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THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, MOXDAT, DECE3tl5ER 14, 1914. BURLESOri SAYS HIS NORTH COAST SAVED BY RAID OF TURCOS POSTMASTER-GENERAL WHOSE REPORT FAVORS GOVERN MENT OWNERSHIP OF TELEPHONES AND TELEGRAPH iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ; DEPARTMENT PAYS Hundreds Were lSlade , Self-Sustaining Basis for First , Time in History of Post ir office Asserted. Fanatical Zeal Shown by Al gerians Led by American' Attached to Belgians. . This Chinstmas CONTROL OF WIRES URGED '- r-..!. DESPERATE CHARGE MADE 1 Happy Jecominendation for Government Ownership Renewed Immediate 2 ' Taking Over of Lines In Ter i ' ritories Is Favored. V WASHINGTON'. Dec. 13. Asserting that for the first time since its or ganization by Benjamin Franklin, the JBostofflce Department Is on a self sustaining basis. Postmaster-General Burleson submitted to President Wil son today his annual report. It records enormous growth in the Department's business because ol the parcel post and postal savings bank divisions and recommends a programme of postal legislation to increase the scope of the department's activities. Mr..' Burleson features his report with an estimate that a surplus of 3, E69.545. the-second of his Administra tion, will be shown for the fiscal year of 1914 when ai; claims and charges have been 'met. On that showing he bases his declaration that the depart ment "has been securely placed upon & self-sustaining basis." Future Deficiency Improbable "It Is safe to say," the report adds, "that unless unusual conditions should Arise, resulting in abnormal depression of business, there Is no danger of re curring deficiencies." Of the parcel post during the last year the report says: "Rapid growth of the parcel post vastly increased postal business during the year. The department's field of service has expanded at a phenomenal rate, it is still expanding." Of the department's financial condi tion the report says: " "The postal revenues for 1914 mounted to $287,934,565.67. an Increase over the preceding year of slightly less than S per cent, as compared with a corresponding increase of slightly more than' 8 per cent for 1913. The audited "expenditures for the .year amounted to $283,543.? 69.16. The ex cess of audited revenues over audited expenses , and losses is, therefore, $4, S76.463.05. "This audited surplus does not, how ever, represent the actual financial results for the year. It Involves com parison of amounts that are not prop erly comparable. It does not Include obligations which were incurred, but not paid within the year, while It does include some payments on ao iiount of obligations Incurred In prior years.". PoMtnee Reduction Not Favored, ! A statement foll6ws of revenues and ctxpenses based upon the reported rev enues and the estimated expenses of the service for that year and the- report udds: v "On this basis, the revenues for the fiscal year ended June i0. 1914, are tound to exceed by $3,569,687 the ex penses for maintenance during the same period. : "The surplus for the year just closed, though substantial in amount, neces sarily represents an approximate ad justment of revenues and disburse ments, made possible by economies In administration compared with the vol ume of transactions. It is believed. therefore, that a recommendation for the reduction of postage rates is not warranted at this time. ; Reviewing his recommendations for Government ownership of telegraph and telephone lines, Mr. Burleson says: -'The Postmaster-General renews the recommendation embodied In his last annual report that Congress seriously consider the question of declaring a Government monoply over all utilities for tfce public transmission of intelli gence and. that steps be taken as soon as practicable to Incorporate Into the Ilostal establishments the telegraph rtnd telephone systems of the country. - Constitutional Authority Asserted. "In that report reference was mane to the anomalous condition in this country under which the telegraph and telephone utilities, being vehicles for the public transmission of intelligence. Infringe upon a function reserved by the Constitution to the National Gov ernment They Inherently, as well as constitutionally, belong to the postal Kervlce. The first conviction of the Department Is here reiterated tnat telegraph and telephone service Is in evitably monopolistic and. when on crated under rive control, does not render the maximum of public service at the minimum cost to the whole people. - "It Is an Interesting fact that, where as policies of government ha'e been advocated and some adopted, the con stitutionality of which has been seri ously questioned, the principle of Government ownership and control of the telegraph and telephone finds Its jrreatost strength in the Constitution. This opinion has been shared by prac tically all Postmasters-General of the VTnited States, who have held that the welfare and happiness of the Nation depend upon the fullest utilization of these agencies by the people, which can only be accomplished through Government ownership. Change In Territories Favored. "It Is also recommendVl that the telegraph and telephone facilities of Alaska. Porto Rico and the Hawaiian Islands be at once taken over and op crated by the Postoffice Department. This recommendation is based on an exhaustive investigation, which dis closed that the conditions in these ter ritories are generally such as to favor the chanare. A large part of the prop erty irvoived is already Government owned and operated In Alaska by the War Department and In Porto Rico by thu insulir government. The services are so detached geograph ically as to preclude complicated re lationships with neighboring systems .end are yet sufficient in eVtent to afford valuable experimental demon titration for the Postal Service. looking to the Administration eventually of a complete National service. . Defining the general policy he has pursued. Mr. Burleson says: "The fact that the Government ex ercises a monopoly over the receipt, transmission and delivery of mail curries an cbligalion to perform this function for all its citizens; hence the Postal Service may not be operated wholly upon the lines of private enter prise. 2 Revenue Bavls Not Only One. "Whether or not service shall be pranted or extensions authorized are question which, as they arise in a particular case, should not be deter mined entirely with respect to revenue considerations. Yet it is equally the duty of the Department to apply the mechanical and administrative econ omies which private business enter prise develops and which Inventive i ALBERT SIDNEY genius from time to time offers. The maximum of service at the minimum of expense is the proper rule to gov trn public business." The report ' declares newspapers and periodicals handled in 1914 under the cent-a-pound, second-class rate showed an increase of 2.94 per cent over the preceding year. with a resultant "drain on postal revenues" that "em phasizes the necessity of taking some step in the direction of readjusting the rates on second-class mail." Discussing the question of railway compensation, the report says It . Is believed the enactment of the House bill, pending1 In the Senate, which provides for compensation on a space basis, "will conclude a long and vexa tious controversy over railroad mall rates and inaugurate a plan of" ad justment which will be entirely fair to the railvoad companies and be most economical and advantageous in the administration of the Postal Service." RICH TONG M MUST GO SAX FRASCISCO'S WEALTHIEST CHIVESE DEPORTED, ' 1- . . . - . VVonc Doo Klngr Alleged. Murderer an Smuggler, "Likely to Be ' Public -Charge," Ordered Out Saturday. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 13: (Special.) The order for the deportation " of Wong Doo iCIng, former president f the Bing Kong Tong, alleged murderer, highbinder and opium smuggler and reputed to be the wealthiest man In Chinatown, will be directed to go Into effect next Saturday. After a legal battle, waged since June 13, i913. In which an enormous sum of money has been spent to prevent depor tation, a return was made today In the Federal Court on the application for a writ of habeas corpus. A warrant for the deportation of the highbinder was issued May 15, of this year, signed by Acting Secretary of Labor J. E. Densmore, and according to the Government attorneys, affirmed by Secretary Wilson. Mr. Densmore, after an exhaustive hearing, partici pated In by some of the leading law yers of the National capital retained by Wong, declared that "notwithstand ing the alleged wealth. of Wong Doo King, he is likely to become a public charge." The official also found that the "case has been prolonged oat ' of all consistency with summary adminis trative procedure." - The Chinese Chamber of Commerce co-operated with the immigration au thorities in the fight against the high binder. A record showing an Indict ment for murder, a charge of murder in a later year, accusations of opium smuggling and 'assisting" the white slave traffic Was studied In detail by the Washington authorities. One of the latest charges was that Wong Doo King caused to be posted In Chinatown an announcement that $500 would be given to any one killing, "in a clandestine manner," any of the witnesses against him In the deporta tion case. Wlnlook Republican Women Unite. CENTR ALIA, 'Wash., Dec 13. (Spe cial. A Women's Republican Club or ganized at Winlock has the following named officers: Mrs. PattI McFee, president; Mrs. Roy Qutllen, vice-president, and Mrs. E. J. Doty, secretary. The organization was effected under the supervision of Mrs. Francis Haskell, of Tacoma. "LEGISLATIVE PROGRAMME OIT LI.XED BY POSTM ASTER-GE.X-E1IAL BURLESON. Early action toward Govern ment ownership of telegraph and telephone lines and immediate taking over of these systems in Hawaii, Alaska and Porto Rico. Transfer of Alaska cable from War to Postoffice Department control. Substitution of contract "star route" system for salaried rural carrier service. P o s t o f f ice co-operation with state governments In road build ing, where improvements Insure better postal service. Raising maximum balance ac ceptable at postal banks from $500 to $2000, interest payments to be limited to $1000. r.emoval of monthly deposit limit restriction. Aerial mail service, where topography warrants. Extension of motor truck and automobile service. -. ; Space basis of compensation for railroads on mail carried. Instead of weight basis Computation of rural "carriers" salaries on basis of services per formed, dependent on bulk of mail carried, to stimulate busi ness. Read Justment of postmasters" salaries, due to parcel-post development-Raising of second-class rates on publications other than news papers issued once a week from one to two cents a pound. Granting the department Juris diction over selection of sites and designs for postal buildings. BIBLESO.V. UNITY IS PREDICTED Republjcans to Be Sensible, Says Representative-Elect. EFFORTS ARE SYSTEMATIC Many "Favorite Sons" Will Be in JRaqe for Presidential Nomination, Thinks Mr. McKinley, Who Advises Preparation at Once. . -WASHINGTON, Dec 13. (Special.) Representative-elect McKinley, of Il linois, for several years chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, believes tha the next Con-' gress . will witness the "solidifying- of the Republican party," because old leadets returning will not seek to de prive younger Republicans of their Important committee berths. Repre sentative Mann will continue Republi can leader of the House in the next Congress. ' ' ' "It is too early to ' venture a pre diction as to who will be nominated tor President lh 1916," he said. "One thing is certain, there will be more 'favorite sons' in the race than ever before, which will be a' good thing for the party. Republicans are going to be sensible. I believe that the leaders will - act oh a give-and-take plan. Every effort towards conciliation and harmony should be made. "The plans which the National Re publican Congressional Committee and the various state committees are mak ing to keep up the work is demonstra tive of systematic effort which the party will make for 1916. Now Is the time to prepare. It Is a mistake to attempt to lay down a National cam paign, 60 or 90 days before the elec tion. "What were the causes which oper ated against the Republican victory this year? Primarily, a lack of nerve and confidence in the ability of the party to win in the face of the re ceding Progressive partyand, secondly, a disinclination on the part of Repub licans to attack the Administration's Mexican policy hammer and tongs." GIRL LEADS NiG HTRIDERS 'JOAST OP ARC OF TENANT FAR MERS PLANS TERRORS. Glna Burned. Mea Who Sell Cottoa for Less Than JO Cents Are Wklpned and Unruly lUtlders Punished. RIXGLING. Okla., Dec. 13. (Special. a sin is uencveu to ue ine -principal organizer of the nightridlng bands that are now terrorizing the farming communities of the cotton growing counties of Oklahoma and adjoining states. The gin burnings, the whipping of men who violate the demands of the riders, and the pitched battles that have occurred In several localities are said to be done under the direction of this "Joan of Arc" of the tenant far mers. Rumor is persistent that she is busy all the time, holding conferences with the nightrldlng bands, organizing others and outlining the campaigns by which they are seeking to control the cotton situation. To hold cotton to 10 cents a pound Is one of the chief aims of the night riders and to gain that market by force, if necessary. Many farmers who are not members of the organizations have found notices tacked on their barns or fences warning them not to sell for less than 10 cents and threaten ing dire punishment if the warning is not obeyed. A reduction in cotton acreage, amounting to from one-half to two thirds of -that planted in 1914. is also demanded and land owners have been told what to expect if a larger acreage is planted one-half of the crop will be destroyed. Occasional punishment of members of the bands for violation of the rules and the whipping of men who have disobeyed the warnings not to sell for less than 10 cents have thoroughly alarmed the country districts. Mrs. Ida Bergman Dies. ASTORIA. Or.. Dec. 13. (Special.), Mrs. Ida Bergman, widow of the late Isaac Bergman, died this gmornlng of heart failure after a few hours' illness. The deceased was a native of Bavaria, 71 years old, and had resided in Astoria for fully a third of a century. She left several relatives residing in Port land. - "That Good Coal" delivered promptly, carloads or truckloads, $6 to $10. Edlef sen. East 303. C 2303. Adv. Wild Troops Assault Town and . by House-to-House Fighting Drive Germans, Stubbornly slsting, .From Position. (Continued From First Page.) mnnn- hmiTMx thflv rjumued their' guns at a steadily -rushing stream of. Germane, who hoped to run them over by sheer force of numbers. They knew the Bel rlann cnuld not kill them all and the rest could bayonet the Belgians .out of their trenches.. The - Belgians .did not wait for that, however, and retired In good order,, though leaving more dead in the open Held than in the trench. " Holes Closed With Bayonets. '. There have been three serious holes In the lines -of the allies. The Belgians had the first at Ramscapelle, the U'rencn had the seteond at Dixxnude and the English the- third at Ypres. Each in turn closed the-hole with bayonet at tacks lasting all night.' - At Ramscapelle the Germans held the town all day. They had time to oc cupy the whole village and move; forV ward their rapid firing guns " to " the furthest corner, where they played all day on the Belgian tren'ches, less than 100 yards away. - Between mere was u win iii 1 1 i i 1 1 1 1 1 1 hRlA rhn shallow earth- works the Belgians had thrown up on the level of the fields. Just in front was the Yser Canal, running down fo Furnes, the last town in Belgium, and nothing to keep the Germans from rushing right up to the outer fortifica tions of Dunkirk as soon as they could get forward with the reinforcements, which the1 laviators could see were be ing brought up by forced marches. This was a critical moment and. everyone kne 1C , .. I -. . ' ' American Leads Fanatical Warriors. "I." was at- Pervyse when I heard Ramscapelle was to be retaken at any cost," Griffith told us. "so I hurried back in the dusk for fear I would miss It. I was really witn'the Belgian forces, but I ' heard they Avere to be held to deliver the final crushing blow and the Turcos were to make ttje first rush. So asked the young French officer in eoirrmana to let me go w;ith-him, and after he was killed in the first rush I found myself with a -company of fanat ical fighters. . There was no stopping. They cleaned out the streets with- their knives, and the Germans with bayonets could hardly find their lithe bodies, but tore through their swirling capes. "Let me give a plan of . what hap pened first. The Belgians were to the north and west, the French, to the south. Zouaves were holding "the for ward trenches and backing them were the French Alpine Artillery, with their mules and .their light blue toques. Whenever I see "them I know the French have some rapid work ahead, and they are the men to do it. Tunisians Prepare' for Advance. J'The Tunisians I was with were to attack at 8 o'clock, after the Alpine batteries had had a chance to clear a little space on the outer edge' of the village. All the time, of course, the heavy guns on both sides were doing the same thing preparing for an at tack. It was a question whether we would be able to retake Ramscapelle before the German attacking party broke through on us. "It was dark as could be, made darker yet by the flashes from the guns and bursting shells. There was nothing to tell whether the enemy was 10 feet away or cutting across the fields in retreat. The French officer beside me was every minute calling the long, stirring "Jeul" followed by the click of cartridge blocks into the guns. In a second came his quick 'Faire feu!' and the Tunisians wero blazing away at the dark. Cry to Turcos Thrills. "I don't know of anything that has thrilled my nerves" more than that 'Jeu.' Each letter is drawn out until It makes three syllables and all the time you hear the click of cartridges. Above It you hear the outside noises, the spit ting of rapid-fire guns and the crash of big shells all around us. "Even in the midst of all that noise I heard the zouaves suddenly crying 'En avant!'. and the Ma! Ja!' from German throats was so close that we come up - out of our trench, hardly waiting for the order. Some of the Tunisians, I am sure, had a hundred feet start of the order. "I know nothing that compares with that rush in the dark at Ramscapelle, unless it would-be running at top speed toward a cliff beyond which lay eter nity. At every stride one of the bul lets whistling by might get you. and from the rate they were whistling I did not see at any moment how 1 could get through the next stride. Every time my foot hit the ground I was relieved to know I had not gone over into the abyss that time, but I had no hope of reaching the village until I plumped up against the last building of the village in the dark. Men Run in Straight Flies. "We had been keeping as straight a line .as we could, running 10 or more in a line, one behind the other, so as to present as little front as possible to the German rapid-fire guns which were sweeping the field in an arc and doing most of the damage. The men in front of me must have been struck or lost their way, as I found that I was at the head of one of these columns by-bump-ng into the wall almost alongside a German gun. That was my first inti mation of the fact that I was leading the column.' I asked Griffiths to give the details of how a town Is taken In the night and cleared of the enemy. "The first Job," he said, "was to cap ture the corner house. As soon as we had stumbled on It in the dark we closed around it, the Tunisians rushing In through doors and windows reck lessly to get at the gunners. We got those first ones, though we left one Tunisian banging bent over a window and two more at the door. In close quarters like that it is hard to tell ex actly what happens. For the trapped men to surrender Is out of the ques tion. There Is no light to see how many there are or who Is offering to surrender. Few soldiers take chances under these circumstances. They kill all the enemy they can as fast as fjiiey can and mase tneir entry secure. German Saved by Captor. ' "My first lucid sensation after enter ing that house was the silence that immediately surrounded us. In spite of the terrible racket outside, I could hear some one kicking in the straw. and, reaching down. I felt a bootleg 1 knew -to be --German. If he got up 1 On December 10 -we mailed checks aggregating Thousands of x . Dollars to the members of our 1914 Christmas Savings Club. They r never missed the small amounts paid in every week and.when they ' E h received their checks it was - . - - Hv ' J list Like Finding Money g H Our" 191 Clubopens December 21 (next Monday), and we ' fj expect a greatly increased membership. The success of the Club E E last year and the strong indorsement of those who were so largely 5 E . .. benefited will add a host of new names to the seyeral classes as EE EE Boon as the books open. - J ; ; You Are Invited to Join . ,; The purpose of the Club is to help you and others accumulate EE ' money 'for Christmas. , ' - . . j' . v - EE EE You pay a little each week .for fifty weeks and get all your EE EE . . money back, with interest, just before Christmas. . EE U ; - Make up your mind before you take your eyes Off this adver- EE EE tisement that you are going to be one of the thousands to. join our EE .EE"... Christmas Sayings Club this year. , ' EE I Merchants National jBanfc I Euuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiini iiiiiuiiiiiii2isiiiiiniiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiniiiiii:ii:iiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii knew that' he' would get -a Tunisian knife at his throat, so- I put 'my foot on him, giving hinrtwo or three troick jabs with my heel. He caught ' my meaning and lay pft-feotly still for a minute, until I, had time to order the Tunisians out to attack the next house. After they were gone, I -Stopped for a moment to tell the German to stay where he was until morning.. . 1 threw a mattress over ffim and found., him safe there 'in the early hours of the morning. - Another German had crawled in with him, and they were both so weak from loss of blood they could not get up. . -. - . "When I gleked them" up In the dawn I found their coats had been completely shot away over their. right shoulders. Each ill. turn ha.d been, working the rapid firing gun, -and- the ' rifle, shots that came in through the hole-they had made in the wall for its nose had in turn torn their shoulders to pieces. They had not been able to dress the wounds and they had dried. Their two shoulders looked like -raw beef which had been exposed to the' air until the outer part had hardened and. begun to turn black. -. . - House-to-House Ftshttnff Desperate. "But at the. moment of entering the town I had no time to' worry about them. We had only , taken . the first house of a long street, and we had hours of work ahead' of us., fighting from house to house. We went at them both on the street and from behind, though we usually entered first from behind and left those in the house we had Just taken to keep the Germans across the street busy. r - "I had never seen Kamscapeiie in the daylight and I had an entirely dif ferent idea of what it was like that night. After we had been capturing the one street with a cost of about five men to each house I thought we must be somewhere near the end of our work at -8 in the morning, when we captured he house on the corner of the square opposite the' church. But in that little open place the Ger mans were pouring a steady: stream of men who had been on"-the march 18 hours to reinforce Ramscapelle. Im agine marching 40 or. 50 miles, to end up at 3 o'clock in the morning against a blank wall, with rapid-firing guns tearing at your..columns from two side streets!' But they fought like .fresh troops. - ' . ' Kaiser's Men Xeed No Drlvlns. "No one can ever make me believe some of these tales we hear about the Germans being driven lnt&c battle by their officers. They came In ' on the run, and fell in heaps lri the square. "There is no use trying to describe that square. There was not really' anything to describe. You -could not see the Germans themselves.." " You could only tell that they were coming by the flash from bursting shells glinting for a fraction of a second on their bayonets.. Those dust-gray-green uniforms could not be seen at all. In that hell of battle jou could not even hear fhelr boots ringing on the cobblestones, and. If they cried out, it was drowned. All you could see be fore you was a glint of flashing rifles and darkness, in which you sensed the onrushing column. "I remember wondering how we could possibly hold out a minute longer against the attack, and yet we stayed right where ..we were and played our mitrailleuses up the street toward the main road, while the Alpine gunners tore their ranks with-shells. The worst of it was we had no idea whether we were holding the German advance or whether they had carried the railroad and had surrounded us. The Germans must have been in the same predicament, because, they held out at a house at the extreme western end of the town all night. k Tnreoa Refuse to Keep Cover. "'I believe they were accountable for some remarkable killing-. They kept a steady fire over lour reserve force 4n the trenches, and they killed more Tunisians In the trenches than were lost in the town. Turcos hate tr nch work, and for all their officers' orders, kept constantly lifting their heads. And every one who kept his head up as much as 30 seconds caught the sweep of the rapid-fire gun. Those gunners got away in the end, too, witn their gun, and they certainly de serve the Iron Cross for their night's work. 1 "After awhile, of course, I Just failed to think any more. - I have as tonishingly few fixed recollections of that night. My memory is full of disjointed occurrences, a deadly fire out of a window somewhere, a German soldier lying with a bullet through his forehead, with his rifle sighted. He was across a mattress behind a window. There was a dog that ran out into the street and turned around and around, excitedly wagging his taiL This must have been after daybreak, but I am not so sure there was not a light turned on him. "The killings did not seem so hor rible as you misht Imagine. Here was Fourth, and 'Washington Streets a man who was trying to kill you half a minute ago, and now he was dead oh the -street- That was alLr-- There was', no emotion connected with It. He merely represented a danger that was gone,' and there were untold dangers just like him rushing on you so fast it seemed incredible you could hold out- against them for any length of time. But I-- have . one memory . out of that night which is more horrible than anything I .can conceive. "Toward dawn we broke the German advance.' The Belgian Fifth. .- after standing all night in ' a ditch with water to the waist, received orders to charge at 6- o'clock in the morinng, and it retook the railroad station and held the road. The town was ours, and I had. a chance for the first; time to see what was happening behind me. "As I turned away from the square in the first dim light of early morn ing, the sound of shooting began to die away, and there was none along the street we , had been fighting all night to win. Turcos and Germans, mostly dead, lay in the street, in door ways and hanging half out of win dows. For the first time I looked at a scene that was still and it was un- eartniy still. 1 could not see far, so I walked cautiously, with my revolver in my hand. " , Hogs Feed on Dead. ' "Out of the stillness ' ahead I heard something I Jtook for a -'-sharp, groan, and I moved softly toward It, expect ing to find a wounded . man. but also ready to shoot. Instead I came upon a large hog in the gutter; grunting savagely as it tore at the leg of a dead Germqp soldier. It had already eaten away ine iace anu- part or the body, and as I came up, it -had braced Its feet against the man's thigh and had sunk its teeth into the flesh. ' As it grew lighter and we realized we held the town, we forgot every thing else. We had won. .never mind the cost. We held Ramscapelle. The one break in 20 miles of line had been closed. ..-,'-.' "It also ran through the town that the. ditches across the railroad track were beginning to fill with -water, and we knew the long promised inunda tion had reached us and was cutting off the Germans in retreat. I was not in the attack we made on their rear, however. Instead, I found myself re sponsible for a lot of Tunisians whom I could hardly keep in the trenches we had Just recovered. "The Germans were keeping ud a shell fire protecting their rear, and the. shells were dropping all around the trenches. The Turcos ' hate . shells, though they care nothing about bul lets, so I was glad to turn them over to some one who knew how to handle' them." v Connection With Belgians Informal. "What made the deepest impression on you that night?" I asked Griffith. "The hog," he replied at once, and I can well believe it. I have seen, hogs at the same grim work in the inun dated fields. . Glfflth's connection with the Bel Evening Dancing Frocks (of the Accurate portrayal of signers is riot' often prices. The garments Extensive and not to be stock exactly one-half All Street Dresses in Silk and Wool, Formerly $15 to $55, now Half Price. gian army, would be hard to explain. I understand the informal connection he has, because I have seen how de lightfully informal the Belgians are about such matters. He came over at the beginning of the war to study military sanitation and feeding. The Belgians accepted him .without ques tion and gave him every facility In their usual courteous way. And then with that simple, beautifully childlike faith in human nature that they have, they took it for granted he was heart and soul with them. Certainly no one could' be with them without growing to love therm As Griffith says: "When you see all these fellows you have grown so fond of going away so cheerfully to be shot, why, you Just simply can't stay out of it." Centralla to Be Filmed for Fair. CENTRALIA, Wash., Dec. 13. (Spe cial.) Moving pictures to be exhibited at the Panama-Pacific Exposition next year will show 1000 feet of views of Centralla. The pictures will be taken next week, and Monday the operators will be the guests of the Commercial Club at Its noon luncheon. The film will be shown at a local theater about the first of the year. Fords Prairie Pupils to Act. CENTRALIA, Wash., Dec. 13. (Spe cial.) The pupils of the Fords Prairie School, west of Centralia, will present a comedy entitled "Who Is Who?" De cember IS. On the same night the pupils of the Toledo High School will present "Mr. Bob." St. John Officials Chosen. ST. JOHN. Wash.. Dec. 13. (Special.) The following officials were elected Tuesday: R. B. Gaines, Mayor; Charles Schuster. W. S. Imbler, C. C. White, Councilmen, and H. W. Terhune. Treasurer. Money Earning Courses Ennlish for For eign Men Freehand Draw ing German Mechanical Draft Pharmacy Physics Plan Reading and Estimating Public Speaking Salesmanship Spanish Shorthand Surveying fehow Card Writ Accounting Advertising Architect drafting Automobile Bookkeeping: Boys' School Chemistry Xyii service ing Telegraphy 9 Typewriting Vocal MusTo Wirel's Telegrkp'y Taylor and Sixth Streets. jiectriciiy Y.M. C. A. Catalogue Free. Gowns better class.) Price ys styles of the most noted d included in gowns at these are individual and the styles seen elsewhere. Our regular former prices. C. E. Holliday Co. 353 Alder Street. Corner of Park.