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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1914)
TTTE v SUNDAY OHE(3 ONI AN, PORTLAND, DECE3IBER 20. 1914. PORTLAND MARKET HUES I If WHEAT Cash Product Goes to $1.22 1-2, With Offerings at $1.25 and Feeling Bullish. OTHER GRAINS SOARING Oats and Barley Share in Advance on Strong Demand- for Export and Bidding for Flour to Go Abroad Is Strong Also. Portland ia the " highest primary wheat market in the world. Prices have been climbing: steadily in the past week and are now far beyond any pre vious level. At the Merchants' Bx change yesterday, Jl.22 was offered for bluestem for prompt delivery, but sellers wanted $1.25. May bluestem was held to be worth about $1-30. Prices bid were 1 to 2 cents higher through out the list than on the preceding day. exporters declare this market has gone too high to permit of new busi ness being done with traders in Europe, yet a good portion of the buying is be ing done by the exporters. Specula tors are more or less in evidence as they have been since the market began going up. For several days- there haxe been European inquiries on the market for Northwestern oats, and it is believed that a considerable quantity of this cereal has been sold. Oats buyers have been active in 'the market and "as. a consequence prices are strongly on the upgrade. Spot oats sold on the Ex change at $29.50 a ton, an advance of 50 cents, $30 was paid for January oats and $33.50 was offered for May delivery. , Barley, which has been more or less neglected throughout the season, has also started to climb. February de livery of barley brought $27.50, a rise of 75 cents over Friday's price. Throughout the entire grain list the tendency was strongly upward. The demand was keen,, but holders were ex ceedingly bullish and only about $50,000 worth of wheat, oats and barley changed hands during the noon session. Europe is not only calling for cereals, but there is also a demand here for flour for shipment to the warring na tions and it is said that several large blocks have been disposed of in the past few dsfys. SHEEPMAN FINED $100 SHEARING IN MIDWINTER BRINGS ARREST OF I.. WILLI ARD. HOSTILE LEGISLATION IS SEEN AS PROSPERITY BAR James J. Hill Declares Respite, for Tew Years at Least, Needed to Re turn Capital to Business Railroad "Oppression" by Many Laws Cited. Judge Imposes Penalty for Cruelty to Animals and In Addition Four of I'lock Dies From Exposure. "The wind should be tempered to the shorn lamb." It will probably will cost Leonard Williard. a Troutdale sheepman, $100 to ascertain the writer of this para phrase. Besides that, he has lost four sheep from exposure, and others are said to be on the sick list. On complaint of Humane Officers Lewis and Pitts, Williard was brought into District Judge Jones' court yes terday morning, charged with cruelty to animals. W. H. Densmore and S. A. Crowener, two of Wllliard's employes, also were arrested on the same charge. The humane officers averred that Williard had sheared 500 sheep in mid winter, leaving them in a well ventilated shed at -the mercy of the cold December blasts. Four had died from exposure, it was testified, and many others were In bad condition. Some of the sheep, it was said, had bled profusely from wounds caused by the shearing machine. "It is not unusual to shear cheep in the Winter," said Williard on the stand. "Usually it makes 'em fat. They put on flesh to take the place of the wool." Densmore and Crowener were dis missed by Judge Jones, who said they were only acting under Willlard's or ders. "Any man wh,o would shear his sheep during this cold weather would pluck the feathers from a chicken and expect it to live outdoors in the Win tor. I'm going- to Impose the maximum fine of $100," said Judge Jones. Williard gave notice of appeal. TEACHER IS BID FAREWELL V. M. C. A. Salesmanship Classes Banquet X. T Sturgis. Salesmanship classes at the Portland roung Men s Christian Association pave a farewell banquet Friday night to xs. a: sturgis, who has had charge of the business classes. He left for Spokane to conduct similar work in the association there. The classes un der his direction here have attained record proportions. , L.. W. Phillips acted as chairman H. W. Stone, general secretary, sooke on Herbert N. Casson's "What America Needs." particularly emphasizing prep aration. worK ana character. J. W. Palmer discussed "Personality" and JJr. u. s. Long "Wni Power." Dr. S. W. Stryker presented a set of Mar den's "Inspirational Books" to Mr. Sturgis. A. J. Robinson, who has been asso ciated in the promotion work, and has had charge of two other classes, one at Oregon City and the other on the East Side, will have charge of the new work hereafter. An advanced class will be started January 1. Some of the lecturers will be N. G. Pike, of the j-cotary uiuo: it- dimming?, M. W. Waite on insurance and Frank N. Clarke on real estate. Other subjects will be "The Salesman and His Money," "How to Invest It," "Finances" and contracting." DETECTIVES ARE NAMED Archie Leonard and L Rot B. Ca hill Appointed to Fill Vacancies. Carrying 'out plans, announced sev era! days ago. Mayor Albee yesterday appointed Archie Leonard and LeRoy B. Cahill to the detective service to fill two vacancies caused by the transfer of two plain clothes men back to the patrol service. The appointments will take effect January 1. Archie Leonard is one of the best known detectives in the Northwest. For several years he served as Chief Deputy Sheriff under Sheriff Stevens. Until recently he was engaged in de tective work for railroad companies. He was reinstated in the police serv ice but he refused to take a position because to do so would have forced another man. out. np CCORDING to James J. Hill chair i man of the board of the Great Northern . Railroad, whose views on "The Outlook for Business" were set out before the Rochester Chamber of Commerce on December 6, a respite from hostile legislation is the first and indispensable requirement for the re turn of prosperity. Declaring that the business interests of the country as a whole have been under fire for more than ten years; that the -attack has steadily Increased In violence and de creased in discrimination, Mr. Hill averred that "If the next five years are to repeat the history of the last ten, then there can be no great im provement and no general prosperity in the United States.' In part his re marks on the subject were as follows: "Coming down to the radical and permanent, as distinguished from the partial and temporary causes of the bad times that everybody deplores, one stands out pre-eminent by the volume of Its effects and the persistence with which it has raged all over the coun try, though with special legislative cru sade against business. I speak here of no particular act, for the business in terests of the country as a whole have been under fire for more than ten years. That attack has increased steadily in violence and decreased In discrimina tion. The ingenuity of restless minds has taxed itself to invent new restric tions, new regulations, new punish ments for guilty and innocent alike. 2V ew Law Come Past. "While. existing laws were allowed to fall into "more or less complete disuse, new laws were heaped on one another. Each of these invaded some new terri tory, laid the hand of authority on some new occupation, drew closer the circle of business interference to a bureaucracy. Innovation scarcely stopped short of declaring any marked business success prima facie evidence, of crime. The country Is feeling the inevitable effect. "When hostile regulation goes to this extent, without promise of a limit to either its objects or its orders, business would come to a halt though tariff rates were raised to the skies and peace pre vailed -all over the earth. It cuts down present activity, and it also puts a veto on all expansion and extension. The present may be obscure, but the future looks black. For here industry begins to realize the indispensable need of capital, and to feel the effects that follow Its withdrawal. "Years ago, the share of the laborer in production may have been under valued or ignored. Now it Is the fashion to overlook or deny the part of capital And both mistakes are costly. For new plants will not be built, raw material will not be bought, wages cannot be paid unless capital is ready ' in suffi cient quantities to perform the func tions that are possible to It alone. It will only do this On two conditions. both imperative. Capital desires and expects to earn at least a reasonable profit, or else it hides and refuses to work. There Is no reason why it should take the risks, present in even the most conservative employment, unless there is .a possibility of commensurate profit. That possibility, too, must have a promise of continuance sufficient to make it worth while to go into the enterprise at all. Two Things Indispensable. 'Now, it is these two indispensables, the fair return and a reasonable lease of . life, that continuous legislation against business has destroyed or threatens to destroy. Politicians have acted upon the theory that It is good to burn down .your house because a chimney smokes. Fire has been started In many places. It remains to be seen whether the good sense of the people is not ready to call a halt. If capital is not available In quanti ties or on terms that the work of the country requires, business can Only go from bad to worse until a new eco nomic equilibrium is established .by the force of disaster Itself. 'The condition of the railroads of the country at this time is typical. They have been compelled to appeal again and again for relief from regula tion that is crushing the life out of them. Our progress toward a centralized paternalism Is so marked and has gone so far that the middle-of-the-road So cialist has little reason to complain that his Darty has not already secured a majority. Under laws passed at the last session of Congress, most corpo rate business In the United States is under direct Federal control. Every year sees the transaction of business made more expensive by laws prescrib ing multiplied and costly reports, com. pelling the engagement of additional employes and the raising of the com pensation of the old. This is the history of paternalism. of centralization, since ever the words or the things were known to the world. That governing method always has been the-most wasteful of all, no mat ter whether it hid itself under the title of monarchy, aristocracy or democ racy. Under the tribute it attempts to levy, business in the United States eventually would become unable to conform to the onerous conditions of the new era. "It would be an alleviation or some compensation if this governing system were efficient. But It Is as incompe tent as it is expensive. This Is not the fault of any man or any party. It inheres in the method itself and in the persistent American delusion that democracy can afford to overlook, in its selection and continual change of governing instruments, the matter of fitness. Nowhere else outside of the strictly barbarous countries is the idea that public place should presuppose some direct business qualification for It so contemptuously rejected. "Industries which represent billions of capital, capital belonging largely to people of moderate means who have to live on its income, are under the orders of officials chosen for political reasons, many of whom could not earn on their merits a salary large enough to keep them alive in the service of concerns which are now at their mercy. It is not malevolence, it is not corruption, that Btrlkes at the heart of business so dominated; It is the ignorance of well meaning men who have been placed, for political considerations, where they do not belong, where they can do no good and may be able to do Immense harm. And this is true throughout much of our. public service. "It is a master stroke of irony that while business all over this country, from the largest to the smallest con cerns, has been spending time, effort and money In an endeavor to realize efficiency, and to incorporate the ap proved methods of efficient manage ment with its own, the governments to which it must render an account and whose orders it must obey remain the most striking examples of ineffi ciency to be found anywhere in the world. "The main outlines of the present business situation are clear. This country may enter. If It will, certainly after the close of the European war and probably much sooner, upon period of remarkable prosperity. To it will be given the task of providing for the maintenance of a considerable por tion of the world's population and in dustry. . Reasonable Freedom Necessity. "This great and continued . demand on ua should be. the guarantee of a corresponding prosperity. It would be so It so artificial conditions Intervened. But, to realize this, both capital and ki n,eSS inltlative must have reason able freedom. The enormous destructon or wealth, the continuous raising of Interest rat. all foretell new and difficult conditions for American en terprise. It is less free to take ad vantage of them than ever before. It must operate within the circumscrip tion assigned to It by laws which the courts will probably take 20 years to interpret. At every promising, open ing it sees a signboard,, erected by public authority, bearinc the words. No thoroughfare.' If 'the next five years are to repeat the history of the last ten, then there can be no great business improvement and no general prosperity in the United States. "These words are not spoken In a spirit of 'hopelessness. The American people has an enormous fund of under lying common sense. It Is fundamen tally conservative, though it loves to follow the circus parade once in a while, listen to the music and applaud the clown. And It does have construc tive ability, no matter how sorry may appear some of its efforts in this direc tion. Since its own well-being is now definitely at stake, it is not unreason able to hope and expect that it will take the few and- simple steps neces sary to the realization of its hopes. "The first and indispensable require ment Is a respite from attack of at least a few years for the business in terests of the country. So great are its recuperative powers that probably one or two years of complete freedom from foreboding as well as from as sault would accomplish great things for all industry.- Sneclaluwtlon Period Hrre. "Subordinate for a moment the. ex tension of the sphere of the governing power to an improvement of Its qual ity. Ruling powers that do not give the people at least an efficient con duct of public affairs should change their methods. It is time for all the people to remember and keep on re membering that no man has a right to hold public place, from the top to the bottom, unless he has knowledge of that particular line of work. "Hand in hand with a government of self-restraint and efficiency will go economical government. The expert is always the cheapest employe. Men throw millions about because they think it comes easily from a tax on the income of the rich and hurts no body. No dollar is ever taken need lessly by taxation without every man in the community suffering in his de gree. "Rest from agitation, intelligent economy, efficiency, harmonious co-operation for business institutions as well as for political divisions, these are hoti abstruse ideas. They do not provoke eloquence or attract the self-seeking. They are things as long familiar and as little reverenced by the mass of men as the contents of the Decalogue. We must go back to 'them or suffer the penalty paid by every creative thing that defies the law of the physi cal or that of the moral order of the world." - ' RAILROADS TO CLAMP LID Eastern Lines Won't Carry War Re lief Snpplies Free After This Week. After January 1 it will be impossible to ship supplies for the relief of European war sufferers over American railroads free of charge. The Eastern lines will withdraw this privilege this week and it is expected that the Western lines will follow with similar action at the end of the year. When persons in America began col lecting supplies to send to the war stricken people the railroads offered their services free. Hundreds of car loads were shipped. It Is reported that the service really became burdensome to the carriers, but they complained not until a suspicion of fraud began to creep into the operations. It is said that certain unscrupulous Individuals on the "charity committees' took ad vantage of the railroads' generous offer to- ship goods for nothing to include some of their private shipments with the others. i DEPUTY MARSHALS NAMED Trio Will Represent Fire Under writers' Association In Future. Mayor Albee yesterday appointed W. R. Roberts, H. P. Boardman and A. F. Holden, Jr., deputy fire marshals to serve under Fire Marshal Stevens with out pay. They will represent the Fire Underwriters' Association. All three have been serving as deputies- up to this time, but they have not been rec ognized officially. The appointments were made with the understanding that in making in spections the appointees must appear In uniform. The official uniform for deputy fire marshals is the same as the uniform worn by firemen. ; Double S. & H. Stamps Every Day Until Xmas if You Mention This Ad. 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Ohio State University Lantern and Monthly, and The Fatherland. Miss Mary Henthorne is In charge of the children's department during the leave of absence granted to Miss Jessie Millard, on account of her severe ill ness. An exhibit of chocolate of special in terest to teachers and pupils may be seen in the lower lobby. All processes of growth and manufacture are shown by picture and. sample. The children's story hour at the Cen tral Library will be held on Saturday afternoon of this week at 3:30 o'clock instead of at the usual hour- on Friday. Christmas stories will be told. Miss Wood, school librarian, recently was elected a director of the National Council of Teachers of English. Post cards an4 photographs of In teresting places In America and Europe are gratefully received by the school department of the library and good use is made of them. Miss Mildred Davis has been trans ferred to "the reference department of the Central Library and Miss Ada S. Couillard has been appointed in her place as librarian of the Montavllla li brary, 68 East Eighty-first street. There will be a phonograph concert this afternoon at S o'clock in the St. Johns library. Everyone interested Is invited to be present. "The "World Peace Movement and the War" will be the subject of Dr. Latour ette's lecture In Library ball on Tues day evening at 8 o'clock. ' MAUSOLEUM IN EJVERVIEW IS MADE OF GRANITE. - ' ' S f f S 8 '-3 -i t ; i I " ' ! J? i ji 0 i 3 fessa-asasjl - - " ", I : V - - - 1 - , -J CREMEN TOMB JI'ST COMPLETED. A mausoleum of granite has Just been completed in Riverview Cemetery under the direction of Architect W. I. Kalter, on the order . of the owner, Mrs. Mary Cremen, whose husband, Joseph D. Cremen', died in 1863, and whose daughter. Miss Anna M. Cremen, dlad In 1912. The tomb, which cost $10,500, is finished on the exterior in Raymond . granite, with columns of polished granite. ' The Interior is lined with Italian marble and the doors and windows are made of cast bronze. BAY-STATERS ASSEMBLE Massachusetts Society Meets and Plans for Entertainment. The regular monthly meeting of the Massachusetts Society took place on Thursday evening at the Public Library, the first vice-president. Mrs. Sarah H. Wilder.: presiding. Various committees - made their reports. The committee, on the proposed state gen eral hospital reported progress. A new set of by-laws were adopted, which, does away with the executive board and constitutes in the society a board of directors with full power. This board consists of the regular elective officers and the chairman of each com mittee follows: President, George C. Flanders; first vice-president, Mrs. Sarah H. Wilder; second vice-president. Mrs. R. B. Rob bins; third vice-president. Dr. R. G. Hall; fourth vice-president, Frank Stillrnan; secretary. Miss Helen L. Bishop: treasurer, J. E. Tanch, and the following chairmen: Dr. H. Dudley Young:, Mrs. Gordon W. Stanley. Mrs. Dan Kellaher and Gordon W. Stanley. There will be a directors' meeting on Wednesday, December 80. at 8 P. M., at the residence of Mrs. Dan Kellaher. The society has now 125 members. The next regular monthly meeting' will take place on January 21. wHen It is proposed to give an entertainment. All past residents of the Bay State not now members are requested to send their addresses to the secretary. GRANGERS WANT EXPERT Multnomah County Farmers to Ask for Oregon College Man. Multnomah County grangers have taken steps to secure services of an expert from the Oregon Agricultural College for the farmers of this county. H. A. Lewis, president of the Multno mah County Fair Association: H. E. Davis, president of the Gresham Fruit growers' Association, and J. J. Johnson, master of Evening Star Grange and newly-elected master of Pomona Grange, are a special committee to investigate the proposition. This ex pert will be furnished by the college and will be paid for by the county and the state. The County Commissioners have of fered the appointment of such an ex pert provided the grangers and farm ers desire his services. Professor H. T. French, head of the College Experi mental Station, has ' assured the grangers of the county that an experi enced man will be sent The work of the expert is to teach farmers prep aration and fertilization of the soil and the best kind of crops to raise to get the best results. MASONS HOLD ELECTION A. IT. M'GOWAN" IS CHOSEN WOR. v SHIPFTL MASTER. Large Attendance Sees Installation and Retirtns; Head Is Presented With Handsome Jewel. At the stated communication of the Portland Lodge of Masons Friday night at the Masonic Temple, the annual election resulted in the selection of A. H. MoQowan as worshipful master: Edgar Stevens, senior warden; H. E. Cowglll, Jr., junior Warden: C. M Steadman, secretary; A. O. Jones, treasurer, and H. J. Houghton, trustee. The following officers were appoint, ed: II. G. Chickerincr. senior deacon C. B. Howard, Junior deacon: W. O. Roberts, senior steward; C. A. Craft. Junior steward: C. w. Whittlesey, mar shal; G. S. Edmondstone. chaplain, and Richard Martin, organist. Immediately afterward they were In stalled by Julius C. Moreland, past grand master, who is senior past mas ter of Portland Lodge and one of its charter members. A large attendance, among whom were many past masters. Including P. b. Aiaicoim, past grand- master, sover eign grand inspector-general in Ore gon for the Ancient and Accepted Scot- TRESTLE TRAFFIC TO HALT Vancouver Way Will Be Closed' to - Heavy Loads Until Repaired. The Vancouver trestle will be closed to heavy traffic until much-needed re pairs suggested by County Surveyor Holbrook can be made, under an order made by the Board of County Com missioners yesterday. Mr. Holbrook, reporting on the bridge at the request of Roadmaster J. B. Teon, declared that 4000 fee,t of the trestle, beginning at a point near Oregon Slough, is badly decayed and worn. He recommended that it be re paired immediately, and that all ve hicles weighing more than six tons be excluded from the lower deck of the bridge until the repairs are com pleted. The six-ton limit, he states, would keep auto trucks off the bridge, because most of them weigh five tons without a load. The Board adopted Mr. Holbrook's recommendations in every particular. 8232.53 cash buys new $375 upright pianos this week at. Graves Music -Co,, 151 Fourth street. Adv. tish Ri$e Masons ; L. G. Clarke, H. 12. Cowglll, Sr.. Felix Friedlander, W. J. Holman. F. H. Lewis. James P. Moffett, L. P. Sampson. R. L. Sampson, H. C. Weber, George M. Wells and J. E. Wer- lein. H. L. Pittock, ex-Senator Joseph Simon, J. B. Cleland. Past Grand Mas ter F. C. Wasserman and J. Francis Drake sent their regrets, being unable to attend on account of sickness In their families. J. C. Moreland. as installing officer, and James P. MofTctt, as marshal, con ducted the ceremonies, after which H. C. Webber, with well-chosen words, presented the retiring worshipful mas ter, H. J. Houghton, with a handsome past master's Jewel. ' This lodge was organized in 1872 and is therefore completing its 42d year. Its roil contains the names of nearly 700 master masons and, during its ex istence, it has been the Masonic home for a large number of the most promi nent men in Oregon, both business, pro fessional and political. Lectures to Be in Book Form. The seven lectures In the series re cently given by Dr. C. H. Chapman on current history will be published In book form under the auspices of the Oregon Civic League, which is han dling the subscriptions, receipts of which are wanted by January 1. Tliei lectures include "The New Literature,"' "The New Politics," "The New Gov ernment," "The New International ism." "The New Woman," "The New Relig ion" and "The New World." A. 1. 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