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I THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1917. OLYMPIA SOLOHS HEAR GENERAL BELL Legislature, in Joint Session, Applauds Argument for . Universal Training. ond semester will be Monday. January 29. Several new subjects will be taken up during the next semester, chief of which are solid geometry, civics, com mercial geography and botany. With "the close of the semester Miss Eva Struggles" connection with the fac ulty will cease, she having resigned to go to New York, where she will take up further studies in Columbia University. reception will be tendered for her at the home of Miss Gladys Neal. on Friday evening. The attedance at the high school this semester averages 165 tudents. an increase over last year or 20 per cent. VOTE OF THANKS IS GIVEN Monroe Doctrine, Panama Canal and Foreign Trade Require Army to Hold Respect for Rights, Speaker Declares. OLYMPIA. Wash.. Jan. 17. (Special.) Major-General J. Franklin Bell, United States Army, told a Joint session of the Washington Legislature and crowded galleries today that he favored the National Guard, but be lieved experience of the past six months had demonstrated something is wrong with the system. He declared it unfair to the men who enlist to protect the lives and property or those who render no such service, and asked why the volunteer should be called upon in time of war any more than "you, you and you," desig nating members sitting before him as he spoke. In 40 years' service, he said, he knew of no instance of a regu lar soldier shooting a striker. Argument Is Applauded. General Bell argued for universal training, which was vigorously ap plauded. This he declared would not be militarism, but would in 20 years, with one year's training to each man. give the nation a reserve army of 20.- 000.000 trained men fit and able to bear arms, and put the country be yond fear of foreign attack. Characterizing the American ' stand ard of living as the highest In the world. General Bell said it could not be maintained and passed on to pos terity without retaining the nation's share In foreign trade. He mentioned trade with China particularly, show lng that where the United States com manded J50.000.000 In commerce with Manchuria 10 years ago, the volume had since dwindled to $1,000,000. "Without the known possession of force that could be used when. neces sary, he declared, the United States could command no foreign considera Hon where the plans of any other first- class power are concerned. Although the most altruistic people on earth he said the rest of the world regarded the United States as a nation of dol lar chasers. The time has come. Gen eral Bell declared, for the Nation to think with its head instead of its heart. Army Does Not Want War. "The Army does not want war!" he exclaimed, to cheers. "I have been through three wars, and if another should commence 1 stand the chance of leaving a widow without an Income. But if war must come, we of the Army want to be able to do the work effi ciently. If we think we are now In that condition we are living In a fool's paradise. "How can we hope to maintain the Monroe doctrine without the force of arms, if necessary to use it? Or pro tect the Panama Canal? Or maintain the open door? I -am American enough to believe we would fight whenever we thought it necessary. While many in stances or was are deplorable, war ex ists everywhere on earth, in court rooms, religious conventions, daily lire. "Never once in the long struggle be tween classes and masses has liberty been won except at the point of the eword. It carried freedom to Cuba, and some are sitting in this chamber who helped take- civilization Into one of the darkest oligarchies of the Orient, with their Krags and Springf ields. Trained Men Best Safeguard. "No matter whether we want to fight or not, circumstances may any time arise that will force us to. The sures way to avoid it is to have fit and ready so many trained men that no nation will care to assail us. ueneral Hell mentioned the new manuever sue at American Lake as the best place In the United States for such a post, and declared its establish ing there of Importance to every man, woman and child on the Pacific Coast. He was given , an extended period of applause at the close, and a Joint vote f thanks, to which he responded: "The heart has no tongue." In opening re marks General Bell said the Invitation to address the Washington Legislature was the first of the kind that had been extended to an Army officer. Following the address it Is under stood that General Bell Indorsed Representative Zednick's bill to estab lish military training in public schools. UNION HIGH NO. 2 GAINS Enrollment of 165 Students Shows Increase of 2 0 Per Cent. GRESHAM, Or., Jan. 17. (Special.) The first, semester examinations of Union High School No. 2 will be held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, January 24, 25 and 26, and the present feraester will close on Friday, January 26. The date of the opening of the sec- DRAINAGE TALKS PLANNED O. A. C. Expects to Give Demonstra tions Tomorrow and Saturday. GRESHAM, Or.. Jan. 17. CSpecial.) Professor J. E. Larson, of the Oregon Agricultural College, wil conduct two drainage demonstrations on farms here this week one at the farm of a. M. Davis, at Hurlburt, beginning at 10 o'clock tomorrow, and one on Saturday afternoon, commencing at 1:30, on the farm of L. II. Louderback, at Pleasant Home. Both gatherings will be in the na ture of community meetings, and Mr. Larson will take up and thoroughly demonstrate the best methods of de termining where to place ditches and the best methods to dig them and lay the tile, using the field as an illustra tion. After the demonstration Proles sor Larson will visit at other farms where drainage is needed and proposed systems will be laid out. $570,304 ASKED FOR PACIFIC HIGHWAY Olympia Houses Appear to Fa vor Plan for Completing Road to Oregon Line. EDUCATIONAL FIGHT IS ON attempt at harmonizing the situation, instead of attempting to force the issue by drastic atcion. . Much discussion ensued. H. J. Faust, who called the meet ing and acted as its temporary chair man, stated that city creameries have & grievance in price cutting by country creameries, but he also deprecated the present alleged method of fixing prices. Mr. Deckebach and others suggested securing an agreement so that some standard variation between the price of butterfat and cubes could be estab lished, applying to all creameries alike, and It was suggested that such a plan would remove any action from, the op eration of the anti-trust laws. City Price-Cutting Charged. "We want purely business competi tion baaed on quality and the law of supply and demand, rather than an artificial value based upon prices fixed by a few men," seemed to be the eon census of opinion of those at the meet ing. In response to the statement that country creameries cut prices, the as sertion was made that Portland cream eries cut nrices. the assertion was Poll Tax Is on Proposal to Increase i made that Portland creameries have no hesitancy In cutting prices to gain a customer. LAZY-HUSBAND BILL READY Douglas County Prosecutor Sends Measure to Legislature. EOSEBURG, Or., Jan, 17. (Special.) District Attorney George Neuner has sent a copy of the "lazy husband" bill to Salem, where it will be Introduced in the Legislature by a member of the Douglas County delegation. The bill provides that when a husband willfully deserts his wife and children and leaves the state he can be brought back and prosecuted on a felony charge. For husbands who are merely shift less and neglect to support their de pendents, the law provides that they may be fined. Imprisoned in the County Jail, or released on furnishing a suffi cient bond guaranteeing that they will pay into the courts a specified sum or ltem the county's efforts will be cen money mommy. j.ne out was arawn tered on the greater project. n V District A ttnrnpv Npunpr nn rp. I Millage $18,000 Allowed to Cover Gillies' Shortages After Long Wrangle. OLYMPIA, Wash.. Jan. 17. (Special.) The Ilonse recount committee late tonight voted to unseat J. J. Cameron, Democrat, and seat W. G. Duncan, Re publican. Mr. Cameron had been certified on lead of three. The recount selves Duncan a lead of nine. OLYMPIA. Wash.. Jan. 17. A total of $370,304 for completion of the Pacific Highway between Chehalis and Van couver is set aside in the State High way Commission's budget, as submitted to the road committees of House and Senate. There is apparently unanimous sentiment in both houses in favor of finishing the main highway to the south state line. It is regarded as certain that the expenditure recom mended will be authorized, with little change. From Lewis County south the legis lative delegations this session are agreed upon working for the Pacific Highway first. Lewis County will ask for $30,000 for a bridge across the Cowlitz at Rlffe, where five lives have been lost In the past two years in ferry disasters, but aside from this The new organization also- went on record as- endorsing compulsory pas teurization in the manufacture of but ter, and registered a protest against Legislative changes in the status of the dairy and food commission officers. A committee was named to follow legislation affecting the creamery in terests, and another to perfect organ ization permanently for an owners' and managers' association, and to report to another meeting to be held not later than two weeks jrom today. - BUTTER FAT AVAR IS ENDED Hood River Creamery Pays Dairy- men 39 Cents a Pound. -HOOD RIVER, Or.. Jan. 17. (Spe cial.) With peace restored between the grocers of the city and the direc tors of the Hood River Creamery, the latter are paying this week 39 cents pound for butterfat. This will, it Is stated net local dairymen a greater sum than they would secure by ship ping their cream to outside points. The creamery men say that all Hood River dairymen, except a few ranchers In the Upper Valley, are now shipping their product to the local creamery. quest of the prosecuting officers of the state.' Other recommendations In the budget ask for $135,000 for the Olympia High way between Thurston and Clallam HANNERY TO RF RFRII1I T counties, $65,000 additional for work UHlVWCm IUDC nLDUIL I between Mud Bay and Elma and $74,664 lor the highway northeast trom Lake Quinault. On the National Park High way $80,000 is recommended for RABBIT WAR IS FORECAST GOVERNMENT AGENT HERE TELLS OF EXTERMINATION PLANS. Gresham Organization Outlines Its Plans for Coming Season. GRESHAM, Or., Jan. 17. (Special.) At a meeting of the directors of the Gresham Fruitgrowers Association Monday night Theodore Brugger was elected president; L. E. Towle, vice president; James Elkington, secretary treasurer, and Mr. Towle manager. Work toward the task of making the cannery a success next season is now on in full swing and a number of committees are busy securing new stock for the cannery and making plans for its rebuilding at as early a date as is possible, New and improved machinery of all penditure between La Grande and Park Junction, and $50,000 between Neman and Ocean Beach. In total appropriation recommended the Pacific Highway, between Chehalis and Vancouver, far exceeds all other individual allotments, its nearest ap proach being an assignment of $378,268 to the Sunset Highway, between Waterville and Creston. Southwestern Washington members who have seen the budget are jubilant tonight over the prospect of speedily completing the Paciflo Highway to the Oregon line. Whether an attempt wil be made at this session to have the state take the needed kinds will be put into use I over the new Columbia River bridge and it is expected that besides canning bond issue is considered unsettled .by fruit the cannery win be able to can Senator is. L. Jrencn, wno nas lao vegetables, chief of which will be beans I matter In charge. and corn. I Following a long wrangle over re sponsibility for administration of the Influctrlal InanranfA fund, thn Senate REAMES ON LIQUOR PROBE Uday Pd Senator French's ap- a- - o lle mnr. tin (ha OilltOS Portland Federal Attorney Starts on defalcations. Duties at Seattle. The higher educational rignt over . lncreasea mmage w wijcuci morning In the Senate when Senators SEATTLE, Wash.. Jan. 17. Thirteen Wray and Landon- introduced several indictments, 12 open and one secret, bills carrying out educational survey were returned here taday by the United suggestions and fixing the levy at 1.90, States grand jury. The charges in volve only minor offenders, most of whom are accused of having violated Federal laws in connection with alleged sales of liquor. Clarence L. Reames. United States District Attorney for Oregon, detailed here by the Department of Justice to as already introduced in the House. 92 Poll Tax Proposed. Senator Palmer, of King, added an other angle to the educational situa tion by independently introducing a bill levying a poll tax of $2 a head on every Inhabitant of the state be tween the ages of 21 ana bu, tne pro- R. A. Ward Is Interested In Possibility That Hides of Rodents Can Be Used In Hat Manufacture. The plans of the Government for the extermination of rodent pests in Oregon and their connection with th hat industry were explained yesterday by R. A. Ward, of the United States Biological Survey, who is at the Hotel Imperial for a short time on his way to Klamath County. "There has been a great deal of dis cussion aroused by the proposal to sell jackrabbit bides to hatters," said Mr. Ward yesterday, "and a price of 18 cents a pound has been offered for the dried pelts. This price is very low, since a dried pelt only weighs a couple of ounces, and I doubt If the sale of hides will ever be a paying proposition. "But I am interested In the offer of the hatters as a possible aid in the work of exterminating jackrabbits. . A sum of money realized on the sale of jackrabblt skins can be applied to ex tending a work which is of great ben efit to Oregon farmers. I Just for warded four bales of pelts from Red mond to Philadelphia yesterday, and hope that they will compare favor ably with the material which was for merly shipped from abroad. "Last year I directed the work of killing 75,000 jackrabbits in Crook County at a cost of $700. They have estimated that the losses by rabbit depredations during 1914 was $75,000 in Crook County alone, and that the slaughter of the rabbits In this state will be of untold advantage to the farmer. "The number of rabbits has increased rapidly on account, of the campaign which has been waged against the coy- assist United States District Attorney ceeds to be used for higher educational otes, which are the principal enemies Clay Allen in the investigation of alleged widespread illicit liquor traffic. spent this afternoon in conferring about his proposed work with Allen. Mr. Reames will begin active partlclpa tlon in the Investigation tomorrow, BELGIUM TO BE TOPIC Louvain Professor to Speak Before Progressive Business Slen Today. Professor Albert von Hecke. former professor of civil engineering at the University of Louvain. Belgium, and who was in that city at the time of Its first occupation by the German army, will arrive In Portland this morning. He is to be the principal speaker at the weekly meeting of the progressive Business Men s Club lunch eon this noon at the BenBon Hotel. His subject will be "The Belgian Peo ple: Before, During and After the War. He will lecture tonight at the Unl versity Club and will tell of his inti mate knowledge of Belgian affairs. Both lectures will be illustrated with slides. WORN OUT MOTHER TELLS OF BABY'S PIMPLY ECZEMA Became Hard Crust Like Scale. Very Irritating and Itched. Kept Awake. Cuticura Healed. "When my baby girl first became ill I noticed a tiny pimple on one 'of her cheeks. 1 paid no attention till it became worse, and I was told it was eczema. The pimples I Became red and hnally spread over her face and became a bard crust like a scale. It was very irri tating and itched a good deal, and she was disfig ured while she had it. She kept pit awake nights and I got dis course ed and worn out. "When I read o Cuticura Soap and Ointment I sent for a sample. 1 pur chased more, and in Six weeks she was healed." (Signed) Mrs. Robert Copps, 160 W. Central Ave., St. Paul, Minn., August 23, 1916. While Cuticura works wonders in most cases of skin troubles its properties are so mild and so delicately combined that it is also ideal for every-day use in the toilet, bath and nursery. For Free Sample Each by Return Mail address post-card: "Cuticura, Dept. H, Boston." Sold everywhere. PICTURES AID CONVICTION Warden Uses Camera on Dog Chas ing Deer Over Hills. expenses. He rigures me las woum yield SI, 000,000 annually. Another l,oou.uuu wouia accrue m state revenue, benator maimer states. i bill he introduced today raising the minimum pleasure automooiie li cense fee from S3 to S10 per year. Motor trucks are included at license rates running from S10 up to S250 a year for six-ton- machines. Special permission is required and special charges are tixea ror nauung extra.' ordinarily heavy loads over highways. Representative westtaii s resolution submitting the question of whether a constitutional convention is desired to ik. cor, oral election of 1918 passed to third reading in tne House toaay him is expected to find an unoDSiruciea road through the Senate. If adopted and sustained In the election the con vention will be called In 1919 and the new constitution submitted in 1920. DAIRYMEN MAKE CHARGES (Continued From First Page.) a bill to establish a state market in Portand, with branches and ramifica tions throughout the state to equalize and regulate prices, and he asserted that some sort or market legislation would be introduced at the present ses sion. I don t believe in begging the Port land Produce Exchange to give us a crumb. Let's tell them what we want. If they show us we are wrong, all right; if they don't, and cannot meet us, then we should go out and get what we want, regardless. The law of supply and demand is now a secondary factor in fixing the market. The prices are raised when some people In Portland see fit to raise them, but If butter is shipped in It of the jackrabbits. "The campaign of extermination is to be carried on even more extensively in Lake, Crook and Harney counties, where the Jackrabblt pest has been exceedingly expensive in the last few years, county agricultural agents are to co-operate in the work, and a number of organizations are to be invited to assist. Mr. Ward will leave for Klamath Pnnntv nhArtlv whAm hit 1 a scheduled i""""- to deliver lectures before at least 20 different organizations In the interest of Ute rabbit-extermination campaign. ofe N.EW-YORK .LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY5 316 & 343 BROADWAY NEWjrpRK .CITY TO THE "POLICY-HOLDERS AND THE PUBLIC; A brief of thechiefactivities, of this Company'duringlQltf runs; as follows New Paid Business . . .. . , ... . ... $263048,300100 - Of.thi3 total .$239,090,873JwasV secured in'the United States. Total Income ,.: . . ... .. ... .. . . ! $138559,395.79 . From New Premiums . . c. .... ..... .-. .r.T... xjLi $10,241,497.43 -From Renewal Premiums.. . .VTV.,...,.t.Mn. S82.843.015.14 From Interest and Rents....... t $38,108,768.16 From miscellaneous sources (exclusive of - increase in Book Value of Assets) - $7,366,115.06 x.r.T.T..-.T- -I $29,332,346.32 c..T..-.:.'. Sll.384.424.69 .r.-.TT-.r.-.-. $19,695,355.3 r-v-oc-$19,551,361.00 et-e-:.-,-.:.-.3?i-- v--v,, . $1,414,154.02 , ,37,497.00 Total Payments' to Policy-holders In Death Losses . .-r...-.-In Endowments .-.-rrr In Dividends .. .vrrr? ' In Surrender Values . In Anrfunjes. .' r. . In Disability Claim . Significant, Facts! Mortality Ratereduced Expense Rate reduced Interest Rate increased New Business increased Invested Durin the .Year in Bonds' and Mortgage Loans To pay 5.26. 'Added to Legal Reserves . . ... . . . r Market Value" of Assets, "Dec.31, 1916 .., . s. , ..j t a Legal Liabilities .. .( .' . . :i v. - ., ... . . Reserved for DividendsandjContingeneies ... :., t., t.4 f Outstanding Insurance. S81,415;i38.36 $70,717,602.17 - - '$2,511,607,274.00 f $21,676,393.00 $866,988,841.57 $728,226,426.34 $138,762,415.23 Represented by 1,228,601 "policies. Tlio"actnalvrnortality .of the Company expressed'in the per'cen which it bears to the- expected death losses according-to the tables of mortality adopted by the Slate for valuation purposes through a period of years is.as follows: 1912 Actual cjea ilr losses v76 of he " expected " . 1913 Actual death losses 73 of the " expected 1914'Actual de5lh losses 73 of the " expected " (5 mos. of war) .1915 Actual 7Jeath losses 73 of the. " expected " (12 mos. of war) 1916 Actual death losses 71 of the "expected " (12 mos. of war) The' Seventy-Second Annual Statement of the Company will' be filed at tnice with the Department of Commerce in Washington and with each State of the United States and each country where we do business. .A brief of that stalemenlwilLbc.sent gratis, to, any person asking for.it - - , DARWIN P.' KINGSLEY. PrttidaU will be completed and ready for final consideration by the City Council at tomorrow morning's session. Unless some new -problems arise the assess ment probably will be adopted at that time. Property owners .have objected to the method of distributing the cost. The revision will decrease the assess ments of lots off Union avenue and will increase those fronting on Union avenue. Portland Man Killed at Baker. ' LA GRANDE. Or.. Jan. 17. (Special.) Art Jorsrenson, a student brakeman. was run over by a Bwltch .engine and killed. Jerry Klmmell, of La Grande, a friend of the Portland man, caused him to come to La Grande with the offer of a Job on the railroad. Mr. Kimmeil will accompany the body to Portland, where the parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Jorprenson. live. 1 1IEN BAXDON. Or.. Jan. 17 rsnl.l -i nomas, aeputy state game war- uen, assisted py uu aeputy. Jack Mann, nave caused the arrest of A. D. Gross and Fred Gross, brothers, of this rirv on the charge of hunting and running deer with dogs. The game warden obtained snnnstint cannot be sold at the Increased price. pictures of both the deer and the dog The prices are raised because the people as tney were going over the sand hills near tne beach four miles south of hera. A. D. Gross was convicted by a Jury In Justice Wade's court here, but has not. yet received his sentence. The case against Fred may be taken to Coquille ior nearing. who fix them have butter on hand and the price remains boosted until that butter is off their hands. "it will be necessary to remove som LANE PIONEERS OF '53 DIE David O. Brace and Mrs. Johanna Hanson Succumb at Eugene. EUGENIE, Or., Jan. 17. (Special.) David G. Bruce and Mrs. Johanna Han son, pioneers who crossed the plains to Lane County In 1853, died here today. Mr. Bruce was 83 years old, a. native of Indiana, and veteran of the Civil War. Me is said to have been the last survivor of the party with which he crossed the plains and which was on the verge of starvation when people from Eugene, hearing of their plight, went to meet them at Diamond Peak, southeast of the city. Mr. Bruce was never married. His nearest relative is a niece, Mrs. Mar garet Houston, of Portland. Burial will be at Junction City Friday. Mrs. Hanson, 88, came to America when 8 years did. She was born in Tipperary, Ireland, In 1828. Mrs. Han son was the mother of 14 children, nine of whom survive. They are: G. M. Hanson, of Modesto, Cal.; Mrs. G. W. Huston, of Santa Cruz, Cal.; Mrs. J. S. Medley, of Eugene; E. Hanson, Eugene; Mrs. H. B. Miller, of Reno, Nev.; Mrs. E. W. Wallace, Portland: Mrs. D. W. Bennett, Roseburg; Frank Hanson and Mrs. R. E. Gross, of Eugene. 'A factors from the Portland market be- Assessments' Revision Nearly Ready fore we can harmonize the country and I the city creameries." I Revision of assessments for the con- F. G. Deckebach, of Palem. urged anlstruction of the Union avenue viaduct MARGULISES FINED $1000 Liquor Importations Admitted Plea Is Changed. and William Margulis and eon. Milton Margulis. pleaded guilty yesterday be for Federal Judge Bean to the charge of conspiracy to ship quantities of liquor Into Oregon in mlsbranded con tainers and paid a fine of $1000. They had already entered a plea of not guilty, which was withdrawn at their request and the plea of guilty substi tuted. The shipment in question came into Oregon in July from the establishment of Margulis and his son in San Francisco. Cured Her Son ot a Severe Cold Nominations Are Approved. WASHINGTON, Jn. 17. A favorable report recommend-.ng confirmation by the Senate of all members of the ship ping board nominated by President Wil son was ordered today by the com merce committee. "About three years ago my son Lawrence caught a severe cold. Taking a friend's advice I got a botde of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and by the time he had taken that one bottle of it all symptons of his cold had gone." Mrs. J. T. Dayton, Zanesville, Ohio. i S Your Friends Will Praise the AEOLIAN PLAYER PIANO CJ One of the tests of a musical instrument is what your friends think of it You want a Player Piano that you can play with genuine pride when company comes in you want their approval of your good judgment. - CJ The -Aeolian Player Piano is positive in its quality. It is impossible to here enumerate all its features the instantly responsive pneumatics, the ease of pumping, the complete and efficient devices for expression control, and others by the score. Come in and let us explain why it is so different from the scores of medium priced players now being offered to the public. Aeolian Player Pianos $440 and $495 your present piano accepted as part payment with easiest terms on the balance. . We also carry SleinTvay and other Pianos. 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