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TIIE MORNING OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1919, NATIONAL POLICY IN 16 FORESTS ADVOCATED Increased Fire Protection Is Held Great Need. CONVENTION IS CLOSED T Resolutions Adopted and Officers I Elected by Western Forestry and Conservation Association. With resolutions calling for an In Creased programme of effective for est protection during the coming year and those that follow, and outlining plans for such work, the two-day con vention of the Western Forestry and Conservation association came to i close yesterday afternoon at the Mult Bomah hotel. This morning, at the Multnomah, the tenth annual convention of the Pacific lotglnfc congress will con vene in the same convention hall, with a majority of the conservation association members remaining in at tendance. The congress, of three-day duration In Portland, will conclude on Saturday with a visit to Bend, where delegates will inspect opera tions and improved equipment of the Shevlin-Hixon and Brooks-Scanlon lumber companies, leaving Portland on a special train Friday night. Be tween 400 and 600 delegates are ex pected to be present at the logging congress, from all Pacific coast states and British Columbia. Spokane Mum Re-elected. At the close of its sessions yester day the Western Forestry and Con nervation association re-elected A. L. Flewelling of Spokane as president, and George M. Cornwall of Portland as secretary-treasurer. Trustees were chosen as follows: California, C. 8. Smith: Oregon. K. M. Fox: Washing too, George S. Long: Idaho. T. J. Humbird: Montana, W. K. Ballord. Vice-presidents were elected as fol lows: California. W. W. Wheeler Oregon, George B. McLeod; Washing ton, E. G. Ames; Idaho, A. W. Laird Montana, Kenneth Ross. The most significant resolutions adopted by the conservation conven ' tion were those relating to finance. approved at the close of the session, and which bespeak a wider field of activity for the association. E. T. Allen, forester, of Portland, will b relieved of the great mass of detail work, through additions to the active force, and will devote his time en tirely to the broader policies of the organization. These resolutions call for an in crease in revenue to $23,000 per year. the increase to be met by assessment on local associations and upon large individual timber holders, who are vastly benefited by the forest protec tive work of the association. The Portland headquarters staff will be augmented by several departmental heads and an increase in the clerical staff. Xatloaal Policy Advocated. In a paper read before the associa tion by a member of the forestry erv Ice, Chief Forester Henry S. Graves of the United States forest service pointed out the need of a national for est policy for tnis country ana urgea the enactment of the necessary legis lation and the initiation of co-operative measure between federal, state and private interests to bring it about "A national policy of forestry." he aid, "seeks the protection and benefi cial utilization of our present forest resources, the renwal after cutting of forests on lands not needed for agriculture and settlement, the sta bility of forest industries and of sat isfactory conditions for forest work ers, and the restoration or forest growth on lands now unproductive nd idle." Mr. Graves pointed out that the benefits derived from forests are not only local, but national as well, since forest products enter into interstate business and the protective value of forests often extends far beyond the immediate localities in which they are situated. Consequently a program of xatlonal forestry should embrace fed eral aa well as state and private ac tivities. One feature of this pro gramme should be the acquisition of public forests. "There should be an extensive pro gramme of public forests," he said, "owned by the nation, by the states, by municipalities and. too, by quasi public instUutions and organisations." Pablte Aid Jnatifled. He further declared that the value o the whole nation of the perpetua tion of the forests justifies and even demands participation by the public in the ways and means which will in sure the protection and renewal of private forests. This participation by the public should be along the line ot financial assistance in fire protec tion. assistance in working out plans for logging which will insure a new crop of timber, a revision of the tax laws which will encourage the hold ing for tree growth of cut-over lands not suitable for agriculture, the ex tension of existing federal legislation relating to farm loans to include fi nancial assistance to the owner of timber lands who will improve and safeguard their holdings: provision for a lumber census and survey of the forest resources of the country, a pro vision for a classification of land whereby it may be put to its most productive use and provision for ade quate funds for the conduct of in vestigative work needed in carrying jut a national forest programme. In discussing methods by which the renewal of the forests after logging can be brought about, the chief for ester made it clear that in the average private forest an adequate new growth can be secured from natural reproduc tion without planting or other costly measures. "On certain types of forest." he said, "forest renewal will result from fire protection alone." This is particularly true in the Iouglas fir region of the Pacific northwest. As a first step toward the realiza tion of 'a national policy. Mr. Graves urged the enactment of a federal law that recognizes the need for such a policy and which will provide the re quisite autnoruy and means whereby the government can extend increased co-operation with the states in the perpetuation of the forests under their Jurisdiction and Increased ap propriations for the purchase of for est lands. One of the entertainment features of the Pacific Logging congress, open ing this morning, will be the welfare dinner tendered tonight at the Mult nomah hotel by the industrial depart ment ot the local T. M. C. A. at :30 o'clock. In the Arcadian Gardens Among the speakers will be Ralph Burnside of the Wlllapa Lumber com pany, representing the Loyal Legion; Charles Puehler of San Francisco, in ternational secretary of the T. M. C A.; F. H. Lamb. Hoquiam. Wash.; R. W. Vlnnedge of North Bend. Wash.; Mra. Jean Morris Bills of Portland: Huntington Taylor of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: Robert Jensen of Seattle, and U. S. Duncan of Tcrtland. t l Tit ' x 1 ..r - , 1 -v t jf I 1 f 1 I , a I ' , X 4.M J1 TODAY'S FILM FEATITRES. Peoples Madge Kennedy, in "Leave It to Susan." Majestic Special production, "Shepherd of the Hills." Liberty Eugene 0"Brlen, "The Perfect Lover." Strand Bert Lytell, "Lombard!, Ltd." Star Kitty Gordon, "Playthings of Passion." Columbia Enid Bennett, "Step ping Out." Sunset Hobart Bosworth, "The Border Legion." Circle Mitchell Lewis, "Jacques of the Silver North." Sceae from "Stepping Out," marring Enid Bennett, whlrh will open today it the Colombia taeater for threeday ran guest of honor at a fair which will open October 7 and run until October 11. A letter from William M. Lea- mon of Riverside reads in part as fol lows: "I am chairman of the committee planning for an airplane feature for the Riverside fair October 7-11. Al ready I have secured the service of the Curtlss people. What I now de sire more than anything else in the world is to have you come as our guest, making the trip from Los An geles to the Riverside fair grounds In the big Curtlss plane. "Riverside loves you as a motion picture star and Riverside loves you . I owt mm jinn diuc lUVCO yuu J I for what you did for us about a year S ago in ids iiDerty loan arive. THE possibilities of married life on )!5 a week are shown in the photoplay, "Stepping Out." which will open today at. the Columbia theater for a three-day run. Enid Bennett. pretty and capable, has the stellar role. "Stepping Out" depicts the life of a pretty woman who, due to her sacri ficing efforts that enable her husband to make a good appearance each day at his office, has bee me a household drudge. The even tenor of the day's work is broken for the uncomplaining wire on her wedding anniversary, an event forgotten by her husband, and on which day she sees him with : strange young woman. Rebellion re suits and June Hillary, formerly pa tient wite. decides to steo out." me picture contains real drama and real fun. June Hillary's small child is the cause of many of the smiles and some of the sentiment of the cinema red Niblo directed the picture, the scenario ot which was written by C Gardner Sullivan. Nlles Welch is Miss Bennett s leading man, while others in the cast are Julia Fave. Gertrude Clair, William S. Conkiin and Bota Miller. The Columbia eight-piece orchestra will accompany the feature Dlcture auring each showing tonight and on Thursday and Friday nights. Screen Gossip. Mae Murray, whose brilliant career as a musical comedy star led her to greater fame as a motion picture ac tress, has Joined the Famous Plavers- Lasky forces. She will appear in a picturized version of "On with the Dance," by Michael Morton, the play which A. H. Woods produced at the Republic theater in 1917-1918. Miss Murray originally made her name with the Famous Players-Lasky corporation in such notable pictures as "Sweet Kitty Bellairs." "To Have and to Hold" and "The Dream Girl." Work on the new picture will start early this autumn. George Fitz maurice, who has been directing Fa mous Players-Lasky productions with Elsie Ferguson, has been chosen as Miss Murray's director. Fred Nlblo, who directs Enid Ben nett, hss a choice collection of still photographs snapshots of the na tives or the South Sea Islands which were taken long before the motion picture camera came into use. Mr. Niblo's original purpose in taking these photographs was to make from them stereoptican slides, to be used to illustrate a contemplated lecture tour. He took the photographs while excursionlng from his Australian home, and his visit to the Islands preceded by many years the later visits of explorers who went there to take motion pictures of the savages. The city of Riverside, Cal., has In vited Mary Miles Minter to be its one ot tne few women to land a sword-fish was Kathleen Clifford, the new leading lady for Douglas Fair banks current picture. Miss Clifford was enjoying a little outing at Cata Una Island, at the same time Mrs. Charlie Chaplin, nee Mildred Harris. was visiting there with her mother, and tne two stars arforded the na tives all sorts of thrills. They went up in the Chaplin hydroplane, and went down in the deep diving for coins off the deck of the Cabrillo, the famous sight-seeing boat. Just like regular divers, besides taking many a spin in the 60-mlle-an-hour-motor boat "Spearmint." When Miss Clif ford's boat put into port flying the blue pennant, which Indicates a prize has been landed, the whole island turned out to see the catch. Sarah T. Mason has been commis sioned to prepare continuity from two original stories recently purchased, each of which is believed to offer a particularly strong role for ZaSu Pitts. Persons given to breaking the law especially in southern California can take notice that Tom Mix, mo tion picture star, has been made a deputy sheriff of Los Angeles county. Tom promises to pursue violators of law and order with the same relent lessness that marked an earlier period in his career, before he entered mo tion pictures, and while he was help ing tame the bad men of the south west. Mix has a badge and everything else that goes with the office. A marked decrease in the rate of crime in Los Angeles county is expected. "A Tale of Two Cities," the screen version of Charles Dickens' great work of fiction, was recently selected as one of the screen dramas to be shown at a session of the National Education association held in Mil waukee. William Fox, who made this picture, was the recipient of a letter declaring this film of great educa tional value and of remarkable ac curacy. Dickens great story seems to im prove with age, and it never grows stale in the telling. 'Topics of the Day" Is without doubt the most widely distributed screen subject in America, according to Timely Films, Inc., which an nounces that it is the only film so ex tensively exhibited in both vaudeville and motion picture theaters from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. Among the "big time" vaudeville houses showing "Topics of the Day" are - the Palace, colonial, Alnambra and Royal in New York city, and the State-Lake theater in Chicago. The Keith, Orpheum and Poll vaudeville circuits bill this novel film -as a headliner." The variety of subjects presented in 'Topics of the Day" Is responsible for its wide popularity. encouraging olshevism Everything that falsely encourages unrest also encourages bolshevism. Misunderstanding of American indus trial organization, and of its benefits to mankind, leads to unrest, dissatisfaction, and radicalism. For example, the Federal Trade Com mission tells the public that the large packers had an agreed price for lard substitute (made of cotton-seed oil.) It reproduces letters taken from the files of one of the packers, showing that such agreed price existed. But it failed to mention that the agreed price was determined at the request of and in co-operation with the Food Administration! Even the Department of Justice, in its unjust attempt to create prejudice against the packers, has made public these same letters, with no explanation. How long must this kind of misrepresentation continue? In so far as it is believed, it not only breeds discontent, but results in injustice to our industry. ! Let us send you a Swift Dollar.' It will interest you. Address Swift & Company, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, HI. Swift & Company, U, S. A. Packing Plant, North Portland, Ore. C C: Colt, Manager , I3th Street Market, 491 Glisan St, Cor. 13th St. C S. Ogsbnry, Manager 4th Street Market, 283 Gh'san Sl, Cor. 4th St. J. E. Forests), Msnagsr tllS SHOWS WHAT BECOMES OF THE AVERAGE DOLLAR RECEIVED BY rSWIFT&C0MPANY, FROM THE SALE Of MEAI AND SY MlOOUCTS I CENTS IS PAJD FOR THE LIVE ANIMAL It.tS CENTS FOR LABOR EIFCNSES AND FHEISnT 2.04 CENTS REMAINS WITH swint COMPACT AS FSOFIT Swift A ' CotrtpamA Pra&t ZM4Cntm S3 1 0JJ o 7 WEHER FARES DEFENDED RAIL WAT ASSOCIATION' HEAD SAYS WORKERS RESPONSIBLE. standing timber which have been car ried on the tax rolls as logged land since 1913. The find has resulted in the payment by the owner of $4800 as back taxes. An error in the de scription on the rolls caused the oversight, More Revenues Declared Necessary to Meet Increased Demands of Wage Earners. ATLANTIC CITT. N. J., Oct, 7. Blame for the increase in street rail way fares throughout the country was laid at the door of the wage- earners and not to the demands of capital, by J. H. Pardee, president of the American Electric Railway asso ciation. In his address today to the association here. Necessity for providing revenues to meet the increased demand of the workers and not the desire of the railways to increase their returns has caused the general raising of fares, Pardee declared. Because public utilities no longer attract the Invest ing public the association president said, it Is no longer possible to ab sorb the cost of operation by reduc ing the share that capital receives from the earnings of the enterprise. Therefore he contended that in the matter of decreased service or in creased wages, the question was in reality betwen the car-rider and the wage-earner. Some standards, Mr. Pardee argued, must be created by which wage scales for a definite character of service can be determined. Back Taxes on Timber Paid. ABERDEEN, Wash.. Oct. 7. (Spe cial.) R. A. Wiley, county assessor, has Jut discovered 11 forties of HUGE INCOMES DECREASE Bureau Contradicts Popular Belief in War Fortunes. WASHINGTON, Oct, 7. Despite the popular belief that the number of large fortunes has increased during the last few years. Income statistics made public today by the bureau of internal revenue showed a considera ble decrease for 1917 in those report ing Income in excess of $150,000. The figures were considered even more surprising as regards incomes of $1,000,000 and over. There was a decrease of 65 in some Incomes, only 141 being reported in 1917. A total of 3,472,890 personal income tax returns were filed during the calendar year 1917. The net income reported on these returns amounted to $13,552,383,207, an increase of $7.?53.805.587 over the corresponding figures for the preceding calendar year. The large Increase is attributed to the lower exemption of the act of October 3. 1917, and partly to the general rise in the scale of wages, salaries and other forms of compensation. $1,500,000 Lost In Big Fire. BALTIMORE. Md.. Oct. 7. The plant of the Standard Guano company at Curtis bay. a suburb, was partially destroyed by fire of undetermined origin today and two negro workmen lost their lives. An official of the company estimated the loss at $1,500,000. HE CIS 94,000,000 PORTO RICO'S EXTERNAL BUSI NESS TOTALS $41,896,400. Share for United States in 1919 Amounts to $128,913,436. Aew Record Established. SAN JUAN. P. R., Sept. 22 (Cor respondence of the Associated Press.) Porto Rico's external trade reached a total of $141,896,400 during the fiscal year 1919, a new high-water mark and an increase of more than $4,000,000 over 1918. Trade with the United States amounted to $128,913,436, represent ing 91 per cent of the whole, as com pared to 90 per cent during 1918. Imports from the United States were valued at $57,898,085, and from all other countries $4,502,275, a total of $62,400,360. Kxports were approximately $17,- 000.000 in excess of imports. Exports to the United States amounted to $71,015,351; to all other countries, $8,480,689; total, $79,496,040. Since 1900 the value of imports and exports of the island has increased from $16,602,004 to $141,986,400, or nearly ninefold. Two of the island's chief products, sugar and coffee, brought a better price than ever before. The average price of sugar shipped during the year ended June 30 was $136.77 a ton. During 1918 the average price was $122.81. In 1914 it was $63.12 a ton. Coffee exported was valued at an average price of .217 a pound. In THE TABLE SAUCE that stands first and far above all competition is It makes second - cats more like first and adds to the enjoyment of every meal. LEAtPERRIfJS SAUCE THE ONLY ORIGINAL WORCESTERSHIRE hasbeen the leading table sauce for generations. rwr iiiwiiii r The Name Over the Door Just as Important, as The Name on the Piano There are hundreds of different piano makes on the market today many of these names are unknown to you. Even if you have seen them advertised, you are unable to verify the statements made about them, as you have no expert knowledge on the manufacture of pianos. That is why the name over the door of the store you patronize is just as important as the name on the piano. If the name is that of a good, reliable piano dealer, you can rely upon being shown good, dependable pianos you can rely upon his statements and his advice. The result of your call upon the reliable dealer will be a piano which will give you years of satisfaction and a feeling that you received full value for the money paid. Dealers in Steimvay and Other' Pianos, Pianola and Duo Art Pianos, Victrolas and Records, Player Rolls, Piano Lamps. Sherman Jpay& Co Sixth and Morrison Streets, Portland (Opposite Postoffice) SEATTLE TACOMA SPOKANE Cm ::: jminz 1 1 hi iiJ H :-v.:,.;.:.;..r. w.c.'v-Mrf WB ' j. z-.iv.v.-: 4e&xnpaA H :.:: : :: ,.-.,. 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