THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1019.
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lICE TO
SOLID SOUTH .SEEN
Democrats Weaken' in Ala
bama, Kentucky, Oklahoma.
NORTH CAROLINA IS EYED
ttopubl leans Wonder If Jackson
Day Dinner Will Be Held and
What Xajnes Will Come Up.
OREGON I AN NEWS BUREAU.
Washington, Nov. 19. Republicans
believe that their party has a chance
to break through some of the Im
pregnable democratic positions of the
south, and political events in that di
rection are therefore of more interest
now than for several years.
The sensational victory of J. W.
Herreld, republican, for congress in
the fifth district of Oklahoma, has
given further encouragement to the
new battle plans. The first fight was
made in the seventh district of Ala
bama, with results which determined
the republican organization oil this
course.
Notwithstanding the fact that two
republican counties were eliminated
from the Alabama district three years
ago and one strong democratic county
substituted. Captain L. B. Rainey,
democrat, won by only 406 votes, with
half of the Alabama congressional
delegation in the district campaign
ing for him. The same district, after
the gerrymander of three years ago,
was carried by the late John L.. Bur
nett, democrat, by nearly 4000 votes.
The (futcome of the election in Ken
tucky, where Edwin P. Morrow,
publican, received a greater majority
than was given by that democratic
state to President Wilson in 1916, had
been taken as further indication that
democratic strength in the south is
crumbling. . r
The next battle will be in the ninth
district of North Carolina, where i
vacancy has been created by the ap
pointment of Representative Edwin
Yates Webb to the federal bench.
Webb has always been personally
popular in this district, but notwith
standing that fact the democratic ma
jority has been dwindling in the last
several elections. A republican has
never represented the district, but
that there has been a steady growth
of republicanism is shown by the
election returns of the last few years.
In 1912 the district cast 16,017 votes
for Wils-iii, 1 1,021 for Roosevelt and
1678 for Taft; in 1916 President Wil
son received 19,069 and Hughes 16,
263; in the senatorial election of 1914
Senator Overman received a majority
of only 2000 out of 27,000 votes cast.
The election date has not been set,
but is expected to be fixed for the
latter part of next month.
Democratic eyes are now turned to
ward the Jackson day dinner on Janu
ary 8. There is some talk that it will
not be held on account of the presi
dent s illness, but if Mr. Wilson
getting along as satisfactorily as his
physicians say, his condition should
not stand in the way of an event
which has been the one great annual
get-together of democratic leaders for
many years.
The question Is, will the banqueters
be permitted to discuss any name for
president except Mr. Wilson's, because
it should be understood that this oc
casion is expected to develop some
thing with reference to who is in the
democratic mind. The long list of
names up for consideration includes
Palmer. McAdoo, Baker. Pomerene,
Hitchcock, Clark, Underwood.. Mar
shall. Cox. Daniels, Bryan and Senator
Owen.
Just now Palmer is the most-talked
of candidate, and he is getting along
so well that somebody in his party is
trying to slow him down. The objec
tion now being urged in some circles
is the last one that would have been
expected. That is that it would be i
mistake to nominate the attorney
pen era because such a choice would
antagonize a very large . element of
the democratic party.
taxes?" asked John D. Lewis, presi
dent of the United Mine Workers of
America.
'The question is whether the con
sumer should pay enough to cover the
excess profits tax and at the same
time give the operators their normal
profit, too," replied Xr. Garfield.
Contrasting mining with commer
cial enterprises. Dr. Garfield said It
was necessary not to lose sight of the
fact that coal mining was the basic
industry necessary to the winning of
the war, and that reasonable profits
had to be maintained. It was because
fair re -urn was guaranteed under
the Lever act that congress could not
tax away all the mine owners' profits,
he said.
Fabnlotm Margin Denied.
Replying to William Green, secre
tary of the United Mine Workers, Dr.
Garfield explained that the fuel ad
ministration in increasing the price of
coal during the war had made an
allowance of 15 cents for overhead
because there was not time to take a
minute examination into everv case.
and fof the same reason 10 cents was
allowed as royalty.
Referring to the 45 cents allowed
for wages. Dr. Garfield said that was
"a crude thing to do," but that it was
ater found that the amount was in
the average absorbed for wages.
Thomas T. Brewster, chairman of
the operators scale committee, told
the miners that "a fabulous margin in
the coal Industry does not exist." Dr.
Garfield's impartial figures, he said,
had refuted the reports of enormous
profits in the coal business, which, he
said, had been "run on a slender
margin."
President Lewis said the workers
never had alleged that the operators
mode undue profits in 1918, under
government control.
"But we have made some remarks
about profits in 1919," he caid. "We
are preparing to prove that some con
cerns have sold soal at the mines at
9.1 a ton, $4 a ton. yes, and even
14.50 a ton. We are prepared to
demonstrate that in 1919 the op
erators have gotten 120 to 125 per
cent more for coal than they did in
L91 4 and that wage increases to the
workers has been only 37 8-10 per
cent above 1914 figures, while the
cost of living has increased 110 per
cent. That's our situation in a nut
shell." Dr. Garfield said he had no com
plete figures on the 1919 operations
and was suspicious of partial figures,
but that he did have some data which
showed that in cfirrain fields op
erators were making less in 1919
than in 3918.
MINERS OF WYOMING
DISREGARD THREAT
Operations Are Resumed
Rock Springs District.
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SOUTHERN SHORTAGE FELT
DEAD FLIERS ARE PRAISED
AIR DERBY VICTIMS HELD DE
SERVING OF DECORATION.
Aviation Field Commander Says
Distinguished Service. Crosses
Should Be Awarded.
STOCK BREAK SERIOUS
Xrw York Finds Only Hopeful Xote
In Stability of Rutcs.
NEW YORK. Nov. 19. The break
in the Htock market which began
more than a week ago assumed more
serious proportions today. The en
tire list was carried to lowest levels
In many weeks, gross recessions In
speculative stocks ranging from 5 to
33 points. According to observers,
weakness of certain stocks suggested
enfoiced dissolution of several othe
Tools, whose further operations were
regarded with disfavor by the banks
The one hopeful note was sounded
by the local federal reserve bank
whose directors met but evidently
smv nothing in the situation to jus
tify another advance in rediscoun
rates.
Today's operations exceeded 1 .7(-0
000 shares, a large percentage repre
senting steels, motors, oils and equip
ments. with a sprinkling of tobaccos
and unclassified specialties.
EXCHANGE REFORM URGED
NEW YORK. The sacrifice made
by each aviator who has fallen in
the transcontinental race is of
momentous significance as the sacri
fice made by the pioneers whose
whitened bones blazed the trail to
the west, says Colonel Archie Miller,
commanding officer at Hazelhurst
aviation field.
The officers who volunteered their
services for this historic military un
dertaking are as deserving of the
D. S. C. as the world war fighters
who fell in France, the director of
aid service adds.
The purpose of the race, which was
to demonstrate the mobility of the air
service in time of war, as well as to
stimulate the interest -of the nation
in aviation, was accomplished when
the last plane landed on the east
ern coast. And when historians give
the full interpretation to the trans
continental race in the air, the fallen
aviators will be accorded ecrual honor
with the most heroic of their brothers
who sleep beneath French soil, for
they died in the service and for
national cause.
Typical of the class of men in the
aviation service who volunteered fo
the transcontinental race was Second
Lieutenant French Kirby, who. with
Second Lieutenant Stanley V. Miller,
fell to his death Wednesday at Castl
Rock. Utah, when his De Haviland
plane sideslipped 200 feet to th
ground.
Lieutenant Kirby, formerly a real
estate and insurance agent In Wash
Ington. D. C, enlisted in the aviation
department shortly after war was de
clared by this government. He re
ceived his commission and was sen
overseas, where his work in the
was several times commended offi
cially by his superiors. He was eage
to undertake the transcontinenta
race, but planned to return to hi
pre-war occupation when the trip
was finished.
"Mrs. Kirby, who was living with
us at the salvation Army nospua
Hazelhurst field, received enthusias
tice messages from Lieutenant Kirby
every night at about 10:40 o clock
after he started on the race," said
Mrs. Dunkin. wife of Lieutenant
V. Dunkin, stationed at Hazelhurs
field. "She was so proud of his sue
cess and had been following his daily
flight eagerly. The announcement ot
his death stunned her at first, bu
after the first shock, she bore th
terrible news bravely, for she knew
he would always have regretted it
he had not volunteered for the race.
Mrs. Kirbv has gone to Washing
ton. n. C. with her daughter, Eliza
9 vears old. to make her home with
her husband's father. Samuel Kirby
Xorthwest Industries Classed a:
iXon -Essential Are Cut Off From
Bituminous Supply.
ROCK SPRINGS. Wyo.. Nov. 19.
The majority of coal miners in the
Rock Springs area . returned to work
today despite open threats that they
would be shot if they attempted to
do so. and mine operators estimate
that by tomorrow the mines will be
running with nearly normal crews.
The threats to shoot the miners
ere made openly at a mass meeting
ere Monday night by some Dalma
an and Montenegrin coal workers.
esterday when a small shift started
to work they were met near the mine
entrances and turned back by men
armed with rifles and revolvers.
District Is Quiet.
Quiet prevailed throughout the en
tire district. Eleven alleged radicals
ave been rounded up throughout the
istrict.
CHARLESTON, W. Va., Nov. 19.
The situation in the unionized south-
rn mining districts of West Vir
ginia assumed a more serious aspect
tonight with reports fro mthe New
river coal fields that hundreds of
miners had walked out, closing a
number of mines which had been op- 1
erating since the rescinding of . the
strike order.
According to the reports, the men
began -quitting work following noti
fication by the mine superintendents
that the "check off" system had been
abolished.
DULUTH. Minn., Nov. 19. All sup
plies of bituminous coal from the
docks at the heads of the lakes to in
dustries in Duluth and Superior and
to industries over the northwest re
garded as non-essential were cut off
under an order issued this morning
by E. D. Brigham, chairman of the
coal distribution committee, and W.
H. rGoverman, United States fuel administrator.
Shipping Aathority Required.
Authority to ship coal to any man
ufacturing plant or industry must be
obtained from F. D. Brigham and
W. H. rGoverman, federal fuel ad
ministrators. The question of the es
sential plants is left largely to the
discretion of the fuel administrators.
The preferred list in that respect in
cludes newspaper offices and factories
engaged on essential products, in
cluding clothing and certain foodstuffs.
rights provided by the armistice to
search German factories for material
taken during the war from the in
vaded regions of France and Belgium
and for the supervision of factories
by the economic sections of the ar
mies if there should be reason to be
lieve that war materials are being
produced.
However, it is now determined that
the German factory owners withir
the occupied regions have a legal right
to object, if they eo choose, to entente
commercial representatives visiting
their plants and thus finding out the
special technical processes which are
the secret possession of many in
dustries In this section of Germany,
notably of the steel and iron works
of the lower Rhine valley. Now the
German manufacturers along the
Rhine are endeavoring to devise a
scheme to prevent the economic mis
sions from visiting their plants when
ever they so desire without any formal
notice to the factory owners.
LOWER PRICE HOPE GONE
TRADE COXGRESS CHAIRMAX
ASKS ADJUSTMENT.
DENVER. Colo., Nov. 19. Colo
rado's coal production will be cur
tailed tomorrow by a second strike
of United Mine Workers of America.
Efforts today t oeffect a settlement
failed. "The strike order stands." de
clared George O. Johnson, president
of the union, at Pueblo. "The men
will not obey the strike call." declared
Colorado Fuel & Iron company offi
cials. - - - -
PITTSBURG, Nov. 19. Condition of
the coal supply in the Pittsburg dis
trict was pronounced "fair tonight
by the local fuel distribution commit
tee of the United States fuel adminis
tration, although the situation is re
garded with some apprehension.
TRADE SECRETS GUARDED
German Business Fears Technical
Processes May Become Known
COBLENTZ. (By the Associated
Press.) German business men have
been woryying more than usual re
cently for fear their trade secrets
will become known to the allies
through "the gap In the west," as the
occupied area is called.
According to information reaching
the headquarters of the American
forces in Germany there is a feeling
of uneasiness among the German
business men that numerous trade
secrets, including the dye industry.
which Germany has always carefully
guarded, may become available to
foreign concerns through the visits
paid to German factories by entente
economic missions.
Recent instructions published by the
Inter-Allied Rhineland high commis?
sion provide that no obstacles shall
be placed in the way of commercial
and other missions authorized by the
allied and associated governments en
tering German factories "with the
owners consent."
These instructions confirm the
Grave Danger Seen in Rapid Fall
in Price of Commodities;
World Credit Is Issue.
PHILADELPHIA, "Credit is the
kernel of the world's financial prob
lem today. We must be reconciled
for the time to a changed valuation
or money and adjust ourselves to i
permanently higher level of prices,'
A. C. Bedford, of the Standard Oil
company, chairman of the committee
of the .Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, in charge of the In
ternational trade congress said in
sounding the keynote -of that gather
ing at a dinner to the foreign en
voys at the Hotel Traymore. Di
rectors of the American chamber were
the hosts. Mr. Bedford maintained
that the existence of a huge mass of
paper currency In the world pre
cludes the possibility of a rapid fall
In prices.
"Almost fantastically strange eco
nomic conditions confront us on every
hand, but we cannot be surprised to
find that this great war. like other
wars, has enormously displaced the
ratio between commodities and mon
ey, reducing the supplies and enor
mously augmenting the paper cur
rency and currency set off against
them," continued Mr. Bedford. We
have to deal with the outcome of this
situation which, as it was inevitable
it should be. is high prices, or rather
one of the fundamental causes of
high prices, and it seems to me that
much of the success of our efforts
just now will depend upon how we
regard this stepchild of the war. You
are probably familiar with the an
nual review of the Swiss Bank cor
poration for the year 1918, which, in
its summary, shows that leaving Rus
sia out of consideration the note cir
culation of the belligerents increased
during the war by 447 per cent, while
during the same period their gold re
serves increased only 45 per cent.
To me, the existence, of this great
mass of paper currency precludes the
possibility of a rapid fall in prices.
even if such a trend does not find
formidable obstacles In the great vol
ume of national debts and the det cri
mination of labor to keep wages high.
H igh prices may be regarded as a
symptom of unsoundness, but we can
all appreciate the danger which
would accompany any rapid fall in
prices, which would cause goods to
sell at less than they cost, and the
repayment of dear money of debts
which had been contracted in cheap
money.
"For these primary reasons It seems
as if we must be reconciled for the
time to a changed valuation of money
and adjust ourselves to a permanently
higher level of prices. I mention
these few things because, in my opin
ion, they have much to do with the
matter of credit, and credit is the
kernel of the world's financial prob
lem today."
Homer L. Ferguson of Newport
News, president of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States, was
toastmaster. The responses upon be
half of the Kuropean delegates were
made by Florimond Hankar, director
of the National Bank of Belgium; Eu
genie Schneider, head of the crusot
works, who has been called the
"Schwab of France"; Sir Arthur Shir
ley Benn, chairman of the British
mission; and Commander Luigf Quar
tieri, president of the Italian group.
Edward Nash Hurley, formerly
chairman of the United States ship
ping board, who arrived here to dis
cuss an interallied system of credits
with the congress, declared that
American business men should view
the allied nations in the light of pat
rons forced into temporary, receiver'
ship through no fault of their own
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Keeps on succeeding where other
medicines ran, because its original
high standard of merit is conscien
tiously maintained. Good for blood,
STOMACH, LIVER, KIDNEYS.
Ask your druggist how good it la.
Uruguayans Would Facilitate Pan
American Trade.
MONTEVIDEO. Nov. 18. Subject to
ratification by the legislature, th
Uruguayan section of the interna
tional high commission has approve
in general the convention propose
by the central committee at Wash
ington for an International gold fund
to regulate exchange between Pan
American countries. 1
The Uruguayan section also adop
ted resolutions that the delegates
should propose at the forthcoming
Pan-American financial congress in
Washington that North American
financial and commercial procedure
be adjusted to fit European methods.
NATION NEARER FAMINE
(Continued From First Pagf.
Feminine Hazing Enjoyed.
OXFORD. Two hundred Miami
university freshman sirls. under or
ders of upper class girls, were com
pelled to appear on the streets, in
class rooms and at meals attired in
white middy blouses, their hair braid
ed down their backs and tied with
bright red ribbon, their petticoats
visible several inches below their
outer skirts and with different shoes
and stockings for each foot and leg.
The girls for the most part took th.
affair fcoori-naturertly.
Sure
Relief
said, the question revolved around
the cost of production.
During 1918 he said $1,300,000,000
was . paid for bituminous coal, the
average price being $2.61 a ton. The
reduction cost was $2.15 a ton. the
miners receiving $750,000,000, or an
average of $1.50 a ton.
TaifR 30 Cent i m Ton.
A total of $230,000,000 went to the
mine owners, but Dr. Garfield said
this was not all profit, as federal in
come and excess profits tax had to be
deducted.
-In 1917." Dr. Garfield said, "the
tuxes amounted to 30 cents a ton av
rrage over the -whole country, but it
is difficult to estimate- for 1918."
"Do you think the mine workers
should give consideration to the op-
r t tb-y h ? to pay
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eral times in the. last ten years I had
that terrible backache and tired-out
feeling, scarcely able to do my work.
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Silence is Golden
An hour is just 60 minut. .
If it is made up of 30 minutes
quiet and 30 minutes noise, that
means 30 minutes wasted.
You may say you are no longer
conscious of typewriter noise. But
your nerves hear. They register a
complaint every time a type-key
strikes. That constant hammering
must tell in time. The Noiseless
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Liebes' Annual
Prior, to Christmas
Sale of Blouses
To meet the unusually large demand for these specially
priced blouses we have brought forth from our large re
serve stock hundreds of crisp, new blouses not previously
shown and which were being held for the regular Christ
mas assortments, but to satisfy the present voluminous
demand they are now included in the various groups at
sale prices.
Select Christmas Blouses Now
Dainty blouses are always suitable and appreciated gifts, especially
when they possess the Liebes standard of quality and design.
Charming Georgette and Silk Blouses at
$2.95 $3.95 $4.95 $5.95.
and up to $35
Tasty Lingerie Blouses at
$1.00 $1.95 $2.95 $3.95
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The elegance of the coats in this showing is man
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drapeful and graceful rich down-like woolens
of velvety touch adorably trimmed with lov
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You may choose your
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Silvertone Velour
Polo Cloth Evora Etc
Stock Show
visitors are invited to par
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ings offered this week.
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gist's, will completely transform the
most ' unsightly complexion in less
than a fortnight. Use the wax
nightly, like cold cream, washing it
off mornings. Adv.
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