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SECTION. FIVE Pages 1 to 12 Women's Section Special Features VOL.. XXXVI. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1917. NO. 38. NEW NAMES AND FACES KEEP COMING INTO PROMINENCE AS WAR CALLS FOR WORKERS Lieutenant Raoul Lufbery, of Lafayette Air Squadron, Has 12 Planes to His Credit in Battles in Sky Captain, A. K- Christie, Commander of Flying Field at Dayton, Is Young for Responsible Post. A Real "KARPEN" Guaranteed Davenport Covered in High-Quality Art $69.75 Tapestry, Reduced From $94.50 to S XT' ' . rni lA&ZT i raonc 1 nai Karpen Furniture Karpen furniture Is made by the largest manufacturers of upholstered furniture in the world. - Every piece made by them is absolutely guaranteed.- Their stamp of quality is on every pattern, insuring you against deception and misrepresentation. We are exclusive Portland agents for Karpen Guaranteed Furniture. This Is a ' Real Davenport It is so resilient, so . deep, as to seem sympathetic to one as he sinks into its inviting cushions. It la the-one article of living-room furniture needed, to give the physical relaxation which every one feels the need of at times. It is a davenport of which you will be jealously proud, more and more so as you use it. Successfully Stands Hard Wear Tapestry is being used extensively as a furniture upholstering, and little wonder when one considers its dignified beauty, which is quite appropriate for this use. The tapestry used on this davenport is of high-quality and is woven of hard yarns too tough to be quickly frayed. Builf With Spring-Edge Loose Cushions "Karpenesque" loose cushions are known the world over for their resiliency and comfort many tiny springs, each inclosed in a separate cover then spread with soft filling, insuring comfort obtained in. no other way. The visible base of the frames is finished in rich mahogany and, being full length, assures satisfaction for every user. ' ' . v u 1 ' r ' : ; I" -"ilfE . I fms Ajkti-ri fafJLjj if- 81 f Splendid Four -Piece Ivory Suite, -g -g pK fOifOi With Cane Inserts, Very --Special, -H- A .JJr Any Two Pieces $6325 Any Three Pieces $9325 Extreme daintiness of line distinguishes this suite. Modern construction methods assure Ions usage from it. It embodies the lightness of spirit and the exquisite delicacy which are sought for by folks who purchase furniture with an eye to more than the mere utilttv of It It-is for-folks-who plan the furnishings of the home with a well-defined idea of the effect they desire to attain. The design is entirely new and is sure to win your approval. It can be had in two. three or four-piece combinations. - - Fine 9x12 Axminster Rugs This store displays at all times a most unusual line of all floor coverings, particularly notice able is the long range of rug patterns In all the different fabrics. We are offering for this week two excellent lines of Axminster Rugs, one at $28.75 another at $32.85. These rugs are the long-wearing, closely-woven, high-pile kind, that give most excellent service. These two lots comprise some fifty rugs in all designs and colorings that are sure to please. The spe cial price the special credit terms will interest every woman who has a new rug to buy for the home. $1.00 Gash $1.00 Week $1.50 Fine Inlaid Linoleum , Laid on Your Floor $1.23 $5.00 Cash, $ 1 .OO Week And No Interest Charges " j ' ,'.. ' jj $47.75 This Complete Living -Room Suite in Golden Quartered Oak Special Reduced Price Is One of the most pleasing features of taking advantage or our advertisements is me iact inat you Know that you are sure to procure good value. Our merchandise is marked honestly and less than the same quality can be secured for elsewhere. The illustration gives you a very good idea of the suite, which is somewhat different In the back-slat effect. All four pieces are splendidly proportioned in a pleasing design, and the upholstering is a splendid grade of imitation Spanish leather over spring-constructed auto seats. All four pieces delivered to vour home on payment of $5. Certainly there is no good reason for anyone to deprive himself of good furniture when such low credit terms are in force.. This Fine "OPAL" Wood Heater Very Special $1-985.- ISSl Here Is the big sensation of this year's heater season. A splendid nickel trimmed wood heater with heavy cast top cast bottom cast linings swing-top feed -and extra large side feed door for large pieces of wood. Body is- of heavy steel the same thickness as used on our heaviest coal heaters. It is many dollars under- Ericed, and we solicit an inspection efore looking elsewhere. 50c a Week Is AH You Pay Drapery Specials of Interest lOO Patterns of Novelty Cretonnes, Regular 5e Value, to Sell Thta Week at. Per Yard. 3c. $1.75 Nottingham Lace Bed Spreads special, each 25c Bungalow and Fancy Nets special, yard. ....... 60c Nets in white and ecru, the yard .' 85c Fancy and Bungalow Nets, in two colors, special. One-Pair Lots Nottingham and Net Curtains 98 19 4S the yard 61 t Half Price. Brunswick" The Home Billiard Table The "Brunswick" Billiard Table is the meeting ground of thousands of families. Here father gets acquainted with the boys; here mother and daughter grow to be chums, and young folks have a place to entertain such friends as you would have them mingle with. These are natural benefits no forced effects of carom and pocket billiards played at home. Play While You Pay Our "Dlimlfled Credit" Plan Makes It Easy to Own One Complete Outfit of Ralls, tun, Rneka. Markers. Cue Clamps Included Free. Let us put a Brunswick Billiard Table in your home on our "Dignified Credit" plan. Prices Range From $60 to $125. Karpen" Guaranteed Upholstered "Furniture Can Be Purchased Only at This Store CHINA LIKES U. S. SMOKES Orient Takes Nine-Tenths of Amer ican Cigarette Kxports. TOKIO. Sept. IS. Six billion cigar ettes valued at about $12,000,000 were exported during the fiscal year, accord ing to a compilation by the National City Bank, which shows that 4.000.000, 000 cigarettes were sent to China alone. .About 90 per cent went to the Orient. In addition to the great exports to China there were large amounts to the Straits settlements. Slam, Korea, Brit ish India, Ceylon and the Dutch Kast Indies. Europe shows no interest in American cigarettes, the total exports being worth about $196,000. Meantime the American cigarette smoker has de veloped a taste for foreign-grown to bjrcco. The value of American cigarettes ex ported since 1900 is more than $50,000. 000, and most of them went to the Orient. In the same period the United States has imported about $60,000,000 of Turkish tobacco. Father's Offer to Serve Refused. HAVRE, Mont., Sept. 15. The local exemption board has been forced to re ject the offer of a retired physician ot this city who volunteered to join the Army if his son were granted exemp tion. He said he had received assur ances of his eligibility for enlistment in the iledica; Corps of the Army, FRENCH IDOLIZE SAMMIES Americans Get Best of Everything. Writes Soldier From Paris. MINNEAPOLIS. Sept. 12. That American soldiers are the idols of the French is borne out in a letter written by Frederick La Plant, with the Amer ican Red Cross Ambulance Corps in France, to his brother, William D. Plant. He says: "We are treated like millionaires here (Paris), and get the very best of everything to eat." Another Instance of the Army as the great melting pot in a social as well as a National way Is the following ex cerpt: "One of the men cot a Rood writeup In the Paris papers yesterday a Mr. Lambert, a rich American manufactur er. He was out to camp for a week washing dishes and waiting on table. There are no social lines drawn here. "We have a Minnesota Red Cross sec tion, composed of 60 per cent Minne sota men. . "The other day the Germans dropped notices from airplanes that they were going to shell the town and soon they bombed the place." A hint of a new gas now being used by the Germans Is contained In the let ter, which states: "The huns now have a gas that you cannot see, smell, or know it is in the air. The only way to tell is by the ex plosion of the gas bomb, which ia very quiet compared with the noise a bomb generally makes." 1 4. C&j!?.jJ.sr.CJzrjs-2ye. I LIKUTENANT RAOUL LTJFBER RY, premier "ace" of the Lafay ette Escadrllle, has brought down his 12th German plane. He would have made it 13 had he not run short of ammunition. . Lieutenant Lufberry has made seven flights in two days and has engaged in five aerial battles in a single day. In one of , his engagements his machine was hit three times, but he stuck to his task until he, brought down the German machine. ' m M. Jonnart is the French Commis- sioner who went to Athens for the Al lies and succeeded in overturning the Greek government" and bringing about the abdication of the King. Captain A.' K. Christie is commander of the big flying field at Dayton. He is the youngest officer holding so re sponsible a position. He was married in Chicago in Jum and his bride is with, him ji Day ton. . . John D. Ryan, of New York and Mon tana, president of the Anaconda Cop per Company, who has been appointed director-general of military relief in the American Red Cross, is now in Washington, giving .his entire time te the organization. Carlos Melendez is President of Sal vador. His term expires in 1919. , , . Admiral E. S. Alexander-Sinclair Is one' of the commanders -of the British navy. Born Alexander in 1S67, he add ed the name Sinclair later in life. He was a son of Captain John Hobhouse Alexander, of the navy. GREAT EXPANSION IN FOREIGN TRADE VITAL, SAYS EXPERT H. ' B. Miller, Director of School of Commerce, Declares America Will Hare to Allow Combinations to Handle Exports or Markets Will Be Lost. IF the United States is to maintain domestic prosperity after the war. 1 expansion of foreign trade, far be yond what the Nation enjoyed at the beginning of the war, will be impera tive, says H. B. Miller, director of the i School of Commerce of the University, in a timely article contributed to the current issue of the Journal of Elec tricity, published in San Francisco. ' Mr. Miller is well qualified to" dis cuss this important subject as he was, for many years, a consular representa tive of the United States in the Orient. In 1900,. at the time of the Boxer upT rising, Mr. Miller was sent, by the American Government, to Shanghai as assistant to the Consul General. He was transferred from there to Pekin, and in 1901 was -again transferred to Naushaung, where he remained as Con sul General for all . of Manchuria for four years. Muck Time Spent In Orient. This was during the period of the Russo-Japanese war. During the war, Mr. Miller represented the Japanese government as well as the United States in Manchuria. Just before the end of the war, he was sent to Yoko hama, where he served the United States as Consul General for five years. In 1909, he was transferred to the consular service in Belfast, where he remained for one year. Mr. Miller calls attention to the fact that in the record year of exports 1913 only $25 per capita was exported, compared to $210 for Holland, $100 for Belgium, $53 for Great Britain, $33 for Germany, and 32 for France. He points out, too, that most of the' American exports are made up of- food and raw products for which the purchasers sought the business, and the products of corporations like 'the Standard Oil, United States Steel,. International Har vester corporation and the .copper in terests who control a monopoly in their respective lines. Governments Promote Trade, "There are several things," continues the article, "that stand in the way of our foreign' trade expansion on any permanent basis in this country, and all of them hark back to the funda mental difference in attitude of our people toward our Government and the attitude of people of European coun tries. "Other nations have the point of view that the most important function of a state i3 to promote trade for its people to plan economics in produc tion, transportation and credit. In this country the attitude of our people is that the Government should have as little, to do as possible with the busi ness of the Nation. ' "In other countries there is an in timate and close alliance between in dustry and government. In this coun try there is an absolute separation be tween them. Particularly is this true in regard to the three factors most im portant in creating and developing foieign trade, . 1. e., banking, shipping and business organization. "The Japanese government is per haps the most perfect in its power of concentrating under central control these three necessary and most impor tant elements for the development of a nation's foreign trade. -The. United States ia setting. yery much excited and unnecessarily alarmed by the thought that Japan's purpose is the development of her mili tary power, her army and navy, so that she will be prepared to capture a part of the United States at least the Phil ippine and Hawaiian Islands. Ameri- 1 cans have a mistaken notion that Japan plans her line of progress and devel opment exclusively through militarism. "If we will study fully the marvelous development of Japan we will discover that the foundation of her growth is not militarism, but industrialism, her success being made in the fields of manufacturing and distribution of prod ucts for which her country and its en vironment, are well qualified. "She has no desire or purpose to set up a great, military machine for the domination .of . any part of the world. Her main thought, her primary motive, her principal activities are all cen tered on becoming the industrial master of. the Orient. Her progress in all lines of manufacturing and production indi cates .that this purpose is making won derful progress. While it is true that she has a splendid, army and efficient navy, she has the wisdom to realize that these things are necessary as a means of protection for her industrial growth. - . "Japan has patterned her organiza tion along business lines after those forms of organization that have proved successful in European countries. Be cause of her concentrated power and the wisdom with which it is used by the Japanese. 'government, Japan is now experiencing, a marvelous development of manufacturing and a wonderful ex tension of foreign trade. Bank Facilities Essential. "The Japanese government controls the Bank of Japan, Yokohama Specie Bank and, in fact, all of the large banking interests of the country. The relationship' between the banking and financial interests with the. government is such that all of the powers of finance of the nation can be concen trated to exploit and develop. any par ticular lines of manufacturing and pro duction which seem essential to . the progressive welfare of the nation. "The government is. equipped, there fore, to provide the necessary finances for extension of trade and banking in terests into any country where her leaders think- it advisable to extend tl em. Japanese banks under the direct supervision cf the government, have been established it important centers throughout the world. "Our own country has done nothing to provide banking facilities for the aid of Americans in transacting business in foreign countries. There are now being established in some countries with which American firms do a large business, branches of one New York bank which is m more under the con trol of our Government than any other National bank. The kind of organiza tion under which these banks are being established does not indicate that they will be favorable to the extension of business from Chicago or other Amer ican cities. They are for limited New York interests. England Sees Need. "In the matter of banking in foreign countries, as in so many other things, we have followed the policy of England. But even. England, which has been so very conservative about giving govern ment aid in the extension of her for eign trade, has finally come to see the wisdom of governmental control of finances for export business. T "British banks have been established In ports throughout the world for many years, but they have always been capi talized privately. Recently the British government has established a British Trade Bank, capitalized at $250,000,000. and designed particularly to take care of the organization of British trade after the war. This has been done to offset a like move on the part of the Germans, who have recently organized with the aid of their alliee, a great national bank with a capital of $250; 000,000, already pledged in Germany alone. ' " ; " "This bank will have exceptional privileges granted by all the powers in alliance with Germany, and will have much to do with the conduct of bank ing activities connected with the offi cial control of the transition of Ger man industry and commerce from a war to a peace basis. Shipping Alse Necessary. "Take the matter of shipping. The need for American ships to transport American products has not yet become an ideal with us. Until that time comes, our exports will continue to be under a heavy handicap. Until Amer ican products .are sent abroad in Amer ican ships, our exporters will be com pelled to submit to neavier irtigni rates than their competitors pay. "Not lone aeo the cement trade of Brazil was virtually closed to this country, after Brazil had passed a dif ferential taxation, because the Euro pean shipping combination raised the rates' from United States Ports. "In 1861. American ships, under our flasr. carried 65 per cent of our com merce. In 1914 they carried 9.7 per cent. During the same year the ves sels of one foreign country alone. Great Britain, carried bo.i per cent. "In this matter of transportation. also, the Japanese are particularly well r-.renared to utilize all facilities for the special development of Japanese ' tradft and commerce. The government owns the railways in Japan, Corea and Man churia, and in all probability will be come the permanent owner of. the oer man railways in China. The Japanese are able, therefore, to give such rates of transportation of Japanese -prod ucts as will insure their sale lit any of the territory mentioned, as against the products of any other country com peting with them. Big; Liners Subsidized. "All of the leading steamehfp lines of Japan are subsidized by the gov eminent and it is understood thai the Imperial household funds are largely in control of these various steamship companies. They can carry cotton from the United States and India at whatever rate is necessary to keep the cotton manufacturers of the country buey. The government can also regu late the rates of transportation of Japa nese manufactured goods by the vari ous steamship lines into markets, espe cially of the Orient, and even in Kn rope, where these goods compete with manufactures of other countries, equal izing any reduction in transportation by subsidies. "Owing to the effects of American shipping laws, ownership of ships in this country has become almost pro hibitive. Comparison of the cost of op eration of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the Toya Klsen Kaisha shows that it costs the Japanese com pany about $227,860 less a year to run one of its fleet of four than it does the Pacific Mail Steamship Company to run one of its five ships. It is a well known fact that in Germany the rate of transportation on the government .(Concluded on Page Five.).