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1911 MISS RANKIN MAKES - MO GUT HOURS WOMAN REPRESENTATIVE WHO WINS SINGLE-HANDED FIGHT FOR SHORTER HOURS FOR WOMEN WORKERS. TFirn' Overtime for Women in Bu reau of Printing Elimin ated Within Week. liilU To Insure Victor Quality. lway look lor the famous trademark. FIGHT SHARP AND SHORT 4 His Master's Voice. It is i all aeauine products of the Victor Talkins Klachiae Company THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JULY s m Montana Representative Quotes Of ficial Reports to Director of Plant in Answer to Every Contention Made. OEEGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, July 15. Hats are off In Wash ington to Jeannette Rankin, of Mon tana, the sole .woman in Congress. In Just a week during: which she worked day and night, regardless of hours, she put an end to the 12 and 13-hour day In the United States Bureau of Print ing and Engraving, and rorced the es tablishment of an eight-hour day. And she did it practically unassisted. Not long: ago a Montana woman visit ing Washington happened to learn that grirls and women employed, at the Bureau of Printing and Engraving were compelled to work 12 and 13 hours a day. This woman believed this was too much of a strain to impose, particularly upon women of less than normal strength, so she called on Rep resentative Rankin to "talk things over." The Montana Congresswoman was in terested at once, and obtained a pass to go through the Bureau of Printing and Engravings-not a pass for the Hon. Jeannette Rankin, M. C, but a pass for "Miss J. Rankin, of Washington, D. C." She went Incog. She saw girls and women working long hours who could not stand the strain, and who were breaking down; she saw others who were compelled to work overtime, because they could not live and sup port dependent relatives on the J1.75 a day which Uncle Sam pays many of the women helpers in the big print chop. Director Ralph, of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, announced that overtime was the result of rush war orders, but he did not reckon on the woman with whom he had been thrown into controversy. Records Show Overtime Usual. Miss Rankin promptly produced of ficial records, signed by Mr. Ralph himself, showing that the overtime had been the usual order at the bureau; that it had prevailed for the past three or four years, long before the United States entered the war, and in fact before Europe Itself became involved. There was no answer to this, but Di rector Ralph made a counter move, and announced that Inasmuch as there had been a let-up in war business he had reduced the hours of most of his women employes. Miss Rankin investi gated, and found he had reduced the 13-hour shift to 12 hours, and the 12-hour shift to 11 hours; simply that, and nothing more. Mr. Ralph then, said the women and girls who worked overtime were willing to do so, but Miss Rankin came back with evidence that Mr. Ralph himself had passed around an order serving notice that when the war rush let up there would be a re duction in his force, and-that those who now worked overtime would stand the better show of retention on the pay roll. Finally Director Ralph made the pub lic assertion that he had been forced to work his employes overtime be cause he had been unable to get ad ditional women and girls from the Civil Serviee Commission. And there Miss Rankin "had him dead," for the records of the Civil Service Commission showed that when the war rush came on Di rector Ralph had not asked for the names of any eligibles from the civil .service list. Many on Qualified List. And not until Miss Rankin started her row did he appeal to the Civil Service Commission; he then asked for 150 names, whereas the register con tained the names of more than . 500 women anxious to work at the bureau. This was the status of affairs when I Miss Kankin sought out the Secretary of the Treasury. She called on Mr. Mc Adoo, by appointment, and to her sur prise found Director Ralph ahead of her. The Secretary was busy, so re ferred both Miss Rankin and Mr. Ralph to his assistant. The Assistant Secre tary heard what Miss Rankin had to Bay, but promised nothing definite. So Miss Rankin again appealed to the press; again she told all the salient facts. They were laid before the pub lic, and two days later Secretary Mc Adoo ordered an investigation by a board of Treasury Department officials. Miss Rankin attended that Investiga tion, and with, her she carried official records as well as her other informa tion. The committee could do no more than recognize those facts, and when it saw how overtime was undermining the health of the women. It wasted no time in reporting promptly to Secretary Mc- Adoo against overtime for women and in recommending the establishment of the eight-hour day in the bureau. Secretary McAdoo lost no time In fol lowing the recommendations of this committee. He ordered the eight-hour day put into effect at once. And thus It transpired that the only woman in Congress, well fortified with facts, was able in a single short week to put an end to the 12 and 13-hour day In the big shop where the United States Government turns out all its paper currency, its postage stamps, its bonds and other engraved work. CAMP NAMED FOR LEWIS Cantonment at American "Lake to lie Called for Explorer. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, July 15. The War Department today announced that the 16th divi sional camp at American Lake where drafted men from the Northwestern states will be trained is to be known hereafter as "Camp Lewis." The des ignation is in honor of Captain Meri weather Lewis, the explorer. The camp at Palo Alto where the Northwest Na ' tional Guard will train Is to be known as "Camp Fremont." Second Lieutenants John B. Wilson of Corvallis; Carroll F. Byrd, Salem; Carl F. F. Dietz. Charleston, Wash.; C. Boyd Baynard, Colton, Wash.; Leland I. Toman, Spokane; Lloyd B Dysart, George T. Hall, Paul E. Mc Dermott and Milton U. Vedder, Seattle, and Robert M. Montague, Moscow, Idaho, were today ordered to marine officers' training school at Quantico, Va., for three months' training. A bushel of lawn grass weighs about 20 pounds. A quart of seeds is suf ficient to cover 300 square feet 15x20 feet. Bantiseptio for a Perfect Complexion Preserves, beautifies, softens, whitens, prevents and rapidly clears skin of all eruptions, lou 11 like ita cleanly, nealtnj odor. 60c All druggiats. Adv. 7 HO.VOllAJJI.E JEAXETTE CZECH WOULD QUIT Ex-PMnister's Peace Proposals Stir Reichsrath. HOLLWEG FALL DISCUSSED Parisian Tress Both Sober and Jubilant, All Agreeing That Re tirement of Chancellor Marks Grave Political Era. (Continued From First Pape.) tionary who desired the war, to satis- Y th.eir aPPetlte tor universal domina tlon. Le Journal says: "The chancellor was so accustomed to let things be that he seems to be surprised to find himself at the bot tom of the abyss. His famous ex clamation, 'A scrap of paper," which many thought to be only a cynical ut terance, now echoes like a cry of dis tress. It seems now as if Bethmann Hollweg had foreseen the catastrophe." Tragic Era at Hand. In the view of L'Homme Enchalne, the chancellor's retirement marks the beginning of a tragic era for Germany It pictures an Immense black gulf yawning beneath the feet of the great militarized Nation and terms the chan cellor a man of straw. The Action Krancaise says that the chancellor's departure Indicates the depth to which the Germans have de scended In their spirit of violence and ambition. Nearly all the newspapers comment on the singular coincidence that Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg's career chancellor ended on an. anniversary of the day it began July 14 MICHAELIS' POLICY IN DOUBT Indications Are Hollwe-r's Peace Programme Will Go. COPENHAGEN. July 15. Germany's first commoner-Chancellor, Dr. Georg Michaelis, a bureaucrat without even a noble "Von" before his name, has as yet given no indication of his policy regarding reform and peace. Neither the Conservatives nor the Liberals have ventured to call him their own. The Chancellor's first step, which might be Interpreted as an indication of an open mind, was to receive repre sentatives of the two divergent groups in the Reichstag and permit them to explain their respective standpoints. the Chancellor playing the role of list ener to the conversations conducted by the Vice-chancellor, Dr. Karl Helfferich, and the Reichstag representatives. The German papers unite in char acterizations of his energy and fair mindedness, but are most reserved in their predictions of his probable policy. The papers aligned for the so-called German peace are perhaps a shade more enthusiastic -about political policies under the new regime than the radical and Socialist organs. The Cologne Volks Zeltung, the Catholic organ of Pan-German sympa thizers, says Dr. Michaelis undoubtedly stands nearer the right than the left parties. The line of the comment, evl dently emanating from Wilhelmstrasse, is that the new Chancellor regards as his mission the restoration of the in ternal harmony of the nation, whatever policy may be adopted. No matter what else may result, the change will undoubtedly mean the disappearance of the Von Bethmann-Hollweg peace pro gramme. Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg's policy regarding the ultimate aims of the war had from the beginning been a per Photo Copyright by Underwood. RANKIN OP MONTANA. sonal one, in which "the Chancellor above the parties" had formed a pro gramme above parliamentary parties, the military authorities and the Em peror alike, and he endeavored by gen tle, steady pressure and suggestion to impose it upon a changeful sovereign oscillating between vistas of brilliant ambition and realizations of cold facts; upon the puissant military caste repre sented by Field Marshal von Hinden burg and General Ludendorff, and a blundering, unbrllliant parliament. The appointment of Dr. Michaelis undoubtedly means a new deal of the cards. Berlin papers which were pub lished before the appointment of Dr. Michaelis was known,- throw further light on the circumstances of Von Bethmann-Hollweg's retirement. They showed that the Emperor, of course, is confronted by the necessity of dropping emporarily the Chancellor or virtually the entire Prussian Cabinet, the mem of which, including the War Minister, General von Stein, a soldier, not a poli tician, submitted their resignations, de claring that they would not remain If Von Bethmann-Hollweg was retained. The Bavarian Premier, Count von Hertling, who favored moderate peace proposals, but refused flatly to accept the Idea of a parliamentary ministry, which would diminish Bavaria's special influence on the government, seems to have thrown himself into the struggle against Von Bethmann-Hollweg at the last minute. The Bavarian Centrist members of the Reichstag started an antl - Von Bethmann - Hollweg revolt within, the party and the Crown Prince maae vaiia nis long standing oDjections to the Imperial Chancellor. Field Marshal von Hindenbure and General Ludendorff were again sum moned to Berlin, not. to interfere, ac cording to the unanimous accounts in the Berlin papers. In the political end of the situation, but to sidetrack the proposed peace proposition by pro viding eneouraging reports of the mili tary situation and to provide the mem bers of the Reichstag with the pros pects of obtaining that "German peace worthy of the sacrifices made" to which Von Hindenburg over and over again had committed himself in his published replies to the memorials of Pan-Ger man organizations. Before the selection of Dr. Michaelis became known, the papers generally agreed that Von Bethmann-Hollweg's retirement would be accompanied by sweeping changes in the imperial and Prussian- administrations. The feeling was general that a large part of the Secretaries of States and Ministers who had been in office since and before the war and had exhausted their efficiency and availability through long con tinuance at their posts under the tre mendous responsibilities of the war. should be replaced by fresh hands and brains, without any incumbrance of the past. This, in the ultimate analysis, proba bly was one of the chief considerations Impelling the Emperor to accept the resignation of a personally sympathetic statesman, who, according to Vor waerts. In his political obituary "meant well feebly; whose wish was to conduct the war as a defensive struggle and prevent its extension to new enemies, but who yielded to forces stronger In purpose than himself, and who wanted to base his policy upon the broad basis of democracy; but who lacked energy and force to draw the necessary con clusions therefrom." RUSSIANS WIN IN BATTLE Austrian Positions In Gallcla Ta ken, With. Gnns and Prisoners. PETROGRAD. July 15. Attacks yes terday by Russian troops in the Lodz iany region, southwest of Kalusz, In Eastern Galicla, resulted In the Aus trians losing their positions, 1000 men in prisoners and a number of guns, the War Office announced "today. Elsewhere the Russians held their ground against attacks and took more than 600 additional prisoners. Phone your want ads to The Orego nian. Main 7070, A 6095. I'M & 35S34 12 in.$1.25 35635 12 in. $1.25 IS' Victrola ia the M TOO WEAKTO WORK ABSOLUTE STARVATION THREAT EXS BELGIAN LABORERS. United States Commission for Relief Says In One Province People Subalat on American Charity. WASHINGTON, July 15. Food scar city in Belgium has resulted in the iinj sical weakening of thousands of work men to such an extent that they had to abandon work, according to the lat est report of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, made public tonight by the food administration. In one province visited by a repre sentative of the Commission a general strike of workers occurred. 'The men simply explained." says the report, "that they no longer had the physical strength to carry on their work." Later, however, when faced with absolute starvation, they were forced to return to wortfc. 'The people were practically subsist ing on the Commission for Relief in Belgium rations, and had little nourish ment in the way of native foodstuffs." Red Crown's con tinuous chain of boiling points in sures maximum power and mileage. Standard Oil Company (California) mm litis at a ihe right partner, a smooth floor and the Victrola! 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