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Newspaper Page TextTJIE JIORNIXG OKJ2GOXIAX, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1920 TWO WOMEN AND BABY IN STRANGE POST-WAR ROMANCE. A TO Gilt-Edge Dollars Knock High Cost of Living. Memorial Denies Inheren ' Right to Workers. BUYING POWER VARIES WRONG LEGAL AND1 MORAL If Food Producers Must Remain on Rationed Food Is Reasonable in Price While Costs Mount to ' Skies in Restaurants. . Jo Then Handler of Food Should Too, Is Assertion. GERMAN MARK JOKE FARMERS OPPOSED TO LABOR STRIKES L I -- ' - , 0 Out ' J' " f S ----- -'f . -V".-3V e n. v7f ss v? ti Pub V" . $ y1ay:iSc . 4r: I t i y."r " i v?- v. 4 111 I ! -rf 't 11 1 r - - . -- ..... 31. II li . if X t x ' xi x 4 1 ' N III ILUi ' ' J" in' '-. BY CYRIL BROWN. (Copyright by the New York World. Ilgaed by Arrangement.) BERLIN, Jan. 4. If you conic buy pound of beef for 10 cents or box seat at the grand opera for 65 cents or a schooner of beer for 1 red cent and a half, you would not be kicking about the high cost of living. You can do all these things and many more like them in Germany today. Yet the German people are kicking just as strenuously about the high post of living as any people in the H'orld. This is one of the freaks in cident to the mystery of German money.. Outside of Germany, German money I ( is worm less than 10 cents on th dollar. But within the fatherland you still find many benighted Teutons "Ho Know in a general way who won the war and who .lost it, but who . nevertheless still take the paper mark seriously at its face value. For others, the mark has lost one-third or one half of its purchasing, power and con sequently its value. To still other Teu tons the paper mark looks and feels like what It's really worfh 10 pfen nigs or less. . . The present purchasing power and value of the mark within Germany varies in various parts ot the cpuntry and among different classes ef people. The mark buys more and is worth more in the province than in the large cities; in south Germany than In Ber lin; while Germans with small fixed incomes take the mark very much jnore seriously than the war and peace profiteers. To Americans visiting Ger many armed with gilt-edged dollars, the mark begins to look like a, joke. Value t banxe Hourly, Because of this double standard. Germany's high cost of living cannot be translated Into dollars, at either the pre-war or present rate of ex change. Neither way of figuring it Will give you the vivid Impression ot bow the high cost of living feels to the Teuton in transition. The transi tion mystery of German money is what the late German humorist ietsche called 'the transvajuatioa one enters a restaurant. Here are Of values." All values in Germany some average prices in Berlin: Pori are changing rapidly, jn some cases tioq ot lobster mayonnaise, 20 marks; from day to day, from hour to hour, sliced Brunswick sausage, lOmarks; ao body is rash enough to predict the smoked salmon. 10 marks; a soused finish. ... herring, 6 marks; a tin of sardines. Another freakish thinn about the I 15 marks: a tin of tunny fish in oil, high cost of Jiving in Germany is its 12 marks; soup, 3 marks; fish, 12 to spottiness. ' Some things keep going' 20 marks; an omelet -of scrambled up by leaps and other things mount eggs, 12 marks; an alleged 100-gram gradually and steadily. Still other portion (3V4 ounces) of veal, 15 things seem to -remain stationary. 1 marks; ditto roast beef. 18 marks; creep up -almost imperceptibly.- In ditto pork, 16 marks; a small steak or general tne cost of the barest neces- cutlet, 20 marks; roast chicken,- 20 saries of life is held down and kept at and 25 marks; roast goose, 25 marks; bay by maximum prices fixed by the portion of spinach, beans or.peas.-4 government, wnne tne cost or lux- I marks; palm marrow, 8 marks; gaiaas, - uries, particularly imported luxuries, 4 marks; compotes. 5 marks; desserts, has jumped rapidly. Many things 4 to 12 marks;, cheese, 4 marks, a formerly considered luxuries, such as portion: demi-tasse, 4 marks: (Clothing, are fast becoming luxuries, I Wines have risen rapidly. The n.ii 1.' 1- i 1.1. I poorer grades of Rhine and Mosell -r , , it , wine can't be had for less than 12 "wring in mint) mai iour mams , ' . ' . ., A ere worth a dollar before the warJW vut n't 'tax ' ' Photq Copyright by Underwood, eft Jlrs. I'earley Splker of Baltimore, bqldlnir child of her husband, and Miss Emily Knovilen, now Mrs. Gny Splker (right). The marriage which closed the famous case took place lant Sunday. LOVE AND THRONE TOPPLE AMERICAS' GIRL MAY NOT BE QCEEX OP HUNGARY. , ne to 35 marks ara at . present and that the mark is now hovering l11 'ou, rom j ,u. the better vintage! muuiia lduu, 1110 prices lit ucr I . . . , n-anr ... int.ii I priced up to 12a marks per .bottle, 71 ' " .!T.s:t:. plus an additional 20 per cent wine j .-...j tax. -The cheapest -German -cham t Tm Z Y s V T , pagnes now cost 35 -marks; Frepch .,w!!Lf! eem.C5 8tl" I613! champagne, 125 marks; Bordeaux and il , T" " ' '"UB"1 V" vf"f "MBurgandies from 40 marks up. the fixed maximum prices. Meat e averages around 5 marks a pound: I . Duly rrofIte?F. Eat Wf 11. butter, IS marks; potatoes, 29 pfen-j These prices inay not look alarming nigs: whits bread. 40 pfennigs: rye I to Americans backed by sound Amer- bread, 30 pfennigs; coffee, mixed with ican money; but fpr Germans draw- Kaffee-Ersatz, 1.20 marks; sugar, 60 pfennigs; horse meat, 310 marks wheat flour, .35 pfennigs; rye flour, 33 pfennigs all per pound; milk. 70 pfennigs a quart: eggs, when last seen, from Inn to -2 marks, apiece, Egg9 are unrationed. Try to buy any of the above ra tioned foodstuffs In .the open market, however, or, rather, in the so-called . Schleichhandei" through secret channels and in violation of the food ing their pay In paper marks they are staggeringly high. Only German profiteers and 'sportive" spenders can afloid'to eat and drink three square meals a day. At that, if Germans could live on food alone, and exclusively on ra tioned foods sold at the legal max! mum. prices, most Germans would have no kick coming about the high cost' of living. Wages, and salaries have gone up from 200 to 300 per cent ordinances and you find food prices since Pre-war times; they have just soar at once. Meat bought "round the back way1 (as the popular phrase for this kind of transaction runs) will cost you 10 and 20 marks a pound and more; butter will cost you any- about kept pace with the rise in ra-i tioned food prices. But the legal rations are still insufficient to satisfy the norma) healthy appetites. They have not where from Vo' 1? changed appreciably sn,ce h. wa, The fixed maximum price for ra tioned marmalade is 3.24 marks per pound and for artificial honey 3.70 marks, f ree coilee bats above la marks a pound, and so does cocoa Goose (which is not legally meat and hence not subject to rationing) ranges from 14 to 18 marks a pound; apples cost from 4 to 6 marks apiece; sar .dines from 0 10 12 marks a tin; a can of spaghetti may be had for 5 marks. Xelicatessen goes much higher; a small pot of pate de foie, 48 marks. capita rations are: Half a pound ot bread a day, one-half pound of meat (including bones) per week, fout pounds of potatoes per week, one. ounce of butter per week, one and one-half pounds of sugar per month. All Germans who can raise the nec essary funds supplement these slen der legal rations either with expen-. sive unrationed foods or with equally expensive rationed foodstuffs ob tained illicitly. The general food sit uation in Germany has improved,' These are just a few typical samples however. You can buy anything to day in any quantity if you can pay the price. of the cost of living for Germans. Costs do a pol vault the moment IN SOURS THE FOOD STOMACH CANNERY WILL EXPAND -1 Increased Business Forces Concern to Increase Facilities ROSEBUBG, Or.. Feb. U (Fpeclsl.) The fruit industry has put the tqwn nf Sitt,0fllTi An thA man a hrnnpht o n rr3 1 . I v - " ' f pays ILiACess OX nyarOCnlOriC enviable notoriety to the valley, ac- A-?r1 To Can nf T;,Ka. cording to Frank J. Norton, manager -"v..6.iuiv I - Ktw,ln Prt Proflu-f com pany who was in Roseburg today. While the canning and processing plant that was built at Sutherlin in 4919 was believed to pe large enough for some time the company has found A well-known authority states that stomach trouble and indigestion are nearly always due to acidity acid, etomaoh and not. no. mott fnllrn h.. lieve. from a lac of digestive juices, ne Plant all too small for the de He sUtes that an excess of hydro- veloping business. ctilorlo acid in the stomach retards At a raeetln!; of tne, directors riis-estion and starts fonH furm.ni.. at Sutherlin . yesterday plans were tion, then our meals sour like gar- adopted for immediate construction bage in a can, forming acrid fluids of an auxiliary building 60 by 100 and gases -which" inflate the stomach feet for the cannery and also addi- like a toy balloon. We theii get that I tipnal drier space. was ordered, bunt. heavy, lumpy feeling in the chest, we cruciate 5rar i"u, ucicn gas pr nave i arnrar Purchases Store heartburn, flatulence, water-brash or grocer rurcnases store. nausea. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Feb. 11. He tells us to lay aside all digestive I (Special.) In the mter of the estate aids, and instead get from any phar-0( iuise Enderlin, who operated the miicy mur ounces m jau cans ana i Capital Hill store at Tnirty-nintn ana taKe a laDiespoonrui in a glass of wnahinirton streets, the executors water before breaRfast while it Is have sold the store property to Nelson effervescing, and furthermore, to con tlnue this for one week. While relief Simmons, who will operate the store himself. Mr. Simmons has been in the follows the first dose, it is important grocery business here for eight years. IO neutralize me tttiuu, leuiuve ins gas-making mass, start the liver, stimulate the kidneys and thus pro mote a free flow of pure digestive juices. Jfd, Salts is Inexpensive and is made from the acid of grapes and lemon luice combined with lithia and sodium phosphate. This harmless salts is used by thousands 01 people lor siomacn trouble with excellent results. Ady. Fifteen Bie From "Flu.' LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11. Fifteen deaths from influenza and pneumonia were reported today. , ; S. H. Green Stamps for cash. Holman Fuel Co.l M Jin 353. 560-21. Adv. Count Reported to Be Getting Di vorce Action Ready Because of '. Differences Durlng"Var. ! NEW YORK, Feb. 11. (Special.) CIpse on the heels, of the story that rmml l.ae.in C-rfwViuni-l fa halnir m Pn- tioned as the next ruler of Hungary demands are not met the men here comes another rumor, more insistent. ' " a uuuy, n sam. than ever before, that the countess, formerly Miss Gladys Vanderbilt 0f New York, will not be his queen be be advertised and sold within the next two months. ' ' . . . 1 jJ, ' RAILWAY WNARE SOLID Laborers Ready for Strike, but Hope for Peace. ROSEBURG, Or., Feb, 11. (Spe cial.) That the strike scheduled for February 17 will not materialize is the opinion of officials of the local union of maintenance and way rail way laborers. They expressed a be lief today that some' action would be taken by the railroad administration preventing the move, but in event their cause of an imminent separation. . .Authority fpr the story Is the Chi cago Tribune, which published today a copyrighted -cable dispatch to the effect that the count is preparing di vorce papers to be served upon the countess, who is in America with the four children: Cornelia, 10; Alice, 8; Gladys, 6, and Silvia, 16 months. The Oountass returned : to America lastv September wich the four little girls. They had been through the war, the husband and father an Aus trian officer fighting-, against the na tive land of his wife. j Puriqg the war the countess had given ovr her palace to the soldiers and to war work, in which she took an active part The conflict is said to havef shat tered the fortunes of the count, who comes from one of the -oldest families in Hungary- The American property of the countesB, valued at (8,975,000, was seized bv the alien property cus todian because of her position as wife Of an aliep. The dispatch to the Chicago Trib une brought news that seemed inevit able to those who knew what had to be endured during- the war. RITE F1EHT SUPPORTED STATE CHAMBER TO HEW JN DOUGLAS COUNTY, Industry Proposes. q Appeal to Leg islature if Railroads Do Not Reduce Charges. ROSEBURG, Or., Feb. 11. (Spe cial.) Assurances that Vie Oregon Stats Chamber of Commerce will co operate with the Douglas county farm bureau in waging a fight for reduced rates in livestock shipping were con tained in a letter received this morn lng by County Agricultural Agent Hurd, who recently wrote to General Freight Agent Hinshaw protesting against the provisions in the new tar iff which went into effect the first of the year. Under the new rate law provision is made for minimum tonnage on hags and cattle, while rates are also fixed for both. It is provided that when mixed cars are sent to market that the shipment shall take -the highest minimum and the highest rate. The livestock shippers believe that this should be amended so-tnat mixed shipments shall be charged on the highest minimum at the lowest rate. If the railroad company does not act," Mr. Hurd savs, "we will carry this fight into tne legislature. We must have relief or the livestock in dustry in southern Oregon is doomed. If Minnesota can force a fair rate then so can we and we must do it The future of t great industry ' de; pends upon this action. Bank; Buys City Bonds. NORTH BEND, Or., Feb. 11. (Spe cial.) The First National bank of Coos Bay was the successful bidder for $18,000 of city improvement bonds sold here yesterday. The price paid for the issue was 3101 per hundred with accrued interest. Representa tives from a number of the large bonding houses of the coast were present -and submitted bids. Addi tional improvement bonds of the citv mounting, toupward of $50,000'. will The men claim their demands for increased pay . were favorably ac cepted by the administration nearly a year ago, but the promised increase was never given. There are over 400 members of the Roseburg union, which includes all men employed in the maintenance division of the Southern Pacific lines between Talent and Eugene, FARM WORK IS STUDIED Commuqities to Profit by Services of Statu Expert, ALBANY, Qr,, Feb. .11. (Special.) About 25 community meetings will be held In Linn county in the next few weeks, at which farm bureau work for the remainder of this year wilj De piannea. s. v. smitn, county agri cultural agent, is arranging the meet- jiiacn community will consider a programme or work particularly need ed In that special section. Some are rdevoting their principal efforts, to drainage questions and others to live stock: improvement, poultry culling. methods of building silos and various phases of farm management. Records will be kept to determine if sunflow ers prove as satisfactory for Oregon ensilage purposes as corn. Bend Theater Projected. BEND, Or, Feb. 11. (Special.) Following their purchase from R. H, Mutzing of Portland of a downtown business site here -at a consideration of $6500, W. L. and T. M. O'Donnell of this city announced today that they will commence the construction of a $50,000 theater -with a seating capacity of 1500 within -a month The building will be of fireproof con struction, two stories 'high and will cover a 50xl00-foot lot. T. M. O' Don nell is already the owner'of the larger of the two movie houses here. New Home for Girls Proposed, SALEM, Or.. Feb. 11. (Special.) It was made known here today that a number of Portland people interested in the future of the state industrial school for girls will present a bill, at tne next -session ot tne legislature asking for an appropriation for the erection and furnishing of a new building at that Institution. The pro posed building will cost in the neigh borhood of $50,000, according to those interested in the bill. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. Denial that any group of the organised work ers possess an inherent right to strike is contained in a memorial to con areas, formulated today at the con ference here of representatives of four large farmers organizations tne na tional Grange, the American Farm Bureau federation, the Cotton States Board and the Association of State Farmers' Union Presidents. . Pointing out that the city popula tiqn of the pountry is dependent on the farm for food and tnai mierruu tion of this supply can be brought about through strikes of railroad or other transportation unions, me memorial asserts: - Right Is Denied. "Those who believe that labor has an inherent right to organize a strike believe that such organizations nave a right to starve the people of the cities to death, on the one hand, and io destroy the property of the farm ers, on the other. No-such ngni nas ever existed and no such right exists now. It is econooically nnsound, and the American people can and will work out some other method for the settlement of such controversy. No set of men has ever had the moral or legal right to destroy property of cause suffering by -conspiing to gether and the welfare of the people must ever remain superior to that of any class or group of people.' 'What would be the verdict of the people if the farmers of the United States should suddenly decide to go on a strike and refuse to supply the wants and needs of those who are not in a position to produce food and clothing for themselves? They would be condemned from one end of the country to the other and the fact would be pointed out that they, as owpers and tillers of the land, had no right, either moral or legal, to bring about such a calamity. Class Dixtinctloa. ''If the farmers who own and oc cupy the land have not such moral or legal right, then why should it be conceded by anyone 'that those who handle the farmers' products have a right to block the transportation or Industrial facilities of the country and thus jeopardize the food and clothing supply of the nation? If the farmers have no such rigkts those who handle his products have no such rights." CHICAGO, Feb.lL The All-Aroer-ican Farmers' Labor Co-operative congress will open a three-day ses sion in Cbioagq tomorrow. The con gress will devote itself to plans fin direct trade, co-operative banking and credits and to standardization of co operative methods. A feature of the gathering will be an exhibit - of goods produced by farmers and by co-operatively owned factories and mills. OIL SUPPLY THREATENED life" a -x - .w SI' W No.7 of a Series on"Kuow Portland ppl Sr. f Ike Northwest" -W?'f- MBIT "The World's Sea ffcf a jo , .'; ' ... "The World's Sea Lanes Lead to Portland" ; It is difficult for the average resident of Port land and the state, unacquainted personally with the immensity of the scope of this port's sea traf fic, to realize even dimly the fyture possibilities of this great asset to her mercantile development. A glance at the character of the cargoes will prove interesting, Portland, being tne largest lumDer producing city in the world, and the second largest wheat shipping port in the United States, lum ber and flour are naturally the two biggest items of export. But ma chinery, canned sahnon, printing . paper, prepared foods of various sorts, and a hundred minor items swell the total. Equally interesting are the import: Rice, copra, hardwood, bolts of silk and cotton cloth, rubber and floor fabrics, jostle with the outgoing boxes and bales. Truly a meeting of Orient and Occident. t During eleven months of 1919, the imports amounted to $2,883,410, while the exports reached the grati fying sum of $41,765,701. But already those who know foretell a much greater year in 1920, a fore cast of the ocean traffic in years to come. The Ladd & Tilton Bank has borne its share of the development of the Port of Portland and will continue to do so to the fullest extent. LADD & TILTON BANK Washington and Third Oldest in the N or th west lhiMBSSvJl CfEDERAL BESEKVF '. Or ' , it PRQCTH MAY CUT OFF POWER IN SAN JOAQCIN VALLEY. Consternation Reigns'Aniong Pro ducers Because of Menace Jo Electric Current. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11. (Spe cial.) There is consternation in fuel oil circles today because the San Joa quin Light & Power company has served notice that tt will have to stop supplying with electric light and pow er all the companies it serves for an indefinite period it there is no rain or snow in this district by Febru ary 24, The San Joaquin valley Is the great oil-producing region of California. All the big companies and many small concerns are refining oil in that disi trlct. The San Joaquin company has served them all with electricity, both, for light and power purposes. To have this supply cut off means a great reduction in the output of fuel oil. The situation is a most serious one, as the state today has only a three months' supply of oil on hand. Without electric power, the compa nies wU1 have to resort to the old method of using steam and coaL This is a slow process and the companies realise they cannot begin to keep up with the demand. This notice to out off the supply of electricity by the power company .will seriously affect the operations of such concerns as the Standard Oil, Associated Oil com pany, Union Oil and the Shell compa nies. The prevailing drouth will tend, it Is said, to greatly advance the price of oil products. BLOODED CATTLE WANTED Linn County Dairymen Plan to Im port Stock. HARRISBURQ, Or., Feb. 11. (Spe cial.) A meeting of dairymen of the community will be held here Thursday for the purpose of introducing at least two cars of full-blood dairy cattle into this section. At a previous meeting 33- head or Holstetns were ordered and it is expected the full two cars will be taken at the coming meeting. The local banks will finance the farmers and the selection of stock Will be made by a committee or well- known breeders, who will go into oth er states. The plan is to organize a Linn coun ty Holstein association as soon as this additional supply of stock arrives. ranging from $250 to $100, and It is expected that a number of other large subscriptions will be received before the close of the week. The total bud get of the club for the year has been placed at $17,000, which is declared sufficient to provide working capital and meet the overhead expenses ol the Institution. Girl Faces Grave Charge. SALEM. Or., Feb. 11. (Special.) Alice Smith, 19 years of age, today was held to appear before the grand jury at the next term of the Marion county circuit court on a sxrlous charge Involving a minor girl. In de fault of furniKliIng $.'ii)i) ball, Mi Smith has be-n committcil to the county jail pending trial. Two oung men, also said to be involve! In the case, are being held by Ihi offirlala. 3 6 Die In Denver. DENVER, Feb. 11. The death rale here from influenza and pneumonia remains high, 26 deaths being re ported todav. Salem Club Raises I3Q00, SALEM, Or., Feb. 11. (Special.) More than $3000 of the $10,000 needed to conduct what Is known as the working department of the Salem Commercial club during the present year was raised during the first 24 hours of the campaign for funds which started yesterday. Two dozen firms and individuals have contributed sums NOT A THEORY It's a fac that the use of alcohol even' in moderate doses as taken in tonics is' often habit-forming in effect SCOTTS EMULSION an easily assimilated tonic nutrient supplies the body with those elements that contribute to strength. Free from alcohol or any other harmful element. Scott's builds strength by nourishment. Scott & Bowsc,Bloemtld,H.J. 19-tt "Qfe" m1 SifUfiinwuniH.'t'iiinmi.im IIHW-O'l' ni.Vi 11 m tar The Point of Perfec tion in Prescriptions THAT involves more than the correct recommenda tion of the prescribing physician. It must include the proper ingredients and the true proportions of each. All of which is exactly as you will find the prescrip tion work f the store of "Dependable Drugs." "We Never Close" Note: "Do a Good Turn Daily" the creed of a Boy Scout. -Is PORTLAND. Oftt. PHONE. MAIN 72t r4 The surest route Jto cleanliness is via the Air Line of the Royal Electric Vacuum Cleaner It ousts from the homes the riff-raff of dirt, dust and litter left from behind by the broom, carpet sweepers and many so called vacuum cleaners. It removes everything: from the carpets, rugs and hangings except the nap, color, weave and wear. It gives the down-trodden dirt, the proper uplift. Free Trial Reach for your phone and call Broadway 2973 ELECTRIC CO SIXTH AT PINK A I