the aionxixo okegoxian, Thursday, October s. . lois. ' LAGGARD CITY YET RETARDING OREGON Portland's Deficit Placed To day at $2,487,400; Full Quota Date Indefinite. SUCCESS ONLY IDEA HELD Outer-State Counties Already Nearly $80,000 Over Quota, but This AVill Xot Be Permitted to Help Out Multnomah. (Continued From Yirst Page.) General Talbot, "It's up to the people of Portland." Thousands Wear No Button, Chairman Emery Olmstead. of the city campaign committee,- summed up the situation by asserting that many thou sands of prosperous wage earners and residents of Portland's 320.000 popula tion are not wearing: the button of the fourth loan and that hundreds of well- FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT BEEN SOLICITED TO PURCHASE LIBERTY BONDS. SAME - ADDRESS rr. When solicitor should call For some reason our solicitors may have missed you. DON'T WAIT This is your only method of participating la this war. FILL OUT the card and mall to LIBERTY TEMPLE. to-do men have not yet realized their full duty toward the loan. "We must act at once," said Mr. Olm stead. "or else Portland, far from being the first city in it3 class to attain vic tory, will be numbered far to the rear, with the lazy and laggard. "I don't know what to think. Here we are taking in from $15,000,000 to $18,000,000 a month on Government contracts, supplies and other Govern ment expenditures and yet we are. having difficulty in raising a little more than $18,000,000 for the fourth liberty loan. "I hesitate to say that . Portlanders are slackers yet from the returns of i the drive we know that approximate ly 40,000 people have faileir to pledge themselves. Our records indicate that the slackftrs are not all laboring peo pie. The so-called rich, in most in stances, have done well. It is the man in comfortable circumstances who ap pears not to be doing his full duty." Wealthy Man Called Shirker. Fretn the list of those whom they have under consideration as "slackers and shirkers," the Portland committee has selected another name that of William Reid, president of the National Cold Storage & Ice Company, charging him with failure to meet his liberty loan obligations. The committee's statement is as follows: "William Reid, a shirker, president and practically sole owner ,of the Na- tional Cold Storage & Ice Company, 309 East Stark street, who resides at 1343 East Stark street and who is reputed to be worth in excess of $1,000,000. "After being solicited many times by the fourth liberty loan committee, Mr. Reid has subscribed only $7000 for his entire family, including his wife, bis son and himself. "The fourth liberty loan committee insists that this is grossly Inadequate. "Portland Liberty Loan Committee, "OUT W. TALBOT, General. "EMERY OLMSTEAD, Chairman." Investigations Carefully Made, Investigation is being carefully made of others who are believed by the com mittee to be dodging duty, asd further exposures are promised if the facts warrant such action, declares General Talbot. , The outstanding sentiment of the campaign at present is that Portland, rich with wartime prosperity, must not permit her good name to be tarnished by failure with the generous example of the loyal outer-state counties to re buke her. psign Manager Smith, "that Portland will permit the surplus from the im poverished interior counties to put her war prosperity over tho top. She should have sufficient civic pride to fight her own fights, and bear her own burdens. Interior Cities Oversubscribed. "Thousands and thousand.- of homes re vacant in cities and towns through out the Willamette Valley and Central Oregon. But in Portland there are thousands of families who cannot gt houses. In such decided contrast is the difference in material prosperity in dicated. Yet Eugene, Albany. Rose burg. Lakeview and scores of other interior cities, had their quotas sub scribed days ago." John 1 Etheridge. state director of organization, announces that his - of fices, which represent the state outside of Multnomah County, are in prepara tion fcr closing, inasmuch as the outer state quota has been over-subscribed. Returns are awaited merely from threa STOMACH UPSET? Pape's Diapepsin at Once Ends Sourness, Gas, Acidity, Indigestion. When meals upset you and you belch gas, acids and undigested food. When you have lumps of Indigestion pain or any distress in stomach you can get relief instantly No waiting! As soon as you eat a tablet of Tape's Diapepsin all the indigestion pain stops. Gases, acidity, heartburn. flatulence and dyspepsia vanish. Pape's Diapepsin tablets cost very little at drug stores, r-Adv. counties, where- the campaigning has been difficult, but there is confidence that these will soon announce their quotas as filled. "Every county in Oregon, with the exception of Multnomah, which is held back by Portland's tardiness, has fought a good fight," commented Mr. Etheridge. "Residents of the so-called country districts have demonstrated that they are more proficient at simple sums in mathematics than is Portland, for thoy realized that their previous effort and subscriptions must be doubled, and they have doubled them." Voluntary Subscriptions the Rule. Back from a tour tor the liberty loan are Tommy G. Eyan, Sherman Hall and Ted Lansing, who swept the Bend country in an automobile, returning via the McKenzie pass. On Friday night, at meetings held in Bend,- both Mr. Ryan and Mr. Lansing spoke for the loan, and to such effect that 17000 was raised in voluntary subscriptions at three rallies. , A. resident " of Ilapco. "Wash., has come to the aid of T'ortland, with a subscription for $1500. General Talbot yesterday received the following letter from William Black, a merchant of that city: "You can' put me down for $1500 of the fourth liberty loan bonds to help lick the Huns, and to give the boys over there a better heart, and plenty of good things to eat, and lots of pow der and shot. I want this subscrip tion credited to Portland's quota. What is the matter with Portland? Get after the slackers rough-shod." Iron Workers Take S35.000. The employes or the Peninsula Iron Works have subscribed for $25,000 of liberty bonds. The men organized their own soliciting committee and appointed the following to take the pledges of the workers in the plant: M. R. Morrow, Oliver L. Mant, W. Rolis, W. 'A. Nolan and Bert Dennis. As a result of the canvas of the 125 employes the solicit ing committee obtained pledges slight ly in excess of $200 per man. Morris Bros., dealers in Government and municipal bonds, have presented a statement to the Portland liberty loan committee, showing that their firm has secured an aggregate of $789,950 in fourth liberty loan subscriptions, through purchases made ty clients and that the subscription has' been turned over for official receipt. Much of this amount has been included in the daily reports at liberty temple. H. R. Blauvelt, chairman of the com mittee on foreign insurance companies, reports that to date no foreign fire in surance company has subscribed to Oregon quota, with the exception of the Lumbermen's Indemnity Exchange, of Seattle. , Insurance Subscriptions Given. Subscriptions received from insur ance companies, to date, are reported by Mr. Blauvelt as follows: Equitable Lifs Aisuraoca Society. .$75,000 Mutual Ufe insurant's Co 60,00V Northwestern Mutual -Life Insurance Company 00,000 New Kngland Mutual Life Insurance Company 40.000 New Vork Life Insurance Co :'.0.OOO Metropolitan Life insurance Co...., i:0,OUU Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company - 20. OOO National Life ' Insurance Co I'O.ooo Prudential Insurance Co. I.I.OOO Travelers Insurance Co. 10.000 Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company .... 10.OO0 Western L'nlon Life Insurance Co 10. ooo New World Life Insurance Co - 10. OOO The Maccabees 10.OO0 American Central Life Insurance Co., of Indianapolis 10.000 Union Central Life Insurance Co... Ti.ooO Guardian Life Insurance Co Uuarsnty Kund Life Association.... United States Guarantee fidelity Companv Kansas City Life lnsuranco Co....... Idaho State Life Insurance Co National Insurance Co., of U. S. A... Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co... Degree of Honor Security Life Insurance Company - of America Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland Lumbermen's Indemnity Exchange.. West Coast San Francisco Life Insur ance Co California State Life Insurance Co. (Icorsia Casualty Company American Druggists Insurance Co... National Life Takes 20.ooo. ooo &.0UU B.OOO O.OoO 4. OOO 6.000 4,000 3.000 2.r.o n.r.oo 0,00 2. .".00 li.noo William Goldman, local manager of the National Life Insurance Company, yesterday received notification from the company that its liberty bond al lotment for Portland was $20,000 and the subscription was immediately hand ed in at Liberty .Temple. Protracted patriotic campaigns may not be to the liking of Portland, but officials insist that the fourth bond drive is going to plod right along on its way until tho last dollar of the city's quota has been subscribed and with out outside assistance. Upon the Port land public rests the determination of when the drive shall be terminated. At a special liberty bond conclave, held Tuesday night at the Builders' Ex change, the Master Plumbers -Associa tion subscribed $1200 to the fourth lib erty loan issue. It is anticipated that other organizations in the Builders' Ex change will follow the example set. WILSO.V CAUTIONS PUBLIC Favorable War News Must Not Ics- sen Loan Efforts. WASHINGTON. Oct. 2. President Wilson and other officials feci that the American people must exercise cau tlon lest the good news from the battle fronts cause a relaxation of effort on behalf of the fourth liberty loan. Thus far no such tendency has been notice able and the campaign has been going with an enthusiasm comparable to- that with which the battle reports have Deen received. It is pointed out that, now that vie tory is definitely being brought to the side of the allied armies, funds and more funds are needed to enable the fighting men to press home their hard won advantage and hurl the German hordes beyond the Rhine. Official reports today from all Fed eral Reserve districts except Kansas City, which has not started taking fig ures, showed $411,142,060 in pledges actually received and accompanied by payment of the 10 per cent initial in stallment. This covers receipts up to last night, but does not include millions of dollars in figures on which the initial payment has not been made or has been made but not yet reported officially by banks. The total tomorrow night is expected to be several hundred million dollars greater. In order to raise six billions it would be necessary to get a dally average of $315,000,000, and at this required rate approximately a billion dollars should have been subscribed by this time. In connection with the efforts to pre vent slackening of campaign! morale rt was cited today by Treasury offi cials that practically all of the six bil lion dollars to be raised will have been spent by the time it is received at tho Treasury. The Government already is paying out money at the daily rate of $50.000.000, . which Is substantially the money to be raised in the fourth loan. Nearly $4,500,000,000 has been re ceived in the last two months from sale of certificates of indebtedness, but these securities are only temporary, ex pedients to be paid out of receipts from liberty bonds. Consequently the Gov ernment is already spending its fourth liberty loan money. GRANGE WILL HOLD RALLY Patriotic Addresses and Music to Feature Programme. The forty-fifth anniversary meeting of the Evening Star Grange will be held at the Grange Hall, Seventy eighth and Division streets, Saturday, October S, starting at 10:30 In the fore noon. The third and fourth degrees will be conferred by a team of 30 members in the morning. At noon a basket lunch will be held.- ln the afternoon a liberty loan address will be given by a prominent speaker. Dr. James Burgette Short will talk on "Community Betterment-" The rest of the programme includes: Solo, by Miss Metta Brown; reading, by Miss Olivette Mills and Mrs. Cook; violin solo, by Miss Gladys Lee John son, accompanied by Miss Clara Smith: and singing by the Girls' Quartet of r ranklln High School. Greetings will be given to the charter members and other events will crowd the day. RAIN AIDS WATER SUPPLY, Past Season Declared Driest in His tory of Local Bureau. Rain yesterday brought relief to Portland's water situation, which had been critical for the past few weeks, according to Superintendent L. S. Kai ser. The season Just past has been the dryest in the history of the Water Bu reau, he declares. 'ior the past -few weeks we have been taking about 39.000,000 gallons of water a day from Bull Run. leaving only 5,000.000 gallons to go down the river," ne said yesterday. "While we have a reserve supply of more than a hundred millions in the reservoirs, a big fire or warm spell would have en dangered the water supply at any time recently." FOOD PRICES PUBLISHED W. K. Newell Inaugurating- System In Smaller Towns of Oregon, W. K. Newell, Assistant Food Admin istrator for Oregon, returned yesterday from a trip to Marshfield and Coos Bay cities, where he went to inaugurate the price interpretation system. He will go to Bend today 6n the same mission. The weekly price interpretation list. showing the prices producers receive. that which retailers pay and what they should sell goods for. is based upon the prevailing markets of Tuesday and re leased for publication in morning papers of Thursday morning. It is the desire of the Iood Admin istration that the housewife make use of the list each week. AUTOS COLLIDE; NONE HURT Mishap Is Attributed to Wet Condi tion of Streets. An automobile owned by Robert W. Schmeer. vice-president of the United States National Bank, was struck yes terday by a car driven by Dr. G. M. Sewall, at Broadway - and Larabee street. Mr. ' Schmeer's car was driven by Miss Elsie Shockley. 209 East Sixth Street. North.' No one was injured. The accident was attributed to wet streets. Mrs. T. L. Chamberlain, 160 East Thirteenth street, reported to tho police yesterday that she was knocked down at Broadway and Washington street by an automobile several days ago. The driver of the car had not reported the accident as required by city ordinance. A Word of Precaution. TUST wherein lies the reason for tho use of vegetable preparations for infants J and children ? Why are any but vegetable preparations unsafe for infants and children ? Why are Syrups, Cordials and Drops condemned by all Physicians and most laymen ? Why has the Government placed a ban on all . preparations containing, among other poisonous drugs, Opium in its variously prepared forms and pleasing tastes, and under its innumerable names? These are questions that every Mother will do well to inquire about. Any Physician will recommend the keeping of Fletcher's Castoria in the house for the common ailments of infants and children. pit: '''-'l;'15j'iC'!w - 1st Content. laTluid DraehnJ i MVlM LGOHOL-3 "' .'-8 AVeicfaufcfrcparaticoforAs sitmlatinilberood by KcuU- ! tinotrStomichsawllkwcus mm. V.N. Thercbv Promoting Dtfrttof- i Cheerfulness and EesLCactstns neither Opiufn.Marphine nor. iy n.'-n Mineral. Not aamcu .v 1 tiMriilBcrnettylbf '1 Constipation and Diarrhoea-I v. no-sleep a 7ac5iraite Sijnatartog 3 5'l.' Exa,ct Copy of Wrapper. ....svf't i. .. a r "s - - - ( Jlsa iiarsrf DESPOTISM LOSING ITS STRANGLEHOLD Rulers of Central Empires Ap pear Disposed to Yield to Democracy. BOTH DYNASTIES AT STAKE Kaiser'a Appeal for Strong Men to Aid in Government Regarded as Significant Austria May Seek Separate) Peace. WASHINGTON. Oct S. Sign .are multiplying in reports reaching the State Department from various agencies n neutral European countries of the rapid weakening of the despotic control which the military elements in Ger many and Austria have imposed upon the civilian population. American officials are becoming con vinced that the imperial rulers have been forced, however reluctantly, to the oonviction that if they are to preserve their dynasties from destruction they must yield to the growing demands of the civilian elements for the right of participation in the government dur ing their crisis. It was pointed out today that Presi dent Wilson has repeatedly declared that with the military rulers of the cen tral powers ronvicted of broken faith and deceit, there can be no discussion of the peace for which the Germanic people apparently are clamoring. Peace Motive Discerned. Hence the belated attempts of the Emperors to erect a structure of real democratic government through the parliaments In the hope that with these the entente statesmen will be willing to comer aoout peace. indications or such a purpose are aiscernea oy American orricials in va rious utterances and acts of the Ger man and Austrian leaders. In his ac ceptance of the resignation of Premier von Hertling, Emperor William ap pealed to the strong men of Germany to come to his aid and share the bur dens of government, a direct bid foe the support of the Socialists and Cen trists in return for participation in the Cabinet. As a halfway measure and in a des perate effort to save the imperial pre rogative. Emperor William already has tried the expedient of himself selecting leaders of the opposition parties for minor places in the Cabinet and prom ising to forward the enactment of pop ular measures. Socialists Seek Control. But the Socialists have generally de clined to accept anything short of ab solute control of the Cabinet through the Reichstag without reference to the wishes of the Emperor, and officials believe that at length they are about to realize their aspirations. Such a change in Germany doubtless vrould be followed, if not indeed pre ceded, by a similar revolution in Aus train parliamentary government, and it is fully expected that as soon as real representative government is a fact in the central empires there will be an Irresistible movement toward peace, even on the terms laid down by Presi dent Wilson. In this connection, the news today that the Austrian Kmperor had sum Children a a ...... " .. r Letters from Prominent Druggists addressed to Chas. H. Fletcher. S. J. Briggs & Co., of Providence, R. I., say : "We hava sold FUtcher'a Castoria in our three stores for the past twenty years and consider it one of the best preparations on the msrket." Mansur Drug Co., of St. Paul, Minn., Bays : "We are not In the habit of recommending1 proprietary medicines, but we never hesitate to say a good word for Castoria. It is a medical success." Hegeman & Co., of New York City N. Y., say : "We can say for your Castoria that it is one of the best selling preparations In our stores. That is conclusive evidence that it is satisfactory to the users." W. H. Chapman, of Montreal, Que., says : "I have sold Fletcher's Cas toria for many years and have yet to hear of one word other than praise of its virtues. I look upon your preparation as one of the few so called patent medicines having merit and unhesitatingly recommend it as a safe household remedy." GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS DEARS the Signature of moned to Vienna the three biggest men of Hungary, Counts Tisxa. Andrassy and Apponyl, was received here with undisguised interest. . This action was regarded as very significant. Coalltloa Caklaet Possible. It was suggested that ' Emperor Charles may be trying to form a coali tion cabinet to pacify, as far as pos sible, the troublesome nations of the empire. It was regarded as entirely possible that the spirit of defection has recahed a stage not known out side of the empire, which requires drastic action or promises of great re- torms. In the official view, however, there Is no possibility of the pacification of the Czecho-Slovaks. who have been recog nized by all the allies as an Independent people, or the Juco-Slavs of the south. who are ambitious to become free under the leadership of Serbia. Those officials who sea a nosslbllltv of a separate plea for peace on the part of Austria suggested that Count Tisxa had been summoned to meet his com patriots in Vienna, where the exact situation would be laid before him in all its hopelessness in an effort to con vert him to a peace move without con sulting Germany's wishes. It Is thought Possible that when Count Tisxa realizes fully the plight of tne empire be will Join Andrassy. who is tne leader of this movement, in an effort to secure peace before the em pire is entirely defeated and dismem bered through Internal uprisings. BAR ASSOCIATION TO DINE Justices Charles Johns and Conrad Olson Guesta of Honor. Justice Charles A. Johns and Justice Conrad Olson, of the Oregon Supreme Court, will be guests of honor at a luncheon at the Benson Hotel Saturday at noon, at which all lawyers are in vited to be present. Clarence H. Gilbert, president of the Multnomah Bar Association, yesterday appointed a committee to have charge of arrangements for the luncheon, ten dered to the two justices recently ap pointed to places on the bench by Gov ernor Withycombe to fill vacancies caused by death of their predecessors The committee for the event follows: Charles E. Cochran, Eugene Brookings, W. Lair Thompson, E. V. Littlefleld and Dsn Powers. PIMPLY? WEL,D0N'T BE People Notice It. Drive Them Off with Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets A pimply face will not embarrass you much longer if you get a package of Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets. The akin should begin to clear after you have taken the tablets a few nights. Cleanse the blood, the bowels and the liver with Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets, the suc cessful substitute for calomel; there's never any sickness or pain titer taking them. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets do that which calomel does, and just as effectively, but their action is gentle and safe instead of severe and irritating. No one who takes Olive Tablets is ever cursed with "a dark brown taste." a bad breath, a dull, listless, "no good" feeling, constipation, torpid liver, bad disposition or pimply face. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets are a purely vegetable compound mixed with olive oil; you will know them by their ouve color. Dr. Edwards spent year among pa tients afflicted with liver and bowel complaints, and Olive Tablets are the immensely effective result. Take one or two sightly for a week. See bow much better you feel and look, 10c and 25c per box. All druggists. 4 , Crv For . - S n- id" Playing EM r ro) m ro) ill v t POSITIVE ' r id SENSATION ( H S v:- ' J Com In h- 'Y: Early ieJ J- rcc I i Matinees xii : '- f" ' 7 . If Possible W:Y- iSK t Special 25c " Lose f I .35c Seats 35c E r I i in Children Under 16 Not Admitted pi I ft 0 m THE SENSATIONAL FACT PHOTO DRAMA Picturizing; vividly startling phases of a subject about which the world keeps dumb and the law silent! Not fiction but stark reality I in ur r FRISCO'S RED LIGHTS PASOTED WHITE tel. en V TAR. T HJEATER i m m Easy to Bdocfcatiy ON every Sperry Product Flour Sack or Red Cereal Package you will find the Sperry trade mark. Look for it. It is a sign of accepted quality a health producer in every home. Sperry 5 ff!y to Capacity MILL of The tense and gripping; drama of the call in a body of more than four hundred women of the streets of San Francisco upon Rev. Paul Smith of the Central Metho dist Church with the query: "What are you going to' do with us?" EVERYBODY CAN'T GET IN YOU HURRY a.) m . J it r t DOH Children rzn cm ft Flour Co.