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THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, UfOXDAT, MAT .2, "1921 7, CRY OUT FOR RELIEF North China and Near East Situations Appalling. AMERICAN AID- Edar B. Piper Sends rrgent Call lYom 'cw York to Oregon to Succor Dying Millions. declares that "the military branch of our government Is using1 its in fluence to have the canal considered primarily as a military project," and adds: , ' 'The league takes the position that the business interests ot the United States demand the fullest commercial development of the canal: that, as far as possible, the same form of government that exists in the United States should apply in the canal zone; that the civilian citizens of the Uni ted States residing in the zone should have a voice in the affairs of the zone; that the zone should be thrown open to Americans who want to own property and settle in it the same as in the District of Columbia; that the armv and navv. while nermitted to Hn LAST HOPE I anjr and all necessary defensive work be entirely separate and distinct from Uie government of the canal zone." Specific demand is made that "con gress grant- the right of suffrage to civilian Americans residing in the zone, authorizing them to elect a res ident commissioner to represent them at Washington, in the same manner as the present resident commissioners of the Philippine islands and .Porto Rico. Conditions in the famine districts of north" China and in the near east constitute a challenge to America and must he met. are features of a tele gram from Edgar B. Piper, editor of The Oregonian, received Saturday by J. J. Handsaker, director for Oregon of the campaigns to relieve the dis tress in those countries. Sir. Piner is in New York and sent the message home following appeals to the headquarters of the organiza tions that are conducting drives throughout the United States in the interest of the starving peoples. According to Mr. Piper, cable mes cages had been received from north ern China and from the near east at headquarters of the China famine runt and the near east relief in jsew lorti, carrying the latest information re carding the world's most deplorable situations. He said that of late there had been political changes in the near east which made accessible large areas for Constantinople (evidently meaning areas that can be reached from there) and which for a time have been inaccessible. Relief Ship Will Sail. Mr. Piper said America had been urged to send supplies immediately and that a ship has been, assigned to leave the Pacific coast for the Turk ish capital about June 15 with these supplies. Mr. Handsaker explained that it is the wish of the near east relief organization to obtain flour and clothing to be dispatched on this vessel, which, he said, probably will sail from Seattle. Details, he ex plained, are lacking, but it is known that a ship is to go from this coast about that time. Mr. Piper's reference to China was as follows: "Until the new harvest, late in June, 6,000,000 -persons in the famine districts depend entirely for life upon continuance of American fund3. Thou Bands are dying daily. . The typhus epidemic and added starvation com bine to make a situation of the most desperate nature. Whole families are committing suicide." Concluding. Mr. Piper Baid: "The cables have brought news of the world's most desperate situations ana createst need that challenges Araer ica. I am confident Oregon will meet this emergency call." Wars Still Rend Near East. According to information In the hands of Mr. Handsaker, there has been continual fighting between the Turks and the Greeks and the Ar menians and bolsheviki in a consider able portion of the territory which has been cared for by near east work ers. He gave it as his opinion that the statement by Mr. Piper relative to new accessible areas that have been opened means tha these fight ing forces have been withdrawn, or that conditions resulting favorably to the workers have been brought about Ik some way. "Our campaign for the China fam ine fund in Oregon is going forward as fast as possible," said Mr. Hand saker. "We are conducting our drive In various counties with all possible speed and forcefulness. Mr. Piper's vivid portrayal of the desperate situ ation should awaken the people to the imperative need of the hour and hasten the time when our full quotas shall have been raised. I join with nira In an urgent appeal to this end, OREGON COLLEGES VIEWED PRICES MUST COME DOWN SAYS C Fundamentals of Prosperity HeldatHand. LONG, HARD1 PULL COMING ROCKEFELLER OFFICIAL IS FOnvDATIOX OX TOCK. All Institutions Receiving Aid About to Get Assistance Are Being Surveyed. An inspection of Oregon colleges receiving, or in line to receive, as sistance from the Rockefeller Foun dation is being made by Dr. Wallace Buttwick, chairman of the general education board of the Foundation, assisted by Trevor Arnett, secretary. Reed college, Willamette university and Albany college have been sur veyed by the visitors, and the New berg and McMinnville institutions will be seen Tuesday, according to present plans. Dr. Buttwick would make no def inite statement last night regarding the progress "of his survey in the state, but it was learned that the in vestigation was directly connected with the $50,000,000 sum set aside by the Foundation for increasing teach ers' salaries in those colleges .which could partially assist in this move ment. The work of the Foundation eeems to favor denominational or quasi-de nominational institutions, as state supported colleges are rarely included In its list of beneficiaries. At pres ent, Reed college and Willamette uni versity are receiving yearly allot ments from the Foundation sum set aside for increasing teachers com pensation. The general education board, of which Dr. Buttwick is chairman. chiefly interested in those institutions which give emphasis to work in lit erature, while the Rockefeller Foun dation proper Is apportioned into sim ilar divisions for handling endow ments to other branches of education. Dr. Buttwick and Mr. Arnett will visit Tacoma tomorrow, returning to rvewoerg ana fllaMinnville on Tnesdav. atter which they will leave for Denver. ALLEGED THIEF ARRESTED Ralph Miller Causes Apprehension of ex-Roommate. Two chums, Paul Venable and Ralph Miller, met last night for the first time in two years, and as a re sult Venable is in the city jail charged with larceny. Two years ago the two men occupied a room together here. and one day Venable and Miller's purse disappeared simultaneously. Miller alleged. He immediately swore out a warrant for the arrest of Ven able, who is 21 years old and a waiter. Last night as Miller walked through the lobby of the Perkins hotel he spied Venable sitting there. He hastened to police headquarters, where the two-year-old warrant was dug up.- Chairman of Directors of Traction Company Optimistic as to Future of Xorthwest. The market that will again set the wheels of American industry moving and remove the last doubt concern ing our prosperity does not lie beyond the ocean in the war-wrecKea CAPITAL IS WONDERING White House Wine Cellar Stocked la 1917 Is It All Gone? WASHINGTON, D. C Along with the other perquisites of the presi dency. Warren G. Harding has inher ited all. if there is any, liquor now in the White House, for President Wil son did not request permission to transport any alcoholic beverages to his new home. Whether there is any liquor in the White House, and what becomes of it in the new regime, is the subject of much speculation in Washington. At practically all formal White House functions prior to the eighteenth- amendment wine was served. None, however, has been used since 1918. as there have been no formal functions of any kind. The wine cellar, it Is said, was completely stocked In 1917, and much of this is said to be on hand. Many are of the opinion that the president will consider all wine there the prop erty of the office. Alfred Gildemeister Funeral Held. Funeral services for Alfred William Gildemeister, who died December 12, 1918, while in the navy at Bremerton, Wash., were held Friday from the chapel of R. W. Gable & Co., with in terment in the veterans' plot at the Mount Scott Park cemetery. The body was brought to Bremerton for final rites. Gildemeister was the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Gildemeister of 98 East Sixty-first street North, who, with two brothers and a sister, survive. The Portland American legion post was rn charge of the ceremonies. Gildemeister was born June 9, 18S7, coming to Oregon 19 years later. leath was caused by influenza. A. J. Burns Dies. ASTORIA, Or., May 1. (Secialp.) A. J. Burrs, who wa:. shot Thurs day night by Mrs. Eula Ingles, died at 10 oclork last night and devastated countries of Europe br in new and untouched places in other parts of the globe, but rather in our own country, was the declaration of C. M. Clark of Philadelphia, chairman of the board of directors of the Port land Railway, Light & Power com pany, in an address at the Progressive Business Men's club's luncheon Thurs day. ' Every Industry, every home, every man, he said, is resolutely refusing-to Dav current prices lor many inin denied them during the last, five years. Once every man, whether manufacturer, producer, distributor or laborer, becomes content to op erate on the old scale of profits. things will automatically adjust them selves and America's industries will be moving at full speed to make up for the slack in home supplies of all kinds of the last few years, he con tended. The market so established will mean more than any amount of effort expended in developing ex ports of manufactures. "We have been starved for five years, said Mr. Clark. "We have a lot ot it right here. There is not a public service utility company that does not need rehabilitation. There is not a railroad in the country that does not need financing. Development Takes Time. "To return to the public utility com pany. There is not one that does not need extension of its capacity. We are working to the limit of our abil ity to serve, and if there is going to be development and further demands upon us we have got to prepare for them. We always have to prepare anywhere from two to . four years ahead of the demand. "There is a development of hydro electric power coming in this country to save coal and save oil. It is going to be vast In amount, and it is coming jus't as soon as money can be obtained reasonably. Machinery prices un doubtedly will fall. I have no fear of that. It will have to do so. The rail roads should electrify all their termi "Now I am only illustrating by these things. They apply to .almost every branch of human endeavor In the United States. There is, more work to be done right here than we have capital or labor for. We can sell goods that Europe does not require right here at home just as soon as the man who needs money to carry on hi reconstruction programme can borrow it at. reasonable rates and get labor at reasonable rates to do his work. Buslneas Volume Counts. To my mind the laboring man, the skilled mechanic everybody will be vastly better off working steadily and regularly at greatly reduced wages. The final result will appear in volume of business done, possibly not in prof its. One of the greatest troubles in the last few years has been the enor mous profits that have been made ana the fact that men have not been win ing to work unless they get enormous wages. "That has all got to pass. We must chance our psychology. A merchant must be willing to do 'a certain amount of business on a narrower margin The manufacturer'must op erate the same way, and so on down the line if living is to come down 30 to 40 per cent. The laboring man must recognize the fact that he will be better off with reduced wages and steady work if everything is brought down accordingly. "The inevitable result of my pro gramme is a policy of thrift and economy on the part of every man. every factory, every railroad, every utility. We must work on a differ ent basis and possibly we must learn the job over again. Portland Hal Advantages. " "Now what is your situation here? There is not another city on the Pa cific coast that has your natural ad vantages in an export and manufac turing way, In a financial way, in a banking way. High freight rates from the eastern factories inevitably mean the stimulation and building up of factories here. I don't suppose any one of us can realize what the recent decision in the Columbia basin rate case is going to mean in time. "You have here a growing export business, largely in raw materials. That is not going to be affected ad versely but is" going to be .greatly stimulated because the raw materials must be had by every foreign coun, try. There is no limit to that possi bility ' "So let me say that I am an optimist for the long pull.' I realize that we have, all of us, been through hard conditions, and in many cases there are some very sore spots left. Rut gradually those sore spots are going to be eliminated. Gradually labor is going to come down. In the same way prices of everything we buy and sell will come down. "I believe that the farther we go toward deflation, the farther we go toward establishment of our business1 structure on a firm foundation of cost, the greater is going to be our resulting prosperity. It may be a year, it may be five years, but the eventual result in this country is bound to be good." MONTH PAPER QUITS PRINTERS' DE5IAXD FOR HOUR WEEK IS BLAMED. 44- BREEDERS ATJEND SALE Clackamas County Stockmen Here .to See Guernseys. OREGON CITT, Or., April 30. (Spe cial.) Clackamas county was well represented at the Guernsey cattle sale In Portland a few . days ago. Among the Guernsey breeders attend ing were C. B. Sprague of Logan. Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Penny of Sprlngwater, James Shipley and son of Springwater, Clyde Ringo of Clarkes, Ernest Berger and George Hoffstetter of Clarkes, Mr. and Mrs. K. O. Rose, Mr. and Mrs. John Hughes and sons Kenneth and Francis. Mr. and Mrs. A. Carlson and sons Willie and Herbert Carlson and W. H. Brown, all of Redland; John Gaffney and son Fillmore of Maple Lane. Wilsonville was represented by H. S. Beckman, Charles Waggner, George Spangle. F. H. Spangle, Mr. and Mrs. D. Clutter. MILITARY RULE OPPOSED Residents of Canal Zone Demand I Ciril Government. PANAMA. March 29. Civilian gov ernment of the Panama canal zone under the department of commerce or the department of the interior and I effective suffrage for civiliirn Ameri can citizens residing in the canal zoue are two of the objects sought by the newly-formed "Civilian League of the Canal Zone. The zone is now military reservation. The league has been keeping in touch with proposed legislation by congress affecting the canal zone. said V- J- White, president, "and it has discovered that parties not con nected with the zone have, attempted j to secure the enactment of bills sub mitted by thorn which would not prove applicable or beneficial to the! X statement ieeued kjr the league Asklcbur Doctor These Questions About Vaccination Ask him what is vaccine virus and where it originated and what is its effect when introduced into the blood. Ask him how vaccination today differs from the form of vaccination adopted by Tenner. Ask him if he can guar antee that the virus is "pure," or in other words if he can guarantee that when infecting your blood with vaccine virus, he will not also introduce in fection of other types at the same time. Ask him what are the smallpox mortality statistics in vaccinated countries as contrasted with unvaccinated countries. Askhim why it is that typhus,Np!ague, yellow fever, typhoid and other diseases respond to sanitary and hygienic measures, while the in cidence of smallpox is- reduced only by vaccination ? If he answers in vague generalities then tell him a few of the facts presented in the article Vaccination Killed My Two Sisters" By Dr. G. W. Desbrov ' in the MAY Issue of Physical Culture If yon read this article and continue to believe blindly in vaccination with out investigating the truth or falsity of the statements made, therein, you are doing society an injustice. . If after proving the truth ot these statement!, you continue to advocate vaccination, you will have much to answer for when the day of reckon ing comes. PHYSICAL CULTURE v. .o?..Q2 Jale.At.All wwtands-25c ,: ' Valla Walla Pressmen Threaten to Strike Unless Reduction In Hours Is 'Granted. MILES CITT, Mont, May 1. Sus pension of the Evening Montanan with the issue of Saturday was an nounced last night by the Independent Printing company, which also pub lishes the Daily Morning Star. In announcing the. suspension, J. F. Scanlan attributed it to demands for increased wages by compositors, cul minating In the demand for a 44-hour week. Seven members of the Inde pendent company's force will be af fected by the suspension. "To meet the new demands of the printers," he, said, "would require an increase in advertising rates which the advertisers could not afford. Sus pension of the evening ..paper was therefore considered the best of the alternative courses." WALLA WALLA, Wash., May 1. Walla Walla pressmen Saturday gave proprietors of the two daily papers until midnight last night to sign the new wage scale calling for a 44-hour week at the same scale as the 48 hour week, but later the pressmen abandoned their plans for an imme diate strike. Proprietors of both papers signed a 44-hour scale with Job printers, ef fective at midnight GRAND FORKS, N. D.. May 1. Thirty-seven pressmen, bookbinders, printers and their assistants are not expected to return to work tomorrow here and in East Grand Forks, Minn., a result of their demands for a 44-hour week having been rejected by the employers in a majority of the shops. One shop in East Grand Forks and one here have adopted the 44-hour plan. ? SITE FOR CLUB SOUGHT Mount Tabor Residents Appoint Committee on Location. The committee appointed to select site for the proposed Mount Tabor clubhouse was last night authorized to obtain options on two vacant tracts at the corner of East Sixtieth and Taylor streets, and final selec tion will be made at nextlSaturday's meeting. Sponsors of the club plan for Mount Tabor residents are confident that the proposition will materialize. A voluntary donation of $1000 for the project was reported last night al though an active campaign for funds has not yet been started. A membership committee for the new club was appointed last night as follows: B. Thompson, chairman; J. T. Wilson and J. S. Roark. : . i ' 3fnn Is Arrested Twice. Bert Bennett, 2S-year-old laborer, was twice arrested by Captain In skeep's men last night for annoying girls in city parks. He was picked up in Sellwood park by a uniformed officer, who sent him to headquarters for investigation. He was alleged to have bothered girls there. Captain Inskeep gave him a fatherly lecture and let him go. An hour and a half inter another patrolman sent Benentt In from Mount Tabor park, with in formation that three young girls had complained of his conduct. Thereupon he was placed In a ceil, with bail set at J1000. His trial will be in munici pal court tomorrow morning. Read The OregoniiHi classified ads. BETTER, CHEAPER IS PROMISED School Children Are to Get Benefit of Reduction. MORE MILK BEING USED Campaign of IHrcctors Results In Greater Consumption and lowering of Price. Portland school children will re ceive richer and cheaper milk in un limited quantities as a result of the stand taken by the school board, led by W. F. Woodward, director, and the co-operation of the milk distributors of the city. Mr. Woodward received a letter Saturday assuring him that the schools would be furnistTed 4 per cent milk in any quantity desired at ZM cents a half-pint bottle. Under the former scale school chil dren were, paying from 4 cents up ward for milk with not under 3.2 per cent butterfat. I se of Milk Encouraged. . Am a result of the step taken by the milk concerns the school board is car rying on a campaign-to encourage milk drinking among the students in the schools. Some schools have in creased their daily milk consumption by almost 100 per cent as the. result of talks by Mr. Woodward. The milk at the 3-cent rate win be supplied by the Oregon Dairymen s Co-operative league, wnicn is won Ine in harmonv with the Dairy pnnnrMl. 'renresenting the other dis tributors, in the work in the schools. The figure, according to the state mpnt of J. W. Pomeroy. manager of the Dairymen's league, is approxi mately the cost plus the distribution nni The move to encourage ine u yi mlllc in the school cafeterias came about when J. E. Dunne ana x. w. Merrill of the Dairy council ap- naarerf before the school board sev eral weeks ago. The matter was taken under consideration by FranK u. cmuu nd Mr. Woodward on behalf oi me school board, and a resolution was favnriner the proposition if a milk supply containing not less than per cent buttertat coum u anteed. The matter of price came un solicited on the part of the board. Better Milk Promised. The letter from Mr. Pomeroy fol lows: "In order to co-operate with you In your efforts to get the highest qual ity of milk to the schools of this city at the most reasonable price, the board rf HirArtnrs of the Oregon Dairymen s Co-operative league has Instructed me to fluote a price of 314 cents a nair- nint for 4 per cent bottled miia aeuv ered to the schools of this city in any quantity they desire. wo hpiivf that the children . -itt, ihnn d have the nignest quai ity of milk possioie ana uh n ouuu.n be placed at tneir aisposai u " the actual cost as possible. In view Af thin fact we are auoting that price for our milk and service and do not ..moot tn mils anv profit whateve "We feel that yourself and the dairy council are doing a splendid work in this matter." Not a "Dead One" Among Them Look down this list, Portlanders. It carries the names of a few of those whose exhibits are going to be seen by 100,000 People at the "Build a Home Exposition9 Public Auditorium, May 9-14 OFFICERS ARE INSTALLED Oregon Branch of Law Fraternity Sow Fully Organized. Installation of officers for the re oontlv organized George H. William senate of Delta Theta Phi, national sr.nnmrv law fraternity, was held at the Oregon Tacht Club saturaay nignt ThA attendance included alumni, mem- hra of the Northwestern college of law chapter and representatives from the University of Oregon senate. Th officers installed were: Ben' J. Fleischman, dean; Frank B. Soreghan vice-dean; John R. Mears, master o tho rolls: Hubert L. Barzee, clerk o the exchequer; Charles Raymond, master of the ritual; Victor V. Pen tribune, and Osco C. Roehr, hull iff. Other members of the local senate o ratlin E. Fish. Clifford A. Fish, C. Marie Cogswell and H. Wellesley Fletcher. Lawyer Profiteers Discouraged WASHINGTON. D. C. ti a w y e r nrnflteerine in connection with army i 5 s Most Inviting Positions Offered The Publishers of the Nation Offer You One of the Greatest of All Callings The Easiest Road to Success. 8 Would you like to get into a business that insures a good earning power and employment anywhere in the civilized world? ' The publishers of America want you to work for them if you have as much as a good grammar school educa tion. The work is very nearly the same as operating a typewriter for six or eight hours a day. The atmosphere surrounding the work nowadays is as agreeable as that of a counting room, and the associa tions are just as pleasing. It is attractive to talented women as well as to ambitious men, from 18 years old upward. . . A school for th'e purpose of training you ir thirteen weeks has been established at Macon, Ga., in connection with the Georgia-Alabama Business College. This paper is interested in. the school because it sees the great need for the graduates. Employment at unusually high pay is assured at once if you but join the school and work faithfully to perform the tasks assigned to you. Letters and telegrams are received daily, from all parts of the nation, begging the school for operators. If you want to get into a work that brings you a big reward immediately and gives you an opportunity to reach a high place in the world, write for prospectus, addressing. Typesetting Department, Georgia-Alabama Business College, (Accredited) Macon, Georgia Eujjene Anderson, President 5 3 ! It's Going to Be Bigger Than We Originally Planned The space we first counted on lasted just three days. .Now we're going to enlarge. That makes a Limited Amount .of Space Open to . Exhibitors Not room for many. Less than fifteen spaces, in fact, have been gained by rearranging our floor plans. . Exhibitors can reserve them either by calling at Realty Board offices or by phone Broadway 1902. Rule of first come first served is in force. We reserve right to refuse any display not in accord with our regula tions. If you have something good get space quickly. Join the Live Ones. Here Are Some of Them Babcock-Peet Co. Cartozian Brothers J. C English Co. Frank L. McGuire Flora Gardens Company Coe A. McKenna & Co. Vacuum Distributors Co. Standard Brick & Tile Co. Anchor Brand Laundry Trays Shope Brick Co. Electric Maid Shop Portland Ry., Lt. & Pwr. Co. M. L. Kline Co. G. F. Johnson Piano Co. E. L. Knight & Co. Concrete Pipe Co. Oregon Portland Cement Co. Gevurtz Furniture Co. Meier & Frank Co. Western Blind & Screen Co. Portland Stove Works Bush & Lane Piano Co. Lipman, Wolfe & Co. Westover Terrace P. L. Cherry Co. L. A. Boubel French Shop Berger Brothers M. J. Walsh Electric Co. J. N McCracken Co. Portland Gas & Coke" Co. Hess Furnace Mfjr. Co. Arrow Brand Laundry Trays Title & Trust Company Hall Gas Furnace Co. Stark-Davis Plumbing Co. Ladd Estate Security Storage & Transfer Company Honeyman Hardware Co. I. F. Powers Furniture Co. J. A. Wickman & Co. Fenner Mfg. Co. COME ON EVERYBODY! Let's make this exposition so everlastingly good that it will go down as a real event. It won't cost anything to see the exposition and it docs not cost anything to BOOST. Portland Realty Boabjj OREGON BUILDING PHONE BDWY. 1902 desert'on cases will not find favor at the war department. An announce ment by the judge advocate-general says rewards will not be paid to at torneys who srdvise deserter clients to surrender, then attempt to collect government rewards for apprehen sion of thq sc-ldiers. "H's claim," the .irmy legal head declared In connec tion with a lawyer who had filed such a demand, "being incompatible with his duty to his client." Bald Eagles Numerous. rAPTT.K ROfC, Wash. Paid prc1i seldom seen in this section, appeared here In large numbers recently, having been attracted by the run of smelt in the nrtir by streams. The big birds spent some time on the streams, diving in the water for tho fish. ' CoFee Roaster in your kitchen would not supply fresher coffee than Hills Bros. Red Can brand. The vacuum process makes it possible, as coffee when packed in this manner, is protected from the air and cannot deteriorate One of the m6ny reasons- tc'iy Red Can is certain to please critical users of coffee Hills Mms. Red Can Aa Orh 22 'nal VacuumPacked