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PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
WINTER GALE LASHES
IR Oil NARCOTICS
FORMALLY OPENED
FEDERAL DRILL PAY
TO GUARD IS LARGE
AREA OF SANDY HOOK
STORM BUFFETS XEW YORKERS
DIVERS DECLARED TO BE OP- 942 VETERANS FROM RHINE
ROLL IX OREGON INCREASES
200 PER CENT IX 1921.
AND MANY ARE INJURED.
E RATING OFF COAST. ABOARD LEAKING VESSEL,
MEAT PRICES HERE
HELD EXORBITANT
Retailers Scored by Fed
eral Investigator.
SUBMARINE REPORTED
IN LIQUOR SMUGGLING
STORM THREATENING
CRIPPLED TRANSPORT
DIRECT PRIMARY
LAW IS ATTACKED
Initiative and Referen
dum Under Fire.
TIOUSINDSOFHEH
APPEAL- FOR WORK
Oregon Officials Deter
mined to Wipe Out Evil.
ASSOCIATION IS ORGANIZED
Mr. Olcott to Call Conference
t'- of Coast Governors.
CHANGE IN LAWS SOUGHT
International Session to Suppress
Drug Manufacture Objective.
, Gathering; Is Solemn.
'WHAT THE NARCOTICS CON-
TROL ASSOCIATION DID.
! Organized with Mayor Baker
as president and State Health
Officer Strieker secretary. Gov-
ernor Olcott was nominated by
5!r. Baker, but withdrew in Mr.
Baker's favor.
Authorized Governor Olcott to
call conference of Pacific coast
states' governors at tine and
place fixed by him to consider
action to suppress narcotics evil.
Also authorized the governor
to work out some means of ob
taining call for international
conference, looking toward ob
literation of evil by stopping It
at its source of supply In all
countries where it is manufac
tured. Believing humane treatment
should be administered to ad
dicts while the larger phases
are being worked out, confer
ence asked governor to investi
gate plan to open hospital for
this purpose.
Narcotics evil declared "great
est menace on earth today."
To hurl back and utterly crush by
the combined power of every known
agency the most relentless man
killer at large In the world today,
not excepting war itself, the Nar
cotics Control Association of Oregon
was formally launched In the Cham
ber of Commerce green room yester
day by a band of men and women
representing every arm of official
life In this city, state and federal
Jurisdiction. It was a solemn gath
ering of those high In public place
who have come to regard the sub
ject under discussion as the plague
of plagues and one which must be
wiped from the face of the earth.
With Just that end In view, after
eareful discussion from every angle
and viewpoint, the association, which
chose George L. Baker, mayor of
Portland, as Us president and Dr. F.
D. Strieker, state health officer, as
secretary, authorized Ben W. Olcott,
governor of Oregon, who called the
meeting, to call a conference of Pa
cific states governors to try for
amendments to existing federal laws
and also directed him to take up
changes desired with the Oregon con
gressional delegation and to seek the
aid of the United States government
in calling an International session,
looking toward the obliteration of
narcotics by suppressing their manufacture.-
He also was asked to look
Into Institutional care for addicts.
'World Hearing Objective.
Declaring the narcotics evil to be
the most dreadful, ravaging menace
abroad In the world, members of the
conference yesterday afternoon held
It to be the duty of the government's
highest officers to seek a world hear
ing on the subject of how to put an
end to the business which. It waa
charged, slays so many human beings
annually now and robs many others
of manhood and womanhood and their
Very souls.
Never was a more solemn meeting
held in Portland. Never were men
and women more deadly in earnest.
Never were officials met in a greater
determination to do something. And
there was prophecy that this Bession
humble though it might be, had given
Impetus to a movement which would
find a ready response in the hearts
and minds of statesmen everywhere.
The need for an international con
ference is as great for this holy cause
of mankind as was the necessity for
the disarmament conference, declared
high officials, for if the monster Is to
be destroyed the source of supply
must be ferreted out and an honest
purpose by the representatives of
countries- Involved must be entered
into to put a stop to tha manufac
ture of narcotics for commercial pur
poses. It was asserted,
Governor to Call Conference.
Following adjournment. Governor
Olcott announced his purpose to move
as quickly as possible In the direction
of fixing a date and calling a confer
ence of Pacific coast governors. He
was authorized to arrange details as
to time and place of the meeting. He
would also, he said, take whatever ac
tion is necessary to get in motion the
expressed wish of the conference to
hold an International meeting.
Through amendment to the present
Immigration statutes, it Is the hope of
the association that narcotics peddlers
of foreign birth, of whom It was said
iCoaclUtled ua l'nt lit Column, Li
Shipping Menaced, Windows Are
Broken and Girl Killed When
Trees, Roofs Are Razed.
NEW YORK, Jan. 11. (By the As
soclated Press.) This section was
lashed today"by the worst gale of the
winter a gale that at 2 o'clock
reached a velocity of 90 miles an
hour off Sandy Hook.
Ushered In with snow that later
turned to hall and rain, the sto-m
buffeted New Yorkers without mercy,
hurlingmany to the ground. Window
glass fell tinkling into the streets,
mall package boxes were blown over
and traffic generally hampered. Many
pedestrians were injured.
Harbor traffic was hard hit. A num
ber of small boats were blown from
their moorings and Incoming liners
were held at ' quarantine by high
winds. Some concern was felt for
the disabled army transport Crook,
with nearly 1000 passengers aboard,
despite radio messages that repairs
had been made and all was well.
Outside the city the full strength of
the, storm was felt In New Jersey and
Long Island, especially along the
coast. At several points a tangle of
telephone and telegraph wires was
reported.
At Garden City, I I.. Pilot C. B. D.
Colver, flying a mail plane from
Cleveland and Chicago, reported that
he had been unable to land, even
though he gave his plane the gas and
nosed her down almost perpendicu
larly. Encountering a freak wind
that swirled upward, the machine,
nose down, seemed to hang for sev
eral moments still in air. Then the
pilot flew over Hazelhurst field and
anchored his sleet-covered Bhip by
lashing it to a motor truck.
Wind-borne missiles of various
kinds knocked several pedestrians
down. One, Anna La Cart. 14 years
old, was killed by a blow from a limb
of a tree.
Several persons were hurt when
portions of roofs and building cornices
were blown Into the street.
RAIL SAFETY DEVICES UP
4 9 Roads Ordered to File Briefs on
Automatic Control Systems.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 11.
Forty-nine of the larger railroads of
the United States, serving practical
ly all seotions of the country, were
ordered by the interstate commerce
commission today to show cause on
or before March 15, next, why they
should not be required to install com
plete systems of automatic train con
trol devices on their lines.
The commission tentatively decided
to make it mandatory upon the rail
roads concerned to Install the devices,
by July 1.
The roads made subject to the in
stallation requirement today, the com
mission said, are those on which traf
fic conditions and other considera
tions make such safeguards most de
sirable. KING ALEXANDER ENGAGED
Princess Marie, Second Daughter
of Roumanian Royalty, Fiancee
BELGRADE, Jan. 11. The engage
ment of King Alexander to the
Princess Marie, second daughter of
King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of
Uoumania, was announced yesterday.
King Alexander's engagement has
been enthusiastically received. Flags
were hung up throughout the city
immediately the announcement was
made.
Princess Marie is 22 years old. She
was reported engaged to Alexander,
who was then prince regent of Jugo
slavia, in September, 1920. King Al
exander, who is the second son of the
late King Peter of Serbia, is in his
31st year. He is visiting King Fer
dinand and Queen Marie of Rouma
nia at their chateau at Sinai.
DANCING CO-EDS CURBED
Informal Lausanne Hall Amuse
ment Frowned Upon.
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY. Sa
lem, Or., Jan. 11. (Special.) "No
more informal dancing among the
university rlrls at Lausanne Hall."
Such was the decision of the hall
board of directors at a recent meet
ing. Informal stepping has been preva
lent after the dinner hour, the co-eds
taking dormitory sisters for partners
and tripping off a few of "the latest"
to music supplied by their sisters.
Fear expressed by some that girls
were learning to dance who other
wise would not engage in that form
of amusement led to the board's ac
tion. Girls at the ball are said to be
submitting to the decision with good
grace.
WAR RELIC KILLS CHILD
Shell Brought Home From France
by Father Explodes.
MANILA, Jan. 11. Ned Van Vorh
rles, 7, was killed and his brother,
Peter, 8, waa injured, perhaps fatally,
when a three-inch shell said to have
been brought from France by their
Father, Edwin M. Van Vorhries of the
45th infantry, exploded at Fort Mc
Kinley today. Ludlow Gibbons, 8-
year-old son of Captain James R. Gib
bons, also of the 45th Infantry, was
slightly Injured.
The three children were playing
with the shell, which was a trench
mortar projectile, and thought to
have been unloaded. One of the boys
dropped the shell to the sidewalk,
the contact exploding the percussion
cap. . i
EXHAUSTIVE STUDY IS MADE
Fred Watt Completes Work
for Department of Justice.
FARMERS ON SHORT END
Grower Found to Receive Six Cents
for What Consumer Pays
15 to 38 Cents a Pound.
Retail prices of meats are exhorbl
tant and extremely out of reason
when compared to the prices that are
being paid for cattle, sheep and hogs
on the hoof, according to Fred Watt,
federal Investigator. Not , long ago
the department of Justice ordered all
of Its district offices to make an in
vestigation into meat prices, both
wholesale and retail, and send the
findings to the officials in Washing
ton, D. C. Mr. Watt is carrying on
this work here.
. An exhaustive study and investi
gation into price conditions of this
state conducted by Mr. Watt revealed
the fact that where the farmer re
ceives six cents a pound for choice
steers the retailer gets from 15 to
38 cents a pound for the meat over
the counter.
Farmer on Short End.
The farmer, during the month of
December, was receiving from two
and one-half to four and one-half
cents a pound for cows and five and
one-half and six cents a pound for
heifers.
Meanwhile retailers were charging
from 18 to 32 cents a pound for sir
loin steaks, from 20 to 28 cents a
pound for round steaks, 15 to 30 cents
a pound for rib roasts, chuck roast
12 cents a pound and plate beef at
8 cents a pound. The wholesale butch
er in the meantime was selling choice
dressed steers at 13 cents a pound,
good steers at 13 cents, medium steers
at 12 cents and cows at 11 cents.
Mutton is purchased from the grow
ers at so much a head. Good sheep
have sold and are now selling for
from 83.25 to $3.50 a head and they
weigh an average of 90 pounds. The
wholesale butcher is selling lambs for
from 18 to 19. cents a pound and the
retailer is receiving from 22 to 30
cents a pound.
Hogs run from 86.25 to $9.25 a hun
dred. Wholesalers are receiving from
IConcluded on Pase 2. Column 2.)
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At Least One Trip With Cargo Is
Said to Have Been Made to
Columbia River Port.
' SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 11. Reports
that a submarine, built here years ago
and later turned over to the Canadian
government, by which It was ulti
mately sold for Junk, has brought
large shipments of liquor into Seattle
from British Columbia ports were be
ing investigated by federal, authorities
here today.
According to information reaching
officials, the submarine has been seen
on several occasions In Puget sound
waters. The liquor, it was charged,
was landed at a point near Seattle
and transported here by automobile.
It was also charged the submarine
had made at least one trip to Colum
bia river and California ports.
VANCOUVER, B. C, Jan. 11. The
two. submarines purchased in Seattle
in 1914 for the Canadian government
are not now on the Pacific coast, ac
cording to authorities here. They were
sent to Halifax, N. S., some time ago.
The cruiser Rainbow, of the Canadian
naval fleet, which was stationed on
the Pacific coast during the war, was
sold for Junk two years ago to a Se
attle firm.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 11. A
list of liquor-smuggling vessels oper
ating in American waters has been
compiled by federal authorities for
use in combating rum runners, it
was said today at prohibition head
quarters. The list now comprises about 20
American and foreign ships. A list
of all suspected craft is forwarded at
intervals to prohibition directors of
states bordering on the Atlantic, Pa
cific and Gulf coasts, it was said.
Japanese rum runners, who are
smuggling imitation Scotch whisky
Into Oregon ports, are aided by wire
less Instructions from shore, accord
ing to a report from Joseph A. Lln
ville, federal prohibition director at
Portland, Or.
"Steamboat agencies," the report
said, "have promised their co-operation
In enforcing the prohibition laws
on ships coming into Oregon ports.
Agents of Japanese steamship com
panies, on the contrary, are sending
wireless messages to sea for the pro
tection of ships carrying Imitation
Scotch whisky into this port," he
said.
vttw YORK. Jan. 11. Officials at
the ' New York navy-yard were In
clined to chuckle today at the report
that a submarine was running rum
off the coast- Navy pfficers pointed
to the difficulty of rum runners ob
taining a submarine.
Creswell Gets New Dynamo.
CRESWELL, Or., Jan. 11. (Special.) i
The new dynamo for the electric I
light plant arrived Tuesday and is
being installed. Continuous service
hereafter will be given the town and j
other patrons.
ROOTS OR IT WILL CONTINUE
Craft Headed for Shore to Escape
Xorthwest Gales Predicted
by Weather Bureau.
NEW YORK, Jan. .11. (By the
Associated Press.) Threatened by
heavy west gales, which weather bu
reau officials predicted would sweep
the north Atlantic coast, the army
transport Crook, making 11 knots
under temporary repairs, was striv
ing tonight to reach the lee of the
shore in a race against the Impending
danger. The vessel, bringing back
942 American expeditionary forces men
from Germany, sprung a leak off the
Newfoundland banks in heavy weath
er, but a late radio said danger had
passed and all was welL
At noon today the transport's posi
tion was figured as about 400 miles
from Sandy Hook and about 150 miles
off the Grand banks.
The naval communications office
calculated the transport stood a good
chance to reach the protection of the
United States coast before the full
force of possible northwest gales
crossed her path.
Anticipating encounter with haz
ardous weather in the Crook's weak
ened condition, the transport St. Mi
hiel, which was sent to her aid and
recalled, put out again this afternoon.
It was said her commanding officer
had orders to take off the Crook's
passengers if she should be consid
ered In danger.
The coast guard cutter Tampa left
.Coston to pick up the transport soon
after the news of her plight was re
ceived and with orders to stand by
her until she reached port.
The Crook carries a crew of 13
officers and 139 men.
SEATTLE RECEIPTS FALL
Portland Postoffice Shows Gain,
but Sound City Has Loss.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, D. C, Jan. 11. Portland's-
postal receipts were $10,820
larger in December, 1921, than in De
cember of the preceding year, being
$233,754.23 in the month just passed
as comparied with $222,934.23 in De
cember, 1920.
Seattle's postal receipts for last
December tvere $265,684.90 as com
pared with $279,763.46 in December,
1920.
Seattle was the 25th city and Port
land 29th in December postal re
ceipts. GARMENT MAKERS CURBED
Union Gets Injunction Against
Forced 4 9-IIour Week.
NEW YORK, Jan. 11. Supreme
Court Juetlce Wagner today granted
an application for a permanent in
junction restraining members of the
Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers'
association from "combining together"
to enforce a 49-hour week and the
piece work system in their factories.
Benjamin Schlesinger, president of
the International Women's Garment
Workers' union, was the applicant.
TO COME UP.
REPEAL OF ACTS SOUGHT
Political Dishonesty Charged
to Election Measures.
BALLOT TITLE WAITED
Party Ties Declared Weakened and
Good Men Kept Out of Office
Because of Legislation.
PUGET SOUND NEWS BUREAU.
Olympla, Wash., Jan. 11. The Initia
tive and referendum and the direct
primary laws of the state of Wash
ington are the objects of attack In
a movement started ft Olympla to
day by Jay Thomas of Seattle. The
purpose Is to have these laws re
pealed by popular vote at the elec
tion next November.
Mr. Thomas today applied to the
secretary of state for baliot titles in
conformity with law, and the appli
cation will be referred in due course
to the attorney-general. When the
latter official determines the proper
ballot title it will be certified back
to the secretary of state, whereupon
the petitions will be Usued for the
signature of such voters as are will
ing to Join In the movement.
Agitation la Frequent.
Preceding every session of the
j state legislature in recent years the
idea of seeking repeal of the direct
primary and initiative and referen
dum laws has been earnestly though
not always publicly discussed. Re
publicans, as members of the usuallj
dominant party in the state, have
generally resented the i uki ning of
party fealty and the Weakening of
party organization which were at
tributed to the direct primary law.
In the 'political campaigns that
have at such times Just been closed
by an election, fuel has nearly always
been added to the flames by the can
didacy on republican tickets of men
known to be out of sympathy with
the party, and sometimes by a gen
eral invasion of party primaries.
En in campaigns where such
things have not actually happened
the danger and the threat have been
present and the possibility wide open.
Nor has resentment been confined
to the republican party. The practice
of what is generally recognized as
political dishonesty Mong these lines
has been denounced by both demo
crats and socialists as well.
Repeal Considered in 1020.
Most serious consideration of re
peal of the direct primary law was
given in the early part of 1920, when
the non-partisan league was at the
height of its state-wide actiivty and
when the formation of the farmer
labor party was under discussion.
Many leaders of radical sentiment.
and especially the non-partisan league
organizers, were outspoken in oppo
sition to a new party and in advocacy
of filing their candidates as repub
licans and fighting for their nomina
tion on the republican ticket.
Republican leaders were alarmed
by this prospect. In that year Gov
ernor Hart, filling out th unexpired
term of Governor Lister, called a spe
cial session of the legislature to re
lieve the financial emergency that
had developed in the state's institu
tions of higher learning. Back of
that purpose, in the minds of many
republican leaders and legislators, if
not in the mind of the governor, lay
the thought of inducing the special
session to repeal the primary law.
Either for lack of nerve or because
of changed notions as to the expe
diency of such action the thought was
banished after the special session got
under way.
Sponsor Is Veteran Worker.
Jay Thomas, who has assumed
sponsorship for the movement to re
peal the two laws by popular vote,
has figured in Washington politics
for many years as a newspaper writ
er and political organizer. In 1919
and the early part of 1920 he spent
some time in North Dakota studying
the history and the operations of the
non-partisan league government of
the state; and in the 1920 campaign
in this state, after the farmer-labor
ticket had taken the field, he par
ticipated In a series of joint debates
with H. H. Stallard, state organizer
of the non-partisan league. With ref
erence to the movement he has now
Inaugurated he said today:
"The direct primary law has been
an incentive to political dishonesty
in this state ever since its enact
ment. It has opened the way and
kept it open for all sorts of political
trickery. It has encouraged unfit
men to run for public office by filing.
as candidates or a parry with which
they had never before affiliated and
of which they were known to be
enemies.
Good Men Kept Ont, la View.
"On the other hand, it has dis
couraged many men eminently quali
fied for public service from becom
ing candidates, both by reason of
tho savagery of newspaper attack to
which the law exposes them and be
cause of the tremendous cost of
iCuucludcd ua 1'uge 2, Column 3.)
Government Money Distributed to
Citizen Soldiers Totals $199,
032.50 During Year.
SALEM. Or., Jan. 11. (Special.)
Increase of more than 200 per cent
the last year in the total amount of
United States treasury checks brought
into Oregon for drill pay among units
of the Oregon national guard Is
shown in an annual financial state
ment completed today by George A.
White, adjutant-general, for the in
formation of the Oregon general
staff. Government money put Into
circulation in the state during 1921
amounted to $199,052.56, as compared
with $81,471.16 in 1920. In 1919 the
total receipts were but $21,085.98.
This year's profit, or federal re
ceipts over cost to the state, was
nearly four times that of last year,
the report shows. The total coat to
the state of the military establish
ment was $79,975.54, which was $110,
077.02 less than the amount received
from the government. Last year the
difference in favor of the state was
$31,845.80, while in 1919 it cost the
state $29,282.30 more to operate the
national guard than was received. In
addition to the $199,052 received from
the United States treasury, the state
received during 1921 the award of
federal property amounting to $257,
217.29. Eleven counties and 17 cities shared
in the distribution of federal payroll
money paid to citizen soldiers for
their attendance at weekly night
drills and camps of instruction. The
amounts distributed by counties are
I as follows:
Benton, $5193.79; Coos, $5049.27;
Douglas, $4844; Jackson. $11,556.20;
Lane, $9056.22; Lincoln. $6797.32; Linn,
$8346.68; Marion. $16,601.82; Polk,
$10,288.16; Yamhill. $6268.71, and
Multnomah, $77,139.29.
The towns having national guard
companies at present are Ashland,
Medford. Marshf ield, Newport, Toledo,
lioseburg, Eugene, Albany, Lebanon,
Salem, Portland, Independence, Wood
burn. Dallas, Corvallls, Silverton and
McMlnnvllle. Companies are being
formed, the statement shows, at Hood
River, Cottage Grove and Gresham.
The Cottage Grove and Hood River
companies are listed for federal mus
ter during this month. Among other
towns that are listed for companies
as soon as federal provisions are
made for further expansion of the
service are Astoria. Tillamook. Hllls
boro. Forest Grove, Pendleton, La
Grande, Baker, Prlnevllle, The Dalles,
Bend, Klumatn Falls and Grants
Pass.
EUROPEAN TRADE JUMPS
Increuse or $775,000,000 In Pe
riod Since 1013 Is Announced.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 11.
American trade with Europe was
greater by $775,000,000 In 1921 than
during the last pre-war year, 1913.
according to an estimate based on
11 months' statistics made public to
night by the commerce department.
Even with the higher value of the
dollar, the department declared, trade
with Europe was larger than in 1913.
Exports to Europe during the past
year were estimated at $2,380,000,000,
as against $1,500,000,000 In 1913,
while imports were placed at $160,
000,000. compared with $865,000,000
in 1913.
Great Britain, the department said,
was this country's best customer,
while Germany has risen to second
nlarn In Europe. Exports to Ger
many were $25,000,000 larger than In I
1913. and final figures for the past,
year, it was said, will show an in-
crease over 1920. i
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,
47 degrees; minimum, 30 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; moderate, easterly winds.
Foreign.
Irish parliament to meet Saturday. Tame 2.
Briand'a Kovernmeut hangs on vote to
day. 1'age 2.
National.
Method of aerapplng proscribed battleships
problem for "big five." Page 8.
Japanese offer in withdraw troops from
Shantung railway. Page 3.
Outcome of senate fight over seating of
Newberry yet uncertain. Page ft.
Hoover far-seeing In rail wage Issue,
rage 13.
Pomeatlc.
Furious winter gale lashes Sandy hook
region. Page 1.
Seven Jurora selected for Arbuekla trial.
I'age 5.
Muscle Shoals power plant promised na
tion. Page 13.
Storm threatening crippled army transport.
Page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
Repeal of direct legislation measures
sought in Washington. Page 1.
Federal drill pay to Oregon national
guardsmen Increased 200 per cent In
11121. Page 1.
Submarine reported operating In liquor
trade. Page 1.
Circus robbery trial begins after many de
lays. Page 7.
Governor Hart's administration la declared I
best yet. PK
Oregon Editorial association to open state
convention tomorrow. Fage 6.
Sport.
Honor boys still after free fights. Page 12.
Athletic goods on price toboggan. Paga 12.
Kecord trap year is corth treat furecaat.
Page 12.
Barred trio of hoop players heard by Mr.
Vtakeman. Page 12.
Commercial and Marine.
Foreign wheat demand lighter with price
advance. . Page 20.
Government war bonds In strong demand
at higher prices. Page 21.
rortlond and Vicinity.
Meat prices in Portland held exorbitant.
Page 1.
War on narcotics formally opened. Page 1.
Thousands of men appeal for work. Page 1.
Killing of Joe Brtggs Justified, testifies
Breshears, slayer. Page 11.
Mrs. Marie Adcox will survive self
inflicted bullet wound. Page 22.
Tailors plan national advertising cam
paign. Page 6.
Chicago wheat advances on large flour
purchases. Page 2L
2500 Climb Stairs Daily
to Employment Bureau.
MANY WITH HUNGRY FAMILIES
Preference Given ex-Soldiers
Who Are Married.
HOME-OWNERS BESOUGHT
Siull Chores of One Day, Two
Days or Three Days Requested
to Help Solve Problem.
SKD IX A JO" ilV TELK-
Thousands of married men
are without work In Portland
today. They are without funds
or credit.
Thousands of Portland homes
have small chores waiting
one-day, two-day, three-day
Jobs.
Introduce the Jobs to the Job
less and help solve the gravest
problem any city ever faced.
The public employment bu
reau. 170 Fourth street, Is wait
ing to hear from you. Its tele
phone number is Main 2766.
Up one dark fllgnt of stairs at 170
Fourth street, is quartered by day a
detachment of the legion of unem
ployed Jobless men and often hun
gry ones, eeeking Jobs. Any sort of
Job. It Is Portland's economic clear
ing house, Jointly conducted by the
public employment bureau and the
American Legion.
"If every home-owner or resident
of Portland, who has a few days'
work waiting around the yard, would
call on us we could send more than
2000 married men out to employment
that means firewood and food." This
is the statement of Arthur W. Jones,
of the municipal bureau.
"If every employer of Portland, or
outside the city, who need labor
would call on us we could send to
those jobs the men who by hard ne
cessity actually are entitled to them."
This is the statement of Glenn H.
Ticer of the American Legion bu
reau. 2r.(M Men Climb Stair.
Twenty-five hundred men climb the
Fourth street stairs euch day, and
enter the great bare barracks where
you stand In line to learn whether
anything is going to turn up.
Five hundred receive the cov
eted slips that entitle them to
three hours' work in the municipal
woodyard, for three meal tickets and
a quarter. The remainder are men
who yet have some small fund to
tide them over, or who have wives
and children waiting at home. The
woodyard plan, excellent though It
is, cannot aid the fellow who has
given hostages to fortune. It Is for
the single, the unattached, the fel
lows who have no permanent address.
A permanent address bespeaks a
permanent Job, yet the fact Is that
but one man In 100 Is placed on soma
payroll and takes the good new
home. Five thousand men are regV
ictercd with the bureau, waiting for
the luck to breuk. Of necessity there
are fixed rules that govern the luck.
Married Men Get Preference.
First preference for permanent em
ployment Is given to service men who
are married. Second In status come
the married men. Third choice falls
to single men who served their coun
try. Awl the fourth choice Is really
no choice at all, but a prospect of
many weeks of waiting. It is re
served for single men. It Is. to quote
the pet phrase of the legion, "the
woodyard for them."
Considering- the Jobless at long
range, they seem not to unfortunate.
Timea will improve, and all that.
Draw near to them to perceive that,
despite tho bravado with which many
of them laugh It off, the world can
scarcely be styled their oyster. Ono
of them, past middle age, laid down
to sleep yesterday on the dusty,
tobacco-strewn floor. Sleep, he ex
plained when roused, was a neces
sity that had been denied him for
some nights. You can't sleep out
doors when the frost Is on the pump
kins, or would be If the pumpkins
hadn't been taken in.
Future I Stale Fare.
Further, such letters a this which
follows, which but parallels hundreds
of verbal pleas, make It clear that
the future improvement of times Is
stale fare and meager for children
In the present. Together with scores
of similar lettera it rests in the files
of the bureau until most providen
tially something turns up. To quote:
"I am an ex-service man and I am
willing to do anything to keep my
wife and baby from starving. Can
you and will you help me? I am not
asking for charity, but for work of
any kind. Please, I ask you, for tho
sake of my wife and baby, will you
find some'.hlng for nie to do to earn
our living?"
Thirty-eight extra jobs, short-time
Jobs, came to the bureau yesterday
as the result of a sinalc printed st'-
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