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TIIE MORNING OKEGOXIA3T. TnUKSDAT, 'MARCH 2, 1010. SCARCITY OF RAW MATERIALS NOTED tan woue cd uj. cJ "Merchandise of U Merit Only Federal Reserve Agents Find Business Good. However, ; in Various Sections. LABOR SHORTAGE LOOMS Sliddle West Counts on Kcduced AYbeat Acreage, but Fanners Have Increased Purchasing: l'owcr. IiuilroiiUs Are Busy. WASHINGTON, March 1. Generally pood business conditions throughout the country are reflected in reports of J'ederal reserve agents made public tonight by the Federal Reserve Board. Growing scarcity of raw materials used in many American industries Is noted, however, and the Southern agents pre dict an increase of cotton acreage this year unless steps are taken to pre vent it. The Boston district reports trade generally in continued activity, with the uncertainty as to the European situation restraining "undue expansion. Unrest of labor and increasing cost of raw materials, however, are said to be disturbing factors. From New York comes the report that there are more products and work ers in that district and that the indus trial activity there is of record charac ter. Manufacturers of automobiles, tools and firearms and the rolling mills hhow the greatest increases in produc tion. On account of scarcity of raw materials, however, some houses ex pect a. shortage in merchandise stocks. Lack of Dye tuffs Felt. Steady and substantial gain through out the Philadelphia district in prac tically all lines of business is an nounced. Lack of dyestuffs is noted and raw materials are said to be ad vanning in price. Steel mills and ship yards continue busy. General advances in wages and a shortage of labor are pointed out as features of the trade situation in the Cleveland district. The labor shortage Is said to be regarded as critical in several industries. The .Richmond reports describe con ditions throughout that district as good. The cotton acreage in the dis trict, the reports say, probably will be slightly increased this year. Although February is paid to be usually a quiet month in the Atlanta district, the report says there has been little lessening of business activity. Scarcity of unnamed basic raw mate rials, the Chicago agent says, are re ceiving the earnest attention of manu facturing industries dependent upon them. Reports from the farming sec tion indicate a reduced wheat acreage this year, but the farmers are said to have an increased purchasing power. St. .Louis reports a degree of pros perity unknown for several years. Car Shortage Causes Difficulties. Cold weather has retarded grain ship ments in the Minneapolis district and to a considerable extent the lumber and wholesale business. Car shortage, the report says, is causing difficulties, l'rospects for the Spring are said to be excellent. Kansas City reports railroads taxed beyond capacity, owing largely to ship ments of last year's grain. First indi cations that the wheat crop may have been injured by the unusual weather of the early part of the year have been offset by later and more encouraging reports. Conditions in Mexico, the Pallas dis trict reports, have stimulated business In all lines in the "Western section. The weather has damaged the "Winter oats crop, and there is said to be a probabil ity that this will lead to an increase estimated at 15 per cent of the cotton acreage over that of last year. Pan Francisco reports there has been little change in conditions. Imports through that port for January exceeded all previous records by tl3.000.000. Seventy per cent of this was raw silk and wool. BAD SIDEWALKS PROBLEM Funds Are Short and Council Con siders What to Do. How to handle the problem of re pairing defective sidewalks was the question to before the City Council yesterday by Commissioner Diock. Ho ays his department has no money to tither make repairs or maintain barri cades over dangerous walks. n a re cent decision of the State Supreme Court the City Kngineer is held re sponsible for damages caused by de fective walks, provided he does not force repair or barricade the bad walks. Commissioner Baker opposed the cre ation of a fund to care for the problem declaring that experience has shown that when such money has been avail able the "Works Department has been too active in digging up grief in the way of defective walks. He said the department had tried to force recon struction of walks which apparently were in good condition. The Council took the problem under advisement. SPRINKLING WARNING GIVEN Trc-Applicatlon Vsers of Water Are Subject to Fine. "Warning against sprinkling without having filed, a sprinkling application Tor the year 1916 was issued yesterday "by the Water Bureau. The water rules provide against the use of hose before the applicant has sent in His applies lion. A penalty of $2 is provided, for violations. Sprinkling application blanks have 1een sent out to consumers with the "last quarterly hills. Be Careful in Using Soap on Your Hair Most soaps and prepared shampoos contain too much alkali, which is very injurious, as it dries the scalp and makes the hair brittle. The best thing to use is Just plain mulsified cocoanut oil. for it ij pure and entirely greaseless. It's very cheap, and beats the most expensive soaps or any thing else all to pieces. You can get this at any drug store, and a few ounces will last the while family for months. Simply moisten the hair with water and rub it in, about a teaspoonful is all that is required. It makes an abundance of rich, creamy lather, cleanses thor ousrhly and rinses out easily. The hair irles quickly and evenly, and Is soft, fresh looking, bright, fluffy, wavy, and .easy to handle. Besides, it loosens and takes out every particle of dust, dirt kuJ dandruff. Adv. The Newest Dancing Frocks Reproduced in Crepe de Chine At $8.95 Since dancing has become the dominat ing amusement of young girls as well as grown-ups, more light-colored evening frocks are required. And wise women will avail themselves of this opportunity for buying a smart little frock that will helD fill in for semi-formal occasions. A number of entirely new styles are featured here, all made of crepe de chine in white, pink, light blue, maize and Nile, that are especially suitable for small wom en and misses. Trimmings of gold lace, cream lace, flowers and ribbons, shirrings and plait ings. ' Third Floor i mm .Pill ii m 4 Our Wynall Blouses Win for Us Many New Customers Each Week At the Popular Price of $1.50 With each new shipment these popular blouses grow more attractive, and for today we are showing some very charming models made from voile in plain and figured designs. Correctly and becomingly trimmed with laces, embroidery and hemstitching all with the long sleeves and with softly rolling collars. Third Floor More New "Korrect " Skirts There is such a great variety of the very new est models that we can not attempt to describe them all. Every one new. From the ex tremely fancy to ' the simple tailored. A variety of yoke, pocket scalloped and cascade effects. Beautiful materials, faultlessly tailored, and all sizes. omc of the materials Silk Taffetas. Silk Poplins Worsted Checks Wool Velours "French Serges Awning Stripes Wool Poplins Cuddah Cloths Silk Failles Our large band skirts are more attractive than ever in all materials at all prices. $5.00 to $15.00 Third Floor. C Merch andise otCx Merit Only Your New Spring- Costume With the New Short Skirt Is Not Complete Wuhout a Pair of High Top Boots Which We Feature Here, 8V2 Inches High , At the Special Price of $5.95 Nothing smarter in footwear was ever offered at such a price as these special shoes, with their newest 8J2-inch tops, which will give your Spring suit the correct finish. In Five Different Styles Both button and lace of bronze kid. fine black kid and imitation tips, Cuban-Louie heels mid night blue kid, button style and plain-toe model fine black kid lace style with plain toes and Cuban Louie, heels and boots stitched in white. Second Floor. 1 FLOOD CURE GIVEN Engineer Would Cut Canals Across River Bends. DAMS DECLARED USELESS Proposed Shortcuts for Overflow Waters Designed Also to Serve as Boulevards During Ordinary Seasons. "WASHINGTON, March 1. What Is described as a new method of flood prevention, to be accomplished by the construction of "shallow, graduated di version canals' to connect the bends in a river to allow a straightaway flow of water at flood time, was explained to tbe House committee on flood con trol today by its inventor, John Bryan, of Yellow Springs, O. He is a second cousin of William Jennings Bryan. The committee recently returned from an inspection trip of the flood district in the Mississippi River Valley. Today's hearing was the first of a series on the subject. With the use of maps and models. Mr. Bryan ex plained that his plans, while designed for any river, can be applied to the Mississippi. Canals Designed for Peninsulas. Under Mr. Bryan's plans, canals of masonry would be constructed across peninsulas at the bends of rivers. The intake of JJie canal would be on the level with the normal surface water of the river, and at flood time the waters would be diverted from the slow, crooked, impeding natural river Channel to a straight, swift, smooth sided, level bottom channel, which, he said, would carry the excess waters away nearly 50 times faster than the natural channel would. The natural crooked river channel would be main tained, however. He explained that his method was devised under the theory that it is the accumulated water in a devious, un even, constricted channel of a river that causes the flood. Mr. Bryan warned against plana for flood protection that embraced dams, dikes and reservoirs. "As a geologist, mechanic and engineer," he said, "I beg of you never to allow another -dam to be built in the Ohio Valley. They have been tried for thousands of years and are disastrous failures. No dam in the world has been made that endures. A reservoir to catch and impound the so called Dayton flood would have to be as large as Lake Erie." "My canal would be level and clean," said Mr. Bryan, "and if paved prop erly would make a boulevard 11 months of the year across the drainage part of a city or across the neck of a peninsula. The canal can be built on the surface or subterranean." Mr. Bryan said if his plans were adopted the flooding of towns and cities would not only be prevented, but millions of acres of land would be re claimed for agricultural purposes. CITY TO BUY IN LAND Xincty-Five Parcels of Tax-Delinquent Property to Bo Disposed Of. The city will be one of the bidders this morninsr on 95 parcels of land to be offered, for sale at public auction for delinquency in payment of street and sewer assessments. The sale will be held at 10 o'clock at the City Hall. This will be the first time the city has "tried to bid for the ground. In sales heretofore many of the pieces of property offered, at auction have had no bidders. The city will finance the transaction through Its Improvement bond, funds. COURT TO VIEW HIGHWAY Contractor's Suit Xeccssitatcs Trip to .Tackson County. At the completion of the plaintiff's testimony, which should come the last ELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it 25c at all druggists. Htaslbaanid or Wife? Where the husband's salary doesn't meet the expenses in the home, whose fault is it? It must be the fault of one the husband or the wife. If it is the fault of the wife, can it be remedied, and how? If it is the fault of the husband, can it be overcome, and how? It is such big home questions as th ese, vital to husband and wife,, that The Ladies' Home Journal takes up and handles with authority. This is what makes it really a home magazine as much for the husband as for the wife. Just get the Mavch isstte of Tine Ladies HOME JOBRM2 and see how much of its contents is for men and women. It's onljrlS cents part of thi3 week. Circuit Judge Davis, who is hearing the suit of J. W. Swee ney against Jackson County for $86,000 alleged to be due for highway work, will adjourn court to make a personal trip to Jackson County, that he may become acquainted with the situation. Attorneys for both sides and engi neers will accompany the judge's party. Mr. Sweeney has contended that his contract for work on the Pacific High way was supposed to be for road work through soft earth, instead of which ho found that the majority of the ex cavation was through adobe mud, which had to be blasted In many places, caus ing a heavy loss on the contract. Three Addresses Set. The Oregon Chapter of American Architects jointly with the exten sion department of the University of Oregon will offer three ad dresses at the Kast Side Library, tonight, at 8 o'clock, which are intended to be of especial interest to builders, realty operators and insur ance underwriters. A. B. Doyle will speak on building operations, "IJegal Aesthetic Safeguards": J. A. Fouilhoux on "The Investor and the Architect." and Chester Hogue on the "Economy of Fire Protection." Keceiver for Lumber Klrm Asked. SALEM, Or., March 1. (Special.) D. A. Voght today filed suit here in the Circuit Court, asking that a receier be appointed for the Abiqua Lumber Company, capitalized at $100,000. The empress!1 PROFESSIONAL TRY-OUT ACTS GREATEST LAUGH - PRODUCIN G AFTER- f f PIECE EVER STAGED AT THE EMPRESS I II f "THE FOURTH icr DEGREE" i . BY ENTIRE EMPRESS BILL ZiUC plaintiff alleges that claims total in; $26,000 are against the company and that unless the mill is operated the creditors will be obliged to foreclose on the property, to the loss "of the stockholders, of which Mr. Voght is one. c port to Fight Road Tax Levy. NEWPORT. Or.. March 1. ("Special.) A committee of citizens of Newport has subscribed to a fund to employ an attorney to enjoin the payment of a ,006-mill road tax levy, assessed to New port by tbe County Court. Newport's charter provide that all street im provements within its limits be paid for by abutting property owners. Head The Orecronian's classified nd. Paid Checks are indisputable receipts. Pay you accounts with checks on this bank. It is the clean, quick, safe, dignified way. lumbermen5 National bank Fifth and Stark Capital and Sarplaa l,2O0,0O0.
