Tire 3IORXTN-G OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 18. 1917.
ERIC MISER Villi
WORK FOR NOTHING
Vice-President of Grant Smith
Company Pledges All Profits
to Government.
TWO SONS MOW IN ARMY
"Walkout of Men From Shipyards
When Work Is Exclusively for
Nation Brings Statement
From Mr. Honser.
Though handling millions of dollars
i In ships, cantonments and other Gov
ernment war contracts, Eric V. Hauser,
vice-president of the Grant Smith Com
pany, announced last night that from
none of the work which his firm has
done, is doing- or will do on wartime
contracts will he take one cent profit
for himself.
- He does not know what , procedure he
will take to turn back to the Govern
inent profits which may accrue through
contracts he is handling, but has for
some time thought that in this time of
sacrifice for every man, woman and
child he is not going to keep them.
Mr. Hauser has mentioned his ideas to
friends, but had made no public an
nouncement, and his pledge last night
was due to troubles in the local ship
yards.
"Many of the strikers seem to feel
that the men holding war contracts
are in every sense making huge profits
which they are unwilling to share with
the workers. Today, If ever, is a time
for sacrifice not only by the soldiers
on the field and the men who give up
their work and all to help the Nation,
buc by every man who remains behind,''
aid Mr. Hauser.
Government's Tieed Is I'rgent.
"Our company is working exclusively
for the United States Government, and
It is most disappointing that the work
can not progress with the greatest
speed at this trying time, when the Gov
ernment has such urgent need of pro
duce-carriers.
"And the labor of every man in the
yards is just as Important to the win
ning of this war as the dollars which
another man gives, or the food which
the mother saves in the kitchen. We
have different ways of doing our bit
for the Government, but personal ad
vancement should for once be pushed
Into the background."
Mr. Hauser states that what he has
pledged himself to is of his own voli
tion and that he is speaking for him
eelf alone. What the Grant Smith
Company as a corporation will do he
does not know, but as for himself he is
working for Uncle Sam until the war
la over.
Two Sons Are In Army.
When Colonel J. B. Cavanaugh. Corps
of Engineers, was called upon to recruit
a regiment for immediate service in
France, his first appointment was
Kenneth Douglas Hauser, as Captain.
Mr. Hauser. Sr.. placed at the services
of Colonel Cavanaugh all funds needed
to recruit this division.
Mr. Hauser also furnished a band,
buying all the equipment to put the
musical unit in the field. Kenneth
Hauser's company is now in France.
Patriotism seems to run in this fam
ily. Rupert V. Hauser. a graduate of
the University of Minnesota, with nine
years' military training. Joined the
Army early and is now at Fort Snell
lng. He is leaving a wife and two
mail children to Berve his country.
The Grant Smith Company announced
shortly after the first call that Its en
tire organization was at the disposal
of the Government to help in any way
it could, and it has done active work
In enlisting engineers ana other valu
able men from its own forces.
"LOAN FILM" IS PREPARED
Epochal Events In American History
Pictured to Sell Bonds.
larly in the hour of war however
much any of us may think that cer
tain of the policies are mistaken poli
cies, free speech, free press and liberty
of conscience do not Justify criticism,
for criticism, however unintentional,
invariably gives aid and comfort to the
enemy.
"Conscription as a principle may be
a subject of debate, but not now. This
democracy has adopted It for the pur
pose of this war and discussion of it
ought to be held in abeyance. This
Government, by its chosen representa
tives, has declared this war. If there
be any who think it is not Justified,
let them not be of aid and comfort to
the enemy by voicing their sentiments.
Alliances Are Opposed.
"I want this war to end, but not to
end until the people in every land
shall possess the right to make peace
and declare war either directly or
through their chosen representatives.
I want blood and -birth in social stand
ing and educational qualifications and
religious trend all to be forgotten in
this new parliament of new men, this
federation of the world.
"I do not want entangling alliances
with European nations. It Is not ne
cessary to have them. When we sit at
the council table of the world, I trust
we may do so as the representatives
of a newer and better isolation an
Isolation of the spirit, free to say to
the Germanic people, "Have what gov
ernment you please, but let us know
that It Is yours": free to say to the
oldest of constitutional governments,
the British empire: ?We have made
this fight with you as our ally in the
cause of democracy, but we are hot
willing to change our systems. The
Windsor tie does not harmonize with
the cut of our democracy.' "
FARE INCREASE URGED
LOUISVILLE ATTORNEY SATS WID
OWS AJfD ORPHANS SUFFER.
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shoe
Politicians Blamed for Expensive leg
islation and Foisting of Unfair
Jitney Competition.
SALEM, Or., Sept. 17. (Special.) M.
. iionier, attorney of Louisville, Kjr,
stockholder in the Portland Railway,
Light & Power Company, has written
to the Public Service Commission urg
ing- that the increase to a 6-cent fare
be granted on the street railway lines
of tnat company.
He declares numerous widows and
orphans are represented among the
stockholders of the company, and that
for more than three and one-half years
they have received no dividends. He
asserts that the stock for which they
paid $75 a share is unsalable now at
$10 a share.
Mr. K.ohler says the condition of the
company s finances is not due to bad
management, but, rather, to the work
of politicians, who caused the com
pany expensive litigation in fighting
3-cent fare ordinance; who foisted
the jitneys on the company, and who
otherwise have hampered the company
in its progress.
In contrast to Mr. Kohler's letter,
protest against the Increase was re
ceived by the commission today from
John F. Proctor, 1212 East ' Madison
street, Portlands
INTERESTS TO COMBINE
You'd never dream so smart a
could be so comfortable
Your first 6tep in a pair of beautiful Red Cross Shoes will be a
revelation. None of the tortures of "breaking in" that many
women have accepted as unavoidable in a stylish shoe.
Instead, wonderful comfort, glove-like ease from the very
start. And all without sacrificing' one iota of style. Every
model has the exclusive "bends with your foot" feature, the
excellence of materials and workmanship without which
perfect fit and permanent shapeliness are impossible.
Come in and see the many popular priced models, each the
standard of value for the woman who wants to pay sensible,,
moderate prices.
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JMerckandiss of J Merit Only"
MILLIONS IN COURT
NEW YORK, Sept. 17. "The liberty
loan film," "Three Billion Dollars In
Four Weeks," produced by the liberty
loan committee of the Federal reserve
district, will receive its first presen
tation here tomorrow.
Spectators will include Government
and city officials and theatrical and
moving-picture stars who played roles
in the spectacle. The film, which por
trays a series of epochal events In
American history, will be shown In
various cities as part of the next lib
erty bond campaign.
President Wilson. Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo, Thomas A. Edison
and other men in public life are shown.
ALL TRADITION IS UPSET
f Continued From First Page.)
licexLfivo, nor democracy demagogy. "We
all know that the world cannot be
mad safe for murder and arson and
pillage and anarchy and everything:
for which the syndicalist and the 1.
W. W. may stand, and we know also
that such things as these cannot be
made safe for the world.
Criticism Not for War Time.
"Democracy means the rule of the
people under whatever form of gov
ernment they may choose to express it,
1-ut when once the rule of the people
has been expressed through their chos-
n representatives, then and particu-
itz
is a mighty
good brew
It's "the drink that fits" all oc
casions at lunch as a thirst
quencher, and as a tasty night
cap.
ORDER A CASE
FOR HOME USE
From Your Dealer
The Portland
Brewing Co.
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Entire Industrial and Commercial
Trades to Help in Conduct of War. '
ATLANTIC CITY. N- J.. Sept. IT.
Plans for the co-operation of virtually
the entire industrial and commercial
interests of the country in the con
duct of the war are to be discussed by
high Government officials and promi
nent business men from all sections of
the country at a special war conven
tion of the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States, preliminary sessions
of which opened here today. The con
vention formally will open tomorrow.
WAR DRAWS CONGRESSMEN
Several Expect to Go to Europe if
Adjournment Comes Next Month.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. Several
Congressmen probably will visit Europe
and the western battle front, if Con
gress adjourns next month. Members
are already planning a trip, either
with or without official status. Should
none of the official invitations be ac
cepted some members plan to go In a
body at their own expense.
It Is planned to ask Speaker Clark
to. bead the delegation.
PACKING SCHOOL IS OPEN
First Day Sbows Attendance of 51
at Hood River.
HOOD RIVER. Or.. 6ept. 17. (Spe
cial.) With a total of 51 students. 20
of them girls and women, registered
before noon today, the annual packing
school of the Apple Orowers Associa
tion, which will run all week, is well
under way. An attendance of 100
students, a record number for any one
year, is expected before the week is
over. Last year's packing school was
attended by only 40 students. & small
number of whom were women.
State Again Demands Pay
ment of $6,000,000 Tax.
DEMURRER ANSWERS HEIRS
heaviest In many years. The Seaside
Packing Company has been handling
many tons here since the opening of
the season and W. A. Mable has also
handled a large. quantity.
State
of
THIRD SON GOES TO WAR
Youngest of Tliree Lane County
Brothers Will Be Baiter.
EUGENE. Or, Sept. 17. (Special.)
Otis L. Chexem.,aged IS. the third aon
of Mr. and Mrs. H. Chexem. of Spencer
Creek, to enter the United States Army,
was sent to American Lake today to
enter the bakery school.
Young Chezem sought to enter the
regular Army at the time his two
brothers enlisted, but waa rejected be
cause of his age.
TEUTONS ATTACK 4 TIMES
Italians Repulse All Assaults on
Ground Captured Friday.
ROME, Sept. 17. Austro-Hungarian
troops by four successive counter
attacks attempted on Saturday night to
reconquer the ground they had lost on
Friday to the Italians on the Balnslzza
Plateau.
General Cadorna reports that all the
assaults were repulsed.
Baker Will Honor Drafted Men.
BAKER. Or.. Sept. 17. (Special.)
Baker County's next installment of the
draft quota will be given an appro
priate farewell September 19, accord
ing to plans made today by Frederick
Funston Post, Spanish-American War
Veterans. Joe Hooker Post. Grand Army
of the Republic, and other patriotic or
ganizations in the city. It is planned
to give a big demonstration. In which
the organisations taking part will turn
out In fuU force, and several bands will
lead a parade down the main streets.
The plan was instituted by the Span
ish-American War Veterans.
Read The Oreajontan classified ads.
Questions Jurisdiction
Court, and Attacks Complaint
in Which Owners Attempt to
Escape Payment of Tax.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17. (Spe
cial.) The fight of the state of Cali
fornia for $6,000,000 as an inheritance
tax on the estate of the late Henry
Miller today was reopened before the
Superior Court here, when the legal
representatives of the city and county
of San Francisco and the state of Cali
fornia filed a demurrer to -the latest
suit of the Miller heirs to have the title
of the vast properties that constitute
the estate quieted.
Those signing the demurrer were
Charles M. Fickert. District Attorney;
U. S. Webb, Attorney-General; R. A.
Waring and W. A. Sullivan, of the in
heritance tax office, and Hartley F.
Peart, attorney for John S. Chambers,
State Controller.
Suit ot Belra Attacked.
The demurrer seeks to throw out the
suit of Nellie Miller Nickel, daughter
of the Oregon and California land and
cattle baron, and J. Leroy Nickel, her
husband, as trustees of .the deed of
trust left by Henry Miller, in which
he disposed of his .vast holdings- to
his daughter and son-in-law before
his death.
Their first suit to escape the pay
ment of inheritance tax. based on this
deed of trust, was dismissed by Judge
J. V. Coffey on the grounds that some
of the legatees had not been made par
ties to the suit.
Many Errors Charged.
A second suit was then filed remedy
ing this. The demurrer filed to the
second suit today declares the Superior
Court has no jurisdiction, that the suit
does not state a cause for action, that
it Is uncertain and vague, does not de
clare under which act of the Legisla
ture the action is brought and fails to
state whether the- state's claim is a
lien on the estate of Miller & Lux or
on the Las Animas and San Joaquin
Land Company, and, finally, that it Is
ambiguous.
While the heirs are seeking to escape
the payment of any inheritance tax, it
has been intimated they would consent
to a tax based on the law of 1911, fix
ing 5 per cent, which would give the
Btate about $2,000,000. The state of
ficials are seeking to collect on the
1915 law, taking 10 per cent and giving
the state a claim of about $6000.000.
FOOD RUMOR IS DENIED
Government Has
Commandeering
No Intention of
Private Stocks.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 17j The nn
traceable rumor that the Government
Intends to take canned and dried foods
from homes persists and has spread to
such an extent that the Department of
Agriculture today placed an explicit
and official denial In the hands of every
county agent and representative, with
instructions to give It widest publicity.
The Government never has contem
plated commandeering foods 'from the
homes In any sense, and the persistency
of the rumor leads officials to believe
that Its basis probably may be found
in propaganda to hinder food conserva
tion and thereby continue high prices.
Salmon Run Is Heavy.
KELSO, Wash.. Sept. 17. (Special)
Big catches of salmon continue and the
run gives every indication of being the
ADVOCACY OF ARSON TOLD
Testimony in Conspiracy Case Re
lates Treasonable Utterances.
ABILENE, Tex., Sept. 17- Testify
ing at the trial today of 60 members
of the Farmers' and Laborers' Protec
tive Association of America, charged
with conspiracy against the Govern
ment, J. R. Hollis, of Delk. said R. W.
Mills, of Abilene, one of defendants,
speaking at a meeting of the Delk
local. May g last, told how members
could set fire to residences on out
skirts of a town and then rob banks
and supply houses while the populace
was fighting the fires. In this way.
Mills said, funds and munitions could
be obtained to resiBt conscription,
Hollis testified.
At this same meeting Hollis said Lon
Hunter, another defendant, outlined a
plan which he declared would over
throw the existing Government in
"three minutes' time." The plan in
cluded "blowing hell out of the rail
roads and burning bridges," the witness
testified Hunter said.
CARBONADO JWSPECT HELD
Man Gi villi? Same of Elmer Mealv
Thought Child's Assailant.
OLYMPIA. Wash.. Sent. 17. Th no-
lice have arrested a man giving his
name as Elmer Mealy, who is sus
pected of being Frank Stoddard, the
alleged assailant of little Mamie
Tarkko, near Carbonado.
Mealy says he has worked on a
rancl. near N'isqually since September
7, having obtained employment through
Tacoma employment agency Septem
ber 5. The Sheriff of Pierce County
Is here tnvesttirating-.
SAMMIES ABROAD PLAY
SOLDIERS HOLD FIRST
DAY lit FRANCE.
FIELD
Georges Clemenceau. ex-Premier, Se
Infantrymen Go Throsgh Stunts
as Guest of Honor.
AMERICAN TRAINING CAMP IN
FRANCE, Sept. IS. American infantry
men of the expeditionary army held
their first field day today since their
landing in France, with Georges Clem
enceau, former French Premier, as the
guest of honor. A battalion of an infan
try regiment gave demonstrations of
machine gun, rifle and bayonet as
saults, concluding with a genuine
American athletic programme, includ
ing hundred-yard dashes, tugs of war
and boxing bouts.
The entire battalion that participated
In the programme lunched In the open
air. M. Clemenceau being the guest of
General Sibert and the French officers
dining with the American Brigadier
Generals. In an address to the Ameri
can officers, M. Clemenceau said:
"I feel highly honored at the privi
lege of addressing you. I know Amer
ica well, having lived In your country,
which I have always admired, and I
am deeply Impressed at the presence of
an American Army on French soil In
defense of liberty, right and civiliza
tion against barbarians. My mind com
pares this event to the pilgrim fathers
who landed at Plymouth Rock, seeking
liberty and finding it. Now their chil
dren's children are returning to fight
for the liberty of France and the
world."
Flood Drives 300 From Homes.
RALEIGH, N. C, Sept. 17. Property
damage reaching several hundred thou
sand dollars, heavy damage to crops
and drowning of three negroes resulted
from the heavy rains of the last few
days in Eastern North Carolina. At
Wallace a dam burst, driving approxi
mately 300 people from their homes.
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the title of a recent editorial
in the New York Evening Jour
nal. The editorial repeats what
we have been telling Americans
for years: That pointed shoes
are the cause of corns, bunions, flat
feet ingrown nails, bent bones.
Keep your feet fit and ready
for service by wearing roomy,
comfortable Educators, the
shoes built to "let the feet grow
as they should."
Get the whole family into
Educators in our store today.
Every Educator shoe is stamped
EDUCATOR on the sole.
THERE can be no guaran
tee stronger than this trade
mark, for it absolutely guaran
tees the whole shoe every
part the shape the material
the workmanship.
Made for
Men, Women, Children
by Rice & Hutchins, Inc.
Boston
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If you have Catarrhal Deafness or head
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4 pint of hot water and 4 ounces of gran
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times a day.
This will often brlns; quick relief from the
distressing head noises. Clogged nostrils
should -open, breathing become easy and
the mucus stop dropping Into the throat. It
is easy to prepare, costs little and is pleasant
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