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THE 3IORXIXG OK EG ONI AX, SATURDAY, JUXE 28. 1919. 5 PRODUCERS VOTE TO RAISE MILK PRICES Advance in Wholesale Figure July 1 Ordered. RETAIL LIFT INEVITABLE Trodnct Now Selling at $3 Per Han- drcd to Go to S3. SO Dairymen Hold Change Jfecessarj. plained, to failure of the committee to send in a war-time prohibition en forcement bill by itself. Had this been done, they said, it could have been passed in a day. It is not at all unlikely an effort will be made to separate bod ily the war-time and' constitutional measures and endeavor to pasthe for mer measure, for which there Is press. ina- demand, and let the other wait.. Even as the Joint measure -stands, it contains one cart or title which would take effect after its approval, and two that would not become effective unti January 1. 1920. There will be ample time for mem bers to outline their plan of attack and defense, for the house plans to adjourn early next week after disposing- of the last of the supply bills early next week until July 2. Chairman Volstead wil send his re port on the enforcement bill to the house tomorrow, but the minority re port may not get in quite so early. House Members Confued. The latter wil be signed by Represen tatives Card, Ohio; Igoe, Missouri, and Steele, Missouri, and possibly others. While voting- with the majority. Mr. Gard announced he would prepare minority report attacking principally the proposition that a citizen "shall not possess" liquor and other features. There has been no attempt to dis guise the fact that members of the house are very undecided ' as to the There are so many angles to it that they frankly admit their confusion, much of which has been due, they declare, to reiterated reports that the president would lift the wartime ban before the law takes effect Monday night. Chairman Vol stead and members of the judiciary committee were kept busy all diy ex plaining to persons here and elsewhere that the failure of congress to enact additional wartime enforcement legis lation immediately did not mean that the government was without authority to deal with persons who sell liquor after Monday. Warning; la Henewed. Both advocates and opponents of drastic prohibition laws said sentiment in the house will be swayed, to a con siderable extent, by the attitude of the public and particularly liquor dealers in the period beginning next Tuesday Keports that saloons in some of the larger cities wouldremain open for the sale of 2 per cent beer brought re newed warning of the members to pre dict wholesale violations might result In President Wilson delaying his de mobilization proclamation until almost the time when constitutional prohi bition is to begin. Milk prices will be advanced in Port land July 1. as the result of action taken by the Oregon Dairymen's league . . . in..Hnff in the Central library. Nearly 600 dairymen who ship whole prohibition situation. milk to the Portland market were pres. ent and unanimously voted to nlcreaae the wholesale price from $3 to J.5 per hundred. What result the action of the dairy men will have on the retail market Portland distributors were unprepared to say last night, but there seems little doubt that the retail figure will go up with the wholesale price. An ad vance of at least one cent per quart and perhaps two cents is counted prob able. Artion Taken Sarnriae. The action of the dairymen was not unexpected, as figures had been pre vented at a meeting a week earlier tending to show that the dairymen were not making expenses with the wholesale price at 13. yesterday's meeting was held under the Joint auspices of the Dairymen's league and the Oregon Milk Producers. Inc. At the meeting yesterday several hours were spent discussing milk production and going over cost figures, before a new price was agreed upon. A resolution was then adopted set ting 13.50 as the minimum figure which the milk producers will accept from Portland distributors. The resolution m-as adopted unanimously. Prices Ct la February. In February milk was reduced In price from I3.S3 to J3.20 and was later cut to $3. The retail price was re duced 1 cent, bring the priccto 13 rents per Quart on the contract basis. The average price per bottle at the stores has been 13 rent)- The new wholesale figure, it is predicted will Increase the retail price at least 1 cent per quart. Alma IA. Katx of Portland, president of the Iwlrymen's league and pro prietor of a large dairy in Clarke county. Washington, presided at the meeting' yesterday. Figures were pre sented which tended to show that while the increasein the cost of feed, machinery and other articles necessary for. the management of a dairy farm since 1911 has averaged 109.6 per cent, the increase in the wholesale price of milk during the same period has been only t0 per cent Dairymen Kenart Lwwfi. Two dairymen gave cost figures which they had made out. Kd Cary of Carlton snowing on hia record a loss or 9101 per month on bis herd of 16 liolstelns. and William M. Howell or Cape Horn reporting a loss of 2 cents per day per cow during the winter months. Mr. Katz touched upon the excess sit uation, showing the loss that the dairy man must take into consideration be cause of the fact that an excess supply of milk must be taken care of during certain seasons. A puhlirtly campaign to advertise the value of milk as a health drink was decided upon, and it was voted by the dairymen to give 1 per cent of their milk checks each month to a publicity fund. Milk distributors will contribute a like sum. and a fund of f l'5.no is ex pected from this source for the cam paign. Capital Mock Inrrrnsed. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Portland Milk producers. Incor porated, held yesterday afternoon, it was decided to increase the capital stock of the organization from $30,000 to JTiO.OtM). The company already has a plant at Fifth and Couch streets valued at J30.H0". and It takes: care of the surplus milk of the producers. hlch otherwise might be sacrificed. Half of the t'JO.OOO additional which it is planned to raise through the sale of stock will go into a reserve fund and the oll.rr half will be used for running expenses. WILSO.VS POWEK DISCUSSED Moral and Legal Iiilit to Repeal Wartime Dry Measure Doubted. WASHINGTON". June 27. The ques tion of whether the president would have the power to repeal war-time pro hibition by declaring demobilization complete, was discussed in the house today by Representative Hoch, repub lican, of Kansas. "There seems to be a general belief." Mr. Hoch said, "that the president not only has the power to repeal the act. but Intends to do so. The liquor in terests In many sections of the country are openly defying the law and are tak ing out licenses for the next fiscal year and newspapers are devoting much space to the publication of stories fore casting a repeal. "Nevertheless, it is certain that the president has no moral or legal right to repeal the act. He lacks the moral right because both branches of con gress and the country at large ex pressed In no uncertain terms opposi tion to his request that the act should Panamas $5.00 ' An exceptional quality in a genuine Ecuadorian Pan ama at a popular price. Other Fine Pa namas $6 to $10 Main Floor enSelli no be repealed insofar as it affects the sale of light wines or beer. 'Neither has he the legal right to re peal the act. That cannot be done until demobilization is terminated, and cer tainly he cannot state in good faith that demobilization is complete when hundreds of thousands of soldiers are still in the service." DRY ZOXE ORDER TO STAY Secretary Daniels Refuses Request for Rescinding Before JIuy 1. WASHINGTON. June 27. In response to urgent requests from the mayor of Newport. K. I., asking that the navy's ry zone order applying to all naval training stations be rescinded before July 1, Secretary Daniels today tele graphed that the order would not be rescinded and that no exceptions would be made in the case of Newport. Mr. Uaniels intimated that the order would not be rescinded until the presi- ent officially declared the state of war no longer exists and by that time, Mr. Daniels said, he "hoped that the meas ure would no longer be necessary. Dealers to Test Dry Measure. ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 27. John P. Pensa, president of the St. Louis retail liquor dealers, announced today he had advised the 600 members of the associ ation to continue the sale of all liquors after July 1 in an endeavor to test the enforcement of wartime prohibition. Senate Fund Accepted. WASHINGTON, June 27. 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' Klection of a board of trustees is also to take place. Dr. Edward T. Devine. editor of the Survey and professor of social economy at Columbia university, was the prin cipal afternoon speaker, giving; the his tory of the social welfare movements and dwelling upon the work of the charity society of Londan. " -Standards of income were taken up. the meeting seeming unanimous in the opinion that IH'O a month is the least salary the average American, family can live on. Bishop Walter Taylor Sumner, who presided, told of the care of dependant families in Portland, explaining the re lationship of the public welfare bureau and the county commissioners. Miss Amelia Keary. secretary of the bureau, gave an account of her work. Her office Is trying to put into oper ation the principles of social work as outlined by Dr. Devine by getting ac quainted with the ceeds of dependants and planning for their self-support, she pointed out that if relief is needed at all it is needed adequately. Professor E. C. Robbing, of the Uni versity of Oregon, closed the meeting by recounting some of his experiences In training Red Cross home service workers. WETS PLANFINAL' FIGHT ICont'nnrd Krtvm Firt Pare.l strong effort to raise the percentage from one-half of one per cent, they expressed every confidence that in this respect the bill would be passed as drawn by the committee and as en dorsed by all of the anti-liquor organ isations. The real battle will be for per cent beer. Refusal of the house majority leaders to give the Mil special rule for imme diate consideration; was due, they ex- IN HER LATEST "THE A Her gambling debts pile upon her! Holders of her I. O. U.'s make her life a torture! Ruin stares her in the face when her mother makes a supreme sacrifice to save her. A mighty story of daughters' follies and mothers' hearts For YOU! .1 it NEWS PICTORIAL OUR OWN TOPICS H SCREEN SUPPLEMENT QUALITY OUR POLICY