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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. FRIDAY APRIL 2T. 1917. $250,008,000 LOST II! WHEAT WASTAGE iJiT!iiiiriTrTiiiiiiifiMiiiiiTiiiiiiiiriTiifiiiiiifiiiriiiii!iifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiii!iiiitiiiii!finii iiiiiiiiiiiiiriiTiiiiiiiifiiiiiin 1 llllIlllllllIlllllllllillllllllHllllIillllllllllltllillllllllltillllllllllilllll llllliUlllUllilllllll Annual Cost of Rats Alone Es timated at Not Less Than 50,000,000 Bushels. , The Word of the Hour and the STOP LEAKS, IS PLEA 0 I.liSilii lliiiilil 1 1 3B - u TMMIFT Millers Said to Let Considerable Grain Escape jnd Total Ixsa In Country Is Said to Be 100,000,000 Bushels. Tf all the wheat that Is wasted In this country every year through preventable causes, could be saved, the price of grain, bread and other bakery prod ucts would be materially reduced, say the bakers and grain merchants. Unofficial estimates place the pre ventable wastage at approximately 100,000,000 bushels a year. Including waste In milling, waste of stale bread, wants In distilleries and waBte by rats. Fully one-half of this Is consumed by rats. The rat problem . always has been a serious one end cannot be reme died over night, but the necessities arising from the war and high prices doubtless will cause some concerted action to stop this particular leak. In recent years there has been much progress in making city grain elevators ratproof. Elevators at nrtlroad ter minals and at waterfronts where grain Is loaded into vessels for export are protected almost absolutely from the rat pest, but much Improvement can be accomplished along this Una in the rural districts. The average country grain elevator Is as full of boles as the proverbial sieve. Rats enjoy a year-round feast at those places. Loss Is 50,000,000 Bnshela. While It is entirely impossible to es timate the amount of grain that goes to waste through this channel, unof ficial compilations by Government agents and other authorities place It, In round numbers, at 00,000,000 bushels annually. If the Federal Government Is going to take hold of food production in this country, it is presumed that It will turn Its attention to tltia, among the numer ous other pressinjg problems that de mand attention. With wheat sellrng at $2.50 a bushel, a drain of 50,000,000 bushels is not to be overlooked. Another considerable leak that al ready Is getting some attention at Its source Is the stale bread waste. Heretofore the bakeries have been taking all the unsold bread from gn cerers and other retailers in exchange for fresh bread at par. The stale bread has been sold by the bakeries themselves at half price, or at any old price, for chicken feed or hog feed. It is estimated ..m fully 7 per cent of the aggregate bread production thus was converted from human food Into animal food. Unofficial figures, place the aggre gate loss of wheat, represented by this return of ' per cent of the loaves to the bakeries, at 11,000,000 bushels an nually. But bakeries now refuse to ac cept the old bread from the grocers at par. Stale Bread Sella. Experience has demonstrated that- a great many are willing to buy the day old bread as readily aa the fresh. This practice, it is estimated, has cut down the loss from this source to 2 to 3 per cent of the total, which would leave the total wastage of flour through this channel approximately 8,000,000 to 4,500,000 bushels, which still Is a con siderable item. The waste, of wheat In the distilling trade is estimated at 1,000,000 bushels annually. This Is a net loss of valu able food stuff Into whisky. With tho growing agitation for National prohi bition, especially as a war measure, it Is probable that this leak will be plugged. Another material loss Is the practice of the millers arising, of course, from public demand of using only a part of the wheat kernel for flour. It la estimated that only from to 80 per cent of the grain goes Into the best grades of commercial flour. Approxi mately 15 per cent goes into the lower grades of flour and the remainder Into bran, shorts, middlings and other by products. If people can be educated to eat whole-wheat bread, much of this can be saved. FESTIVAL PLEA IS MADE Outstanding Obligations of $3500 Argument Against Abandonment. Outstanding obligations In the neighborhood, of 13500, partly spent and partly contracted for by the Rose Festival directorate, is one of the sub stantial reasons, according to E. E. Larimore, president of the Rose.Fesj- tival Association, why tne annual iete should not be abandoned this year. He points to the evident fact that if the Festival is given up for thi year, the subscriptions made toward paying for it will, of course, have to be returned, who, then, he asks, is to pay this $35007 Home Valley Boys Enlist. HOME VALLEY, Wash., April 26. (Special.) Joe Meneice and Hugh Hutcheson, representing the first re crults from here, left for Portland yes terday to enlist in the Coast Artillery. Both these young men have been stu dents of the Stevenson High School. Mr. Meneice has also been attending the-Portland Y. M. C. A. electrical en gineering department for the past year. ifiOTH DAUGHTER You who tire, easily; are pale hag lrd and worn: nervous or irritable: who are sub ject to fits of melancholy or 1 1 h e blues." get your blood examined for Iron defici ency. T HXATED IBON taken khree times a Lv.i v after .rSjsls will increase your strenpt'iand' ftt.rance 100 per cent in twa eks' r ,jrl many cases. Ferdinc King, n an X - guri.nte of , c r Bumtr funded. li AcV'fl uiually pmr g tji? flv-cratii tab tu to thr imjSfr rmUw bxi EN ! ERSfV F. King. M.R jf. 1 vr. w '7 . . i-. , ' V , , X $ i, : i r ' - - 4 I - .--, - K y' - " " I ' - ' ' . ' ' ' - : , 1 I ... " ' i N . " x . - i $ t'"Z J . - s I vsarn wzSis0 s ? awta r TODAY'S FILM FEATURES, Sunset Douglas Fairbanks, "The Lamb." Peoples Ethel Clayton, . "The Bondage of Fear." Star Crane Wilbur, Th Paint ed Lie." Majestic Alice Joyce and Harry Morey, "Womanhood." Columbia Pauline Frederlok. "Sapho." Globe Mae Marsh, "Her Con doned Sin." Circle "Adventures of horty Hamilton." Star. T HE PAINTED LIE," the photo play which marks the return to the screen of Crane Wilbur, matinee idol, has plot and action suffi cient for several five-reel productions. It's an engrossing tale of the National Guard, artists' models, love. Jealousy, dueling, circumstantial evidence and murder. The malignant power of Jealousy and the peril of circumstantial evidence are tho baslo themes of "The Painted Lie," the first of a series of Wilbur specials to be released under the general title The Morals of Men." In this film of rather hectic developments Wilbur, the author and director as well as star. Is supported by Mae Gaston. Harrish In graham, .Ida Lewis and Marie Cor teaux. Wilbur Is Lieutenant Greyton. of the National Guard, and engaged to Diana Welland, a social favorite. Diana poses for Karl Von Errio, a famous portrait painter who Is Greyton's enemy. Von Errlc's familiarity be comes insulting, and Diana leaves the studio. Then the painter uses the head and shoulder portrait of- Diana on tho undraped figure of Maria, his model, and exhibits the result at his club. Tho Infuriated Greyton attacks the artist and a duel results. In which Von Errlc is wounded. He is later killed by Maria, the model whom he had used against Diana, and then had abducted by gangsters, only to be res cued by Greyton and his g-uardsmen. Greyton is accused of the murder, and only saved from the death penalty by the confession of Maria. A cartoon comedy. "Bringing TJd Father"; an Interesting and educa tional picture showing the manufac ture or buttons, and Animated News Weekly of unusual features, showing many patriotic happenings, complete the programme. Peoples. Ethel Clayton, who has scored tre mendous photoplay successes in such film offerings as "The Great Divide" and "Dollars and the Woman," and Is one of the most popular of the stars in the William A. Brady constellation, 13 the central figure in the World's latest photodrama, "The Bondage of I' ear." This hve-reeler is a sensa tional tale of a woman's past and how she kept Its doors closed, featured by the splendid acting of Miss Clayton and Arthur Ashley. Miss Clayton Is cast in the role of Vesta, a country lass who marries a millionaire. Dick, an old lover, keeps up the pursuit of Vesta and visits her at night at a hunting lodge in the mountains after the husband has left for the city. Skinny, the burglar, re markably well portrayed by Ashley, Happens along, too. and when he is attacked by Dick, the burglar draws a gun ana there is a dead man. Skinny disposes of the body. Incidentally scene of superb photography, and when Vesta has returned to the city he be gins to blackmail her. And he keeps on doing it until Vesta reaches the point where she can stand it no longer. Then. one night when he enters her house she kills him. The police be lieve that she did it In self-defense and she did after a certain fashion. The support, in addition to Ashley, includes Jonn Bowers, Kockcllfre Fel lowes and Frances Miller and William Nash, the last two furnishing some DiacKiace comedy. "Ring Rivals" is the title of the latest two-reel L-KO comedy, a really iunny siapsticKer with soma uproari ous moments. Sunset. Douglas Fairbanks and his popular brand of comedy and athleticisms, with an injection or a mild love interest, are usually sufficient to peck photo- playhouses. But in "The .Lamb," the Sunset's week-end feature, not only is Fairbanks presented in his usual force ful and sunny stunts, but the produc tion has a spectacular and patriotic in terest. The fight between the Yaqui Indians and the Lamb and the rescue by the United States cavalry are quite as thrilling as some of the stirring moments of The Birth f a Nation. Incidentally D. W. Griffith, producer of "The Birth of a Nation" and "Into! erance," supervised the battle scenes. "Dougie" makes his appearance as a dandified weakling of New York, a mild and rather helpless youth who loves Mary (Seena Owen), but fails to make a hit with her when opposed by Bill Cactus, a young Arizona giant, who rescues her from drowning. Mary goes West to a house party at Bill's Arizona ranch and the Lamb follows. The Lamb misses his train at a West ern stop, is manhandled by crooks and left for dead on the desert. He wakes up, dodges snakes, a gtla monster and cactus, and in his headlong course runs into a befoundered aeroplane and avi ator from the aforesaid ranch. Tney are surrounded by Yaquts, who take the Lamb and the aviator captive and lead them across the Mexican border. The aviator is murdered and the Lamb imprisoned. There he finds Mary, who has been kidnaped by the redskins. Bill Cactus shows his yellow streak when he fails to rescue Mary, but the Lamb rises to the occasion, gets hold of a machine gun and holds off the Yaquis until a detachment of United States cavalry arrives. Thus the Lamb is proved no weakling and Mary falls Into his arms. 'His Father's Footsteps," a Ford Sterling-Keystone comedy, and Burton Holmes Travelogue also are screened. Columbia To her "Zaza" and "Bella Donna" Pauline Frederick has added another famous screen character. Her latest characterization Is that of Sapho In Famous Players screen Interpretation of the famous Daudet story of the Parisian courtesan. Miss Frederick's interpretation of the powerful role is not that of the typi cal vampire. Her Sapho Is a woman essentially sens.ial, but appealingly hu man and sympathetic, and at times el- most spiritual. The flower girl, who leaves a drink-crazed father and ac cepts the offer of a famous sculptor to become his model, has no thought of wrong, and her lurid life Is a result of environment. So she Is the creature of many until a real love enters her life, only to be wrecked against the ghosts of ber past. The screen "Sapho" is somewhat dif ferent from tho "Sapho" of story and stage. Fannie Legrand, the flower girl who as Sapho is known as one of the most immoral women of fiction, reforms in - the photoplay, and after witnessing the marriage of her lover with his fiancee of the days before his affair with the model, repents. Is sweet ened and chastened by the realization of what true love is, and dedicates her life to the Red Cross and the relief of human suffering. Miss Fredericks splendid portrayal of the role is supported by characteri zations of unusual artistry. Thomas Melghan Is Jean, the country boy; Frank Losee is Caoudal, the sculptor; John Sainpolls Is Dejoie. the poet, and Pedro de Cordoba is the engraver who forges to buy Jewels for Sapho. An interesting two-reel subject deals wltn the National convention of the Knights and Ladies of Security, held at Toledo, O., recently. Majestic Commodore J. Stuart Blackton, who personally supervised the production of "Womanhood, the Glory of the Na tion, had the co-operation or tne Thirteenth Coast Defense Command, N. Y. X. G.. some regulars from Fort Wadsworth, and an army of "extras." The men went actually into camp and lived there for two weeks under strict militarv conditions. Besides the soldiers, commodore Blackton had a battery of regulation three-inch United States Army field guns. Considering the magnitude or tne proceedings and tho risk involved In the perilous nature of the play war fare, there were no downright serious injuries. A man crawling out of a trench with one of his teeth in the palm of his hand; another carefully taking the heel of his conqueror out of his eye at the bottom of a body-choked pit in order to stand Jip; still another staggering out of the maze of barbed wire holding his aching brow tnese describe the ordinary casualties amoi if the rank and file. Director Earle, how ever, got a bad bump from a flying rock. Harry Morey, as an, example of sardonic fate, was not in a certain vio lent scene and yet suffered injury. He was. in fact, seated in his automobile a hundred yards away trom tne action, when a missle. upheaved by a mine ex plosion, hit him in the face and laid him bleeding against the cushions of the car. Fortunately it left him able to take part in a later scene, in which he met not the least in rortune. sur geon Costigsn, of the Coast Defense Command, congratulated the Vita graphers for their luck in depriving him of any major surgical practice. Screen Gossip. When Selznlck threatened suit for Infringement tho Flora Finch comedy title was changed from "War Brides" to "War Prides." It Is a burlesque on the Nazimova production. John W. Xoble has heeded the coun try's call, and left the Goldwyn picture studio in answer to a summons from Washington. Mr. Noble is a graduate West Pointer, and as a Captain and en gineer, saw seven years of military service for his Government in China, the Philippines and In Mexico. He prac tically had completed his picture in which Mae Marsh appears. Every Popular Style and Pat tern in English or Conservative Models for the Young or Middle-aged Man. New Arrivals Daily Our Never -Changing Policy "The Same Price to Every Man Every AUERATIONS The Entire Second Floor srimnMMiniMnnmMMuniHiiniiiiiiiH iiniiiiluiiiiumlulluliiiiiiiiim BUNKS WON'T LOSE No Decrease of Deposits Like ly on Bond Flotation. ILLUSTRATION IS PROVIDED Carl S. Kelty, Treasurer of Imm- bermeni Trust Company, Thinks Money Subscribed "Will Be Spent In Same Sections. "The Government bond issue posi tively will not take the money of the country out circulation," said Carl S. Kelty, treasurer of the Lumbermen's Trust Company, yesterday. "As a matter of fact," continued Mr. Kelty, who has given the subject con siderable attention, "flotation of the bonds probably will work in Just the opposite direction and will cause a vast increase In the bank deposits of the country." How deposits In banks are Increased by financial transactions of this kind is Illustrated by the handling of the $250, 000 Wasco County road bond Issue which recently was purchased by the Lumbermen's Trust Company. In paying for these bonds the pur chasers merely drew upon their New York correspondent for the amount of the payment and deposited the draft with the Lumbermen's National Bank in Portland for the credit of the First National Bank In The Dalles: The Wasco County officials thereupon de livered the bonds to the Lumbermen's Trust Company, and In exchange the county reoelved a certificate of deposit from The Dalles bank. Deposit Increased' 550,000. "Thus, at the end of the day's busi ness," Mr. Kelty explained, "the bank of The Dalles showed an increase of deposits of approximately $275,000, be ing the face value of the bonds, with tha premium and accrued interest added. The Portland bank showed an Increase in deposits of a like amount, while New York deposits were not af fected, the draft merely involving a transfer of credit from one Portland bank account to another. In conse quence of this single transaction the total of Oregon bank deposits was in creased by $550,000, without any re duction elsewhere, except In the bal ance of the Lumbermen's Trust Com pany in New York. "Much of this sum will be a perma nent addition to the wealth of the state. As it is expended and drawn out of the bank at The Dalles a large part doubtless will return to those banks In the form of deposits by individuals to whom it is to be paid. In turn, the bank at The Dalles will be enabled to lend portions of the funds or keep them on deposit with correspondents In Port land and elsewhere." Wealth to Be Increased. In the same way, he pointed out, the Government loan will serve to Increase the wealth of the country anT"actually increase, instead of decrease, uank de posits. Some banks may show a slight shrinkage in the volume of deposits while the actual sale of the bonds Is in progress, but this apparent decrease will be overcome as soon as the money gets into circulation. "There is no apprehension," said Mr. Kelty yesterday, "that the flotation of this tremendous loan will cause any disturbance of banking credits or in terest rates. As the loan gradually is absorbed it will create new bank depos its, as was done In the Wasco County . . FREE 0- . ,-cT5S. cSS $25 Yalue Spring Suits and Overcoats ag..w,.,MLM....y WkVM feYr Iflfl tl ft HI -' It iMafc, . jf l 1 - Northwest Building transaction. It Is thought Improbable that the Government will cause any considerable transfer of funds from one section of the country to another. Pre sumably each section will subscribe to the loan In about the ratio that its re sources bear to the resources of the rest of tha country, and if this is so the funds will be expended, in each case, close at home. "There will be no transfer of gold to Europe. Our loans to the allies will be in the form of credits in the United States and will be expended here. Im mediate results will be to place for eign exchange on a more Btable basis. "Considered In Its large aspects, the loan will mean an Inflation of currency and credit. Its tendency will be to in A lOEOPLES Today and Tomorrow ETHEL CLAYTON and notable players in a power ful romantic drama of today: 'The Bondage of Fear' On the same programme an ex cruciatingly funny two-act com edy, 'RING RIVALS' With Dannie Russell. U A- M. to 11 P. M. Adnu, 15c " ' ' ' 1 '' " ja - F in M t .- Hi ii iim urn baaaawiiiMhaAJiitejaiaauaito4baMMHMUIdSiwiMt Slogan of the Fahey-Brockman Upstairs Clothes Shops We built the Largest Exclusive Clothing Busi ness in the Northwest on THRIFT Elimina tion of Costly Overhead Low Upstairs Rent Inexpensive Fixtures and Cash Selling. It's THRIFT in our Upstairs Selling Plan that enables us to Save You $10.00 on" Your Clothes ra!ftAlS THE 1 1 j Washington and Sixth M crease commodity prices rather than to lower them." GIRLS' CLUB AIDS CRIPPLE Benefit Will Be Given at Congrega tional Church Tonight. The Business Girls Club of the First Congregational Church will give an entertainment tonight In the church. The young women have a little protege, a crippled boy for whom they want to buy a wheel chair and will take up a silver offering for this purpose. The patronesses will be Mrs. L. R. Dyott, Her Greatest Love TAR Today and Tomorrow CraneYilbur In a vivid, five-act drama of the National Guard, a woman's honor, love and jealousy. The Painted Lie Also a funny comedy, "Jerry Saves the Navy, a stirring patriotic Weekly and "OLD GLORY IN THE FAR EAST." Day in the Year" Entrance 3271 Yashing toa Street Mrs. F. P. Young. Mrs. W. H. Doane, Mrs. J. A. Bell. Mrs. B. S. Huntington anil Mrs. D. L. Brace. Following is the programme: "Howl an Yelpskl's Band," Club Girls; read ing. Elma Rehwalt;. "Wind Song" I Rogers). Mrs. Jane Burns Albert: "Cavatlna" (Bohm), orchestra: "Spring Serenade" (Gilberte. Mrs. Albert. If Some Roughnecks had stolen your boy and were lined up 50 strong, ready to shoot you, how would you bust in?. Bill Hart shows a new way in The Desert Man" SUNDAY COLUMBIA THEATER TODAY OXE DAY ONLY ADTE.TIBES UP SHORTY HAM ILTON." "Shorty Promotes His Love Affair"; also World Tours, showing Scotland. Germany and France, and "Con scious Conscience," a Big V comedy. CIRCLE THEATER The Big Home Movie. FOl'RTH AT WASHINGTON. Coatlnuons Performance. Weekdays A. M. (oil I. M. Sundnya 12:15 to 11 P. M. PROGRAMME CHANGED DAILY Every Night at 8 o'clock (Except Saturday and Sunday) T. and T. Come and See. ADMISSION FIVE CENTS. HAVE COLOR IN YOUR CHEEKS Be Better Looking Taka Olive Tablets If your skin is yellow complexion pallid tongue coated appstite poor you have a bad taste in your mouth a lazy, no-good feeling you should take Olive' Tablets. Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets a sub stitute for calomel were prepared by Dr. Edwards after. 17 years of study with his patients. Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets are a purely vegetable compound mixed with olive oiL You will know them by their olive color. To have a clear, pink skin, bright eyes, no pimples, a feeling of buoyancy like childhood days you must get at the cause. Dr. Kdwards Olive Tablets act on the liver and bowels like calomel yet have no dangerous after effects. They start the bile and overcome con stipation. That's why millions of boxes are sold annually at 10c and 25c per box. All druggists. Take one or two nightly and note the piecing results. BORADENT THC MILK OF MAGNESIA O Tooth Paste Pcrfcctlv Harmless r is