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WHITE ORDERED TO
SERVICE IN FRANCE
OREGON'S ADJUTANT-GENERAL, ' WHO LEFT PORTLAND
NIGHT UNDER ORDERS TO REPORT AT ONCE AT
"AN ATLANTIC PORT."
LABOR UNREST TOPIC
Irving Fisher Discusses
Cause and Effect.
Adjutant-Genera! Leaves to
Report Immediately at
. "An Atlantic Port."
i SOCIALISM RANKED ERROR
Variable Value of Dollar Declared
BRILLIANT RECORD MADE
Vnfalr to Worker, but Other
Objections Also Are Cited in
Realty Board Address.
TIIE MORNING OKEGONIAN, SATTXRDAT, OCTOBER 20. 1917.
LAST
Man Who Put "First" in "Oregon
First" Buys $3 000 Worth of Lib
erty Bonds of Eve of Depar
ture for Washington.
George A. White. Adjutant-General
of Oregon, left Portland last night
under orders from the War Department
to report Immediately for active serv
ice at "an Atlantic port." While he
was reticent about his orders, the in
dications are strong that he will soon
he sent to France.
General White, or Major White, as he
ranks in the National Guard Army, had
previously been ordered to report at
Camp Greene, Charlotte, N, C. as
Adjutant-General of the 41st Infantry
Division. This is the division in which
the Oregon, Washington and other
Korthweat troops are included.
General's Request Granted.
For several months it has been Gen
eral White's wish to be relieved of his
duties as Adjutant-General of Oregon
that he might go to the front in active
service. It was at his own request that
he was assigned more than a month
ago to the 41st Infantry Division, in
order to go forward with the troops
from bis own state.
At that time, however. Governor
Withycombe protested so strongly
against the War Department's taking
him from the state until after the first
draft bad been completed that Secre
tary of War Baker personally directed
that he should remain here until his
work in connection with the draft had
been completed.
The final mobilization of troops called
out on the first draft was completed
this week.
General White's work as Adjutant
General of the state is too well known
to require much comment. Ho is gen
erally given credit for being the man
who put the "first" in "Oregon First."
Recruiting Record enviable.
Not only in the first mobilization of
Oregon troops just prior to the out
break of the war, the recruiting of the
Third Infantry to full war strength be
fore even any regular Army regiments
had their full quota of men, and the
prompt organization and recruiting to
titrength of additional National Guard
units, has his work put Oregon in the
first rank of the states.
In addition to all that, he took up
the work of organizing the state to
take the war census last June, when
all men of military age were registered.
Oregon again was one of the first states
to report that the work was done, and
to send in complete figures.
Then when the actual work of the
draft began, he it was who took per
sonal charge of the organization of the
draft machinery. Not once did the
Mate fail to meet its full quota at the
required time. .
Crowder Congratulate White.
Provost Marshal-General Crowder,
t Washington, D. C, in a telegram
signed by him in person, officially
commended General White and the
state for the efficient manner in which
the draft has been conducted here.
This is not General White's first
taste of active service. He has never
been a "swivel-chair" Adjutant-General,
and when the call came for troops
to go to the Mexican border in June,
191t, he went out as Captain of Troop
A, cavalry.
This organization, under his com
mand, remained, on the border for eight
months. It became one of the most
efficient cavalry units in the whole
Army. General White also is a Spanish-American
War veteran.
When General White returned to
Oregon last February he was confront
ed with the task of reorganizing the
entire National Guard.
Colonel Williams Successor.
It was a real man's job, but General
White did it and did it so quickly
and thoroughly and efficiently that in
the following month, March of this
year, when the call came for National
Guard troops, the Third Oregon mobil
ized just a few hundred men short of
full strength.
5eneral White promptly began a re
cruiting campaign, with the result, al
ready noted, that the whole regiment
was recruited up to full war strength
nhead of any Olhtr regiment in the
United Stales. Not only that, hut it
was armed and equipped.
While he is away on active service
General White will be on indefinite
leave of absence as Adjutant-General.
I.ieutiant-Colonel John M. Williams,
of Eugene, will take his place as act
ing Adjutant-General.
Soldier Din S300O Honda.
Before his departure for the front
yesterday. General White invested
$3000, virtually his entire savings, in
liberty bonds.
General White will stop a couple of
days in Washington on business in con
nection with clearing up the property
returns from the Oregon National
Guard to the War Department, extend
ing over a period of 20 years. In that
.time more than si. 000. 000 in equipment
"has been received by the state, but no
final property accountings with the
War Department have been made. The
same is true in regard to most of the
states.
Major Virgil L. VenaMe, quartermas
ter of tl'.e Oregon National Guard, ac
companied General White to Washing
ton anil, on behalf of tiovernor Withy
combe. will assist in checking out these
returns and closing up the state's ac
counts with the War Department.
THREE DIRECTORS ADDED
A. It. Averill, L. C. Gilman. C. F.
Swigert With Lumbermen's Trust.
Increased business and an optimistic
viewpoint of bond conditions in the
future are said to be indicated in the
addition of three prominent men to the
directorate of the Xjumberineu's Trust
Company.
At a special meeting of the board
yesterday afternoon the following were
elected directors, in addition to the pres
ent board: A. H. Averill. president
Averill Machinery Company and of
the Pacific states Fire Insurance
Company; I C. Gilman, president
f pokane, Portland & Seattle Kailway
nd C. F. Swigert. president Pacific
Knags Company.
F. J. Cobbs, president of the Valley
Jfe .Slletz Railroad Company and of the
Falls City Lumber & Logging Company,
of Portland, was recently elected a ai
rector to till a vacancy. The complete
board of directors is as follows: A. H.
Averill. P. S. Brumby, C. H. Carey,
F. J. Cobbs, I C. Gilman, John A. Keat
ing. C. F. Swigert. C. F. Wright, Port
land, Or., and James Daoaher, Jr., Cam
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Students Don Old Clothes for
Fall Clean-up.
DRAMA CLUB HAS MEETING
Reed College Potatoes Dugr, Beans
Gathered, Lawn Weeded, Dam
llepaired Dance Follows
After All Work Done.
Regular routine was abandoned at
Reed College yesterday afternoon,
"campus day,' when students and In
structors donned old clothes and turned
out in force for the Fall cleanup. Five
strenuous hours were spent by the stu
dents in helping with the bean crop, in
the potato field, or at work on the
lawns or other parts of the campus.
Professor J. K. Hart marshaled the
squad of potato diggers, armed with
forks and hoes, to the large potato
field at the end of the campus, where
they were assisted in the work by the
gathering committee, who sacked and
measured the spuds.
Sixteen enthusiastic, workers .-were
kept busy caring for the bean crop,
under the direction of Louise Kennedy.
Much was accomplished by the lawn
workers, who used forks and roJies to
good advantage in a war against weeds.
They were directed in this work by Ed
gar Means, of the senior class.x
Real muscular activity was called
into play by the group of men under
Professor A. A. Knowlton and Read
Kllsworth, engaged in repairing the
dam below the swimming pool, it was
necessary to drain the pool. Large
holes, made in the structure by musk
rats, were filled in.
The general campus day plans were
In charge of lvau Elder, of the senior
class.
After the work was over the stu
dents gathered for dinner in the dining-room.
About 200 were seated at the
tables. Sociability Is as much a fea
ture of campus day as work, and the
remainder of the evening- was spent in
entertainment in the men's social room.
The first meeting of the IVama Club
for the year was held. Several mem
bers of the club staged a play for the
amusement of the students. Music and
dancing followed.
OPENING DATE POSTPONED
Portland Institute of Red Cross Ses
sions Begin October 22.
Dr. Paul II. Douglas, in charge of
the Portland Institute of the American
Red Cross, announced yesterday that
the opening of the Institute, which is
to be affiliated with Keed college, n
been postponed and will begin October
39, instead of October --, as previously
announced.
This educational course will be for
the training of social workers and in
vestigators who will work under the
civilian relief branch of the Red Cross
among the families of men at the front.
More students are needed for this
course, as there is a great demand for
workers in this field. There will be
no charge for attending the institute,
except the $3 registration, but the stu
dents must promise to give half their
time for one year after graduation
to Red Cross work.
Application should be made at -Red
Cross headquarters, 201 Corbett build
ing. HOTEL COMPANY CHANGED
Deed Converts Spokane Property
From State Finance Company.
SPOKANE. Wash.. Oct. 19. (Special.)
i'ioai reorganization pi tiio Spokane
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Hotel Company has been completed and
title to the property has passed to the
new company, which is incorporated
under the name of the Hotel Spokane,
Limited.
A deed was recorded today convert
ing the property from the State Finance
Company to the new hotel company
and at the same time a mortgage was
recorded by the new company to the
Spokane & Eastern Trust Company in
the amount of $225,000. The new mort
gage runs for five years and bears 5
per cent interest.
Many prominent men are among the
stockholders of the new company. J.
D. Sherwood is president and W. B.
Hubbard secretary and treasurer.
38 OF LEWIS QUOTA READY
Examination of Registrants Is Com
pleted by Board.
CEXTRALIA, Wash., Oct. 19. (Spe
cial.) The examination of the draft
registrants summoned to fill out Lewis
County's quota was completed by the
exemption board yesterday. Of the 320
men summoned only 245 reported.
Of the 245 men examined only 38
passed who did not claim exemption.
This is about the number needed to fill
out the quota. The men examined yes
terday who did not claim exemption
were C. C. Olmstead, A. R. Phelps and
William E. Cleveland, of Centralia:
Sam Bradshaw and Philip Schmitz. of
Onalaska; Frank Lowry, of Glenoma;
R. W. Rasmussen, of Curtis: Louis G.
Hill, of Boistfort; Oscar S. Severson, of
Toledo; James Evans, of Kapavine, and
Charles A. Shatter, of Mossyrock.
THREE CALLED BY DEATH
W. W. Weatherwax Had Been Resi
dent of Aberdeen for 2 4 Years.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Oct. 19. (Spe
cial.) Grief was brought to many
Aberdeen homes last night by the
death of three well-known citizens,
W. W. Weatherwax, age 70, pioneer of
this city; Miss Frances Douglas, age
20, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Douglas, and Jane Leland, one of the
best-known Red Cross workers in this
city.
Mr. Weatherwax had lived in Aber
deen for 26 years, and was interested
chiefly in lumbering. Besides his widow
he leaves two daughters, Mrs. Frank
Schlley, of Portland, and Mrs. A. L.
f lewelling, of Spokane.
Miss Douglas had been studying until
recently In Seattle, preparing herself
for a Red Cross nurse.
PUPILS' RESPONSE QUICK
Grants Pass Children Raise City's
Quota for War-Work Fund.
GRANTS PAPS, Or.. Oct. 19. (Spe
cial.) This city has responded to an
other war demand. The Chamber of
Commerce determined to dispose of the
request of the War and Navy Depart
ments for the war-camp community
recreation fund by promptly raising
this city's quota.
Ben C. Sheldon took the matter up
with the school children with the re
sult that they raised the city's allot
ment i300 in a day.
Soldiers Leave for East.
PASCO. Wash., Oct. 1. (Special.)
Company F, Idaho National Guard.
Captain Jones in command, started
East by a special Northern Pacific
train yesterday. Company F has been
here for several months and the sol
diers have made a host of f mends. All
places of business were closed and the
town turned out to bid them goodbye.
The Red Cross gave the boys a dan
cing party before leaving.
Grays Harbor After Slackers.
ABERDEEN. Wash., Oct. 19. (Spe
cial.) The police of Aberdeen and lio
quiam are seeking to round up 125
slackers who failed to report before
the exemption board when called for
examination. Most of these men are
foreigners. Andrew Bour, suspected of
being a deserter, is being held here
pending word from the Adjutant-General's
office,
"We do rot always appreciate how
we are living on top of a volcano, and
how. unless we give relief in some way
to the pressure underneath, we will be
blown off the top." said Dr. Irving
TiKhAr. nrofessor of political economy
at Yale University and widely known
as an authority on economic ana so
ciological problems, in the course of an
. rirlress on "Causes of Labor Unrest"
at the weekly luncheon of the Portland
Realty Board at the Benson yesteraay.
"if we are to solve the problem of in
dustrial unrest, we must understand its
causes.
"And If we do not apply a scientific
remedy." he warned, "we may be sure
that ouack remedies will be applied. ,
Socialism he classed as such a quack
remedy, and as one toward which labor
is being drawn, largely on account of
the too general apathy of employers
toward the welfare or tne, man wno
works.
Dr. Fisher prefaced his address with
a brief discussion of the economic
aspect of the war and the need for
united support of the liovernmem in
such matters as the floating of-liberty
bonds.
Cost of War Ilisrh.
"This war is largely an economic
war," he explained. "The economic
cost Is terrific. The cost of military
oDeratlonB must be backed up toy the
purchase of bonds by individuals and
the acceptance of Individual responsi
bility in the war.
"I believe that the export of wheat
to the allies will be almost as Impor
tant in winning this war as the pur
chase of liberty bonds."
Dr. Fisher said there are four main
causes for labor unrest in this country.
"The first cause," he explained, "is
the hight cost of living, which really
means the low purchasing power of t
dollar, and which may be cured by i
forming the dollar.
"Were It true that wages had k.
pace with prices, the wage - eat i
would not have cause for complaint.
As a matter of fact, they have not kept
pace. The wages received by the aver
age wage-earner have decreased 15 per
cent in purchasing power in the last
10 years."
Wage Earner Suffers.
And the wage-earner, he added, liv
ing usually on a scanty margin of safe
ty, is the one least able to afford any
depreciation in the purchasing power of
his money.
"The second great cause of industrial
unrest in this country," Dr. Fisher
pointed out, "is the fact that we have
as yet so little social Insurance."
A third cause, he said, was alcohol
ism, and he remarked: "I need not en
large on that, because you men have
solved that problem, as I hope some day
the individual states of the East, the
country as a whole and ultimately the
world, will solve it."
The fourth cause he did not define in
so many words, and he explained that
It was a cause that, as yet, only a very
few men In the United States had
recognized. In summary. It was the
failure of the vast majority of employ
ers to give the employe an opportunity
for self-expression in his work.
Dr. Fisher spoke at Reed College yes
terday morning on the purchasing
power of the dollar.
SIX SLACKERS REPORTED
Seven More Men Needed to Com
plete Umatilla Quota.
PENDLETON. Or., Oct. 19. (Special.)
Six men called In the draft in Uma
tilla County have failed to appear for
examination before the local exemption
board. Their names will be reported to
the Department of Justice, They ars
Ernest Karl Krupper, Pilot Rock; Peter
Johnson, Helix; Solomon Solami, Echo;
Floyd S. Wray, Pendleton; Chester
Shell, Stanfield; Thor Andreas Gran
beck, Pendleton.
Seven men will make up the remain
der of Umatilla County's quota in the
first call. They will be picked from
the following, who have been certified
for service by the district board: Tracy
L. Baker. Hurlburt S. Crispin, Silas E.
Simonton. Victor Johnley, Mike Pat
Farley, Jesse Aaron Ferguson, Charles
Polfenberger, Victor Earl Coffman,
Carl Nyquist. Arthur H. Chapman, Les
ter R. StiteB, Edwin Fanshier.
Five of the men are married. John
ley is an Indian.
BALCH PUPILS WIN PRIZES
Canning Club Awarded Second Prize
in Competition With Goldendalc.
BALCH, Wash., Oct. 20. (Special.)
The Klickitat County Fair, which was
held last week, was attended by mem
bers of the Balch schools, who carried
off many of the prizes.
Arthur Thompson was awarded first
prize on Yellow Dent corn, while Miss
Grace Nichols won first prize on the
best can of fruit. The primary class
of the Balch School was awarded first
prize on paper cutting and construc
tion. The high school canning club
won second prize in the canning exhi
bitions. Other individual prizes were
won by pupils of the grades and high
school. Members of. the Balch school
canning club were taken to Goldendale
in LeiR Yarnell's Saxon-six automobile.
The club is composed of Florence
Zulfes, Grace Nichols. Pearl Hunter,
Nana Thompson, Harry Zulfes and Ar
thur Thompson.
VETERAN ASKS COMMISSION
Representative Hears From Tom
Wilkinson, Now in England.
CENTRALIA, Wash.. Oct. 19. (Spe
cial.) Representative Albert Johnson
has received a letter from Tom Wilkin
son, a former Centralia real estate
dealer, asking him to secure him a
commission in the American Engineers
in France. Wilkinson, who enliated in
a Canadian contingent shortly after
the outbreak of the war, was dis
charged following an attack of trench
fever. He is now in England and pro
nounces himself as physically fit for
service again.
Wilkinson is known to railroad men
throughout the Northwest as "Whisper
ing Tom," a nickname applied as the
result of a voice weakened as a result
of heroism displayed in a wreck while
employed as a conductor by the O.-W.
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SOLDIERS WILL BE HONORED BY
PATRIOTIC DEMONSTRATION".
Fathers, Mothers Wives and DangU
tera of Enlisted and Drafted
Men Will Be in I.lne.
The patriotic liberty bond parade to
be held next Wednesday afternoon at
2 o'clock, in which the fathers, mothers,
wives, daughters and brothers of en
listed and drafted men will participate,
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stration made by Portland citizens
when the patriotic parade was given
last April.
Yesterday afternoon General Charles
F. Beebe, chairman of the committee,
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from the various auxiliary organiza
tions in the Meier & Frank auditorium
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ticipate in the parade. The announce
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C. M. Hemphill was appointed a com
mittee on music.
Adjutant-General C. A. Williams,
Grand Army of the Republic, Depart
ment of Oregon, has assumed the duty
of getting out the Grand Army, which
will lead the parade.
J. B. Hibbard will enter the Multno
mah County Home Guard, an organiza
tion of business men which has been
drilling at the Armory for a number
of weeks, while Colonel George T. Wil
lett has been assigned to the duty of
interesting the Spanish-American vet
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all of the auxiliaries to soldiers' or
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General Charles F. Beebe, R. W. Chllds.
W. B. Shively, Frank Hilton, C. M.
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ruff. Colonel George T. Willett. W. T.
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children. W. P. Strancfborg- is looking
after them. The children of enlisted
men will be placed in a separate divi
sion. Red Cross Makes Changes.
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clal.) At a meeting held last nightly
the newly-elected executive committee
of the Centralia Red Cross chapter sev
eral changes were made In the organi
zation. The departments are now:
Supplies. Mrs. F. A. Martin, chairman;
miscellaneous, Mrs. Abe Flewelling.
chairman; surgical bandages, Mrs.
Rush Banks, chairman. Mrs. D. F.
Davies has been appointed purchasing
agent.
TEACHERS' INSTITUTE ON
Franklin and Benton Counties Hold
Joint Meetings.
PASCO, Wash.. Oct. 19. (Special.)
Franklin and Benton counties are hold
ing a Joint teachers' institute at Kenne
wlck, under the supervision of Super
intendent E. M. Iorsey, of Franklin
County, and Superintendent I M.
Crawford, of Benton County. Among
those present were: Professor W. R.
Pavis, of Whitman College, Walla
Walla, Instructor of English: Earl S.
Wooster, of Ellensburg Normal exten
sion department; J. W. Hodge, of
Chenery Normal extension work; Miss
Alice Willmarth. of the physical edu
cation department of Ellensburg Nor
mal; George W. Frasier. of the depart
ment of education Chenery Normal:
Miss Josephine Fitzgerald, of Chenery
Normal grammar grades: Miss Jose
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Toledo to Have Flour Mill.
CENTRALIA. Wash., Oct. 19. (Spe
cial. ) The Anglo-American Mill Com-
pany is preparing to install a small
flour mill in Toledo, th plant to have
a capacity of from 15 to 50 barrels a
day. The mill will be run on the old
system of the farmer bringing in his
wheat and paying for the grinding with,
a portion of the finished product. A
representative of the company was in
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mill.
Pendleton Mayor Gets Iave.
PENDLETON', Or., Oct. 19. (Special.)
Mayor James A. Best, who left yes
terday to assume his duties as a Lieu
tenant in the United States Medical
Corps, will have a leave of absence
for the remainder of his term. He ap
peared in uniform at his last Council
meeting and was" accorded the con
gratulations and good wishes of his
Councilmen. He will report at Fort
Douglas, Utah.
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