the neces
sary regulative system installed.
ARE PRICES HIGH?
Last year, a farmer could build a silo for the price of 800
bushels of corn; today, he can build the same one for the
price of 400 bushels.
Last year, it cost a community the price of 1 6,000 bushels
of wheat to build a mile of permanent highway; today a mile
can be built for 8,000 bushels.
Last year a farmer had to raise a thousand bushels of wheat
to buy the tractor with which to till his field; this year he can
buy two tractors for the same amount.
Was there ever a more favorable time to build a silo, to
buy a tractor, to build permanent highways?
Now is the time to exchange your farm produce for those
necessities.
By doing this, capital will be created and placed in circula
tion. Prosperity will be stimulated, labor kept employed at
good wages. The dollar will be kept rolling.
Let us keep on making, selling, transporting and building.
SALARY GRABBING
The tendency of the Democrats to attach abnormally large
salaries to the heads of newly created bureaus, while ignoring
the claims of other bureau chiefs of longer service who may
have far greater responsibilities, has been brought to the atten
tion of the senate by Hon. Reed Smoot of Utah. The recent
attempt to raise the salary of the director of the bureau of war
risk insurance, who has charge of a business amounting to 20
or 30 millions dollars a year, from $5000 to $7500 was defeat
ed at the instance of Senator Smoot He mentioned the fact
that the commissioner of pensions, who disburses in the neigh
borhood of 1 60 million dollars a year, and has several hundred
clerks in his office, receives only $5000, and the commissioner
of the general land office, with thousands of employes and
millions of acres of the public domain in his charge, gets a like
amount. Mr. Smoot thinks that such discrepancies in salaries
should not be tolerated, and intends to see to it that there is
some relation between the work done and the salary paid.
AMERICAN POGROMS
Comments on any such event as khe recent "race war" in
East St. Louis seems futile. The whole business is o shock
ing, so shameful and so helpless. After all these years of
striving to overcome race prejudice in America, to adjust the
relations of white and black men so as to enable them to live
side by side in peace and co-operation, to make our vaunted
democracy workable in spite of differences of color, we have
an outbreak of riot and murder that has made every American
hang his head.
When negroes are shot and burned to death by the score
in a community furnished with all the equipment of law and
order and all the American traditions of decency and justice,
at a time when we are fighting a great war to give oppressed
nations and races the liberty we profess to exemplify above
all other peoples, what can we say?
How often we have reproached "barbarous Russia" for
her pogroms! And what was the massacre at East St. Louis
but an American pogrom? How bitterly we have condemned
Turkey for her savage slaughter of Armenians! And what is
the basic difference betwen Turks and Americans when they
meet on this common level of brutality? We have excoriated
the Germans for the cruelties practised in Belgium, in France,
in Serbia, in Poland and on the high seas. ' And is there any
Prussian Schrecklichkeit worse than those East St. Louis fu
neral pyres?
There is no question that the white population there and in
many other communities faces a serious problem. There was
considerable provocation. There usually is. But "noblesse
oblige." White men should act like white men. Civilized
people must show themselves cvilized.
Elihu Root, giving the Russian revolutionists his idea of
democracy, called it "organized self-restraint." How Russian
and Turkish cynics can laugh at us now! Can't you hear them
asking, "Is America a democracy or a mob?"
RAILROAD SERVICE
IN CENTRAL STATES
THE VALUABLE HOG
Raise more hogs I We may not have realized it, but pork
is the principal meat of the army as well as of city and farm.
The department of agriculture says the hog is the most impor
tant animal to raise for meat and money.
In the first place, the hog calls for less labor, less capital,
less equipment than that required in raising other domestic an
imals. The returns in meat and meat products are greater
than for any other animal. And the meat is the most satisfac
tory of all for packing and long-distance shipping.
Pork has been placed on the market in a great variety of
attractive and palatable forms. In fact, there is no other meat
which can be obtained in so many different forms and from
which so many products are manufactured. And it keeps
well.
Why not take our hats off to the humble hog and give him
all due honor?
Many farms where no hogs are raised ought to have them.
And farms where hogs are already a valuable product should
produce more than they ever did before.' Three-fourths of the
world's international trade in pork and pork products came
from the United States before the war. Since then the propor
tion has greatly increased. The need is greater than ever.
America's opportunity and duty are plain.
CHICAOO, July 17. It was an
nounced hare today, following a meet
ing of the executive officer of the
railroads In the IS statea in the cen
tral war department, that radtcal
change In the railroad operation In
these atatea will be toon ordered. All
passenger tralna not considered necea
aary will be annulled and In thin way
the road hope to ve aa much coal
per annum aa the eastern road are
doing "50.000 tons a year,
A radtcal change will be made In
the dining car service on these lines.
Federal Food Administrator Hoover
haa recommended that the aervlng of
all young meata, auch aa lamb, veal
and young spring chlckena, be discon
tinued. Also that only two iltcea of
bread to one pat of butter be served.
If you want more you will have to buy
It aeparately. It U not announced
whether these curtailment will result
In lower prices.
It was announced that some ot the
central and western llnea have already
secured good results In coal conserve
tlon. Dy curtailing passenger aervlce the
Kansas City Southern railroad haa
saved the fuel and other eipensea of
860,000 train miles per annum; the
Missouri, Kansas ft Texas of 588,000
train miles; the Chicago & Alton ot
325,000 train miles; the Lake Erie ft
Western of 168.000 train miles; the
Minneapolis. St. Tsui & Sault Ste.
Marie ot 104.000 train miles and the
Big Four of 780.000 train miles. The
Hocking Valley railroad will take off
IS per cent ot Its passenger service
next Sunday. This will enable It to
handle 24 per cent more coal over Its
tracks.
THREE STATES ALONE
UP NATIONAL
EXPANDING INDUSTRIAL FUNCTIONS
HOW OFFICIALISM GROWS
People who have any shreds of respect left for congress
will have that little jarred out of their system by hearing that
another plan is afoot to make it cost more.
On top of $7500 a year salary, $1 500 for a private secre
tary, endless supplies and printing of congressional record and
volumes of reports, mileage both ways, each one is to have a
$900 clerk.
It will not be two years before this $900 clerk will be send
ing up a howl from Maine to California at the outrage of any
one having to live on such a pitiful sum in the highest-priced
city in the world.
With a treasury deficit, with a foreign war the annual in
come of the congressmen, frequently drawn by members of
their own family, is to be swollen to $ 1 0,400 a year and a lot
besides.
Few of these valuable (?) persons could earn at home what
; he votes himself as national representative, and yet we com
plain atthe growing spirit of discontent among the people!
OUR COAL BINS
" While the controversy between the government and the
coal interest remains undecided, the public continues to pay
twice as much for coal as it is worth.
Most of us are more concerned with the cost of coal to us
than the cost of coal to the government. Any establishment
of prices on government contracts that leaves us out will be
futile. We use far more coal than the army ana navy do.
want nrotection. We want assurance that we will not
have to pay present prices for next winter's coal. We want
the government to get busy about it, establishing regulation
of public and private coal prices at the same time.
Colorado has a labor commission with four bureaus, sta
tistics, factory inspection, employment agencies, public and
private.
In addition there is a bureau of mines, coal mine inspector,
and steam boiler inspector, all have deputies and other em
ployes.
There is also a workingmen's compensation commission
and these industrial departments all put together cost the
taxpayers $200,000.
That much is spent annually on industrial regulation and
yet the industrial conditions in Colorado have been the worst
of any state.
The last legislature passed a bill to put all these industrial
regulatory functions under one industrial commission.
The bill failed to provide one head for the new commission
and so the parastical funtionaries have all hung onto their
jobs.
A new effort will be made in the legislature this winter to
consolidafe these many boards and get a single head and re-
luce overhead.
Thatis what should be done in every state and not only pro
tect the taxpayer but industries against political agitators.
If the industrial functions of the state could be made really
constructive nothing would help the development of the state
so much.
But all the above industrial boards and functioning is usual
ly directed for political effect to catch union vote.
Those holding state industrial positions seem to think they
owe nothng to the taxpayer and the rest of the citizenship.
WASHINGTON. July IS. All atatea
except New York, Pennsylvania and
Michigan had reported their local list
numbered for the drawing when the
provost-marshal general's office closed
tonight
Advices today to Brigadier-General
Crowder, the Provost Marshal-Gener
al, Indicated that the national lottery
to determine the order of liability of
10,000 men registered for military
service could be held next Friday.
The plan for the drawing has been
worked out in detail and approved by
Secretary Baker. The only points ua
decided are the exact place In Wash
lngton where the drawings will take
place and the date. There are many
questions, such a wire facilities,
which must be considered.
The government will be ready for
the drawing as soon aa the last state
has reported by telegraph that Us
work Is complete. If the last telegram
comes In the morning the drawing can
be held the same day. If at night it
is probable that the drawing will take
place the following day.
Senator Chamberlain, chairman ot
the senate military committee, has
drafted a measure to make all aliens
wherever possible under existing trea
ties, and excepting enemy aliens, sub'
ject to draft. The senator, said he
probably would not Introduce his bill
until he had secured some opinion
from the White house or the war de
partment.
THE BOOZE BARRIER
There has been more heat than light lately on the liquor
question. The one vital principle involved must not be lost
sight of. It was excellently expressed recently by Harry Lau
der, addressing a London massmeeting on the subject of Brit
ish prohibition.
"Men and women," he said, "if there is a barrier up against
us that is going to impede victory, let us sweep it away. If
drink is a barrier, if beer is a barrier, then break the barrier
down. The voce of the people demands from the Government
that if drink is to postpone victory, the government must post
pone drink.
We don't hear so much about "bloated bond-holders" and
"coupon-clippers," now that there are more than 4,000,000
ot us.
BILLY 8UNDAY COMING
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men had signed for national service
from that city.
After recounting some forceful la
cldents of the recruiting at the camp,
Major Gilbert closed his address with
an appeal for a broader national un
derstanding of the war, and declared
that we were on the brink of the con
sequences that must come from the
championing ot a "world's declaration
of Independence."
Speaking of the "Teaching Func
tion of the Church," the Rev. W. II,
Buckner at the 10 o'clock blble-lec-
ture decried the one-day religionists
"The seven-day appeal is the only
way to gain satisfaction In the Chris
tian lite," said the Rev. Mr. Buckner,
who is proving to be one ot the most
popular ot the morning lecturers that
has ever appeared at the local Chau
tauqua.' "To have any vital effect on
the world we must live a seven-day
Christian life. We must go out into
the highways and the by ways, Into
the streets and the public places, in
order to pass the kingdom along."
Mrs. Jennie M. Kemp acted as chair
man of the Forum hour, Introducing
Chaplain Gilbert and the Rev. Alfred
Bates. The Rev. Mr. Bates sang
"We'll never let the old flag fall."
The Smlth-Sprlng-Holmes musical
concert company gave a short concert
In the afternoon and a complete pro
gram ot selections during the even
ing. The troupe which consists ot six
members gave many well-received se
lections and the gold plated and en
graved Instruments ot the troupe at
tracted considerable attention when
placed on exhibition following the con
cert W. I. Nolan with his lecture on
"Father Adam and Brother Bill" kept
the crowd amused for the afternoon
hour.
PENDLETON HOST TO EDITORS
Eastern Oregon City Shows Wonderful
Spirit During Recent Convention of
State Newspaper Men.
It was tha hustling, bustling, hospi
table spirit ot the people ot Pendleton
that made the recent annual conven
tion ot the Oregon State Editorial As
sociation, held In that city, such a
wonderful success In every detail.
From the minute of tholr arrival Fri
day morning until the glorious finish
Sunday night, the editors and their
wive had little timt for sleep. They
were kept busy and most enjoyably so.
Glory he to auch men as Jack Rob
inson. W. L. Thompson, J. V. Tallman,
and R. B. Aldrlch. Those four would
make any town shine. And the fin
spirit ot co-operation was so com
mendable. It stood out every minute.
Every wlnh ot the city's guests was
anticipated and every request granled.
It was Rlbert Bede who wanted to
go to the O. W. R. R. ft N. station and
balled a passing motor car. 'They
told us," quoth he, "to ask for any
thing we wanted, and I want to go
down to the depot."
"All right," said the I'endletonlan,
"get right In." t ,
Even when good old Phil Bates, pio
neer secretary and general factotum
of the association, fell In a corner ot
Wallowa Lake and spoiled his ice
cream pantaloons, the hospitality ot
his hostess was In evidence. Grab
bing her capacious femlnoles from the
hook, she enveloped Phil In their em
brace and washed his pants. What,
Indeed, could be more touching.
There were other amusing Incident
on the famous trip. Out at the East
ern Oregon hospital, E. C. Sanderson,
or the Freewater Times, got away
with the president's hat. Sanderson
seemed to feel perfectly at home at
the nut-house, and he wrote a poem
about It, Next morning he Insisted
the hat was his, but he was forced to
deliver. Dave Hnxen, of the Portland
Telegram, and Bill Strandborg, ot
Watts Watt, had an Ice-cream eating
contest and Haxon won In a walk. Ed
Itor Irvine, the blind editor ot the
Portland Journal, took all the swim
ming honor at Wallowa Lake, and
tied with Edgar Piper, of the Oregon-
Ian, In the oratorical contest.
Out at the Cayuse Indian camp Fri
day afternoon, Nelson, ot Haines, got
his kodak Into action and thereby of
fended the Indians, and they refused
to dance for the whit men, but were
finally pacified.
There I at little town at the end ot
a branch running up from La Grande.
They call this town Joseph. It peo
ple have probbaly been running up
against the Pendleton folks, for they1
have the spirit too. Dr. Albert Mount,
ot the Mount medical family, Is acting
mayor and was much In evidence.
There twins to be no food conserva
tion at Joseph tor the visitor were
fed and tod until their eye bulged out.
Beautiful Wallowa Lake, where Sun
day morning was spent, i one of Na
ture's real gem.
The buslnes sessions of the con
vention were hold In the publla li
brary at Pendleton, a fine building,
with a cool basement-auditorium,
and while the thermometer registered
101 out ot door, the editor talked
over their buslnes trouble In perfect
comfort.
A. E. Voorhln, publisher ot the Ev
ening Courier," ot Grant Pass, a fine
up-standing two-fisted man, was elect
ed president. He Is a successful pub
lisher and deserved the honor. Here'
to him.
La Grande, a pretty little town,
proud of Itself and Its Improvements,
gave the newspapermen luncheon on
their way back to Pendleton. The an
nual banquet was a great affair, the
feature ot which was a musical press
box, and a huge censor, Baer by name,
who had a real gun and who deleted
Washington Stute Aisoclatlon, was
the first man to fall under the ham
mer, but he took It like the real sport
that he Is.
Next August the newspaper fellows
will (o to Coos Bay. Marshfleld and
North Bend will rare for them, and
the aesRlon will be held at the beau
tiful flOO.OQO country home, known as
Shore Acres, of Louis J. Simpson.
They'll have to go some down there
to match Pendleton, bless ber. She's
the ouly original Round up town. The
big show will be held August !! this
year and you ought to go. Its worth
while.
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LAST TRIPS
THIS SEASON
PORTLAND, Or., July 17. While
most ot the Portland waterfront con
tingent has been praying for the river
to fall here that lower docks may be
reoccupled and certain other draw
backs due to the freshet thereby elim
inated, officials ot the Oregon City
Transportation company are lament
ing that the Upper Willamette is so
"thin" and have announced the with
drawal of their service above Salem
where the last trip will be made by
the steamer Grahamona Thursday. .
The present year Is a most unusual
one In the annals ot the Yellow Stack
fleet, for frequently the water Is so
low above Salem by the latter part
ot June or early In July that the Cor-
vallls schedule is annulled. Also tholr
experience has been that a resumption
ot steamboatlng is not possible before
November 10 to 15, when winter condi
tions provide more water.
Gauge readings reported yesterday
showed the Willamette at Eugene to
be 3.5 above zero, having dropped one
tenth in 24 hours, with the gauge 3.4
at Albany and no change - recorded,
while at Salem it was 2.3 feot above
zero, a decline ot one-tenth of a foot.
At Portland the river was 17.5 feot
above, a drop of four-tenths ot a toot
being recorded in 24 hours.
In making the long run through the
upper reaches at the present stage of
water, Yellow Stack line officers say
the wear and tear on the hulls ot the
steamers is considerable and It will
be Impossible in a few days to make
the run without resorting to "lining"
over some shoals, which means the
schedule is not to be depended upon.
Through channel improvements
made in the past It Is hoped to main
tain the Portland-Salem service dur
ing the season. The elimination ot
the Corvallls end ot the run means
Independence and Albany ,wlll not
have the through steamboat service as
well. Efforts made to obtain govern
ment aid in clearing the channel from
Corvallls or Peoria to Eugene have
failed, so tor the duration of the war
that project is not expected to be revived.
GRAFT IN SETTING
S
QUOTA
FO DRAFT
WASHINGTON, July U.-Charges
In the senate this afternoon that the
"draft dice are loaded," and that the
census bureau's 'figures have been
padded in the north to the benefit ot
the south, were followed by the adop
tion of a resolution offered by Sena
tor Brandegee of Connecticut, calling
upon the secretary of commerce to
furnish the official estimates upon
which the draft quota of various lo
calities have been based.
ASK FOR BONO BID8
SALEM. Or., July 17. Advertise
ment for bids for 1500,000 of the 9,
000,000 Oregon road bond Issue were
telegraphed Monday night to eastern
financial Journals. The bids will be
opened on August 7, which Is the same
day the state board ot control will
open bids for the $400,000 of bonds to
be issued to match the federal allot
ment for forest and post roads.
BAKER, PLAYING
SUB, HELPS TO
BEAT BROTHER
The Portland Klrkpatrlcks defeated
the WllsonvlUe bnsoball team In the
Chautauqua scries Wednesday by a
scroe of 10 to five'. Em mot Baker of
the famous Baker brothers of Wllson
vlUe, who have been that town' star
tmsohall pluyers for several yearn, was
chosen as the neutrul who should All
out the Klrkpatrlck team when one ot
their members failed to appear. He
played an excellent game and helped
to defeat the team on which his
brother, Everett Baker, caught.
The score by innings;
1 Klrkpatrlcks: 00050023 010
WIlHonvllle: 20201000 0 5
Batteries: For WllBonvlllo,' Schwartz
and Baker. For Klrkpatrlcks, Ilesson
and Stott.
PACKERS ARE TO
RESIST ATTEMPT
TO UNIONIZE
CHICAGO, July 16. President John
J, Fltzpatrlck of the Chicago Federa
tion of Labor, today pledged the pow
er of his organization In a fight to
unionize the 40,000 . men and women
In the meat packing Industry of Chi
cago. The packer will resist the at
tempt to unionize their employes, Ed
ward Morris Jr., ot Morris & Co., said.
PAPER COMPANY
IS TO OPERATE
UMPQUA CAMP
EUGENE, Or., July 18. The Crown
Willamette Paper company, of Ore
gon City, will at once establish a big
logging camp, through the SUverton
Logging company, of SUverton, on the
TJmpqua river adjacent to the line of
the Coos Bay branch ot the Southern
Pacific. The camp will be established
on land sold to the company by War
ren P. Reed, of Gardiner. On this
tract are 13,000 000 feet of spruce timber.