The Sunday Oregonian., June 03, 1917, Section One, Page 21, Image 21

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It Means an Annual Saving of $400,000 to the Duplicate Phone Users of This City
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An Important measure to be voted
upon at the coming: election is the one
Initiated by the Publio Service League
of this city providing for an inter
change of service between the lines of
the two local telephone companies. The
Federal Court has already ordered an
Interchange of service as to long-distance
calls, and our Public Utilities
Commission has ordered an Interchange
of local service where calls originate
or terminate at stations within the
hotels of this city. The Pacific Tele
phone & Teliraph Company opposed
this limited Interchange of service,
claiming that interconnection was not
practicable from an engineering and
operating standpoint; that it would re
sult in a great impairment of its serv
ice and would be equivalent to a con
fiscation of its property.
The court and Public Utilities Com
mission took a different view of the
situation, however, and the Interchange
of service was ordered. It now devel
ops that interconnection as between
the manual and the automatic systems
is feasible and practicable and neither
impairs the service nor works any
great hardship upon the companies.
Similar interchange orders have been
and are now being made in other states
and it is being rapidly proven that
the dire predictions of the Bell people
were without foundation.
In keeping with this movement
throughout the United States, the Pub
lic Service League, deeming it in the
public Interest that a complete Inter
change of service as between our local
telephone systems be effected, sought
and secured about a year ago an ex
pression from the residents of this city.
About 1000 letters were addressed to
phone users asking their views in the
matter. Approximately 750 replies were
received, of which 600 favored inter
change of service, 125 municipal own
ership und 25 were for leaving exist
ing conditions undisturbed. As a re
sult of this sentiment complaints,
signed by the Public Service League
and a large number of busine. and
professional men, were promptl Ciled
with our State Public Utilities :om
mlsslon. The matter has been ard,
but, as the Commission had previously,
upon its motion, taken up the matter of
the investigation of the telephone rates
In this state, its decision will not be
handed down until findings have been
made in these rate cases.
The Interchange measure now on the
ballot will draw from the public a full
expression of its wishes along these
lines and, if adopted, will be a guide
to the future conduct of those of our
city officials who in the past seemed
not to have been impressed by the un
just burdens which were being im
posed upon the telephone patrons of
this city. The proposed ordinance,
while directing and controlling the
actions of our city officials within the
scope of their authority, duly recog
nises any further authority in the Pub
lic Utilities Commission of this state.
The 60OO duplicate telephone In this
elty are coatlaa; their asera (boat 40,
OOO per dbuih an Inexcusable waste.
Vrhlra will be brought ta an end as soon
as an Interchange of service la secured.
Down in Los Angeles where the
Home Company (automatic) has about
60.000 stations and the Pacific (man
ual) about "68,000 stations, an inter
connecting system is being voluntarily
installed, without cost to the rhone
users, and although the Los Angeles
rates are considerably lower than those
which prevail in Portland, the inter
connecting system is being installed
and the interchange service offered
without the imposition of Increased
rates or extra charges. K the Paclfie
Company earn see Its way clear to vol
natarlly snake these concessions to the
eltlsena of Los Angelea surely It la
not a crime for the long-suffering resi
dents of this city to ash; for similar
treatment.
In view of the fact that the Paciflo
rates which now prevail in this city are
In excess of those which phone users
of Lob Angeles enjoy, the public should
not be called upon to meet one penny
of the cost of Installing the intercon
necting system nor should it be bur
dened with any additional charge for
the interchange service.
Mr. Charles B. Sumner, of San Diego,
a man of wide exxperlence in the tele
phone field, in an article appearing in
Telephony says:
"Interconnection is merely a physical
connection between lines of two or
more separate telephone systems, gen
erally two competing companies. Cer
tain operating companies which prefer
to throttle competition rather than pre
serve it, as interconnection does, have ,
tried to confuse the public mind with
a number of unsound objections to this
solution of the two-telephone problem.
For instance, the claim is made that
Interconnection is not practicable from
an operating standpoint. This has been
proven untrue beyond the shadow of
a doubt.
"There is no electrical or physical
difficulty in making this interchange of
service. The practice has been tried
and is used in various parts of the
United States with great success. The
demand for Interconnection as a solu
tion is gaining constantly in strength
and extent, as the public discovers its
advantages and Its benefits.
"Interconnection does away with the
necessity of paying for two telephones
by enabling a subscriber on one system
to call any subscriber of the other com
pany. This gives you the benefit of
two complete telephone systems while
paying only for one. The rates would
not be increased for this double usage.
Tet competition would be preserved: in
fact, there would be greater incentive
than at present for each company to
give the best possible service, because
now. whether or not you like the treat
ment or service either company offers
you, you must pay for both in order to
communicate with every telephone user
In the city. On the other hand, with
interconnection you could choose which
ever telephone you preferred for your
own use. This would tend to make
each company offer every possible In
ducement to get and keep all sub
scribers possible on the paying end of
Its line."
It Is claimed by the opponents of
Interchange that interconnection Is
neither feasible nor practicable; that.
"From a mechanical standpoint, the
systems of the Pacific and Home com
panies are altogether different, not
only as to method of operation in se
curing the connection desired, but In
their methods of operation and con
struction generally and in the trans
mission efficiency of the instrumen
talities employed.
Mr. Arthur Knelsel, assistant tele
phone supervisor for the city of Chi
cago, who has made an exhaustive
study of the Interchange question, has
this to say in answer to similar argu
ment: "The arguments ... are ...
based upon the assertion that the 'deli
cate and intricate' apparatus used by
the Sell companies is incapable of ren
dering satisfactory service if connected
to foreign apparatus. Probably this
apparatus is so 'delicate and intricate
that a Bell transmitter will refuse to
transmit as soon as it is connected to a
receiver not manufactured by the Bell
company, and likewise that a Bell re
ceiver will refuse to receive a trans
mission for an independent transmitter.
This is tommy-rot.
"I have letters from many points at
which Bell lines are connected to In
dependent apparatus and the service Is
entirely satisfactory."
Mr. Bernard C. Groh, consulting en
gineer. In his report to the Chicago
Tunnel Company on the question of in
terchange says:
"From an engineering point of view
there are no material difficulties ap
parent. Circuits, meters and other ap
paratus can be designed to establish
Interconnecting service for a reason
able outlay."
At a hearing held before the State
Publio Utilities Commission. Mr. E. T.
Busselle, a man of wide telephonic ex
perience employed by the Commission,
stated that, viewing It from an engi
neering standpoint, electrically and me
chanically. Interchange of service is
feasible and practicable.
An electrical engineer of high stand
ing advises that the Interconnecting
system In Los Angeles has been most
carefully and successfully worked out
by the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
Company's engineers, assisted by the
engineers of the American Telephone
& Telegraph Company. He states that
the method of making the Inter
change of calls Is as follows:
"The automatic subscriber will call a
single digit (one of the present dead
levels) and will Immediately bo
trunked to the nearest Pacific office In
the direction of the majority of traffic
The call will after that go through the
Pacific trunklng system. A Paciflo
subscriber will call his automatic num
ber the operator dialing on a dial
which will allow the Paciflo calls to be
trunked across to the automatlo sys
tem." In Its decision In the matter of the
consolidation of the Home and Paciflo
systems In Los Angeles the Railroad
Commission of California speaking of
the practicability of interchange said:
"Both the Home Company and the
Pacific Company insist that there Is no
Inherent operating difficulty in con
necting up an automatic and a manual
system and they further Insist that the
service over such consolidated system
will be entirely satisfactory.
"Mr. Leo Keller. Chief Engineer of
the Home Company, testified that the
service which the Southern Company
proposes to give will be the same
thing, except on a larger scale, as the
service which the Home Company lias
itself been giving between its automat
ic subscribers and Its manual subscrib
ers. He testified that with the excep
tion of a delay not exceeding two or
three seconds In connection with cer
tain calls under the proposed con
solidation, the service which will be
rendered by the Southern 'Company
will be equally as 'good as the service
of the Home Company has been ren
dering in Los Angeles."
(In the Oregon Hotel interchange case
Judge Wolverton said:
"It Is not a new or different use of
burden that la required by the service,
nor does another or different person,
corporation or entity occupy or utilise
the lines or system of the plaintiff
company. It is still left In the full
and unrestricted occupancy and opera
tion of Its own lines or system, except
that it Is required to observe and com
ply with a regulation that the commis
sion has deemed proper to impose upon
it, namely, that It transmit also the
messages coming from the hotels
which originate on the wires of the
Home Company. This is not a taking
of the plaintiff's property In any sense.
It is but a reasonable regulation which
Is properly referable to the police pow
er of the state."
Through interchange of service In
Los Angeles a subscriber" of either
phone may reach 128.000 stations and
for less than is charged by the Pacifio
Company in this city.
Vote ins Yea and secure for the cltl
sens of Portland the same service that
is being voluntarily given the citizens
of Los Angeles by the Pacific and Home
Companies without any added cost.
A list of business and professional
men who Joined the Publio Service
League In signing the complaint filed
wlfli the State Public Utilities Commis
sion asking for Interchange of tele
phone service:
Publo Service League, by Ross M.
Plummer. president; A. F. Biles, presi
dent Central Door A Lumber Co.:
Krausse Bros., by O. E. Kraueie: Alan
"Welch Smith, school director: The J.
K. Gill Co., by J. K. Gill, president: M.
Billings, Eugene Brookings. The Ore
gon Home Builders. O. K. Jeffrey,
president; Pacific States Fire Insur
ance Company, by F. E. Beach, presi
dent: Fred W. German Co., by Fred W.
German; Vra. P. Richardson, J. F.
Booth. Glass & Prudhomme Co., by
Graham Glass, president: Gray, Mc
Lean & Percy, Inc.. by Chas. E. Gray,
president; Marshall-Wells Hardware
Co, Jay Smith, mgr.; Western Hdw. &
Auto Supply Co. W. F. Coffey, vice
president: The B. F. Goodrich Rubber
Co.. by W. D. Albright, mgr.; National
Cash Register Co., W. J. Ma'cauley.
agent; Blumauer Frank Drug Co., R. C.
Mead, asst. mgr.; Columbia Steel Co..
A. M. Clark. Northwest mgr.; Bruno
.Mauro, Reed-French Piano Mfg. Co., by
W. G. Reed, secretary: Laue-Davis
Drug Co., by Jno. K. H. Laue: W. B.
Glatke Co.. W. B. Glsfke. president;
Lincoln-McCord Co.. F. A. Lincoln,
mgr.: V. M. C. Silva: Chamber of Com
merce Bldg.. V. -M. C. Silva. mgr.: 1C
M Esterly, Philip Buehner. Flora Gam
mie. S. S. Humphrey, Julius Cohn. The
Fred A. Jacobs Co., H. G. Beckwith,
vice-president; Dan J. Malarkey, E. B.
Seabrook. Wrn. A. Williams. II. C.
King. Zylpha Harper. R. A. Wilson.
Kilers Music House. Ice Delivery Co,
by O. M. Rankin, mgr.; C. J. Smith. J.
Earl Else. Walter J. I.arson. T. C.
Burns Co.. The Otms. IT. Lily Co.. H. A.
Cushing. mgr.: Page & Son. per C M.
Dilley. mgr.: John Clark Saddlery Co..
by W. B. Mann, secretary: Portland
Seed Company, per E. C. Johnson, pres
ident; Jesse Stearns. Stanley-Smith
Lumber Co.. by George P. Stanley, sec
retary: John II. Hall. Matt Clark. Por
ter Bros., by A. R. Porter, vice-president:
W. J. Logua, N. A. Mann Co., Inc.
by G. M. Whitmore. secretary; Sealy
Dresser Co.. by Francis Sealy, eec'y.;
Wadhams & Co, by M. Baruh. Bec'y. ;
Leo Frlede. Metropolitan Printing Co,
M. M. Blnford. secretary: Lange. Ken
yon & Co, per Geo. W. Lange: Beaver
Pro.. Co., by Jno. J. Shekton; M. Sell
ers Co, Northwest Auto Co, Ambu
lance Service Co, B. C. Buck, mgr.;
Broadway Cafeteria, K. W. Lambert,
president: John Gilbert's Smoke Shop,
by John Gilbert, mgr.: J. It. Grek. Ed
wards Company, by T. H. Edwards,
secretary; Jaeger Bros, by J. P. Jaeg
er; Portland Hotel Pharmacy, Ray
mond E. Taylor, prop.; Portland Dairy
Association, S. H. Graham, president;
M. L. Kline; Pacific Scale & Supply Co,
by Chaa. H. Day: The J. J. Ross Mill
Furnishing Co, by J. J. Ross, president;
Fairbanks. Morse Co, by W. F. Nor
man, mgr.; Western Supply Co, by W.
F. Anger, mgr.; A. S. Pattulo. C. El
more Grove, Hicks C. Fenton, Ralph A.
Fenton, R. J. Chlpman. Otto S. Bins
wanger, Berger Bros, Inc.; Guutav
Baar. Calvin S. White. Max Rosendorff.
A. B. Bailey, Thomas W. Rosa. G. II.
Douglas. Robt. B. Brandon. Harry R.
Clltr. R. F. Davis. O. E. Marshall. A. J.
Brock, E. A. Mann. K. Reuter, Dr. Fred
Drake. Emmet Drake. L McAloney, A.
i. Rossman, C. G Sabin. A. Tilser, If.
F. Sturdevant. B, M. Hamm. Jessie B.
Farrtor. M. G. McCorkle. D. R. Coryell.
II. IL Moore, J. D. Uub&ck, Ben 11.
Jacques, Robt. B. Karkett. E. DeWItt
Cornell, J. M. Short. Chaa XL McClure,
E. A. Rich, J. J. Panton. J. F. Wood.
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Paid Advertisement by Public Service League
ROSS M. PLUMMER, President,
Corner Third and Madison Streets
VOTE 10
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BULK-METHOD AIDED
will devote a large part of his time to
I meeting, with- farmers and ' others who
are especially interested."
Government Gets Behind
Movement in Northwest.
ISSUE UP TO PORTLAND
Federal Recognition of Need for Im
proved System of Handling; Grain
Makes Public Elevator Here
Necessity, It Is Declared.
The movement for bulk handling fa
cilities for grain in Portland is Joined
by the Federal Government, according
to Information issued yesterday by L.
M. Jeffers, Federal grain supervisor in
charge of this district.
Three agents are to be put Into the
field at once by the Government to
help farmers in the Inland Empire In
preparations for the change to the
grain handling system.
Elevator Portland's Need.
The entry of the Government into the
campaign for bulk handling, "puts it
up to Portland" to establish facilities
for meeting this system, or to lose out
as a grain shioplng port, in the opinion
of L. B. Smith, chairman of the port
development committee, which is work
lng- for the $3,000,000 bond issue to be
voted on at the election tomorrow.
Following is the statement outlined
by Mr. Jeffers:
"The United States Department of
Agriculture, realizing the importance
of the economical handling of grain.
has made arrangements to pay especial
attention to the bulk handling of grain
in the Pacific Northwest. During the
past two years the department has
done a limited amount of work in
studying grain-handling conditions in
this section, and are now planning on
having three specialists devote their
entire time to this question.
Producers Meed Assistance.
. "The department appreciates that at
I the present time it is of utmost im
portance that immediate assistance be
given to the grain producers and han
dlers. The rapid and economical han
dling of grain is of especial importance
at the present time as a conservation
measure and the department desires to
do all it can along this line.
"The department representatives will
be placed in the field at an early date
for the purpose of giving advice and
assistance to the farmers and grain
dealers who are Installing, or- con
template the Installation of bulk
handling equipment. These men will
not be theorists, but are men who have
actually built and operated elevators,
end are well qualified for the work
for which they have been chosen.
Headquarters Are Established.
"The grain producing sections of
Oregon, Washington and Idaho will be
covered in these activities, and it is
hoped that this lino of work will be
, of immediate benefit. The office head
quarters 6i mese men will be at 310
Worcester building, and the work will
be carried on under the direction of
L. 2L Jeffers, grain supervisor In
charge of this district.
"O. Lansing Hurd, who has previously
been engaged in this work in connec
tion with the extension service of the
Oregon Agricultural College, is one of
be men assigned to these activities and
GRADUATES TO BE HONORED
Dr. Henry Ii. Soutbvrick to Give
Reading Wednesday Night.
day, June 8. in honor of Adeline M.
Alvord's graduating class. A number
of Invitations have been issued. The
recital will begin at 8:15 o'clock .
a he members of the graduating class
are: Dramatic arts. Margaret Mac
Farlane Nelson, Elizabeth Castle Sin
gleton. Irma Whittier, Robert D.
Searcy and T. Walter GiUard; and In
English literature, Mrs. Herbert Garr
Read.
Dr. Henry Lawrence Southwlck,
president of Emerson College of Ora
tory at Boston, will give an evening of
readings at the Benson Hotel Wednes-
EVERY WEED-IS .ENEMY
TIME AT STAND FOR DECLARATION
OF STATE OF WAR.
Camas Haa Seven Blocks of Paving.
CAMAS, Wash., June J. (Special.)
Seven blocks of bltuUthlo paement
have Just been completed on Fourth
street in this city. Petitions for more
hard-surfacing have been filed and the
construction work will be started in
the near future. This paving will serve
as a connecting link between the
boundaries of the city and the Ever
green Highway, which is to be built
along the north bank of the Columbia
River.
Water Rate Cut at Rosebnrg.
ROSEBURG. Or., June 2. (Special.)
With a view to helping in the food
preparedness campaign in this vicinity,
the Douglas County Water & Light
Company has announced a material re
duction in the cost of water to be used
for irrigation purposes in Roseburg.
Baker will be Mayor. Adv.
Hoe Is Heavy Artillery In Attack, but
Contest Requires Thumb-and
Finger Assault on Foe. '
If you have not begun to free your
garden crops of the weed enemies that
are probably attacking them now, you
should lose no time In beginning your
campaign. It is a warfare that you
will have to wage, off and on, all sea
son, but if you being superior force
into play early you will be able to
confine the enemy to a straggling
guerrilla offensive that will cause lit
tle destruction.
In this wartare the hoe Is your
heavy artillery and is to be depended
upon chiefly for action in the open.
Weeders are the most effective weap
ons for close action. Neither tool,
however, will wholly do away with
the necessity for a hand-to-hand strug
gle to uproot the persistent weeds
that row closely about the steams of
the smaller plants you wish to pro
tect and which yield only when they
are pulled bodily up by the thumb
and finger.
The fight on weeds should begin as
soon as it is possible to distinguish
easily between them and the garden
plantlets. It is even possible to do
much effective work in kiling weeds
between the rows before the young
vegetables make their appearance, pro
vided the exact location of the planted
seeds is marked.
The gardener should choose a bright,
sunny day for weeding. At such a
time even weeds which are only par
tially severed from their roots will
have little chance of surviving the
withering rays of the sun. If weed
ing operations are conducted on a
cloudy or damp day, however, many
of the weeds that are Incompletely
severed wlil t&ko fresh growth.
Weeding does more than free the
garden of undesirable plants. The
digging incidental to removing the
weeds also serves as a cultivation. A
soon as the weeds have been dug up
the roughened ground should be care
fully smoothed with a rake. This will
Incorporate air In the soil, form a dust
mulch which will aid In preventing the
loss of moisture through evaporation,
and will tend to bring to the surface
and expose to the sun weed roots and
sprouting weed seeds which otherwise
might produce plants.
Jackson Campaign Widespread.
Grants Pass, Or.. June 2. (Special.)
A. whirlwind campaign for the (8.000,000
road bond measure is In progress in
this county. A Chamber of Commerce
committee of nine had scheduled meet
ings In every rural community In Jose
phine County.
Camas Baccalaureate Service Today.
CAMAS, Wash.. June 3. (Special.)
Baccalaureate exercises of the class of
1917 will be held In the auditorium of
the Camas high echool tomorrow night.
In addition to the sermon by Rev. M.
G. Kverett, a programme has been ar
ranged. Commencement exercises will
be held on the night of June 7. Dr.
John Straub, dean of literature, science
and art. will deliver the address.
Eleven will be graduated.
John Tomashuaos, of Sioux City. la.,
paid $150 In the office of the clerk of
courts to Joe Bulkevlch, in return for
rellnqalshment by Bulkevlch of all
claim to the hand of Varanlka Rozm
nslte, a Lithuanian girl.
WHEELER WILL WIN
IN THE INTEREST OF HARMONY, CLEAN GOVERNMENT AND
GOOD BUSINESS HE IS THE LOGICAL MAN FOR MAYOR.
VOTERS, STOP AND THINK what it means to Portland at this
critical time to have a clean, capable, business man for Mayor. One
in whom all the people have confidence and whom everybody respects.
THE JOURNAL INSISTS Mr. Baker is not a suitable man to be
Mayor.
THE OREGONIAN INSISTS Mr. Daly is incapable and unreliable.
THIS MUCH IS SURE if either is elected there will be discord
and strife and the taxpayers will pay the bilL
HAVE YOU HEARD A SINGLE WORD, by any one, at any place,
at any time AGAINST MR. WHEELER? He has lived in Portland 40
years and his record is absolutely clean. He has the confidence and
respect of everybody. His fitness for the place is unquestioned. He
has had 25 years of successful business experience. DON'T YOU BE
LIEVE IT! When they say Wheeler has no chance to win he has the
best chance and his opponents know it. He has not had a daily paper
heralding his virtues and apologizing for and covering up his vices.
He has made a clean-cut, systematic campaign and has the support
back of him to elect him. If the folks who stand for clean politics,
clean men and a bigger, better Portland will vote their convictions
WHEELER WILL WIN. Vote X 13. If you have obligated yourself
to others for a first-choice vote, give Wheeler your second or third
choice vote.
(Paid Adv. by Wheeler Campaign Com., 100 4th St.
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All we want is the opportunity, as residents and home owners of this
city, to be permitted to work at our trade, without having to pay dues
to support labor leaders, in order to protect ourselves, wives and chil
dren from annoyance and abuse.
The independent workmen of Portland will stay on the job if not
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