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OUTPUT OF SPRUCE
TO BE INCREASED
OFFICER WHO IS SENT TO PORTLAND TO SEE THAT 10,000,000 FEET i
IPORTLAND AGENTS FOR CARTER'S KNIT UNDER WE A R
OF SPRUCE IS PRODUCED MONTHLY FOR GOVERNMENT.
Daughters of American Revolution Meet for Red Cross Work in Auditorium, 10 A, M. to 5 P. M. Tuesday
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Government Sends Officer to
See -That Oregon Produces
10,000,000 Feet Monthly.
THE MORNING OREGONIAN. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1917.
COLONEL DISQUE ARRIVES
been " getting
This cannot
That is why.
departure for
Man Wlio Revolutionized Conditions
at Jackson Prison Recalled From
Command on Eve of Sailing
for Foreign Service.
Oregon has sufficient spruce to win
the war.
The Government must have 10.000.000
feet a month, forthwith.
The Government has
2.000,000 feet a month,
be allowed to continue,
on the very eve of his
France with his cavalry unit. Colonel
Brice P. Disque, one of the most unique
and interesting officers in the Armv,
was recalled to Washington and com
missioned to perform what in many
ways is the biggest Job connected with
the industrial end of winning the war.
With practically unlimited authoritv
and virtual carte blanche to "get out
the spruce," Colonel Disque reached
Portland yesterday morning, arranged
for certain preliminary matters con
nected with his most important mis
sion to the state, left last night for
Tacoma on other features of his work
and will return here later in the week
He will then make a flying trip to
"Washington for the purpose of report
ing direct to the Secretary of War, the
Chief of Staff and the Council of Na
tional Defense, when he will come back
here to remain until his task is com
pleted. Officer's Experience Wide.
Colonel Disque has been an officer
of the Army for 18 years and has seen
service in many countries, including
the Philippines, Asia and Europe, and
has also had a considerable experience
in industrial business, especially in
handling men. He believes that men
are men and that if one knows how,
he can get the work out of them easily.
This is no theory with Colonel Disque.
He demonstrated it in Jackson Prison,
the state penitentiary of Michigan,
where he had been superintendent for
a year prior to the war. During that
year, working -the so-called honor sys
tem and treating the prisoners as men,
he conducted its affairs so that from
the proceeds of the manufacturing end
of the administration the state received
$185,000 over and above the operating
expenses, which included wages to
many of the prisoners, in some in
stances amounting to as high as $70 a
month and their keep. Hundreds of
them supported their own families on
their prison wages.
Peace -MlnMon Rot to Lilting;.
"I believe there is good in every
man and woman," said Colonel Disque,
"and I operated the prison at Jackson
upon that principle; results were won
derful. It was thought there might
be some trouble here in getting men to
turn out the spruce necessary to the
Government's programme at this time.
I do not know why I was chosen to
handle this situation, but I do know
that it nearly broke my heart when 1
was recalled from going to France.
However, when shown the absolute ne
cessity of this work and its great im
portance, I felt repaid. 1 shall do my
best to execute my orders 'get out the
spruce.' "
Many of the details of the work
Colonel Disque has been assigned to
execute cannot be published at this
time for obvious reasons. Suffice it
to say there is nothing more important
right now than this particular job. and
anything that stands in the way of
getting the spruce" is going to have a
hard time.
Colonel Disque will have offices in
the Yeon building, and whatever force
is necessary to carry forward the work
with rapidity and thoroughness will be
at hand soon.
"I would like to have the men en
gaged in logging operations know that
if they are in the draft and will make
it known to me at my offices in the
Yeon building, I will see that they are
released, if they will remain in the
luKBlng work," said Colonel Disque.
"We want every man to know that the
TO REMOVE DANDRUFF
Get a small bottle of Danderine at any
drugstore for a few cents, pour a little
into your hand and rub well into the
scalp with the finger tips. By morning
most, if not all, of this awful scurf will
have disappeared. Two or three appli
cations will destroy every bit of dan
druff; stop scalp itching and falling hair.
Adv.
CHILD'S TONGUE
BECOMES
COATED
IF CONSTIPATED
If Cross. Bilious, Sick. Feverish,
or Full of Cold. Take
No Chances.
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f ' ; - -
, ri pi' I , - s,A ,
- J - ?SsLkto s- a.
COLONEL, BRICE P. DISQLE.
Government is going to treat him right
and we will arrange such conditions as
will be good for the men and will co
operate with them and. in return, sim
ply ask their hearty co-operation on a
patriotic basis."
SCHOOL TEACHERS WANTED
Enlistments Depletes Chicago's
Teaching Staffs.
War enlistments have so depleted
the teaching staffs in Chicago high
schools that an appeal has been made
to the United States Employment Serv
ice to find additional material. R. P.
Bonham. in charge of the work here by
virtue of directing the United States
Immigration Bureau affairs, has re
ceived a communication from P. I
Prentiss, acting director of the Illinois
employment zone, as follows:
Owing" to an extreme shortagre In hlfrl
school teachers, particularly manual train
ing, science and mathematics, your aid la
securing registrations of such teachers is solicited.
Salaries ranve from S75 to $125 per month.
with $!0 as the average.
We can use practically all qualified nigh
school teachers having a bacnelurs degres
our years of college work) who may be
available.
"California Syrup of Figs' Can't
Harm Tender Stomach.
Liver, Bowels.
Children iove this "fruit laxative,
tod nothing elM clean m. tho tender
stomach, liver and boweu so uiceljr.
A child simply will not stop piaying
to empty the bowels, and me result is
they tecome tightly clogged witn
waste, liver gets sluggish, stomach
ours, then rour little one becomes
cross, hall-sick. feverish, don't eat.
Sleep or act naturally, oreath is ba
system iuii oi coiu. ou sore throat.
tomaca a -no or aiarrnoea. Lux ten.
Mother! See if tongue is coated, then
give a teaspoontui of "California tiyrup
of rigs, ana in a lew hours all the
constipated waste, sour biio and undi
gested food passes out of the system.
and you navs a well, playful whild
again.
ju-. lions of mothers give "California,
Eyrup of Figs'' becaus- it is perfectly
harmless; children love it. and it never
fails to act on the stomach, liver and
bowels.
Ask your druggist for a bottle
of "California syrup of Uga." which
has i-ill directions tor babies, onii-rea
of all aes and lor grow n-ups plainly
printed on the ittle. be . aru of coun
terfeita sold here. Get the genuine.
made by "California Hi Syrup Com'
pur Kef use any other kind with con
tempt. Adv.
DOORS OPEN FOff
LIQUOR TWO DAYS
Official Permission to Import
Spirits Issued and Later
Withdrawn.
LAWS SEEM TO CONFLICT
Amounts Admitted While Bars IVere
Down Unknown; Question Is
Pnt ITp to Attorney-General
Gregory.
FOOD DRIVE PLANS MADE
Pledge Cards Will Be Presented to
Every Oregon Household .
Plans for the Oregon food pledge
drive next week have been worked out
by Federal Food Administrator Ayer
and those who are co-operating with
him. By way of preparing for the
drive a series of meetings covering
practically every school district in Polk
County, together with some districts
In other parts of the state, was held
last night.
Arthur M. Churchill is chairman of
the pledge card movement. He reports
that people of the state seem thor
oughly alive to the necessity of getting
pledge signed in each household.
SPRUCE LANDS FOR SALE
Government Wonld Dispose of 334
Acres on Ileceta Island.
Announcement is made by District
Forester Cecil that a tract of 334 acres
of spruce and hemlock timber located
on the north shore of Heceta Island, in
the Tongass National Forest of Alaska,
is now offered for sale. It is estimated
that the tract will cut 6,790,000 feet of
spruce and 60,000 feet of hemlock. Bids
under J2.2o per 1000 feet win not be
considered.
While much of the spruce of Alaska
Is not suitable for use in aeroplane
construction, it is said that a good
percentage of the Heceta Island spruce
should be of this desirable grade.
GIRLS SCARED; BOY HELD
Otis I. oils Accused of Hiding
Brnsh and Frightening Children
in
Numerous complaints during the past
few weeks of some one hiding in the
brush along the Powell Valley road
and frightening small girls returning
from school were brought to an end
yesterday, the police believe, in the
srrest of Otis Long, aged 18, who lives
in that district.
The youth is said to have been de
tected biding in the brush yesterday
and frightening small girls going to
and from school. Long was booked on
a charge of disorderly conduct.
Last of Lincoln's Quota Called.
TOLEDO. Or.. Oct. 22. (Special.)
The last of Lincoln County's quota un
der the selective draft will leave for
Camp Lewis on November 2. They are:
Leo Schirmer, Winant; Victor Seitz.
Denzer. and Guy Ross, Alses, When
these men have gone Lincoln County
will have furnished it men between
the ages of 21 and 31.
WASHINGTON, Oct.- 22. Instructions
to all customs collectors throughout
the country to admit to entry distilled
spirits produced abroad prior to Octo
ber 3 last, "either for beverage pur
poses or other than beverage purposes,
were made public and recalled within
the space of a few hours today by the
Treasury Department
The Issuance of the instructions
which were sent out by Assistant Sec
retary Kowe last Saturday was based
upon an interpretation of the food and
revenue laws given by Lawrence Beck'
er, solicitor of the Treasury Depart
ment, an official of the Department of
Justice. Mr. Becker ruled that the
revenue law approved October 3 re'
pealed provisions of the previously en
acted food control law, which flatly
prohibited the importation of any dis
tilled spirits. Now the question has
been placed before the Attorney-Gen
eral himself for a decision, and in the
meantime the food law prohibition re
mains in effect.
August Law Bars Imports.
That section of the food law, passed
August 10, after prohibiting the manu
facture of distilled beverages in this
country, says: "Nor shall there be lm
ported into the United States any dis
tilled spirits."
Section 301 of the revenue law.
passed nearly two months later, pro
vides:
"That no distilled spirits produced
after the passage of this act shall be
imported into the United from any for
eign country or from the West India
Islands recently acquired from Den
mark (unless produced from products
the growth of such island, and not
then into any state or territory or dis
trict of the United States in which th
manufacture or sale of intoxicatin
liquor is prohibited), or from Porto
Rico or the Philippine Islands.
Re-peal la Questioned.
Mr. Becker held that the words "pro
duced after the passage of this act
in the revenue law, in effect, per
mitted the admission to entry of spirits
distiled prior to the enactment of the
act. Instructions consequently were
addressed to all collectors advisin
them to permit the importation of dis
tilled spirits produced abroad prior to
October 3.
Today these instructions were re
called, high officials of the Depart
meat taking the stand that the ques
tion was one of such magnitude that
Attorney-General Gregory should pass
upon it.
The effect of the decision of the so
licitor would be to make available for
importation and consumption here th
great store of whisky, cordials, liquors
and other distilled beverages produced
abroad prior to the enactment of the
revenue law.
Ban Down 48 Hours.
How far Mr. Becker's lnterpretatlo
of the law became operative before th
recall of instructions is not known.
The Instructions were 48 hours old
Our Store Will Close Tomorrow at 1 P. M.
To Give Our Employes an Opportunity to
MARCH LN THE LIBERTY LOAN PADADE
DO YOUR SHOPPING EARLY
Let us all put our shoulder to the wheel and make this Ihe Greatest Patriotic Parade Portland has
ever known and let everyone buy Liberty Bonds to full extent of his ability. Remember, every Liberty
Bond means fewer lives lost.
Double Tradin
tamps
All Over the Store
With All Cash Purchases Today
C i J U M 1 is the watchword of the hour
E
Helping our customers in every way possible
to make their dollars do their full duty by
offering extraordinary bargains throughout the
store today, we will, in addition, give
Double Trading Stamps
With All Cash Purchases
made in, any department of the store
today. Supply your. Fall and Win
ter needs now and take advantage of
this Double-Stamp Offer. Filled books
S. & H. Stamps Redeemed in Cash on
Fourth Floor.
Buy Your
JLlberty ISOnCl s&H Green Trading Stamp.
With the Cash Dividends
You Received by Saving
Liberty Bonds
For Sale
at
Bond
Booth on
Main Floor
Subscribe now
and help win the
war. Uncle Sam
needs your dol
lars! Don't Wait!
II J
when recalled. The collector at New
York for example, nao an 01
which to permit the entry of distilled
spirits into the country.
Such admission pp"cu
mnortations arriving today, but also
. , . .. ...phinir th - United
. .v.. .noorment of the food
r Lii. Ltr unci " " - .
control law and seized by customs of
ficials to await nnai aisposmuu "j
the Department.
If acted on toaay, uis
Instructions will have been to admit
Into the country large stores of such
importations.
STORES DISPLAY BONDS
fixing the value of the , estate at
$1,558,895.
Draft Stacker Sentenced.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 22. Frank A. Feld
man, of Sebree, Ky., an organiser f-r
the Industrial Workers of the Woild,
was sentenced to two months' impris
onment by United States District Judge
Dyer for refusing to register for the
draft.
Dr. Alderson Is Upheld.
DENVER, Oct. 22. Dr. Victor C.
Alderson was upheld by the Supreme
court today in his contention that he
was rightfully president of the Colo
rado School of Mines, at Oolden.
MERCHANTS USE ADVERTISING IX-
GESIITY IX DRIVE.
pedal Booths Erected In Hotels and
Business "Houses Megaphone Ex
plains Lou to Crowds.
Ail . l. . .'.rttsin tr infirenultV known
by local merchants is being brought
into play this week by the Retail Oro
cers Association in behalf of the lib
erty loan. The campaign along mis
ne openea yesieruay.
. . ...nv. hnnila wrA nut in
A large ,.. " ,
frames so that every part could be
seen. .meets woo v. , j ... .--dows
and booths established for the
urpose.
At Meier & Frank"s a "living win
low display was established. An at
endant held up a bond and explained
t to the crowd outside by means of an
electric megapnone. oom
of bonds and with attendants on hand
to explain them ana answer quesnouo
were openea at me biuich jl
. - II- ..-1 r'lnrlr. JiV f'n
none oc v ,u. , , , i u . .-
-n- . r ift.i, on th, onrl
U1US. U I Lilian Ob vinB nu
. 1 . I r-kwACrnn
Llrug uompany; me iiiiei iai, e, ,
Benson, Portland and Multnomah Ho
tels, Union Station and in several of
the railway ticket offices.
At the Union station a oootn was
established In the corridor and at in
tervals the "train caller" called atten
tion to it through the megaphone.
Today a booth will be established In
the public market and Fourth and
Yamhill streets. Two men, one from
the public works department and the
other from the City Auditor's office,
will be In attendance.
BAZAAR MEETING CALLED
General Committee) to Discuss Plans
at Portland Hotel Tonight.
There will be a meeting of the gen
eral committee of the Allied Basaar
tonight at 8 o'clock in the blue room of
the Hotel Portland. Important matters
are up for consideration, and President
MacMasters emphasizes the necessity
for the several member of the com
mittee to attend.
It probably will be decided tonight
what will he sold at the various booths.
Spaldlns Estate Pays Bis Tax.
SACRAMENTO. Oal. Oct. 22. Califor
nia will collect an inheritance tax of
$122,750 from the estate of the late A. G.
Spalding, sporting goods merchant, ac
cording to John t. Chambers, State
Controller, who received a report today
from state inheritance tax appraisers
Hnri't rr. A irlIVTr.iitT-i'9 o
chance to get your teeth.
TOOTH PASTE
is the dentifrice that counteracts
"Acid-Mouth."
Brush your teeth with Pebeco
twice every day and visit your
dentist twice a year and you can
laugh at "Acid-Mouth.'
Pebeco is a real dentifrice. Made
not only to keep your teeth white
and shining, but to prevent their
decay.
And Pebeco is so delightfully
refreshing. Get a tube today and
find out for yburself.
Pebeco is sold by druggists everywhere
I OUR SIQH IS OUR BOND .
1710k
ju a
BEGIN ON SALTS
AT FIRST SIGN
OF KIDNEY PAIN
We -eat too much meat, which clogs
Kidneys, then the
back hurts.
Says glass of Salts flushes Kidneys
and ends Bladder
irritation.
Uric acid in meat excites the kid
neys, they become overworked. rt
sluggish, ache and feel like lumps of
it-mi. me urine oecomes cloudy, the
bladder is irritated, and vou mav be
obliged to seek relief two or three
times during the night. When the kid
neys clog you must help them flush off
the body s urinous waste or you'll be a
real sick person shortly. At first you
feel a dull misery in the kidney region,
you suffer from backache, sick head
ache, dizziness, stomach gets sour.
tongue coated and you feel rheumatic
twinges when the weather is bad.
Eat less meat, drink lots of water:
also get from any pharmacist four
ounces of Jad Salts; take a tablespoon-
tui in a glass of water before breakfast
for a few days and your kidneys will
then act fine. This famous salts is
made from the acid of grapes and lem
on Juice, combined with lithia, and
has been used for generations to clean
clogged kidneys and stimulate them to
normal activity, also to neutralise the
acids in urine, so It no longer is a
source of irritation, thus ending blad
der weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive, rannot In
jure; makes a delightful effervescent
lithla-water drink, which - everyone
should take now and then to keep the
kidneys clean and active. Druggists
here say they sell lots of Jad Salts to
folks who believe in overcoming kid
ney trouble while it is only trouble.
Adv.
ASTHMA SUFFERER
WRITE TODAY and I win tell you of th
simple horn treatment for uihma and
bronchitis which haa cured many after phy
sicians and chanira of climate had failed. X
want you to try it at my expense; Drop ma
a card and I'll mail you a 2oO sample bottle
FKKE. Geo. J. Thomaaaen. Box A-16U, JDes
Uoinea, Iowa Adv.
Gray Has??
Use BAR BO
A preparation of great merit for
Btreaaea. xaaea or arr ni
Yoo Can Make It Yourself
any drug store. Directions if '" V
SuTeach box. Costs utile and easy to make. .
Phone your want ad to The Ore
goman. Main 7070, A 6095.