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THE SUNDAY OEEGONIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 7, 1917. RELIEF SOUGHT US PAPER COST RISES A -PORTLAND'S GREATEST SALE GOING ON AT EDWARDS' Investigation Into News Print Prices by Congress Asked . by Publisher. During these strenuous times one hears a lot about the "High Cost of Living." True, foodstuffs, clothing and other commodities have gone exorbitantly high. To offset these excessive expenses EDWARDS meets the emergency for economic wage-earners and housewives. The big, JANUARY SALE is now gohfg on. The immense stock of this old, reliable furniture house has been reduced to a mere aggregation of sacrifices a 1T7TT YOTIHTIT TTTDIC A NO. END TO INCREASE SEEN Representative Bailey Points Out , Paper Cost Is 50 to 500 Per Cent Greater Than It Was, and r Makers Threaten Increase. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. Representa tive W. W. Bailey, of Pennsylvania, owner of the Johnstown (Pa.) Demo crat, has Introduced In the House of Representatives a resolution which In no uncertain terms states the causes of the high cost of print paper. After setting- forth In vigorous lan guage what he believes to be the un precedented price of paper, he asks that a select committee, composed of five members of the House, be empowered to make a thorough and exhaustive ln ' qulry Into the paper situation. Situation Is Acute. The preamble of his resolution reads: "Whereas, the print paper situation is daily becoming more acute, prices ad vancing toward higher and higher lev els; the supply becoming more and more uncertain, and general conditions such as to bring serious embarrassment to the publishers of the country; and, "Whereas, the belief widely prevails that there is no adequate reason for the scarcity and the high prices, these be ing. In fact, due to arbitrary manipu lation, monopoly control of production, to an unlawful conspiracy against the consumers of print and other papers; and "Whereas, the American Publishers' Association and numerous other organ izations representing the consumers of news print and other papers have made serious charges regarding the manner In which the paper market has been brought under control and competition throttled; and Price Manipulation Charged. "Whereas, the publishers of the United States are facing a most dis turbing situation as a result of the alleged combination of papermakers, who have forced up prices from BO to 600 per centum and who are threaten ing still further increases; and "Whereas, the American Publishers' Association and other organizations representing the consumers of paper have adopted resolutions calling on Congress to Investigate the situation with a view to ascertaining all the facts and affording greatly needed re lief: Therefore, be It resolved, that a committee of five members," etc PAPER ISTORCED TO CUT SIZE Supply of News Print Stock Ex hausted; Subscription Price Up. BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. Jan. 6. Owing to the shortage of white paper,' Jhe Birmingham Age-Herald ' appears In six-page form. -In -explaining the pa per situation. E. W. Barrett..- of the Age-Herald, said: - i - "The Age-Herald for the past 17 years has been buying paper from one mill and paying $1.90 a hundred at the mill, plus freight to Birmingham, for its paper supply. A month ago the Age-Herald was notified that the price would be J3.75 a hundred, but when shipments came, the price was made $5.60 a hundred at the mill. The mill had been bought over night by another concern and an arbitrary price of $5.50 made, and, even at that price, only about 100 tons, or a month s supply, was shipped. "For ten days past the writer has been In New York and has bought a supply of paper for the next year, de liveries beginning March 15. . "For the supply from January 15, when our stock on hand will be ex hausted, the Age-Herald has been un able to buy at any price a supply to last for the months Intervening, but Is promised bad paper at a very high price. "Paper on which this Issue is printed costs, laid down in the Age-Herald of flee, something more than 6 cents i pound. These papers are sold to dis iriDutors, wno nanaie a thousand or more, as low as 2 cents each, and to the newsboys at 2H cents each. This Issue weighs nearly a pound, and the white paper alone in It costs the Age- Herald a fraction over 6 cents. "The subscription price of the Age Herald was increased a month ago from J6 to $8 a year. The protests against this increase were less than a scpre.' CANADIANS FUSS OVER PRICE Neves Print at 3 Cents at Mill, Is Turned Down; Better Price Asked. TORONTO, Jan. 6. Important con ferences between the Minister of Fi nance, Sir Thomas White, and the rep resentatives of the paper manufac turers and newspaper publishers of the Dominion took place at Ottawa. The deadlock still continues, neither party being willing to concede enough to bring about a settlement of the price clilliculty. Representatives of the pub Ushers advised Sir Thomas that they were prepared to pay (a a ton more lor their paper, but when the paper manufacturers were apprised of this, they refused to accept so small an ad Vance. The Minister endeavored to bring about a reconciliation of the conflicting interests, but so far without avail, and It is expected that govern mental action will be necessary to compel . the paper manufacturers to reduce their prices. Pending the settlement of the ques tlon at Issue the manufacturers have EVERYBODY NEEDS PURE, RICH BLOOD EDWARDS' WINDOWS today reflect an array of mag nificent furniture. It is well worth a trip downtown to see the beautiful Bedroom Sets, the individual Chiffoniers, Dressers, Chairs, Dining Tables, Rugs and other ar ticles which are marked down so low in price as to fairly take one's breath away with astonishment. SPECIAL ATTENTION is drawn to that exceedingly beautiful Colonial Bedroom Set of Extra-Special Quarter Sawed Oak in one of the Fifth-1 street windows. This exquisite outfit was specially priced at $275 and it is well worth this price, but for this SALE the price is CUT DOWN to $165. Now, if YOU are wise YOU will see this set TODAY. We venture to say that it would be sold TODAY if we were open for business. Last Sunday a customer selected a lot of furniture from our window display. He was one of the first to call when the store opened Tues day. Buying for him was easy at EDWARDS' as It will be for You. MASSIVE BRASS BEDS, REG. $32.50, CUT TO (Like Cut) , , Luh $18.75 JfJ-Ml! V K " : I II iH 2 - Inch continuous v i. 1 yrl YFtrls TARXIJH posts and -lnch LJ2&-' PROOF filling rods, solid husks and ferules, manufactured by Simmons Co, the world's biggest bed makers. Height of head 61 Inches, foot 41 inches. Full size only. Just 13 left. $2 cash and 50c a week will put one of these in your home. Mission .' Tfi tfltt Rocker T J Reg. $11.75, cut to 7.85 Wax golden finish, auto spring seat, genuine leather, full box seat, steel construction, steam bent rockers. $14.50 solid oak. quarter sawed, leather seat Rocker cut to $9.95 $15.25 tapestry seat and back oak Rocker and Arm Chair to match. Each cut to S9.75 $ 4.25 solid oak Arm, Rocker cut to ' 82.95 $25.00 high-back leather . auto seat Rocker, cane- paneled back, or Jaco bean period, cut to .S1T.85 Beautiful Wax Golden Full Quarter Oak Colonial Bedroom Set (Like Cut) Re Dresser and Chiffonier fitted with best guaranteed French Plate . Mirrors. .This set is by Norquist Co., James town. Cab inet work and finish the best. Regular $35.50 Bed $26.50 Regular $31.50 Chiffonier 819.65 Regular $33.50 Dresser. . ..22.85 TERMS $7.50 Cash and $5 a mo. r- "- -tt?? O- rll P I IM m. oj- $100.00 Cut to 169.00 jEl r an, mmw This m REGULAR $275 SET CUT TO $165 Magnificent three-piece Colonial Bedroom Set, very massive pro portions, quarter-sawed oak highly finished, full Napoleon. Dust proof drawers, best French mirrors a reverie of delight for Milady. See this TODAY in our window. TERMS $25 Cash, $10 Month. $3.75 Diamond Brand Pure Aluminum Tea Kettle, Combi nation Double Boil- Qf AQ er. Cut to JrTt7 These are GUARANTEED 99 per cent pure aluminum the equal of any on the market. LIBRARY TABLE li U Rcsrnlar SS-SO Table R 27x42, plank top and ptn ttkJ eled ends, book shelf, legs 2Vi Inches square. Big drawer, rich golden finish (like sun xweive otner sample Tables, solid oak and mahogany In Mission. Co lonial and William and Mary styles. ALL CUT TO LITTLE OVER HALF. 5rJ 48-inch Quarter Oak Dining Table Colon ial platform base, extends 6 feet. Mas sive flush rim 4 ins. deep. Solid ped estal, 10 inches di ameter. $29.50 wm MORE SACRIFICE Reg. $15 Oak.. $9.95 $17.50 Oak at $14.75 $29.50 Oak at $21.50 $40 Jacobe an Table, 48-inch top, extends six feet, cut to $29.50 RUG BARGAINS Fine Wilton Rugs, including Whittall's $65.00 Whlttalls 9x13 Wilton choice designs. cut to 849.75 $67.50 Whittall's 9x12 Wilton S51.50 $67.60 Bigelow Wilton 9x 12, linen fringe ends. . cut to 8-49.75 $40.00 Colonial Wilton velvet 9x12. cut to S27.50 $50.00 Smith Wilton Vel vet. 9x12 839.65 Bcora Redaecd Proportionately. COLONIAL BARGAINS $27.50 Mahogany Bed (Napoleon) S1S.OO $31.00 Mahogany Chif fonier. S drawer!" 823. 50 $33.50 Mahogany Dres ser to match 825. 60 $27.50 Mahogany Prin cess Dresser 82-4.75 $39.00 Mahogany Chif fonier (Serpentine) . ...824.5Q ($39 wan special price for this.) $32.50 Mahogany Chif fonier, cut to 823.50 $37.50 Mahogany Dresser to match 829.75 Others too Numerous to Mention T T"WIsT TT'TTAT Regular 65o FIberlln Linoleum Clearance 1,, 4n iill VJlrjUiU prica 49 the yard. This includes very vUl IO SPECIALS choice patterns In tile effects and matting designs. -"r- KU, EDWARDS' is the Store of WONDERFUL BARGAINS, v MEM EDWARDS' Credit System makes "That Good Furniture" possible for T J? T even the the smaU wage-earner. YOUR credit is GOOD here. OUT-OF-TOWN 15 hi IC people can buy on as liberal terms as city customers. Write for advertised article. A GDOP PLACE TO TRADE agreed to keep the newspapers sup plied with paper, for which the price to be agreed upon or to be prescribed by the government, falling agreement, will be charged.- In the meantime, ef forts have been made by the manu facturers to get publishers Individually to sign up new contracts, their price being 3 cents at the mill for dailies and 4 cents for weeklies. Publishers, however, have so far refused to sign at that price and such contracts as have been entered into have been blank ones. . . . COST DAILY $2 000 GREATER Xew York Times Forced to Increase Subscription Rates. NEW YORK. Jan. 6. The New York Times will pay $2000 a day more for news print In 1917 than It paid last year. While the Times had a contract that did not expire until April. 1917. in order to assure Itself for the com ing year. Jt surrendered the last three months of its contract, making a new one, as of January 1, 1917. The only increase the Times has made in subscription rates, as a re sult of the new price of print paper, Is in its vnail subscriptions, which has been advanced for the dally and Sun day from $8.50 to $10 a year. The daily without the Sunday issue ' will cost $8 a year, by mail, in the future. while the Sunday only will cost $3 year by mall. ' LANSING TO APPEAR Tumulty Also Asks to Heard in Leak Inquiry. Be T. W.. LAWSON SUMMONED Baruch, Telegraph Compauy Man agers and Others Subpenaed to Testify About Advance Infor mation Before Congress. (Continued Vrom First Face.) having made an effort to inquire into the genuineness of his Informant. Seoretary Tumulty's statement deny ing an assertion In the memorandum that he and Mr. Baruch conferred In New York prior to publication of the note was put Into the record and a motion was adopted calling upon the PICTURESQUE FINANCIER WHO IS AGAIN IN LIMELIGHT fc -ii 1 1 1 1 1 n f 1 - - - -- ' . 1LLV, Pure blood enables the storh, live and other digestive organs tdo their work properly. Without it they are sluggish, there Is loss of appetl'e, sometimes faintness. and. in genera all the symptoms of' dyspepsia. Pure blood is required by every organ of the body for the proper performance of its, functions. Hood's Sarsaparllla makes pure blood, and this is why it is so successful in the treatment of so many diseases and ailments. It acts directly on the blood, ridding it of scrofulous and othe humors. It is a peculiar combination of blood-purifying, nerve-toning, strength giving substances. Get It today. ' Conn Band Instruments McDougall Music Co. 32S Alder St.. Oregonlan Block. Free Course of Instruction on Every Instrument Sold. ,,g.,.,,,M.,.tul UJl.Jtww,,.,,MM1,L l,,m j ,..,, , .,,,,,1.1,1,, 1 JH......I L - v - ..,, v f mmr-4VZYr?---?-i s - ----- - . - . v - . S L?- tit K::r:i : -yK Zi "y - , ' - '''-' :vrr;'VH-.;, lT:S ' . New York and Chicago Stock Exchange to preserve all their brokerage slips from December 10 to 23. ' News Report Stamlfleant. In his statement to the committee. Representative Gardner also said that while the Wall-Street Journal on De cember 20 stated "there will be no peace manifesto Issued by President Wilson,1' the New York Evening Sun on that date reported rumors and hints of th sending of such a note la the fol lowing terms: "The Washington advices were bear ish, these 'saying that President Wilson may address foreign powers on the peace proposals." "Where did the Sun get this advance Information?" asked Mr. Gardner. "I think that I see Indications of a leak. But the absolutely definite visible wa termark of a leak Is contained In the ticker record of Dow Jones & Co. Ticker Record Stndled. "The beginning of the downward tendency in the stock market Is first apparent between 12:43 'and 1:45, of December 19. United States Steel, which opened at 10 o'clock at 113 and rose as high as 11SH. got as low as 109 and closed at 111. "On December 20, opening at 112, Jt continued Its downward course, clos ing at 108. Then came the publication of the note. "On December 21 it opened at 104, showed an upward tendency until al most noon, then fell, touching its low est point at 100tt and closing at 101. Hr counsel. Judge wunam ja. rL. Olcott, of New York, will present to you a complete comparison of tne course of prices on the New York 6tock Exchange side by side with a state ment of the news and rumors . from Washington. This comparison pre sents a chain of events which be yond peradventure of doubt proves ths existence of a leaK. If you find a prima facie case that there was a leak, you cannot take the position that you will do nothing; at all about it until someone Informs you as to the names of those who profited by the leak or the names of those re sponsible for the leak. - Coarse Is Suggested. "It seems to roe that the right way to go about the matter is to find out from the President whom he talked this peace nots over with and then summon them and find out whether there was any way In which they might inadvertently have let the cat out of the bag. Next, I should grt a list of those employes of the White House and the State Department and of our embassies abroad who handled this particular peace note. I think you will rind that list quite formidable in length." "Have you any evidence that would connect anyone at the White House with the leak?" asked Chairman Henry. , Is one whatever, said Mr. Gardner. "Have you any evidence that would connect anyone at the State Department?' "Xo.- nor anyone ele." lnrATer re- -Pboto by Bain News Service. THOMAS V. JLAWSOX JLSD HIS VAX GHTEK, B1ARIK. plied. "I have no evidence that I con sider worth the paper it's written on- Barnch to Be at Capital. CHARLESTON, S. C. Jan. . Ber nard Baruch left his Winter home near here late today for New York. It Is understood he expects to be in Wash ington Monday. runs and a larger vessel for the more elaborate drills are explained, he said. The desire for men from the regular service as instructors is also set forth. Franchise Petition Is Out. KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. Jan. 6. Iceland has enacted civil service re- (Speclal.) Circulation of an initiative t'.rement lotrislation. petition calling for a special election May 7, to vote on a franchise for the Keno Power Company has begun. The petition is addressed to Police Judge A. L Leavitt. and directs him to place the franchise measure on the ballot. MILITIA WORKS FOR FUPJD Lawyers' Auxiliary Sending Letters to Legislators Asking Aid. Carlos W. Huntington, representing a committee appointed by the lawyers' auxiliary of the Oregon Naval Militia, reported at a luncheon at the Hazle wood yesterdnv that steps had been taken to obtain an adequate appropria tion for the state's naval forces. Mr. Huntington said that letters were being sent to legislators explaining the needs of the Naval Militia. The plans to get a torpedo-boat for week-end Wholesale Retail LUtabUahed ISO. Save 25 , ON Oriental Rugs WHILE the market is going up and Rugs are getting scarce, we still have a splendid assortment of choice Oriental Rugs, Under the present conditions we undersell any dealer by 2.5. Honest goods, hon est" prices and honest methods. Take advantage of this opportun ity, as we do not believe Oriental Rugs will ever be as reasonable and as plentiful as they are now. jCartozian Bros. Importers of Oriental Rugs. Washington at Tenth, Pittock BIk. Have You One of Our Policies? Assets $11,000,000.00 Columbu. New Mexico. Sept. il. 1010. Thm Old Uno Bankers Lit Inuranc Co., Lincoln. Nebraska. Gentlemen: Thla la to acknowledge re ceipt of the Paid-up Fartlelpatlnc Policy No. 67BSA. tor 10OO 00. which I havo with you In favor of my tnro daughter, tog-ether with your check for S.MI8.S4. In settlement of the surplus. The above )s In lieu of my policy No. elS6 for 10on 00, which expired September 2 The policy on which you have made this settlement oost mo S3S.40 a year for twenty years, or a toal amount paid by ma to your Company of Mg 00 This settlement la a much better ona than I could possibly have anticipated, and the business of your Company has surely been nunigedbOMitly and very skillfully. I feel, from the way you have treated me. that you urc certainly entitled to business la preference to a.; ether companies. Again thanking you. I am Vary truly yours, 441 J. R. BLAIR. TWENTY-PAYMENT LIFE POLICY Matured in the Old Line Bankers Life Tnsnrance Company of Lincon, Nebraska Name of insured John R. Blair Residence. . . .Columbus, New Mexico Amount of policy $1,000.00 Total premiums psid Co.. .. 668.00 SETTLEMENT Total cash paid Mr. Blair.. $ 508.84 And Paid-up Participating Policy 1.000.00 It's easy to sell Bankers Life Policies- They mature, to the satisfaction of every policyholder. Why no try jti Buy "Households" By the Caddy Many an Oregon family has learned to buy Household Sodas by the Caddy the satisfactory and economical way to supply these crisp, flaky crackers. Have your grocer include one with the next order. See for yourself how good it seems to have a generous supply so handy. Baked for You Right In Portland by the TRTT-BLU BISCUIT CO. Sold in Big White Caddies at 50 Mi MM w WOUSEH0JLD S5tra&(D Tru-Blu Biscuit Ca SPOKANE AND PORTLAND (f 4 BEOToaris trout R) . sA Jl fn rrr rn SJL jutchim ratm' hall V-V fivil ill miH ffli wtn $1.5. m mm uvntG Roort $4.50 i BTP.f OOfIS TROUT . JUTCHItf & BATrf HAIL i e 4 er . - . These fixtures In Brashed Brass Finish, assembles' complete as shewn, ready lo hang. Basement lights. 50c Drop Cords. 60e eeeh. Any part of above assortment sold separaUlv. Mil orders promptly filled. mrans noon UNION ELECTRIC CO, Virion Ave. and Russell St. Ffcont East 671.