Morning Oregonian., February 26, 1917, Page 2, Image 2

TITE MORNTXO OREGOXIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1917.
CAREFUL BUYING IS
ONE FOOD REMEDY
FOOD RIOT LEADERS ARRESTED IN NEW If ORK.
PLANS FOR STATE
BUILDIliGSDUESOOH
New York Health Department
Says Continuance of Condi
- lions Will Be Serious.
Various Architects Will Design
Improvements Provided
by Legislature.
HOARDING NOT CREDITED
IMPROVEMENTS ARE MANY
aaaaeoMAP-
Enormous Increase In Exports Unac
companied by Added Production
and Wasteful Marketing Are
v Causes of Crisis.
NTEV YORK. Feb. 25. Enormous In
crease in the exportation of staple ar
ticles of food, without a corresponding
Increase in production, and lack of in
tilligrent economy in buying; by house
wives are ascribed by the Department
of Health of this city, in a, report is
sued tonipht, as the chief reasons for
steadily rising: prices.
The department declared "there does
not appear to be any sudden or recently
developed emergency in the food situ
ation in this city," although there has
been serious rioting1 in various parts
of the city.
While the report asserts there is
"'obviously less dependency and need
than has been common for many years
past." it also says "it is apparent that
unless the present high prices of food
are reduced or controlled, or, as an
alternative, the income of families
which now maintain themselves on $800
a year or less is increased by increase
of wages or through relief agencies,
there will be a constantly increasing
number of people whose health will be
put in Jeopardy by their inability to
buy sufficiently nourishing food at the
present prices."
No financial aid from the city could
ameliorate conditions, it was said, but
extension of the school lunch system
and the teaching of intelligent buying
"will go far to remedy such hardship
as now exists in families which are
living below a food standard which
will maintain health."
"The well-to-day may contribute
considerably to the reduction in the
high price of food," the report de
clared, "by altering habits of careless
ness and extravagance in their homes."
Figures are presented to show that
increases in exports of staple goods
have ranged from 36 per cent in the
case of mutton to 1347 per cent in the
case of cheese.
"The figures do not Indicate that
there is any hoarding of food or hold
ing of food for speculative purposes
in this city," the report said.
The report urged in conclusion sup
port of bills now before the State Leg
islature which would permit the sale
and distribution in New York City of
skim milk and remove the present r -strlctions
upon the sale of so-called
bob veal.
"No one Is going to starve," said
Governor Whitman In a statement is
sued today, "and it is foolish to assert
that anyone has to. The people have
simply got to eat what they can af
ford to eat."
DATA OX STORAGE IS SOUGHT
Chicago City and Federal Officials
Confer About Inquiry.
CHICAGO, Feb. 25. (Special.) City
and Federal officials conferred today
on plans for renewed Investigation to
morrow of the cold-storage warehouses
of the city, directing the inquiry par
ticularly at the warehouses in the
Stock Yards district.
In the "drive" which Patrick R. Hll
llard, special agent for the local branch
of the Department of Justice; Dr. J. D.
Robertson, commissioner of health and
several food inspectors and city detec
tives will launch tomorrow, their aim
is said to be to compel the heads to
submit figures on the actual amounts
of butter, eggs, vegetables, meats and
other foodstuffs now held in storage.
In particular the inquiry will be di
rected to determining the quantities
of meat in storage.
The move is a continuance of moves
instituted Saturday against the Mon
arch Refrigerator Company and several
Kouth Water Street commission firms.
This revealed the storage in one place
of 900,000 pounds of butter. 1,600,000
pounds of poultry and large quantities
of other food products.
Dr. Robertson declared he was told
by an official of one of the big cold
storage companies that hundreds of
cases of chickens now in cold storage
probably were killed 10 years ago. The
investigators were informed by em
ployes handling the foodstuffs, that
poultry, butter, eggs and meats can
he safely kept for more than that
length of time.
All the evidence which was obtained,
declared Chief of Police Schuettler, will
be submitted to the corporation coun
sel, and If it shows violations of the
"forestalling ordinance" prohibiting
the storage of foodstuffs to create an
artificial shortage with consequent
rise in prices, prosecution will follow.
Information that the Government is
seeking, said the chief, was aimed at
determining if the storage was in vio
lation of any of the Federal laws.
SOCIETY PAYS TAXI BILL
Tacorua Daughters of Revolution
Settle $700.50 Claim for $250.
TACOMA, Wash.. Feb. 25. (Special.)
Mary Ball Chapter, Dausrhters of the
TONIC FOR GROWING GIRLS
Most growing girls need a tonic,
especially during the years when they
are springing -up most rapidly and.
when their appetites are most fickle. ..
A diet of tea and candy will ruin any
girl's chances of future happiness. A
plentiful and scientifically correct diet
might meet all requirements but this is
next to impossible. Hence the need
for a tonic. Almost every doctor's
daughter is given a tonic during her
period of rapid growth but because your
daughter does not actually break down
you do not call a doctor and she gets
thin and pale, fidgets so that she can
not sit still on a chair, eats the wrong
things, eats too fast, gets too little out-of-door
exercise and perhaps faces St.
.Vitus' Dance, or a nervous breakdown.
A great responsibility rests on parents
and Dr. Williams' Pmk pilla re the
best and mo9t convenient tonic to aid
them in bringing their daughters to
healthy and happy 'womanhood. They
eupply needed elements to the blood,
and enable it to meet the unusual de
mands upon it and help to lay a founda
tion for future health.
The price of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
ia fifty cents per box. Your own drug
gist eells them or they will be sent on
receipt of price by the Dr. "Williams
Medicine Co., Schenectady, IT. Y.
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MISS MAIIIR G.15Z, LEADER OF THIS nOFSEWIVES' COMMITTEE, aSh OSTR OF THE LEADERS IX THE
KIOT WHICH TOOK PLACE FEBRUARY SO, IIK.I ARRESTED t'OIt HER ACTIVITIES.
The East Side poor, starving and unable to purchase even vegetables at their inflated prices, are rlotlnir in
New York in protest to the Mayor. Push-cart peddlers raised their prices daily until the people, unabla to keep
up the pace, bioke lopse and wrecked the carts.
Several arrests were made, certain of the leaders and. the more rebellious being: taken Into charge. Great
excitement and confusion reigned until the arrival of the police, who brought order to bear.
American Revolution, has settled the
claim for automobile hire filed against
the society by George B. Atherton. The
expenditure of 700.60 for automobile
hire was made by Mrs. Maude M. Jack
son, of Chicago, who staged a histori
cal pageant in the Tacoma Stadium,
July 4 last, for the daughters.
Mr. Atherton has compromised his
claim for $250 and Mrs. W. H. Dick
son, a member, advanced that amount
with the understanding that she would
be reimbursed. The members approved
her action and will raise the money
by private subscription. Both the
Mary Ball Chapter and the Woman's
Club-House Association were sued
Jointly tor the bill and they balked,
believing it to be exorbitant. The
pageant was a flat failure in a finan
cial way and the motor car charge was
only one of many which the women
were forced to liquidate.
HUGE WARSHIP OPPOSED
NAVY SAYS 80,000-TOX VESSEL IS
VALUELESS ALONE.
Craft Would Cost S50,0O0,0OO and Five
Would Be Required to Make Any
of Them Useful la War.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. An 80.000-
ton battleship mounting IS 18-inch
guns having a speed of 25 knots an
hour and costing $50,000,000 would be
the largest craft which tae United
States could employ, according to a
report to Congress prepared by the
Navy Department in response to a re
quest for specifications of the biggest
fighting craft that could use the Pan
ama Canal and American harbors. The
report says that such a 'vessel would
have a length of 975 feet, a beam of
108 feet, a secondary battery of 21
6-inch guns, four 21-lnch torpedo
tubes and a 12,000 mile radius of ac
tion. "A single such "vessel, however," it
adds, "would not be of great value to
the United States Navy, as it would
not be suited in unison with the other
major units of our fleet. To develop
the value of such a vessel it would be
necessary to lay down not fewer than
five."
The European war, the report says,
has as yet brought no conclusive an
swer to the question of what types
are most desirable and the general
board is not prepared to recomgmend
so radical a departure as the 80,000
ton ship would represent. The 125,
000.000 battleships asked for in the
pending Naval bill represent the great
est increase in size and power for
battleship types in any single year,
but they are to have a displacement
of only 42,000 tons, main batteries of
12 16-lnch guns and a speed of 28
knots.
GRANGE OPPOSES BONDS
Lane County Organization Urges
En gene Man for Commission.
EUGENE, Or.. Feb. 25. (Special.)-
The Lane County Pomona Grange, the
largest county grange organisation in
Oregon in proportion to population, at
a meeting held at Santa Clara yester
day adopted a resolution opposing the
issuance oi is.ouu.uoo paving bonds by
the state.
The measure before its adoption was
amended so that it was clearly ex
plained that the organization is not
opposed to application of the Bean
Barrett law which provides that the
State Highway Commission, after ex
hausting other resources, may resort
to bonding that the state may spend
dollar for dollar in meeting the terms
of the Shackelford law.
The grange urged the appointment
or il.. j. Adams, or Eugene, as a mem
ber of the State Highway Commission.
. Read The Oregonian classified ads.
RALLY IS PLANNED
Republicans of New House
May Assemble March 5.
for the funeral will be delayed pending
the arrival of .relatives living without
the state.
MANN PROBABLE VICTOR
Iicnroot Will Be Floor Leader if Il
linois Man Is Nominated . lor
Speaker Trades With In
dependents Rumored.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 25. Republican
leaders of the Houwe are planning a
"round-up" on March 6 of members of
their party elected to the next Con
gress, to discuss the Speakership and
other organization questions. The idea
will be submitted to the organization
committee of 27 tomorrow night, and
If it is approved invitations will be is
sued at once to 170 members of the
present House and 45 incoming mem
bers. Opinion Is general among Republican
leaders that Representative Mann will
be nominated for Speaker without op
position, and that Representative Len
root, of Wisconsin, will be named floor
leader if. Mr. Mann is elected. Who will
be floor leader if Mr. Mann should fall
of election is receiving little consider
ation and no discussion. With Botn
regulars and Progressive Republicans
desirous of restoring peace in their
ranks, they are not going beyond the
possibilities of victory.
A steering committee to advise with
the floor leader and keep him In touch
with the sentiment of the entire Re
publican side is being strongly urged
by Progressive Republicans. One of the
chief complaints the progressively-Inclined
members have made at the pres
ent session Is that Representative Mann
has not consulted the wishes of the Re
publican membership In regard to pend
ing legislation.
Rumors of trades for the Independent
vote, involving both Senate and House
leaders, are numerous. Many different
plans are being laid. It is said, for
capturing the independents by prom
ises of the passage of pet legislation.
Proffer of an invitation by the five
Independents to Miss Jeannette Rankin,
of Montana, the newly-elected woman
Representative, to co-operate with
them In the preliminary discussions of
the House organizations has not dis
turbed the Republicans. They profess
confidence that she will prove a "reg
ular Republican."
- Three Torpedoed, Four Bombed.
LONDON. Feb. 25. From Dutch
sources the Router Telegram Company
learns that it was the submarine IT -3
which attacked all seven Dutch steam
ers" Thursday. Three were torpedoed
outright, while German sailors boarded
the other four and placed bombs that
were exploded.
William McCoIlam Dead.
EUGENE Or., Feb. 25. (Special.)
William McCollum. aged 77, died at his
home on Spencer Creek yesterday. H
was one of the early settlers of Lane
County. He was never married.
Wing to Receiving Ward at Hospital
Most Important Construction to
Take Place at Salem Pris
on Is Vp to Voters.
SALEM. Or, Feb. -34. (Special.)
Plans for the new. state buildings which
were provided for by the Legislature
are expected to be under way soon.
The most important building work at
Salem' will ber the construction of a
wing to the receiving ward at the Ore
gon State Hospital. The Legislature
appropriated $60,000 of the $65,000
asked for that purpose. The receiving
ward was constructed av number of
years ago, but one wing was left un
built. The object of the ward is to receive
patients, examine them, and it possible
cure them before they ever ' enter the
asylum proper. In reality the ward is
considered as the State Hospital and
a patient received there, cured and
discharged has not the record of ever
having been in the asylum itself.
The bulldlnsr as t stands now is usea
only for the reception of women, and
no male patient ever has been commit
ted to that portion of the Institution.
With the construction of the new wing
It will be ready for the reception of
male patients, as well as female patients.
Ward Is Among Flaeat.
The ward Is considered one of the
finest of its kind in the United States
and when completed will go a consider
able way toward relieving the pressure
felt by the Institution in the way of the
number of Inmates.
In addition to the receiving ward, an
appropriation was made for the en
largement of the chapel and amusement
hall at the institution.
Superintendent Stetner today said
that probably the board will select the
rchitect for this work some time this
week.
Up to a few years ago a state archi
tect handled all of the architectural
work, but this year the work will be
done by various architects.
In addition to the Improvements at
the State Hospital, there aUo is a
$25,000 addition to the School for Feeble-minded,
a new pavilion at the Tu
bercular Sanatorium, a new building
for women at Eugene at the University
of Oregon, a new library building at
the Oregon Agricultural College at
Corvallis and some extensions and ad
ditions at the Monmouth Normal School.
Other Improvement Provided.
A number of betterments and im
provements were provided for at some
of the other Institutions.
The Penitentiary failed to secure any
permanent Improvements to speak of
from the last Legislature. Thla was
due mainly to the fact that the people
will vote on the question of a ne
prison at the special election to be held
in June, and if this passes the Legisia
ture felt that any permanent Improve
ments on the old structure would be
useless.
There also will be some minor perma
nent improvements at the Eastern Ore
iron Hospital at Pendleton. Including
barns and sheds.
The Oregon Soldiers' Home at Rose
burg will have a new hospital building.
to cost $22,500. and a building for baths.
Rend The Oreironlan classified ads.
DUCKS AWAKE FARMERS
Flocks Feeding on Wapato Lake at
Night Quack In Chorus.
GASTON, Or.. Feb. 25. (Special.)
The usual peace and quiet enjoyed
nightly .by residents about Wapato
Lake has been disturbed sadly of late
by vast armies of wild ducks which
have made their home on the lake.
Pioneers complain that they never saw
so many ducks with such vocal volume.
The birds can be seen rising from
the water In veritable clouds, and their
cries at night as they feed and dive
forms a continuous chorus.
Mrs. George II. Cecil Bead.
Mrs. George H. Cecil, wife of the
United States District Forester in Port
land, died yesterday at the Portland
Sanitarium, from typhoid fever. Mrs.
Cecil was a daughter of Mrs. William
Clayton, of American Falls, Idaho, and
was 27 years old. She was prominent in
musical circles in Portland. Her,
husband and daughter, Elizabeth, 5
years old, survive her. Arrangements'
Only Today, Tuesday and Wednesday
The greatest of all Alaskan pictures. Better
than "The Spoilers." A virile play of the
Klondike at the time of the gold rush.
ETHEL
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as a dance-Jiall girl in an Alaskan "Honka.
Tonic"
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White
aven "
Much of the earlier part of the photoplay has
to do with a famous Alaska dance hall and the
life of the rough and dissolute characters of
the Yukon. The action then changes to
New York and the life of the best society,
showing Miss Barrymore in the role of a
grand opera prima donna.
AND THAT 2-REEL KEYSTONE
"THE NICK OF TDIE BABY"
No Advance in Prices
Matinees 10c; Children 5c; Evenings 15c
Continuous From 10:30 A. M. Daily
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