Section One
Pages 1 to22
34 Pages
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Two Sections
VOL. LIX. NO. 18.179.
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
PRESIDENT URGES
3 "SUFFS" FORCIBLY
EJECTED FROM JAIL
LEAGUE IDEA FAILS
AMERICAN CITIZEN IS
CONDEMNED TO DEATH
E
T
WHEAT COUNTRY HIT
BY FIERCE BLIZZARD
OLEO BILL
CONGRESSTO SPEED
TO
L
OF ITS
MAX PAYS FIXE WITHOUT COX
SEX TOF WOMEN.
BOLSHEVIKI WILL EXCHANGE
"TOR DEBS OR MOOXEY.
SNOWFALL OF 12 INCHES RE
PORTED AT SPOKANE.
SUM IN SIGH
APPRDVA
OA
OREGON
ROADS
POWER
Leaders Blame Each Other
for Many Delays.
MM BILL IS REPORTED OUT
Senate Passes $14,000,000
Fortification Measure.
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HARP TILTS MARK SESSION
Poubt Expressed as to Tasasc of
Army Appropriation Measure
During F resent Session.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 26 Although
Vm.rked progress In disposing of lcgls-
fttton was made today by conpres
fter announcement that President
I tVilson would not call an extra session
I mil after his return from Europe.
I 'imlnlstratlon leaders tonight still
fr extremely doubtful that all the
."jirtMMnr tnnrnnrlAltnn Hill cniilri hf
rnacted before adjournment next Tues
day. There Is considerable tension
over the legislative situation at the
rapitol after It became known that the
president was insistent that all neres-
ary legislation be disposed of at this
I session. I
V On the senate floor and In private
Vonversation democrats and republican
L harged each other with responsibility
r or delay in action on important mcas
urea.
Orratrr prr4 la t red.
Fresident Wilson had planned to pro
to the capitol this afternoon to con
fer with democratic leaders in an ef
fort to accelerate the work of con
gress, but a prolonged meeting of his
"war cabinet" prevented. lie probably
will carry out this progranme tomor
row before marching at the head of
tie parade in honor of District of
Coliunbla troops.
Democratic Leader Martin today
Wrg-ed greater speed upon committee
chairmen. I? asked democratic sena-
(ors to defer prolonged perches and
equested Senator Owen of Oklahoma
jnd Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska to
Abandon proposed speeches on the con
stitution of the league of nations.
j Senator Owen spoke late in the day.
I Naval Bill Reported Oat.
I In the speeding up today the senate
(aval committee reported out the 1771,-
(r"9.0 naval appropriation bill with
I s authorization for a new three-year
t'Uilding programme, but -because of
pposltion to some features of the
Measures leaders doubt that It can be
enacted at this session. They also
doubt that the pendlnc army appro
priation bill carrying l.:i5.0on.noo and
the IS30.000.000 sundry civil appropria
tion measure can be passed.
Measures finally completed today
were the $9S,O00.no legislative, execu
tive and Judicial bill and the ::.0f0,000
fivers and harboVs bill.
In the senate the !.000,900 diplo
matic and consular measure and the
tM. P00. 000 fortifications bill were
passed and cent to conference, while
the houre approved the victory liberty
loan measure and sent ft to the senate.
J i la expected that the loan bill will be
voted on tomorrow by the senate
finance committee and probably re
ported to the senate.
SUirai Tllta Knllrra ?-!.
The house took up the sundry civil
tneacure and worked on it until late
ji the n!ght. but the senate adjourned
t 7 o'clock because members of the
I oreign relations committee were to
I onfer w ith the president at the white
ouse ana Decause tne repuMlrans In-
l Isted that a quorum should be pres
ent.
Iuring senate debate today sharp
tilts occurred between democrats and
republicans over the president's Insist
ence that legislation be cleaned up.
Senators Hitchcock and Overman of
North Carolina. democrats. urged
t-peedy action on the calendar, while
Senator Kellogg of Minnesota, repub
lican, sharply disclaimed the sugges
tion naaue irom aamimsLrailon sources
that republicans could be charged with j
responsibility for delays. Senator
J'homu of Colorado, democrat, de
clared both parties were to blame, and
taid that an extra session must be held.
Rrpaklkaai Are Dereadcd.
Later In the day Senator Kellogg,
Members of National Forty Threaten
to Picket Prison to Prevent
Acceptance of Money.
BOSTON, Feb. 26. Three of the suf
ragists who were sent to the Charles-
street Jail because they refused to pay
fines Imposed as a result of a demon
stration while President Wilson was
here Monday were forcibly ejected from
the Jail tonight after E. H. Howe had
paid their fines of 5 each. The state
law provides that the prisoners must
be released immediately after fines are
paid.
The women members of the national
woman's party declared they would
picket the pail tomorrow and would as
certain if an injunction could be
brought to restrain the sheriff from ac
cepting payment of their fines without
their consent. They said Howe was
unknown to them.
Fines also were paid late today by
two other women, who left the Jail
without protest. Ten suffragists re
main in Jail. All those released today
are residents of New England.
The hunger strike started last night
by the suffragists was broken at noon
today. Deputy Sheriff Casey said that
all accepted the noon meal otfercd
them. He said they probably would
not be compelled to wear Jail clothing.
Congress Opposition 'No
Convinced by Wilson.
PRESIDENT PLEDGES CHANGES
Executive Dines Foreign Rela
' tions Committees.
TRIO OF MEMBERS ABSENT
Senators Start Debate Before Con
ference and Plan Long Scries
of Open Arguments.
I. W.V. HEARING GOES OVER
Cases of 22 Men Taken In Raid to
Be Investigated Fully.
The hearings oi the 22 members
of the I. W. "Vt. who were arrested
Tuesday on charges of vagrancy in a
police raid on local headquarters of the
organization, which were to come up in
municipal court yesterday, were post
poned until today to give the author!
ties better opportunity fully to investi
gate the seriousness of the cases.
Federal authorities announced yes
terday that four members of the
gang, are of foreign birth and
citizens of .foreign countries and
thorough investigations of their al
leged work in this country as radical
agitators will be conducted.
These four then will be tried, it was
stated, as undesirable citizens and de
portation may follow. The four are
Elmer Berg, Frank Koch. Albert Lo
renz and John Larson.
A fifth member of the gang who is
of foreign birth was found to be a
fully naturalized American citizen and
will not be tried for deportation.
LICENSE COURTESY ASKED
Orccon Honors Washinrton Truck
Permits; Reciprocity Not Obtained.
Licenses carried by automobile
trui-ks from Washington operating for
a limited ieriod in Oregon, because of
the facility of the Interstate bridge,
have been honored by Oregon author
Hies, but such a courtesy has recently
been denied Oregon auto trucks driven
Into Washington. As the result of this.
the Interstate bridge commission yes
terday requested District Attorney
Evans to prepare a resolution to pre
sent to the Washington legislature,
asking that the courtesy be reciprocal.
In the meantime the matter will be
aken up informally with the district
attorney of Clarke county, tVaih. Com
plaint wis made to the commission by
auto truck owner that he had been
forced to pay $1 for a Washington
license during a business trip to Van
couvcr.
CARGO TRANSPORT ADRIFT
Army Vessel Roman Helpless in Gale
East of Bermuda.
NEW TOrtK, Feb. 2. The 4000-ton
rmy cargo transport r.oman was re
ported helpless and adrift on Saturday
last in a gale S00 miles east of Ber
muda by the steamship Charybdis of
the Quebec line, which arrived here to
day. No. further news of her has been
receive.l.here.
American naval vessels in Bermuda
were heard answering the transport's
S. O. S. and two rescue ships, the wire
less said, were being sent to the aid
of the Roman.
The transport left Devonport, Eng
land, January 29 for New York, but
while at sea was directed to proceed
to Philadelphia.
OREGON ROAD BILL SIGNED
Congress Passes Measure Giving
Federal Aid t o States.
STATE CAFITOU Salem. Or. Feb. 2.
alter reading from a press report that , (Special.) With the signature of
the president was disposed to place Governor Withycombo today, the 10,
rcsponslbility on republican opposition ortO.000 road bond bill became a law.
If bills were not passed, denied vehe- j The governor has already signed the
inently that republicans could be ; gasoline tax bill.
charged with blame. . j Coincident with the approval of the
I suppose we ought to simply shove governor of the bond bill came word
those bills through," said Senator Kel-.that the federal aid bill passed con
logg. "I want the country to undet- ' cress. The state highway commission
WASHINGTON", Feb. 26. President
Wilson told members of the congres
sional, foreign relations committees to
night that unless- the United States
entered the league of nations the
league would fall and chaos and tur
moil, beyond description would result
In Europe. Views of republican mem
bers opposing the league constitution
as reported to the peace conference
apparently were not changed by the
long dinner conference tonight with
President Wilson at the White House.
This opinion was. expressed by both
democratic and republican senators.
President Wilson, denied that the
league plan would interfere with the
Monroe doctrine, declaring that the
doctrine would be guaranteed by all the
member powers in tho world society.
America to Aid Armenia.
The president was said to have held
that the mandatories in the constitu
tion were not compulsory, but required
the consent of the nations to which
the mandatory was assigned. Senators
said he expressed the opinion that the
United States would desire to become
a mandatory for Armenia.
On the question of American
sovereignty the president was said to
have taken the position that recession
of American sovereignty was not a
new precedent, being an incident of
every treaty.
Discussion of the constitution as pre-
sen.te.qy.ta the peaue-oferncfe wa-Bid
to have been quite general and the
president was questioned closely, espe
cially by Senator Brandcgee of Con
necticut. Republican Leader Lodge
and Senator Knox of Pennsylvania,
former secretary of state, took very
little part.
Secrecy Not Demanded.
The president, after making an open
ing explanatory statement, answered
all questions freely and specifically
Consul Townsend Imprisoned and
Offer of Freedom Made if Con
victed Socialists Pardoned.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. Information
was received, today from official sources
that every effort, of the state depart
ment to secure the release of an Amer
ican citizen named Kolomatiano. con
demned to death by the bolshevik!, had
been .met with demands that either Eu
gene V. Debs or Thomas J. Mooney be
exchanged for Kolomatiano. It was
also said the bolshevikl had offered to
release American Consul Townsend,
who was arrested some time ago, if
either Debs or Mooney was pardoned.
The state department today made
public this statement obtained from a
man who was imprisoned with Koloma
tiano In Moscow: '
'Kolomatiano was condemned to
death by the bolshevik government De
cember 3, 191S, and was incarcerated
n the Kremlin at Moscow under par
ticularly rigorous conditions. As late
as the 17th of January he was kept
n a cell closely guarded by 12 soldiers
of the red army, whose conversation
constantly dwelt upon revolutionary
politics, and particularly the expediency
of slaying all foreigners in Russia.
"The representatives of the Norwe
gian consulate at Moscow obtained with
great difficulty authorization to visit
should it not receive a prompt answer
Kolomatiano, and between Decemby 3
$23,000,000 Available for
Three Years' Work.
LICENSE REVENUE IS LARGE
Increase in Automobile Fees
Will Swell Total.
HOUSE MAY FIGHT BILL
Expected
Hard
Income,
Surface,
if Expended
Would Build
in
id January 17 had only succeeded once
in seeing the condemned. On several
occasions the bolshevik government
threatened to execute Kolomatiano
from the United' States government rel-
tive to the proposed exchange of pris
oners.
Twelve Miles of Road.
STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Feb.
26. (Special.'- In the coming three
years 1919. 1920 and 1921 there will
be available the sum of J23.000.000 for
road work in Oregon. If this money
was devoted to hard surfacing it would
build 1200 miles.
These statistics were presented to. ine next 35 hours
SALEM RAID NETS BOTTLE
Rooms of Warren Construction Com
pany Representatives Searched.
SALEM, Or., Feb. 28. (Special.)
Working on search warrants sworn out
by Edwin Rawdon of the Anti-Saloon
league. Sheriff Needham tonight
searched the rooms occupied by the
Warren Construction company repre
sentatives at the Hotel Marion and
found one. full bottle of whisky and a
few "empties."
District Attorney Gehlhar said to
night that he was unable to say wheth
er further action would be taken,
the matter.
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CADETS TO JJE-INCREASED
Annual Compensation Fixed at $780
in Military Academy Bill.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 26. The annual
pay of West Point cadets was fixed at
$7S0 through an agreement reached
today by house and senate conferees
on the $2,000,000 military academy bill.
A senate amendment proposed an in
crease from $600 to $800.
night at the meeting of the senate roads
and highways committee by Chairman
Dennis of the house committee, when
the automobile license bill was under
consideration. The senate committee
completely upset the license schedule
which the house adopted Monday after
an all-day session and Jacked up the
license all along the line. ,
A vigorous protest is expected from
the house when the scale adopted try
the senate committee is discovered, and
it is possible that the house may refuse
to concur in the amendments.
License. Income Huge.
Reverting to the statement of Mr.
Dennis, he says that there is expended
from the $6,000,000 bond bill, $3,500,000.
The 1919 bon'd bill is for $10,000,000.
The Bean-Barrett bill will make avail
able $1,819,000 and there is government
money available for the three-year
perido amounting to $6,119,000.
Added to this is the estimated reve
nue of $700,000 from the gasoline tax
and $500,000 from the quarter mill tax.
The 1919 license will yield $400,000 and
the scale of licenses for 1920 and 1921
which Mr. Dennis asked will produce
$2,000,000; expenses, such as overhead,
collections and Interest for two years,
will run upto $2,400,000.
The full significance of -the resources
available for road building can be ap
proximated when it is understood that
it costs about $20,000 a mile to hard
surface. There is no supposition, how
ever. ,that the vast sum will be used
exclusively for hard-surface.
Owners of the low-priced cars, who
were licensed at $12 In the 'house bill.
Wheat Country Rejoices, as Pro
tection Worth Millions Is
Now Assured Crops.
SPOKANE. Wash., Feb. 26. (Spe
cial.) Transportation lines of all kinds
were able to hold their own today
against the continued snow, which has
reached a total fall of almost one foot
in the last 48 hours.
Wheat growers and other farmers are
rejoicing over the white blanket which
has given new protection to their fields,
and lumber men arc looking to a re
vival of operations under more favor
able hauling conditions.
"We have reports that both the Pa
louse and the Big Bend countries have
been covered with snow," C. E. Mc
Broom, cashier of the Exchange Na
tional bank, said. "The value of
the snowfall to the farmers can
he measured . not in thousands but
in millions. It means a protec
tion against a freezing blizzard. The
ground is frozen very little now, and
when the thaw comes most of the mois
ture will enter the ground."
nhLENA, Mont., Feb. 26. Eastern
Montana is in the grip of a blizzard,
with temperatures varying from 10 to
-5 below zero, according to the local
weather bureau. Below zero weather
is also reported In central and north
ern Montana, with ominious signs from
across the Canadian line.
uiLuc ciia-use m temperature curing
House Moils Over Meas
ure in Violent Debate.
is probable. The
heavy snow is seriously hampering
train service to the east.
NORTH BEND, Or., Feb. 26. The un
broken spell of cloudy and rainy weath
er that has prevailed here Since late
in January culminated in a wind and
electrical storm of unusual severity
during the last 24 hours. The tempera
ture dropped several degrees below nor
mal during the storm, and heavy show
ers of sleet and hail, accompanied by
claps of thunder, prevailed. Telegraph
and telephone service was damaged to
considerable extent throughout the
county, and shipping is temporarily
tied up.
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"PICKING ON" THE NEW PUPIL.
tand the situation. I deny absolutely
that the republicans are responsible for
tit oi e bills being reported at the last
minute, a few days before congress is
coins to adjourn." .
Senator Kellogg pointed out that the , r--i- a n a t- a in
.rmy and navy and other big appro- HUNS ASK PROLETARIAT AID
-priation measures had not been received
reports that federal aid for Oregon up
to 1921 will total $6,119,262.95. The
state will have to raise $4.299.98:.40 to
match the federal appropriations. '
-from the house until a few days ago,
unil added:
Kxtra Srasioa Oppa4.
"I suppose we are to be expected to
pass them in a few hours and never
Jook at them."
Senator Smoot of Utah, republican,
Appeal for "Possibility of New Life"
Made at Munich.
MUNICH. Feb. 16. The workmen's
and soldiers' council has sent a wire
less dispatch addressed to the prole
tariat of all countries appealing to
observed that the general deficiency ! tnem to ass,!1 lne council io re.nze a
blil. carrying about $1,000,000,000. has Peace wnicn m give in utrioan pro-
aot yet been reported to the senate.
After referring to many other impor
tant measures. Senator Smoot said:
"And these are to ne put throuph the
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letariat the possibility of new life.
The dispatch says that the Bararian
government temporarily is a govern
ment by the workmen's and soldiers'
council.
DISTRICT SCHOOL -
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77TH TO RETURN IN APRIL
War Department Announces Cor
rected List of Divisions.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. The war
department announced today that the
77th division (Metropolitan, New York)
should be listed with divisions sched
uled for return from France in April
instead of the 83d, as announced yes
terday. The corrected list of divisions
due to return in April is 26th, 77th, S2d,
35th and 42d.
BURDICK PILEDRIVER SMASHES
Only Two Votes Lacking to
Ajinex Referendum Clause.
LABOR CLASHES WITH FARM
Representative Smith of Multnomah
Stung by Remark of Slate GrantfC
Master Warns of Results,
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The M eat her.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 4:
degrees ; minimum. 33 degrees.
TODAY'S Rain; moderate winds, mostl
westerly.
War.
Official casualty list. Section 2, page 5.
Foreign.
Bavarian farmers may cut off food from
Munich, bectlon j, page 11.
Officials of Russian soviet realize end
reign is near. Section 1, page 3.
New stream of refugees starts across Europe
on opea roads. Section l, page
Paris -peace conference expected to . decide
big questions ' soon, bection 2, page t
League of nations lacking In security. See
tion '2. page 11.
American politics puzzles Europeans. Sec
tion 1, page 4. - . ,
Clemenceau's smile Indicates recovery. Sec
tion 1, page 4.
Nat tonal.
Bolshevikl demand release of Debs oi
Mooney. Section 1. page 3.
President fails to shake views, of opponents
of league of nations, bestlon 1, page 1
President urges congress to speed. Section
, page 3.
Review of army court-martial cases Is ar
ranged for. Section 1, page u.
Oregon land taken over by government. Sec
tion 1, page lo.
Domestic.
Shipyard strike at Seattle In ordered off,
is report. Section 3, page 7.
Sports.
Advance- sale of tickets for smoker breaks
records. Section 1, page 14.
Seven Detroit players released to Portland
for 1910 season. Section 1, page 14.
Suffragists forcibly ejected from jail. Sec
tion 1, page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
Blizzard sweeps down from Canada and hits
wheat country. Section 1, page 1.
legislatures.
Oleo bill shorn of its power in house. Section
1, page 1.
Job of lieutenant-governor delayed. Section
1. page 1.
Storm develops in senate at Olympia. Sec
tion 1. page 8.
House passes measure providing election
June 3. Section 3, page 8.
Oregon welcome committee named. Section
1. page 8.
Commercial and Marine.
Shortage of butter In coast markets becomes
acute. Section I, page 21.
Corn weakened by rumors of removal of hog
price minimum, bection 1. page 21.
Stock market strong with record dealings
so far this year, section j, page L'l.
Personnel of Port of Portland commission
pleases business men. bection 1, page '20.
Auto Show.
Crowds at auto show evince unusual Interest.
Section '2, page 1.
Development of truck trade great. Section
2, page 1.
Auto accessories line lacks nothing. Section
2. page 2.
Big crowds drawn by airplane motor. Sec
tion 2, page 4.
Tractors interest farm folk. Section 2.
page 6.
Visitors at show pleased by decorative
scheme. Section 2, page U.
Army whippet tank object of much Interest.
Section 2. page 4.
Fort land and Vicinity.
Bids on spruce equipment rejected. Section
1, page 9. .
Methodist centenarv and mission leaders i
coming to Portland. Section 1. page 6. I
Absorption of Home company by Pacific
company in Portland assured. Section 1,
page 11.
Grandmother pleads In court for custody of
her daughter's child. Section 1, page 12.
Ad 'club will aid in reconstruction pro
gramme. Section 1, page 13.
Red Cross canteen feeds 3500""soldiers. Sec
tion 1, page 30. ,
Income tax cases to be investigated. Sec
tion 1, page 20.
Labor's position on covenant told. Section
2, page 8. j
Weather report, data and forecast. Section i
page 2. '
A.VLAL LICENSES IMPOSED
BY EW OLEO BILL. 1
The oleo bill as passed pro- J
vides ior Imposing- an annual
license of $500 on the manufac- J
turer, $250 on the wholesaler and
$5 on hotel, restaurants and
boarding house keepers. This ap-
plies to all substances known as
oleomargarine, oleomargarine oil,
nut margarine, nut oil, butterlne,
renovated butter and process but- $
ter, larine, suinc and all mix- J
tures or compounds of such.
Fines of from $50 to $500 are t
provided in the act, the fines to
go into the general fund rather J
than to the dairy and food com-
missioner as originally provided. 4
The act also provides for label
ing oleo and that restaurants,
hotels or boarding house must f
have signs on their tables stating I
that oleo is used and served to J
customers where such is served.
STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Feb. 26.
(Special.) Like a violent ward In a
madhouse, the house moiled about the
greater portion of the day today on
the famous Pierce oleomargarine tax
bill, and when it finall came out of
that body it was so emasculated as to
' be admittedly shorn of its power to
effect what the proponents of the meas
ure desired.
It also emerged besmirched with the
stigma of being "the most damnably
vicious bill before the legislature,"
"the mot iniquitous measure ever de
vised" and a similar line of epithets
which had been handed it during the
debate.
Proponents of the measure say the
senate will concur in the house amend
ments. Much of Original BUI Miailng.
The scattered remnants of the origi
nal bill were gathered together and
sent to the senate with many pieces
missing. The bill was shattered and
torn under the final sledgehammer
blows of the Burdlck ptledriver, which
smashed up the probable 36 votes
signed to pass the bill as it came be
fore the house this morning, . and
Speaker Jones with his floor lieutenant
Hare were unable to put it by.
Representative Smith of Baker In the
chair and Representative Pat Gal
lagher were the able lieutenants of -Burdick
who put the skids under the
original measure, and came within two
votes of tacking on the referendum
clause in committee of the whole.
Tax on Retailers Clipped Off.
As it was, the bill went back to the
senate clipped of the sting of a tax
on retailers, and this victory caused
proponents of the pleasure to admit
virtually that the object of the bill had
been defeated. The house left provi
sions for a $500 tax on the manufac
ure, a $250 tax on the wholesaler, and
$50 on restaurant and hotel keepers.
and a minor tax on boarding-house
keepers. The provision forbidding use
of oleo at state institutions also was
liminated.
Incidentally, Representative Smith of
Multnomah had the labor interests
aligned against Master Spence of the
state grange during the debate, and a
mashup of the close political corpo
rations of the grange and organised la
bor seemed imminent. Smith bitterly
opposed the bill all along until finally
he voted for it, after the teeth had been
painfully but successfully drawn.
Farmers Are Warned.
"The master of the state grange, as
I went out of the house this noon,
warned me that farmers and laborers
were drifting further apart and to go
slow," declared Smith, as he turned on
the proponents of the measure for a
final verbal onslaught when an effort
was being made to throttle amend
ments to the bill and dissolve the com
mittee of the whole.
I say to the farmers that upon you
rests the responsibility. When I made
the resolution a number of years ago
at a meeting of the federation of labor
that the grange and organized labor'
enter the political arena as co-open- ...
ing forces, we started a movement
which resulted in the farmers having
the whole hearted support of labor and
now I say to the farmers don't do this
thing" that you are trying to do with
this bill.
'Ramifications Declared Extensive.
"When Spence came to me to support
the bill I said 'No, because you have
been adopting some of the methods of
the other fellows,' and I cay to you
farmers that you can't get by with this
stuff. If you try it. eventually you
arc going down. You are going to have
arrayed against you every small grocery--
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