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THE MOTIVING OREGONIAN. THURSDAY, AFKIL 8. 1915. LABOR AND CAPITAL COR E HONESTY Railway and Union Heads Both ex-Toilers, Stir Indus trial Relations Hearing. STRIKE OF 1911 EXPLAINED Walkout of Shopmen Due to Opposk tion of Companies to Federation of Crafts With Other TTnlons, Says Illinois Central Man. CHICAGO, April 7. A colloquy about the honesty of a man who, starting at the bottom, advances to the head of a &reat railroad as compared with one who becomes the head of a great labor organization enlivened today's sessions of the United States Commission on Industrial Relations. The argument was between Charles H. Markham. president of the Illinois Central Railroad, who was on the witness-stand practically all day, and .Austin B. Garretson. president of the Order of Railway Conductors and a member of the commission. The great strike of shopmen of 1911 on the Illinois Central and other so called Harriman lines, Mr. Markham said, really grew out of the attempt of the American Federation of Labor to organize the crafts of each railroad system and it was opposed, regardless of cost. Organization Thong-h Menace. The proposed organization was a Berlous menace, as, if carried to a logical conclusion, it would have left the railroads and industries along their lines helpless in the hands of a few men.' said Mr. Markham. "But the railroads' are in the hands of a few men as it is," suggested Mr. Garretson. "But they are checked by their re sponsibilities to the stockholders, to laws and to the public," replied the witness. "Are you, Mr. Markham, "any more honest now than when you were rhoveling coal at Tucson?" asked Mr. Garretson. "Not a bit, but my responsibilities are greater." Vnlon History Declared Bad. "But when it comes to the honesty of the few men who control most things, is a man less honest because he chooses to rise through the labor arm of the railroad business to the presi dency in a union, instead of a railroad company?" "No essential difference hypothetical ly, but the history of the Knights of Labor, the American Railway Union and similar organizations had been bad." Mr. Markham said that the employes of the road had his most sympathetic consideration and that he had no ob jections to unions such as the two brotherhoods of enginemen or the con- j 'ductors. as they were all railroad men. but he said unions which included both railroad and non-railroad craftsmen were a menace. - " 2 ROB GIRL ON BUSY ROAD Hiss Phoebe Xylan In Daylight At tack Xear Oregon Clty.- OEEGOX CITT, Or., April 7. CSpe ciaL) Miss Phoebe Nylan, 17, 6120 Thirty-ninth avenue Southeast, was held up at 1:30 o'clock Tuesday after noon, on a main-traveled road near Oregon City, although her two assail' An in cscaoed with only her coat. Miss Nylan. who is visiting with Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Gregory, about four miles from Oregon City, started for town shortly after 1:20 o'clock. When she reached the Mount Pleasant dis trict two men stopped her. "Get off that horse," commanded one. but the girl ignored the order. "Get oft that horse. I told you," he repeated. "What do you mean?" asked Miss Nylan, and one man grabbed the horse's bridle and the other pulled the girl to the ground. They then took her coat and were rifling it, when an automobile approached. Botbr made their escape and the girl returned home. BOOTLEGGER ADMITS GUILT Mercede9 Barlett, 21, Awaits Sen tence at Vancouver. VANCOUVER, "Wash., April 7. (Spe cial.) After pleading guilty to a charge of selling whisky In the city without a license. Mercedes Barlett. ahnut 91 VMM old was fined $10 and costs, which were paid by friends. Regaining nis liDeny lor n. nn time he was again arrested upon infor fna i. tha KuneHor Court by J. O. Blair. County Attorney, charging him with selling liquor in a arj unit, u. haa nnriH truiltv to this charge, and sentence will be Imposed later. Barlet carried whisky glasses in his pocket for the accommodation of his patrons. Vancouver Fears Higher Kate. VANCOUVER. Wash., April 7.: (Spe cial.) That Vancouver was to lose Its terminal rate, now enjoying on a parity with Portland, was a rumor that spread here today. W. P. Connaway, presi dent of the Vancouver Commercial Club, Henry Crass, ex-Mayor, and w. J. Kinney, both past presidents of the club, went to Portland to confer with J. N. Teal, who is to leave tonight for Washington. D. C. to represent Astoria, and other points, also affected by a recent decision. He was asked to represent Vancouver should It be come necessary. Insurance Receipts $103,944. CAf rir Anril 7 (SDecial.) Harvey Wells. Insurance Commissioner, ...... . 1 11 a that thA rereints of the department from January 1 to March 31 totaled iU3,M.oz. Agents licenses totaled J10.921; companies' li censes. S27.983.85: tax on premiums. $62,537.51 and from other sources 2502.16. Isaiah McBee Dies at Deer Island. ST HELENS. Or.. April 7. (Special.) -Isaiah McBee died at Deer Island, Or., on Monday. Funeral services will be held at the home on Wednesday at i Tnt.rmant will be in the Deer Island Cemetery. Mr. McBee was well known in Portland. DANIELS PLAYING POLITICS m Resignation of Admiral Fiske Reveals Extent of Friction Throughout Department. CANDOR DEEPLY RESENTED Secretary Lacks Confidence of Offi cers and Mem Colonel Harvey Points Out How Spoils Pol- lcyXow Prevails. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, April 7. The resignation of Re'ar-Admiral Bradley A. Fiske from the office of "aide for operations" in the Navy has served to focus public attention on the extent of the friction that exists .between the more promi nent officers of the Navy and Secre tary Daniels, the civilian head of the service. The trouble in the Navy Is essen tially this: Secretary Daniels beVeres the Navy should be run as an adjunct to the Young Men's Christian Associa tion; experienced . navai officers be lieve the Navy should be maintained first of all as an efficient fighting force and that everything should be subordinated to this purpose. Secre tary Daniels professes to believe that the American Navy is efficient. Prac tical naval officers of long training believe the Navy is far from efficient and is growing steadily worse. The officers are not in sympathy with Sec retary Daniels, and the Secretary stands no better in the estimation of the enlisted men than of the officers. Flake's Vlewa Displease Daniels. . At the last session of Congress Rear- Admiral Fiske, one of the best in formal naval experts in this country, and recognized abroad as an authcrity. was summoned before the House naval committee while the naval appropria tion bill was being framed and was asked to submit his views as to the needs of the Navy. Though he knew his views were diametrically opposed to those held by Secretary Daniels, he frankly set forth his personal ideas to what should be done. What Admiral Fiske said to the committee greatly displeased Secretary- Daniels and the Admiral's recent resignation is traced to friction that developed following this testimony. Admiral Fiske said it would require five years to make the Navy highly efficient.- He said the personnel was not ' adequately drilled; that because of lack of target practice gunnery had become inferior; that lacking a general staff, the United States would go to war in a haphazard way, and that we have no plan of battle ap proach and no plan of torpedo at tack. ' He showed that the United States Navy had only one minelaying ship; that It was deplorably deflcienj in minesweepers, in submarines, in air craft and in all auxiliaries, and tnat having no naval reserve, it could not man its ships for hostilities. Attention has been directed to the fact that the resignation of Admiral Fiske immediately followed the publi cation of the April number of the North American Review, in which Colonel George Harvey criticises Secretary Dan iels as he has never before been criti cised since he' entered the Cabinet. Colonel Harvey quotes from Admiral Fiske, Admiral Dewey, Admiral Knight and other naval officers as justifying his own censure of the head of the Navy Department. In this article Colonel Harvey reviews the administration of the Navy by Mr. Daniels: he censures Mr. Daniels' for ignoring the rule of seniority in making promotions and for promoting iavorea officers over those entitled to promo tion; he ridicules the Daniels order bar ring liquor from all warships, and shows how this order has aroused the antagonism of the enlisted men to such extent that they hiss the picture of the Secretary of the Navy when it is thrown on the "movie" screen;- he ridicules the Daniels order barring trust brands of tobacco from the Navy . canteen and points out that the enlisted men have boycotted the canteen to show their re. sentment. N- "Playing- Politics" Censured. Colonel Harvey censures Mr. Daniels, a Southerner, for opening the worth less Navy-yards at Pensacola and New Orleans, abandoned by the previous Ad ministration, while virtually closing down the Portsmouth, N. H., Navy Yard, one of the most efficient on the Atlantic seaboard. Secretary Daniels campaigned In New Hampshire last Fall, trying to defeat Senator Gallin ger, and having failed in that effort, he retaliated by diverting work from the Portsmouth yard to Southern Iavy yards. Colonel Harvey says he was eager to meet the cravings or all de serving Democrats." The Colonel adds: "His policy was clearly defined before he took his place. 'It is suggested,' wrote the inspired Raleigh corresponds ent of the, Charlotte Observer on the eve of the newly appointed Secretary's departure for' Washington, "that under Secretary Daniels' administration the old Charlotte Navy-Yard will be re habilitated. This would furnish jobs to quite a squad of patriots, and Mr. Dan iels is agreeable to this idea.' " Then the Colonel shows how Secre tary Daniels lived up to his intention to help the deserving Democrats of the South. FARMERS TO HEAR TALK Salem Sleeting to Be Addressed by Agricultural College Professor. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallls, April 7. (Special.) Profes sor A. T. French, state leader of farm demonstration work carried on by the extension department of the Oregon Agricultural College, will address a joint gathering of farmers and mer chants in Salem Saturday. His subject will be "Standardization of Farm Prac tices." This meeting is the first of a series which the Salem Commercial Club is promoting in -an effort to obtain better co-operation between the farmers and merchants of Marion County. It is es timated that 500 farmers will be in at tendance. County Agriculturist Cha pin will also address the meeting. Albany Boy Scouts Aid Work ALBANY, Or., April 7. (Special.) Boy Scouts are being used in Albany's cleanup campaign. Members of the lo cal organization have been assigned to cover certain sections of the city. Their reports will be made the basis of requests for cleaning up unsightly places. ' $20 to $35 The best example of ready-tailored garments shown in America. Sold in Portland only by LEADING BEN SELLING Morrison Street at Fourth GE NiUS INDUSTRIAL INVENTIONS SHOW A BIG FALLING OFF. Many Plana Are Offered In Pari for Savins Country, Bnt Few Are Considered Practical. ! PARIS, March 11. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Inventive genius has done what it could to save the country since the beginning of the war, but its inspirations' have not been entirely practical. Among the thousands of ideas presented only four have been experimented on with In teresting results; the rest remain in a state of embryo. After the first visits of German aeroplanes to Paris a man conceived a plan for the protection of the city from aerial bombs by stretching a metallic netting from the Sacred Heart cathedral In Montmartre to the Eiffel Tower. A Marseilles Inventor proposed a portable railroad to accelerate the con centration of troops. "It is simple," he said. "When a train has passed over the rails you have only to pick them up and place them again in front of the train, and so on, indefinitely. At the war department they told him the idea was of immense importance, but that there might be some difficulty in working It out. "Oh, that is only de tail," he replied. When Clemenceau in the Homme Enchalne commenced his campaign for the amelioration of the sanitary de partment, a man suggested the idea of transporting wounded In trains of bal loons drawn by aeroplanes. n-1. ilav.lnnmfnt flf the USe of barbed wire Inspired an inventor to contrive a sneii wiui who ul"o attachments. rr-v. . t,oa yA a dnrfiia1nr effect on industrial inventions in general The average is o appncauviio in time of peace. It fell to 14 in Au gust and had increased to 23 in Feb ruary, including inventions Inspired by the war. The war of 1870 had the same effect and the records show that it required three years for Inventive genius to recovsr. DAIRY INSTITUTE IS SET Government and College Experts to Judge Hllliboro Herd. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallls, April 7 (Special.) An all day dairy institute will be conducted at Hillsboro April 10 by Professors W. A. Barr and E. B. Fitts, of the extension department of the Oregon Agricultural College, and J. E. Dorman, of the dairy division of the United States De partment of Agriculture. This institute will be something out of the ordinary in that an entire herd of dairy cattle will be scored and judgedxand used to illustrate the de sirable dairy type. It will give an unusual opportunity to become familiar with the ideal dairy cow. Lectures will be given on silos and silage, par ticular attention being given to de sirable silage rations at the present prices of feed. Xame Coincidence Unique in Deal. ALBANY, Or., April 7. (Special.) J jinjirirB' - - A peculiar coincidence In a Business deal consummated in Albany today U that the names of both partner be ginning with the same letter was not changed by the fact that one of them retired. S. C. Denny, who came to Al bany recently from Yaquina. pur chased the interest of A. J. Darling in the firm of Dugan & Darling and the firm now becomes Tmgwn Denny. Keep the Children Bright and Happy Happy youngsters must be healthy. The digestive organs of children get out of order as readily as do those of their eld ers, and the result is equally distressing. When the bowels are clogged with an accumula tion of refuse from the stomach the child naturally becomes cro and fretful from the discomfort and is often punished for temper when medical attention Is really what Is needed. The next time your child Is cross and unhappy, without ap parent reason, try giving It a mild laxative. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is a mild, pleasant tasting combination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin, and Is especially recommended for children, because of Its freedom from all opiate or narcotic drugs and Its gentle action. It Is sold in drug stores everywhere. A free trial bottle can be obtained by writing to Dr. W. B. Cald well, 453 Washington St., Monti cello. 111. 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