The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, January 13, 1918, SECTION FOUR, Image 53

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Newspaper Page Text5 great opportunity in Los Angeles for NOW PLAYING TABLES TURNED' QUICKLY IN FILM OF "VIOLET , DIAMOND" Pearl StandLsh Corners Richard Carslake, bat Is Overcome and Sereral Thrills Are Provided in 19th Episode of "Fatal Ring." high-class directors. Summed up, a review of the year In Los Angeles would Indicate that the city Is now in reality producing nearly mi TD 15c ALWAYS 90 per cent of the motion pictures made in this country, and that during 117 the industry on the Coast has made more progress than ever before. AT PHOTOPLAY THEATERS (Continued From Pans 4.) 5c THE LITTLE HOUSE WITH THE BIG SHOWS dwellings, which were inhabited some 3000 years ago by a pigmy race of peo ple. Their homes were built in the cliffs, 100 to 400feet above the ground. Ladders extending to the doors of their houses were made of wood and buck skin. The Indians were camera-shy for a few days, but Fairbanks soon ingratiat ed himself with them by performing ec centric acrobatlo stunts, and they looked upon him with awe and admira tion. "CXEASY MOXUS."" AT LIBERTY TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAS", PORTLAND, JANUARY 13, 1918. -A . - v V-, - - " '- "-" - - - -zl z ' .V . ' ---.'. -r r."5 " ' v - - r TP.- - " " I ! : .r; . --. V . -- ' "R AND3 CTT shouts Pearl Stan- I boasts that she has recovered the eov dlih to Richard Carslake. who eted Jewel. Carslake dropping It tn his I, e.iinB- fascinated at the night. In the meantime ..ma tspiaer violet diamond, as the 19th episode of the rathe Pearl White serial- opens. However, Pearl is not mistress of the situation, for she la quickly cov ered by a revolver in the hands of one of Carslake's henchmen. Then enters the husband of the girl in whose apart ment the action takes place and he turns the tables on the enemy. How ever, victory la short-lived and Pearl la soon felled by the henchman. On the roof Tom and the Spider, Pearl's friends, await the outcome of her attempt to recover the diamond. They engage Carslake and his lieuten ant. The Utter falls oft? the roof, but Carslake escapes the knife of the Spi der. Pearl weakly leans against Tom and forces Carslake to give up the setting. The Priestess is not "to be denied, howerer. She visits Carslake. learns that Pearl possesses the diamond and leaves Carslake to die with aaa tube In his mouth. The Priestess not only wrests the diamond from Pearl, but takes the setting from the Spider In the presence of Pearl, who has hurried to warn him of the Impending visit. The Priestess and her men leave, bat a man ia placed at the entrance to the Spider's den with Instructions to kill anyone attempting to escape. Pearl, Tom and the Spider recover from blows delivered by the Invaders and start In pursuit of the Priestess. The guard hears a sound and aa Pearl appears he raises hla gun and Is about to Are. Next Sunday comes the final Install ment of this mystery thriller. Picturlxallon of Popular P. G. Wodehooe Serial Opens Today. Uneasy Money." a plcturlzatlon of the popular P. O. w odehouse serial which was published in the Saturday Evening Post, will be shown at the Liberty Theater today with Taylo Holmes, stage comedy star, in the lead ing role. Any story or motion picture In wnicn the action centers around money a io of money Is bound to be Interesting. In brief, the story shows how Eliza beth Nutcombe. niece of Ira utcombe an aged American millionaire, is left only a solitary quarter of a dollar in the last will and testament of that cranky old gentleman, while Lord Dawlish (Taylor Holmes), an English man, is left 15.000.000. And this re markable bequest was made Lord Daw llsh because he had been kind and pa tient enough to teach the old million aire, during one of his visits to Eng land, not to "slice"' when playing golf. The English nobleman, seeing: the unfairness and the brutality shown his niece by the dead millionaire, comes to America to find her and to share equally with her the million pounds be queathed to him. He writes Elizabeth to that effect, but she returns a sharp reply and refuses. Then he contrives, through Elisabeth's scapegoat brother. Nutty" Nutcombe, to visit incognito the chioken ranch on which Elisabeth makes a living. His adventures on the chicken farm and his quaint courtship make the most amusing Incidents of this comedy drama. Taylor Holmes la a scream as the English- lord, with an extensive and elaborate wardrobe, and always adorned with a monocle. His perfectly tailored clothes, however, do not stop him from putting on overalls and whitewashing the chlckencoop, black ing the stove, washing the dishes, and otherwise making himself useful when set to work 4y the little country girl with whom he fell in love. LOS ANGELES MOTION-PICTURE METROPOLIS OF AMERICA Producers Concede That Southern California City Is Best Place for Their - Industry; Ninety Per Cent of Total Photoplay Ontpnt From There. ' Film Flickers. D BT B. V. DCT.LEVO. i own. They have a separate stage and L'RINO 191 It was a question I a long line of miniature dressing among orodicers as to whether rooma. They also have a regular or not Los Angeles was the best ool-house and playground. place to make pictures. Daring 191? It has been fully decided that It Is In reality the only place. This decision was reached by a com fctoatlon of circumstances. The many hindrances placed In the way of mo tion picture manufacturers In the East. sech as the unusual high tax rates and the refusal of the ctty authorities to eooprate In the matter of locations, coupled with the poor climatic condi dttlons. did much to bring many of the nor prominent stars to the Coast to stay. Mary Pick ford, after an absence of several years, returned to Los Angeles early la 1117 and has been here ever since. Etouclas Fairbanks, who made a practice of dividing his time between the Coast and New York, has also set-J tied down in Hollywood. Cat BUI Hart and Charlie Chaplin have never been away and they complete tfc Big Four of the picture Industry. City BVaeka I s ledmstry. The city or Los Angeles Is. behind the motion picture Industry in every way and has In the last year spared no ef fort to make production work run along smoothly. For a time the residents of Holly wood, the suburban town In which most of the studios are located, made It very uncomfortable for the picture people, but after they were severely taken to task by the municipal author! ties they withdrew the many com plaints registered and for the past sev eral months have been very quiet. Even during the present slump In production, which is due to the war tax and a lack of organisation in some of the companies, there Is more going on In Los Angeles than there has been os a number of years. Griffith Starts AerHrlry. The return of D. W. Griffith to the Fine Arts Studio once more maksa that historic plant the scene of much ac tivlty. At Culver City the Triangle Is going full force with all their dramatic com panies located there, as well as the Kevmtone Corned T forces. Thos. H. In-e. who formerly held sway at the Culver City studios. Is temporarily at the old Klograph studio. but building operations have already ben commenced for his new studio, which wtil be situated very near the old stamping ground at Culver Ctty. The l.kr studio now covers two square blocks and harbors. In addition to the regular La.ky-Pamous Players Company, the Fairbanks and Ptckford outfits. Htll Hart has moved Into Mabl Nor man. i s old studio ar.d Charlie Chaplin has Just completed the building of a wonderful new studio of hla own. I'ntversal Ctty is not as active as It was last year, aa the short reel pro duction has been entirely eliminated. Juki at bresent the public is refused admittance to Cnlversal City. Previous to the time this ruling was put Into effect the studio was one of the show places of the city. trra ftapaada Oatpat. The old I'nlTersil studio Is now oc cupied by Julius ft em and his L-Ko comedy companies. Stern has Increased production In about the same ratio as the Big 3 has decreased. He has five companies working and has added to hla force such comedy stars as Slack waln. Alice Howell. Hughle Mack and Bobbie Iunn. The Fox Studio, which began the year with the small National Film Com pany plaat. which was later destroyed by fire, now stretches Its producing activities over art area of three square blocks. A moat Interesting and nnusual ad dition Is the Fox Kiddle Features plant. IM caUvlrea ha is a sludlo all their lessett at Old Stand. Mack Sennett remaina In his studio, where he became famous through th production of comedies bearing the Keyetone trade mark. He continues to enlarge the plant and does not seem to nave maae any great decrease in pro auction since transferring hla al leglance to the Paramount programme. II ease Star Taken Oter. The Metro, which In the past has been represented by Fred Balshofer. has now taken over the old Lone Star Studio, where Charlie Chaplin held forth. They have Introduced to the West Coast colony Viola Dana and have brought back Edith Storey, who formerly made pictures at the Vita graph Western btudlo. It is believed that they will in the near future bring a number of their other stars to Los Angelea. Goldwyn has been looking for studio for some, but aa yet haa been unable to secure one which would be suitable for the large production unit. Among the smaller companies to lo cate on the Coast this year are the Marie Dressier Comedv Comoanr and Ihe Billy West King-Bee comedy forces. A number of state rights pictures have been made in the city this year, and a studio offering special Induce ments to firms making this type of production will soon be erected. ( Ge4 Art ere Larking. One of the chief faults of Los Angeles as a producing section was pointed out by A. 11. Woods in a recent .visit. There are not enough good actors to furnish consistently capable casts; that lit.'-in comparison to those available In New York. The Eastern producer has a great ad vantage In this respect, which Is of course, most Important. He can draw on the casts in the legitimate produc tions playing in New York and In this way is apt to make a much better pic ture. There seems to be no Immediate re lief for this condition, as employment cannot be guaranteed the actor In such a way as It can In New York. Naturally a man with a legitimate stage engagement will accept for his film work a more reasonable salary than one who depends upon the latter entirely. It is so arranged that an actor play ing a legitimate production can finish his film scenes In the shortest possible time, thus making the expense less. Ceaat Salaries Lower. Salaries on the Coast nre smaller than those In New York. It Is often noticed by the people working In pic tures In Los Angelea that a man ac customed to work for a salary of tSO or J5 a week will go to New York and command one of SloO or 1150 a week. Directors who are very glad to secure a salary of 1100 or 1300 a week In Los Angeles will demand and very often get 1500 or t00 a week In New York. There also seems a tendency on the part of all people In Los Angeles to get to New York and all people In New York to get to I .oft Angeles. To the average run or actor this change la inadvisable Predacllosi at Lew Kb. At present production is at a low ebb n Los Angeles, but this Is only tem porary. However, unless a man Is well financed he should not make the change unless he has a contract. There la. however, a scarcity of really good directors In Los Angeles. Most of the successful 'ones are under contract and there Is hardly a man available who ran make the highest type of pic tures. When the slump is over, which should bs ia a month or so, Ihers will be a: TACK RICHARDSON, the Triangle tl heavy, bas Issued a statement deny ing that the Jack Richardson appear ing In the cast of "The Spirit of '76," the picture selxed by the United States Government. Is any way connected with him. "I never played In the con- emned picture and do not know the Jack Richardson appearing on the aat," declared the Triangle player. e e Jack Livingston, Triangle leading man. has issued a warning that a man who closely rearmbles him has been securing funds under false pretenses by representing himself to be "Jek Livingston." According to Jack he has a double in New York who Is touring th studios, declaring himself to be the Triangle actor, and is getting a few days' work on the strength of lc. Bill Russell has pulled every kind of a dare-devil stunt; hia latest was to drive In an automobile race at the Lib erty sweepstakes. see Carl ron Schiller bas passed oft the screen for the future. , The same fellow will be known as Jerome Sheler in fu tare flickers. 1 1 With BARBARA TENNANT and CHESTER BARNETT A TIMELY SUB-SEA ROMANCE OF LOVE AND ADVENTURE Again we offer you your money back if you are dissatisfied not use his fists they need merely see him in "Ruggles of Red Gap" to dis prove their beliefs. In this picture he gives Rod LaRocque a smashing blow on the jaw. And the most interesting part of it was that the scene was re hearsed and taken six times. LaRocque says he 11 forgive the famous comedian, e e The portrait of - beautiful June Elvldge, the young star of World-Pic tures Brady-Made, appeared last week upon the cover pages of 53 motion pic ture theater programme in ar.d near New York. As an immediate result her picture-autograph requests during the ensuing five days increased nearly 1000 over the preceding time of that dura tion. "Never had a runaway In my life and don't expect to," boasted Ruth Clifford at Seven Oaks the other day. where, the Bluebird company la work ing on a new production and imme diately her pet pony "Bert" bolted and tossed her out of her saddle into a cabbage patch. "In the 'legitimate,'' unless you're 1th a stock company, you have' to move continually from place to place and miss all the comforts of being set tled in a home," is the reason given by Lewis J. Cody, who left the spoken stage three years ago and declares that nothing could induce him to return to t, for bis transfer of allegiance to the 1 motion picture work City. in the Universal Vivian Martin has appeared In many delightful photoplays under the Para mount auspices, but It is extremely doubtful whether she haa. ever been een in a picture more splendidly adapted, to her talents or which em bodies a more pleasing story. The scenario of this picture Is by Edith Kennedy and is adapted from the story by Francis Hodgson Burnett. At the tima of Its publication it was noted as one of the most charming works of this writer. Robert Thornby directed "The Fair Barbarian." e Everybody knows what a "flapper" Is. If not. they will learn when Louise Huff plays a role of that name in her new co-starring vehicle with Jack Pickford, from Paramount. It will be a source of real Joy to many patrons of the photoplay to again see these two young stars associated In a picture. Someone asked Blllie Burke, who is now at work on "Eve's Daughter" for Paramount, under James Klrkwood, how she liked the picture and things in general, as far as she had gone. "Fine," responded Miss Burke demure ly, "but you never can tell what will happen when two red-heads get to gether." Mr. Klrkwood has sandy hair and everyone knows the glory of Blllie Burke's red-gold tresses. Still, so far, there hasn't been a conflagration and isn't likely to be, because both the star and her director are good tempered and the best of friends. e Anita King's newest piece is called "Petticoats Versus Pants." It gives her a splendid opportunity to portray a bad" girl meaning not an Improper one, but rather a lady from the West with notches in her gun. George Beban, star in Paramount Pictures, who is now at work on a new production under the direction of Will lam C. DeMllle, is becoming the offi cial story-teller of Southern Califor nia. Recently he kept the members of the Los Angeles Press Club in screams of laughter for nearly two hours with his Inimitable Italian dialect narra tlves. So wide has his fame as a raconteur spread that he is now called upon to appear at virtually every bene' fit given. That Fatty Arbuckle proved so fun ny that her picture house was closed for Sunday shows is vouched for by woman exhibitor, Nora Callahan, of Crestline, O., in a letter to E. T. Ger- rlsh, of the Famous Players Film Serv- ice. Inc., Cleveland, O. She declares that the pious church people who over heard the laughter in the theater while on their way home -from church peti tioned the Mayor to stop the Sunday shows. Although she was forced to obey, Nora Callahan vows she will give them another opportunity to be shocked before many moons. Recently Mary Pickford was in re ceipt of a letter from a military hospi tal in Montreal, inclosing an old pic ture of herself, cut from a newspaper and dark with blood stains. The accom panying letter from the soldier told Miss Pickford that he had been injured at the front and if she would write him a letter he would reply and tell her how the picture happened to become stained with blood. Did he get a reply? The decision is left to those who are famil iar with a woman's curiosity. In the face of tremendous competi tion among the producing companies. Clara Kimball Young has secured the screen rights to "The House of Glass," the great stage success of a few sea sons ago. ' Owing to the number of prospective purchasers. Miss Young was forced to pay a record figure for the play, but her satisfaction in secur ing the prize overshadowed its price. James Montgomery Flagg Is featur ing Hazel Mills Adams, daughter Dora Mills Adams, as the superstitious girl in his new series. "Girls You Know," shortly to be released. Metro has acquired the rights to "The Claim," a play written by Charles Kenyon and Frank Dare, aa a starring vehicle for Edith Storey. The play had a New York run earlier this sea son, with Florence Roberta In the lead ing role. e e e Herbert Brenon, in tabulating his achievements of the past year and in looking forward to the new year, re peats hla formerly-made assertion that he is opposed' to the star system and that he believes the pedestal players are due lor a slump in 1918. Florence Deshon. who completed work recently in Rex Beach's "The Auction Block," in which prodoetlon she had the role of Lilaa Lynn, has been signed by Vltagraph to play leads in feature productions. Miss Deshon Is now un der the direction of Paul Scardon, play ing opposite Harry Morey in his latest Vltagraph production. Miss Deshon Is a striking type of brunette. She had the vampire part in "The Auction Block" and has been seen in leading character roles in sev eral of the big features for the pro gramme and open market. Douglas Fairbanks is teaching wres tling and. boxing to his new director, Allan Dwan. in order that the latter can step lively when on the field of ac tion in behalf of Artcraft pictures. Thomas Meighan. leading man for Blllie Burke in her new Paramount picture. "Eves Daughter. spent the week end in Boston visiting his wife. Frances Ring, who Is playing there in Lpstairs and Down." Miss Rime saw "The Land of Promise" in Boston and write a criticism of it tor the Boston newspaper. As her husband Is leading man for Blllie Burke In the picture, her criticism was complimentary In the ex treme just to prove she wasn't jealous. . Ethel Clayton may be said to be playing In luck. She started for Palm Beach to work on her new World- picture Just a day before the cold spell hit New York and she is still basklne under Southern skies while other World stars go scooting along the Palisades of a morning wondering If the pesky thermometer tells half the truth. Frederick Burton, famous stage star ppearlng as "Cousin Egbert" In Taylor Holmes' picture, "Ruggles of Red Gap," looked so true to life as a Westerner that a real cowboy visiting in Chicago pled hlra as a sight "'fer sore eyes." I halnt seen a soul that looks like ome sence I came to town," explained the cowboy. "Whar" ye' fromT Burton laughed and said: "Red Gap." And it was some time before the cowboy could realize that Mr. Burton was merely in character- makeup for the George . Spoor special picture. Wallace David Coburn. the "Cowboy Poet." writer of Western verse and torles and best known for his "Rhymes f the Round-up." has joined the Uni ersal acting forces and la participat ing In the filming of "The Bulls Eye- new serial. If anyone thinks Taylor Holmes can- PETTY POLITICS HELD TO BLAME FOR LABOR SHORTAGE NOW EXISTING THROUGHOUT OREGON Colonel E. Hofer Says More and More People Are Being Driven Out of This State Because of Their Inability to SecureMen to Handle the Industries Already Established. w BY COLONEL E. HOFER. Editor The Manufacturer. HEN I was in Salt Lake recently I was Informed by one of the officials of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company that the new sugar factory erected two' years ago at Grants Pass would have to be dismantled and moved away for the reason that beets could not be secured in sufficient quan tity to pay tcr keep it in operation. The people of Southern Oregon either will not grow beets or cannot get the labor to grow beets. If that industry is given vp it will be the second sugar factory in Oregon to be abandoned, the first having failed to operate success fully In L& Grande. The big Issue before the people of Oregon is to show to the capitalists who have put their money Into the Grants Pass enterprise that we will not bear the stigma of having a second at tempt to found an Important industry fall for want of attention on our part. If we let the sugar factory at Grants Pass be dismantled we might as well say good-bye to all future efforts to establish an Industry that has proven highly successful in all other Western states, dissolve our commercial clubs and chambers of commerce and repeal our State Labor Bureau and admit our selves a failure in founding industries that require material from the soil for their existence. Oresron People Should Rally. a We ought to rally ourselves, face the farts, admit our weakness industrially and try to remedy the conditions. The sugar Industry has its troubles In other states, and these instances of abandon ing sugar factories are not the only ones in the country. Other communities have failed, but we should not fall without a struggle. Oregon should adopt as a state policy some system of supplying common labor where needed. It was stated by a Federal official in vestigating the shipyard etrlke at Ban Francisco that the shipbuilding Indus try on the Pacific Coast needed 30,000 mechanics for working in wood and steel to meet the Nation's needs of shipping. There was talk, of building another sugar beet factory In the Wil lamette Valley, and the hopyards about Independence where to be planted to sugar beets. The State Agricultural College has proven by actual tests that sugar beets can be grown in the West ern Oregon counties of sufficient sac charine value to be used for sugar manufacture. All we lack Is labor. Before the European war the Port land Chamber of Commerce conducted campaign to secure Immigration di rect from Germany, Switzerland and other Northern European countries. Of course, that Is all ended. We have no expectation until peace is declared of securing labor supplies from Europe. After the war impoverished millions will undoubtedly seek asylum in North and South America. But our country is full of those who will cry, we do not want any impoverished and pauperized European immigrants! - Labor Conditions Chanaylas. Let it be considered that labor con ditions in the world have changed. Only poor and hunger-stricken laborers in large numbers will do the hard work necessary to make raw materials from the land and do the rough work to develop a new state and subdue forests and rain swamps for future profitable agriculture. Oregon was never so pros perous as when the cheap coolie labor of China cleared our lands and made the valleys and hillsides of Western Oregon bloom with harvests. No one would dare now advocate the importation of such cheap labor, al though ohr stte is well supplied with those who want state money loaned cheaply to the farmers and want cheap fertilizers supplied by the taxpayers, etc., but inconsistently cry out against cheap labor. So, without looking to Europe for the present to supply us with abundant farm labor, where shall we look? Shall we let the sugar industry perish with out a struggle? Shall we let the dairy Industry languish as it has under abundance of legislation and regulation but with a notable absence of cow milkers? Shall we continue te let the country grow up to brush and second growth without an effort to find a class of labor that can be employed at prices that warrant a farmer, in having land cleared? Individual Thinking Needed. Shall we go on multiplying our laws to limit the hours of labor and screw up the prices of farm labor until the dream of the universal eight-hour law at 13 per applies to the man in the barnyard? Is it In the interest of the skilled labor, that comprises the mem bership of - the trades unions, that we are doing these things and driving higher and higher the cost of farm products and the H. C. L.? Should not the people of Oregon begin to do a lit tle thinking Independently of the polit ical manipulator who is bidding for the votes of Oregon labor unions at the expense of the development of the state? Does not Oregon need more than anything else a distinctive definite pol icy of supplying the state with abun dance of common labor if we are to make any headway in the great indus tries underlying state development? More and more people are driven out of the dairying business, in production of butter, cheese and milk, because of impossibility of hiring men to handle and feed stock, and handle the forage crops that are essential to making dairy products. There is no crop that yields so large a by-product for feed ing swine and dairy cattle as the sugar beet. ' The green tops, the pulp, both sweet and in the fermented form, make as much beef and pork and mutton and dairy products per acre as an acre of Iowa corn or alfalfa. Other States Advancing. Are we too slow and too sluggish to ppreciate the meaning of such a state' ment? Are we(so busy playing labor politics that we dare not try to get the labor to make the sugar beet crops necessary to the continued existence of the sugar beet factory at Grants Pass? Go into other states and see the arge numbers of Russians, Mexicans, Japanese and other nationalities em ployed in the sugar beet .industry. One sugar manufacturing firm that oper ates "refineries in three states, Colo rado, Wyoming and California, spent $20,000 last year bringing in Mexican labor to make sugar beet crops for the farmers. The Government suspended the liter acy test against these Mexicans so they might come in and help make sugar beet crops for Uncle Sam to help feed the hungry nations of the earth, and prevent a sugar famine in our own country. Oregon needs at least 5000 laborers to make the sugar beet industry a suc cess in this state and to raise beets enough to operate two factories and do our bit In adding to the sugar produc tlon required of this Nation. We could use 6000 laborers in the depleted dairy Industry unless we are willing to see milk and cream soar to where only the ricn can arrord to use those articles, and then in homeopathic doses. Labor Shortage Alarming. In the shipbuilding industry, to say nothing of lumber production for air plane material, we need 6000 more la borers, and the ordinary farmers could use 10.000 common laborers to clear lands and do the rough work to dou ble farm products that are as badly needed as sugar. But it is simply idle and useless to even talk of bringing in this labor, if it could be had. so Ion ir as our political policies are all to the one ena or catering to the labor monop olist who is ambitious only to drive up wages and shorten the hours, de claring that even six hours Is too long to work in a free country. And yet, as Senator Chamberlain said at Salem, we are at war with the most efficient nation In the world. In dustrially speaking. We have before us the question of allowing the sugar beet industry to languish and die out in Oregon, all for the lack of common labor to grow beets. Is it not up to us and our gov erning bodies to get busy and solve this problem, even If we had to send special agents to Mexico, or wherever the labor is to be secured, and let the state order some railroad to bring it in, and distribute where needed to per form the labor required? We must pay more attention to in dustrial efficiency and less to chasing after political rainbows if we are going to get anywhere Industrially. The same is true or the flax industry. We are neglecting an opportunity to found an industry that would make our Western Oregon country as famous as the finest flax regions of Belgium or Ireland. We should specialize on labor to de velop the flax Industry up to the high est stages of development. Enough has been done to publish to the world what our soli and climate can do. Now let us get in and do it. That is an in dustrial proposition. Canning Indnstries S offer. Vegetable canning "industries are failing in this state for lack of labor. It is now necessary to subscribe mil lions for the Red Cross, the Army Y. M. C. A., and for the war loans. Bit do we not owe something definite to the great industries of which our state is capable and for the existence and pros perity of which we are doing nothing'? We must support these industries if we are to make the future money need ed by our Government. We should hammer away on this question of how to supply labor that the industries for which - our state is specially adapted, like sugar beet growing, dairying, flax culture, shipbuilding, and . vegetable growing and truck gardening can live, when capital is ready and willing to do its part. Have we not the same ability to found these industries that other states have? Do states like Colorado. Mon tana, California, Utah, and Idaho suf fer from having abundance of labor necessary to make sugar beet growing a success? Do the labor unions of those states suffer because there is a greater abundance of cheap farm labor to produce the necessary raw materials to make manufacturing possible on a large scale? Every one of those states is forging ahead and growing: In wealth faster than Oregon, and organized la bor does not suffer. We demand cheap capital for the farmer, we demand cheap railroad and. water transportation, we deplore the high cost of living, but we are afraid to demand cheaper farm labor because we are playing cheap politics. There has been universal complaint the past years about the. scarcity of farm labor. The, farmer is being speeded up and urged to greater pro duction and increased acreage to feed the Nation and, its allies and keep down the mounting cost of necessaries, but what are we doing to give him the help he needs to make crops and harvest them? Nothing. Politics Is LoHiufr Game. It is true the Labor Commissioner, the postmasters and the county farm agents try to shift labor and send unemployed persons here and there to relieve local conditions,' High school boys and vacation hands have all been tried, but they are no substitute for an abundance of labor seeking em ployment. The state cannot develop under temporary expedients and make shifts, and its industries will languish if it depends on transient labor that comes and goes, and, in most cases, does not want hard, steady work. Without plenty of common laoor to handle our main industries we will be sparing and saving driblets in the kitchen and wasting and losing on the' farms. With more and more able bodied young men going to serve their country on the battlefields growing crops, with increasing scarcity oc labor, is uphill business. We are ask ing the farmers to grow bumper crops on every possible acre of ground, with labor so scarce that from $5 to $6 a day must be paid for harvest hands and threshing crews, and 3 to 4 a day for Boy Scouts to take the place of full hands. Any' labor at all for grubbing land or milking cows is out of the question. Farmers Work Long Hours. Farmers who are patriotic and will ing to raise sugar beets, flax or can nery supplies, cannot finance a farm on the wages that are demanded. They cannot make the crops on the tillable soil they have, to say nothing of plant ing more. As an alternative every farm er has been working 18 to 20 hours a day, women and old-people and chil dren have been working, some until midnight on moonlight nights, like the peasants in Russia, trying to save what Uncle Sam induced them to plant. And with all that thousands of tons of fruit, potatoes and other perishable crops are going to be lost. What is the state, as a political ma chine, doing to help them? Nothing. Labor unions come forward with de mands for more eight-hour laws, and restrictions of hours in this industry and that. Not a lick is being struck to save our industries that are waning, and some of them going by the board. when we should be using our state gov ernment to save what we have and get more production from the soil if we are to do our part in the great strug gle for National existence. DEFECTIVE CHILD PROBLEM (Continued From First Page.) Sheaf e examines the boys correspon-, dence and invites their confidence by her friendly attitude. The training school, with its loo boys and 24 workers, forms a busy col ony on a farm or 200 acres, a mile out of Chehalis. The boys are a cheerful and well-nourished lot of youngsters. who have eight hours a day of steady work four in school and four in the shops or on the farm. Boys Kept Buiry. There is a machine 6hop, with it3 fonges and lathes, a shoe shop, a laun dry, a tailor shop and a carpenter shop, each with its qualified foreman and In structor. The boys do the work of the colony, from firing the boilers that fur nish the heat and power to milking the cows, harnessing and driving the horses, feeding the hogs, making the shoes and clothes that are worn and. planting and harvesting the crops un der the direction of the farmer. I heard some very explicit directions given to a boy in the commissary de partment, where sugar and oatmeal and flour and beans and breakfast foods . were piled up, and the language was pointed enough to make me remember my boyhood days. At the samo timo the boys are not under constraint and obviously seek an opportunity to re- . ceive a word of greeting from Dr. Sheaf e. , Lads on Honor. There are no constraining walls or fences and the honor boys, composing nearly half the population, are allowed a great deal of tceedom and various 1 privileges. The second class is composed of new boys and those who have failed to ob serve regulations. The third class, con- " sisting of three boys at the time of my visit, is made up of persistent runa ways and trouble-makers. They wear " red suits, which make them easy to ob serve. Under the Washington law boys are committed until they are 21, but are subject to parole. Dr. Sheafe's plan is to keep the boy a year and then re lease him if he has behaved well. Ho administers no punishment, but de prives offenders of privileges. The best-behaved boys are given brief pleasure trips, while troublesome boys go to the moving picture entertainment at the school and stand with their ' backs to the picture screen.