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VOL. XLVI.-XO. 14,420. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FARWIERS" TRUST IS STERN REALITY CheckingFlowofCrops to Markets. HOLDS OUT FOR A FAIR PRICE Alliance With Labor, Union to Kill Middlemen. STRONG IN MANY STATES Vast Quantities of Grain Stored Awaiting an Advance Strings of Banks to Finance Movement. Brokers Feel Effects. CHICAGO, Feb. 23. (Special.) The farmers' trust has arrived. It has stretched its big, strong hands over the -nates of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Ken tucky, Wisconsin, Kansas, Nebraska, Ok lahoma, Missouri and Texas. Its knotted fingers have piled up millions of bushels of grain and fruit,' and thousands of bales of cotton into a mountain heap, and the trust has said to the dealers of the world: "You can't have any of this until you pay us what we think is coming to us. Now do your worst." Boards of trade all over the country and commission men are beginning to wake up to the fact that this protective organization of the farmers already is a powerful factor in the markets of the world, and that it bids fair to loom tre mendously in future years. Ever since early last Fall, Board of Trrde men and shippers of grain have been talking about the scarcity of cars. To that scarcity they have attributed al most entirely the fact that corn, wheat and other farm products do not move to the market centers with more haste. The dearth of cars is an everyday theme in the speculative and commercial gossip. That there is a great Ideal in It nobody disputes, but a still more significant phe nomenon of the day is that grain is being held back because the farmers are deter mined they shall get the price they have set on their own property. Enlist Aid of Labor. To date, the farmers' trust that Is the generic term for the movement has been going it almost alone. Now it has launched a plan by which it hopes to enlist the organized labor of the whole United States. If this plan be carried into execution and there Is reason to believe it may be the combined move ment of farmers and union men to con trol prices ana distribution of agricul tural products will be the' biggest scheme in the history of the American labor and husbandry. Never was the time so propitious for the fanners to get together and stick to gether. The Grange of former days, the Farmers- Alliance and other similar or ganizations, were started when the farm ing class was in the poorest possible financial condition. In fact, it was be cause they were in straitened circum stances that they gave their support to these various movements. When times became more prosperous, these move ments lost force rapidly. It Is different today. The farms of Ihe West are not plastered with mort gages. The bountiful crops of the last five years have lifted literally hun dreds of millions of dollars of incum brances of this kind. Deposits in Western banks have Increased amaz ingly. The owners of the great bulk of these funds are the farmers. They come nearer being an independent class today than any other class in the United States. Still, they are per suaded that they are not getting; their share of the general prosperity, hence the launching of the trust. Are Holding Back Crops. Men who have been over the states which raise a surplus of corn, wheat, oats, cotton and livestock have come back to Chicago with the message that back of the car scarcity as an explana tion of the slack movement of grain to market is the fact that the farmers are organized and that they have a concerted plan to hold back their farm, products until they get satisfactory prices. Being in no need of ready money, they are carrying out their programme on a scale that is surprising-. Nothing of this is heard on the Chi cago or other Boards of Trade In the open discussion. The grain dealer, the commission man, the shipper and the speculator studiously taboo the sub ject. If they speak of the farmers' movement at all. It is with a con temptuous sneer, and the prophesy that it will come to naught. .Say They Will "Stick.-' "The trusts and combines, the spec ulators and Board of Trade men call us Jays, hayseeds, Rubes and moss backs," says M. F. Sharp, a Kentucky leader of the farm trust. "They say that if we do organize we won't stick, but I want to tell you that when an organization reaches a stage where It is able to dictate prices and get them, it Is the best sticking organization in the world." There was something out of the or dinary about the movement of grain, last Summer long before the car short- re was thought of. The statistics of previous years based on crop compari sons went all awry. The wheat and corn trade lost its bearings completely. It did not know how to reckon on the future, even approximately. The Ag ricultural Department issued its esti mates of the crops as previously. These figures showed that the production of corn was by far the biggest since offi cial records have been kept. The yield of wheat was the largest with one ex ception. Basing their calculations on the movements of crops In previous years, the trade expected certain things to happen from week to week. These things did not happen, and one of the reasons for it, if not the greatest rea son, was the refusal of the farmers to accept bids made to them. Have Influenced Markets. Walter Fitch, former president of the Chicago Board of Trade, in sum ming up conditions of the .year 1906, admitted to a reporter that the concert ed action of the growers of wheat and com was one of the vital Influences on markets and prices during the crop year. As a controlling factor he put it alongside the inadequate transporta- ( s i i ; t i i f " - - , , " $ i Senator Chauncey M. Depew, Who it -1 rwl I ma . I It'll I nir i lie ririi uiie n .uiiuiur i Make a Formal Address in the Senate Today. tion facilities. As to whether it was to be a permanent influence, he did not venture an opinion, but he attached much importance to the fact that the farmers of the Nation have been edu cated up to a higher plane of values for their grain than formerly obtained. Stories are coming forward, now that country elevators in Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois and Iowa are full to overflow ing with corn and that hundreds of thousands of bushels have been piled up with a temporary covering to shield it from the weather. The owners of a vast deal of this grain are the farm ers who have financed and build spe cial elevators to store their grain for prompt shipment when - prices ' "are right."- Leaders of the farmers' or ganizations declare- the holding back of this grain accounts for the discom fiture of professional dealers, and they say the new order of things will be felt more and more as time goes on. Society ot Equity Strongest. There are several big combinations of farmers in the West, but the one that Is making the most noise is the American Society of Equity, which has its headquarters in Indianapolis. There are other organizations more limited in scope. Down in Texas the farmers have a combine of their own which is mak ing itself felt in the Southwest. One of the Interesting features of the ' general movement arises in con nection with the Oklahoma Constitu tional Convention. In that territory the American Society of Equity is strong. One of the directors. H. D. Wilson, lives there. He has able lieu tenants looking after the interests of the farmers in the convention, and it is said that 70 of the 112 members have been pledged to support certain provisions as an. integral part of the constitution. Among other 'things they seek to be exempt from the operation of any anti-trust provisions that may be Inserted. There is a lobby at Guth rie watching the progress of events, and if the party in control does not "come up to .the scratch" it will be marked for slaughter. ; If the word of rthe officers' of the American , Society of -Equity is to be taken at its face value, this society today 'has a membership of 270,000 farmers,- being especially strong in Il linois, -Wisconsin, Indiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska. There are a few members iri' Michigan, and a campaign to strengthen the combine in that state is now In progress. Lively organization work also is going on in other Western and Southwestern States where the' Meld is promising. Unlike past movements, this one is most suc cessful where the financial condition of the farmer is the best. Alliance With Unions. The propagandists- of the- American Society of Equity believe they have made a ten-strike by appealing to the organized labor of the country. N. C. Crawley, of Wisconsin, owner of a fine farm near Baraboo, and one of the field generals of the society, recently presented his case to the local Feder ation of Labor. He assured the labor men that 50.000 agriculturists of the Badger State will be in the combine for better prices before June I. Already, he declares, many of the farmers have pledged themselves to purchase no goods wearing apparel, foods or field implements that do not bear the union label or are not made by union labor. Mr. Crawley makes his appeal to the laboring classes through their pocket books. He represents that,, while the farmers, by allying themselves with the labor unions, will get better prices for their products, the laboring classes will share the benefits of affiliation by buying their commodities more cheap ly. In his talk to the Chicago Feder ation of Labor he said: Argument to Working Man. W farmers are getting 20 'cents a bushel for our pntHtoes and you men are paying the commission men or grocers 80 cents to llrt cents a -l-jshel for the same potatoes. There should be no such discrepancy in tile price to the producer and the price to 'll.e consumer. The middleman is getting entirely too much out of the transaction. The freight charges and the cost of hand ling and distribution do not Justify the commission man and the grocer In levying so R-.eat a-tribute on you. What we ought to do is to get together and control prices and distribution. The farmer ought to be paid more and you ought to pay less. Let us put the gambler and, the speculator out of business. They are not creators of wealth, and the world does not owe them a living. Whether you Join us or-not, we are going on with our (Concluded on Pace 2.) THAWWQRRIED BY JEROME'S TACTICS Fears to Undergo Men tal Examination. RESTLESS DAY IN THE TOMBS Defendant's Counsel Discusses Case With Prisoner. THAW'S MOTHER IS UNEASY Expresses Willingness for lunacy Commission Attorneys Say Kx amination of Mrs. Thaw Will Be Continued Today. NEW YORK, Feb. 24. Clifford W. Hartridge, personal counsel to Harry K. Thaw, visited the prisoner at the Tombs today and for an hour the two discussed various matters, among them it was said, the possibility that the prosecution might seek to interrupt the cross-examination of the defendant's wife when Thaw's trial was resumed tomorrow morning. It has been reported, though without apparent authority, that District Attor ney Jerome will shift his attack on the defense and insist that the direct exam ination of Doctors Deemar and Bingham, alienists for the defense, be concluded before the state continued its cross-examination of Mrs. Thaw. This move would be construed as in the direction of an application for a lunacy commission to examine Thaw. Mrs. Thaw on Stanrl Today. This report is said to have reached the prisoner and caused him no little uneasi ness today. Mr. Hartridge. however, was able to assure him that Mrs. Thaw's ex amination would be completed before the defense called other witnesses. Stipula tion to this effect had been given, the lawyer said. - - " Attorney G. B. Gleason. associated with the defense, spent 20 niimites with Thaw earlier in the day. In spite of these talks with his counsel, the prisoner was report ed as having spent a restless, unhappy day. It is well known that he desires nothing less than to undergo a mental examination. Thaw's Fears Set Things Back. . That Thaw's fears have set things back was showed today In a statement credited to a court official. According to this man, Mrs. William Thaw. mother of Harry, ten days ago approached the Dis trict Attorney through friends and ex pressed her willingness that a commission in lunacy be appointed. The mother's state of mind, it was said, was the result of having read the harrowing story told on the witness stand by her daughter-in-law, and the merciless cross-examination by Jerome, combined with the natural shrinking she felt from taking the wit ness stand herself. It is understood that Mr. Jerome on his part wishes to avoid at this time such drastic action as asking for a luna cy commission. He has declared in court, however, that if he could be convinced that the slayer of Stanford White was Insane he would drop the prosecution. FIERCE BUTTLE REPORTED MCARAGCAX FORCES CLASH WITH ARMY IX HONDURAS. Indefinite Dispatch Received In City of Mexico Details of Affair Hourly Expected. CTTT OF MEXICO, Feb. 24. Dr. B. Estuphnan, minister to Mexico from Sal vador and Honduras, tonight received the following vague message from Honduran officials: "Nicaraguan forces have invaded Hon duras. Fierce battle ensued." When the battle was fought, where the encounter took place, and what was the ultimate result of the reported struggle is left to conjecture. , This is the first word Dr. Estuphnan has received from Honduras for several days, although he has sent several cable grams of injuiry. Details of the battle are hourly expected. IXVASIOX THE CAUSE OF WAR President Zclaya. Sends Personal Message, to Associated Press. NEW TORK. Feb. 24.-The Associated Press today received the following cable dispatch: Managua. Nicaragua, Saturday, Feb ruary 23, S:30 P. M. We went" to war because Honduras forces attacked our small, garrison on the frontier, looting, burning and killing. We demanded satis faction and It was denied. We agreed to accept whatever decision the arbitration court might render, but President Bonilla, of Honduras, dissolved the court by with drawing the Honduran arbitration. "Nicaragua has triumphed In four com bats over .the Honduran forces without suffering one defeat. Our forces are to day in the territory of Honduras. teisned) "ZBLATA. "President of Nicaragua." X'rge Overthrow of Zelayas. PANAMA, Feb. 24. The mail which EVENTS OF COMING WEEK Clo"h)K Days of 09th Congress. Appropriation measures and the ship subsidy bill will occupy atten tion of the House during the week." while the Senate trill be busy dis posing of the post office bill, the pension bill, sundry civil bill and general deficiency bill. The Be-ve-ridge amendment to the meat inspec tion bill will also co 171 e up. On Monday Senator Depew will make a formal address in the Sen ate on the deposit of public moneys and Senator Patterson on Wednes day on the question of the Gov ernment ownership of utilities. There also will be made an effort during the week to secure the ratification of the Dominican treaty. Harriman Roads on the Rack. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion will meet in New York City on Monday to continue its investigation of the Harriman railroads. Many notable financiers and railroad men have been subpenaed and are ex pected to appear for examination at this sitting of the commission. Among them is E. H. Harriman. It Is planned to call Mr. Harriman to the witness stand Immediately on the opening of the hearing. Among others expected to appear are William C. Rockefeller, Jacob H. Schiff. head of the New York bank ing house of Kuhn, Ioeh & Co., Otto Kahn, C. W. Hilllard, comptroll er of the Chicago & Alton Rail road; William Mast, comptroller of the I'nion Pacific; Alexander Milter, secretary of the Union Pacific, and others. Arrange Battebal! Schedule. Baseball men, representing the major and minor leagues, will hold a series of meetings in New York. The annual schedule meetings of the National and American Leagues will begin Monday and probably continue until Wednesday. On Wednesday the National Baseball Commission will begin a session. The commission will pass upon many disputed points af fecting the various leagues of the country. Sixth Week of Thaw Trial. The trial of Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Stanford White enters on its sixth week, with little pros pect of an early termination. Mrs. Kvelyn Thaw, wife of the prisoner, is expected to appear for a contimi ance of the cross-examination when the trial is resumed. arrived here today brought a procla mation signed at Cholutee, Honduras, by Generals Anastastio Oritz, Paulino Godey, Emllio Chamarro, Benito Etheavrria, Antonio Bustos and Rafael Hernendez, representing the various political opposition parties in Nicara gua who are among the officers of the army of President Bonilla of Honduras. The proclamation is addressed to Cen tral Americans and says that President Zelayas' downfall Is anjurgnt neces sity for the purification of the political situation In Nicaragua. LEATHER EXPORTS TREBLE Industry Contributed $150,000,000 to Foreign Commerce Last tear. WASHINGTON", Feb. 24. The leather Industry contributed Jlfi0.000.000 to the for eign commerce of the United States in the year 1906, against less than $55,000,000 a decade earlier. These figures, announced by the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Com merce and Labor today, combine imports and exports of leather and Its manufac tures and imports 'and exports of hides and skins. The value of hides and skins imported In the calendar year 1906 was practically $S4,000,OCO, having quadrupled in ten years. ENDS OF LEVEE ARE TIED Difficult Engineering Fele Is Ac complished at Xew Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 24. Control was secured today over the dangerous crev asse near Jesuits Bend, the state engi neers succeeding In "tying in' the ends of the broken levee so that the breach did not widen. It was announced at the State Engineer's office that should the situation become threatening the crev asse can be closed, although at great cost. Jt was decided to let the break flood the surrounding country for a few days. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER 1 The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 52 degrees; minimum, 48. TODAY'S Rain; southerly winds. Foreign. Pope rejects French government plan for leasing churches, rage 2. Porty members of the crew of ths ateamAr Imperlatrlx perish ; passengers all res cued. Page 2. Fierce bat le reported hetween troops of Nicaragua and Honduras. Page 1. National. Kakir. writes on world-wide work of the T. M. C. A. Page 1. Elkins report on rate bill shows steady de cline In passenger . and freight rates. Page 2. President Roosev delivers short sermon to schoolboys at Groton. Page 4. Iomestic. Jerome's tactics worry Thaw, who dreads lunacy commission. Page 1. Senator Bailey wants investigation report hurried so he may hasten to Washing ton. Page 2. Oregon legislature. Summary of work of lawmaking body. Page 3. Now banking law very liberal in Its provi sions. Page 3. Appropriation for Drain Normal may fail, page 4. New law as to loaning of public funds not overly effective. Page 3. Portland and Vicinity. C. E. Loss Company in financial straits; Its lawyer is arrested at Drain; Presi dent Loss calls it conspiracy; effect on ITnited Railways. Page 1. Bond Issues involving expenditure of $2,475. 000 will be voted on at next city elec tion. Page 8. Moses L. Tichner, prominent Elk, stricken with heart failure on streetcar. Page 14. Dr. Brougher says newspapers should print details of Thaw trial. Page 12.. Portland telegraphers make -open declara tion of union membership. Page 8. tr House .preaches final sermon. Page 12. LOSS COMPANY 111 SERIOUS ST T Creditors Press Rail road Builder. CAUSE HIS LAWYER'S ARREST Attorney A. C. Emmons and Two Companions in Toils. FOR TECHNICAL BURGLARY Charged With Breaking Into Loss Offices at Drain to Obtain Ac count Books Victims of Conspiracy, They Say. DRAIN, Or.. Feb. 24. (Special.) A. C. Emmons, a prominent Portland lawyer; W. B. Heed and J. S. Holland, all in the employe ot the C. Ei. Loss Company, were arrested here today on a charge of tech nical burglary, and placed under $1000 bail each. Emmons secured bail money from a local bank and left on the evening train for Portland. Reed and Holland are still in the custody of the town con stable and will have a preliminary hear ing in the morning. The offense with which they are charged Is the breaking into a building and taking valuable books and records relative to the affairs of the C. B. Ioss Company, which has the con tract for grading the Drain branch of the Southern Pacific. J The me.i arrested arrived from Portland on an er'y train and went at once to the office of the Loss Company where they packed up all the books and records and took them to the depot for shipment by express to Portland. The agent re fused to ship them, taking the stand that it was a holiday and that the express of fice was not open. The local officials of the Loss Company were notified of the attempted removal of the books and warrants were issued for the arrest of the Portland men.: Sul-con tractors have-come in -from th camps along the line of construction to await the outcome of the affair. It is said that Loss has secured the estimates for several months, but has not turned over the money due the sub-contractors, with the result that many creditors, whose claims in the aggregate amount to $50,000, are waiting for their money. The attempt to secure the books, In the small hours of the morning, is con strued by the sub-contractors as an ef fort to destroy or get the records out of the Jurisdiction to hinder creditors. MR. TOSS 31 A KES STATEMENT" Admits That His Company Is Embar rassed Creditors Will Meet. Lawyer Emmons arrived in, Portland from Drain at 11:30 o'clock last night and was met by an Oregonian reporter. He was indignant over his arrest at Drain, which, he declared, was an out rage. He said that Reed, who is a pri vate detective, and Holland, a book keeper of the Loss Company, reached Drain early yesterday morning and went direct to the Drain offices. On producing an order from President C. E. Loss, they were given the books of the corporation. The office, he says, was not broken Into. Mr. 'Emmons arrived on a later train, after the books had been secured, and had been in town but a few minutes when he was placed under arrest, with Reed and Holland. Emmons says that J. T. Tobin, who is in charge of the office, and Thomas Owens, a sub-contractor, instigated the arrests. Mr. Emmons says he and his companions showed the order for the books and would have been re leased by the Justice of the Peace had It not been for a complaint filed by To bin. alleging that personal letters and documents belonging to him had been taken with the company's books. When Mr. Emmons secured bail he took the first train for Portland to consult with Mr. Loss. Reed and Holland are sti'.I under arrest. The books are In a hotel at Drain, where they are being guarded by representatives of both fac tions. Both Mr. Loss and Mr. Emmons, his attorney, last night declared their belief that there was a conspiracy on foot to compel the C. E. Loss Company to for feit Its contract with the Southern Pacific for the construction of the Drain branch, but they were unwilling to make any positive statement that the company would be able to meet its financial ob ligations. Mr. Loss said he had no idea how deeply the C. E. Loss Company, of which he Is president and owner, is indebted. He says the affairs of the com pany have been left entirely in the hands of T. J. Tobin. who has been supervising the work at Drain. He intimates that Tobin has been guilty of gross misman agement, but declined to make direct ac cusations. Significant facts are, however, that the creditors of the C. E. Loss Company will hold a meeting in Portland either today or tomorrow, and that Mr. Loss said last night that he was willing to do any thing that the creditors might ask. He declared that, he was trying to protect the creditors of the company, not to hinder or defraud them. Mr; Loss asserted that it would be utterly Impossible for him to say whether the company would be able to meet its obligations until he had examined the books. He admitted that from the turn of events it looked as if the company was in financial straits. He declared that so far he has put $60,000 more into the work at Drain than he has taken out. When asked relative to the United Rail ways lines in Portland, Mr. Loss said he thought that project would go ahead as planned, but was not emphatic. "I think the United Railways Company will be all right," said he, "as it is en tirely independent of the Drain contract, which is a personal transaction of mine." Rails for the United Railways lines are now being received In Portland and it was last week given out that the work af actual construction would shortly be gin. Mr. Loss says he has not been In Drain for three months, the work at that place having been in exclusive charge of Mr Tobin. Mr. Loss has been losing money all along on this work, and when he learned tnat J. S. Holland, a bookkeeper employed by the com pany at Drain, had been sent away on a vacation, he became suspicious and ; Senator BaHey, Who Is Anxious for Investigation Committee to Ke 4 port So He May Hasten to Wah f Ington. sent for Holland, who was in Cali fornia. Holland had In his possession ab stracts of the company's books at Drain which. Loss says, do not agree with the statements sent him by Tobin. Mr. Loss became suspicious and tele graphed from Portland ssking Tobin to meet him here, which Tobin declined to do. Mr. Loss then sent Mr. Emmons, Mr. Holland and W. B. Reed, a private detective, to Drain to obtain the books of the company, and gave them a writ ten order for that purpose. "This affair looks very suspicious to me - Knii besrlns to-, iidicat that I am the victim of a conspiracy," said Mr. Loss. "I cannot understand the actions of Mr. Tobin, as I had implicit faith in him and left everything In his hands. Tobin is very friendly with Thomas Owens, one of the sub-contractors. "The company owes Owens consider able money, but our relations with him are somewhat involved, as he owes us more than we do him. There is an other firm of contractors to which we are indebted, but the railroad company has held back enough money as a guarantee fund to pay them off. Why, they should try to keep us from obtain ing the books, which belong to us, and to which I have a perfect right, as president of the company. Is a mystery to me." Jt was learned last night from Mr. Emmons that Tobin had made plans to sell off the supplies of the company's commissary department at Drain, os tensibly to raise money to pay off some of the obligations of the com pany. SHE KIDNAPS RICH OLD MAN Millionlare Is Feeble-Minded and Woman Is Placed Under Arrest. MEADVILLE, Pa., Feb. 24. Emma Dare, charged with kidnaping George Rhodius. said to be feeble-minded, at Indianapolis, January 21, and marry ing him' in Louisville. Ky was arrest ed tonight at the Todd Sanitarium, Cambridge Springs. ' Rhodius, who Is a millionaire, was with the woman, who will be taken to Indianapolis for trial. SOUGHT TO GET HIS , WEALTH Parties Have Been - Searching for Elma Daro for Past Month INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. , 24. Elma Dare, it is alleged, took Rhodius from this city at midnight. January 21. and married him the next day in Louisville. Since then their location has been un known. Attorneys for the Rhodius es tate, have put forth every' effort to locate the missing couple. Rhodius' fortune is estimated at $600,000. It is charged that the supposed forced mar riage was part of a plot to gain posses sion of his property. DIETRICH TO BE NAMED Indications He Will Be Nominated for District Judge in Idaho. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Feb. 24. Present Indications are that F. S. Dietrich, of Pocatello. will be appointed District Judge .In Idaho to succeed Judge Beatty, whose resignation has not yet reached Washington. If his resignation ar rives next week, Dietrich's nomina tion will probably go before Congress before the session adjourns. This week Supreme Judge Ailshle will have an opportunity to get before the Attorney-General to answer the charges pending against him. As yet he has not seen the charges and does not know by whom they are preferred. Poisoned by Eating Tomatoes. EL PASO, Tex.. Feb. 24. Major Charles Davis, of this city, and Colonel Brady are desperately ill at midnight, both suf fering from ptomaine poisoning, caused by. eating canned tomatoes while out hunting today. Y.M.C.A.ANDITS FIELDS DF LABOR Its Enterprise Extends Round the World. GOOD SENSE WITH RELIGION Club, Church, Home and Col lege for the Young Men. ROSES ALONG LIFE'S PATH Help to Those Who Will Help Them selves Of Humble Origin in Eng land 63 Years Ago. Growth Since Then Remarkable. BY FREDERIC J, HAPKIN. WASHINGTON. Feb. 19. (Special Cor respondence.) A prominent worker in tho Young Men's Christian Association has said that it could answer the roll call of a recreation club, a hotel, a church, a university, a gymnasium, a real estae corporation, or a home, and prove its claim to any of these names. This so ciety owns over 500 clubhouses, and the value of its land and buildings in the United Slates alone is over $t2.000.W. In almost every city it lias facilities for entertaining transient guests in a fash ion as good and less expensive than the average hotel; It is prepared to conduct religious services when and where they are needed; It is educating a body of students 39.000 strong, who can be admit ted on certificate to scores of colleges; it has gymnasiums so thoroughly equipped and under such exceptional in structors that Dr. Anderson, of Tale, r.U long ago remarked: "They are the finest body of specialists in physical training in the world." "What I like about your work," said President Roosevelt to a body of men representing the Y. M. C. A., "is that you mix religion with common sense." This is done by the very old and simple method of being a friend ard comrada when one is needed, by helping the man himself, by caring for the body and mind as well as for the soul, by proving that it is best to do our work in the most conscientious fashion, and to continu ally be fitting oneself for better work. The manner in which this great organ ization is reaching the young may he shown by the statement that if the boys in all the departments could be brought together they would make an army more than twice as large as that commanded by Hood when he was opposing Sherman In Georgia. If Out of Work, Will Get You a Job. Are you a stranger, eager for work and capable of doing your best when it is offered? Go to the nearest Y. M. C. A. building, and see what the employment agency can do for you. You can lodge there for the night, have your bath and a good meal, and be ready to face the world again after a good night's rest. Do you want to improve your spare tim studying for some better position, or to rise in your own trade? The Y. M. C. A. has night and day classes that embrace all the English branches. mathematicF, the sciences, business courses, law, ora tory, mechanics, art, the foreign lan guageseverything, in fact, that school, colleges and universities may offer, and the tuition is t free to those who have paid a small annual fee of about $15. Boston, Detroit and several other largs cities have added a course for chauf feurs to the regular curriculum. Every where there Is specializing in different branches as the need arises, for the one great thing about the Y. M. C. A. is that broadness of spirit which makes it mod ify Its aims to meet the needs of the people whom it serves. Near Denver, for example, there Is a SO-acre farm, where association members with tuber culosis are sent and offered a good chance, to fight the disease with fresh air, sun shine and friendly companionship to help them. Where Foreigners Get American: Idea Are you a foreigner? Whether you have come from some Y. M. C. A. Club In the old country' or not, your chances ar better for assimilating American ideas if you are thrown with men of the asso ciation over here. In Troy, X. Y., there are ten nationalities In one club, eagerly studying American history and familiar izing themselves with the growth and aims ot American Institutions. In New- York there is a $100,000 building for Frenchmen alone. At De Kalb, 111., there is a school maintained by the Y. M. C. A. for the American Finns. If you are a railroad man. you know the many places along your route where a fellow, tired and dirty after a long and nerve-racking run. can drop in and have a bath, a good dinner and a quiet smoke in the billiard room. This is the. best substitute there is for your home on the other end of the line. You and the other 84.000 railroad members had no such loafing place as this 30 years ago. Nobody seemed to care then whether you rested or not, Just so you were in time for the work next day. No wonder that some of the men drank, and with veiled eyes and unsteady hands rushed past danger signals to strew the line with appalling wrecks. Comfortable Rest Room at Evening. Are you a worker in a mine or fac tory? Then at noon, when you get out - iConcluded on Page 12.)