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THE SUIfDAY OREGOXIAN. POBTLAIOJ. SEPTEMBER 15. .1919. LACK OF JINGLE IN TIOKTRQUBLESuME few pla'ces of amusements, if he sends an 8. O. 8. back home, for money, un less he is expecting his seven-day leave fsoon, it is a sure sign that he ha either been shooting; craps or playing blackjack with what is left of his pay. As a rule,, if be needs or 10 francs, he can borrow from a bunkie or the chaplain, who usually has a. fund Just lor such purposes. Mighty Hard to Place Blame or Missing Pay Days in - Far Distant France, V . MONEY IS NOT. REGULAR Soldiers Encountered by Will S. MaeRao While- With Americana Who Had Received "o Money In Five or Six Months, ' BY WILL O. MAC RAE. . EInce my return I have "met the mothers and .fathers of soldiers "over there". of Washington and Oregon, and the question rn,ost frequently asked of jne""ls. "Why is It the soldiers in France (meaning, of couhse. he American sol diers) are not paia regularly? My son has been over there since December, and he has only been paid once. If it wasn't for the little change I send him occasionally he wouldn't have a cent in his poeWt-" Well, "erhape that was the CA. I have known soldiers who had not re ceived pay for five and six months, but this was not because tnere were no paymasters on the job In France, nor because uncle bam was trying to Deal the soldier out of his pay.' It. was due to the rapid changes constantly going on. for one thing. Most often it was due to the fault of the company com mander or the top sergeants and the medical officer, and yet when I come to think of the many reasons .that would bring about this unhappy con dition. it's mighty hard to put ones finger on the proper person or persons to blame. Pershing Orders Change It will hardly be necessary longer to' tell why or to give the many ways such a thing as a missing pay day comes about. Nobody has been more concerned about missing pay day than General Pershing and his staff. These officers know what missing a pay day means to the morale of any - army. They also know that when a great yruve of homesickness hits a regiment, it is not because every soldier is home sick for a sight of home and the home folks, but because he is broke. To put It in plain soldier language, it's be cause there's "no jingle in the tick." This being so a recent O. O. (general order) from G. H. Q. has gone into effect and from now on the wail of missing a pay day should be at an end. Before I sailed from France I knew the staff at G. 11- Q. was working out a scheme whereby every American sol dier, whether he was with his organi sation or not, would be able to draw on pay $7 a month, regardless of his allotments, insurance and liberty bonds. Kow they have worked out the soldiers' pay-book system. The plan foe the new system has been submitted by the chief quartermaster to G. H. Q., and from letters I have- received the pay book lias been adopted. The plans submitted embrace these features: It Involves the carrying by very soldier his own little pay book, en the strength of which he can col lect his money every month, no matter what day of the month he presents it, no matter how far away he may have strayed from his own command, no matter where his service record or what its condition. It involves, also, the partial payment system by which each soldier, no mat ter what his grade or no matter what FIRE OFFICIALS TO MEET Portland Bureau Will Send Fonr Men to Oakland Convention. Portland fire' bureau officials will leave tonight for Oakland to attend the annual convention of the Fire 'Chief Association of the Pacific Coast, which will convene for four days, beginning Tuesday. The delegation from Portland In eludes City Commissioner Bigelow, Fire Chief Dowell, Fire Marshal Grenfell and E. R. Campbell, fire marshal for the Emergency Fleet Corporation in Portland. Tom Graham, chief of the Corvallis fire department, will accom pany the delegation to Oakland. Fire prevention methods in connec tion with shipyards and other war in dustries will be the most important issue for discussion at the meeting. New methods, successfully operated, will be explained by experts. GUY BOSCHKE NOW MAJOR Former Portland Man Promoted In Army Engineering Unit. Friends of Captain Guy Boschke, formerly of Portland, have received word that he has been promoted to a Major in the engineering unit of the national Army, e nas oeen serving in France for mors than a year, and re cently was returned to Washington on special detail and expects to soon be returned to France. Overseas he was in charge of impor tant construction work,' which the American expeditionary fo,rce is op erating. Major Boschke is a civil en gineer and with his brother, George Boschke, former chief engineer of the O.-W. R. & N. Company, has done ex tensive work in various parts of the country. STUDENTS TO USE STREETS Conncil Grants Concession to Sol diers Under Training Here. Permission for the use of five streets near the Benson Polytechnlo School for training of soldiers attending the United States Army Training School was granted yesterday by the City Council. The streets which will be used for a portion of the day in the maneuvering of 600 troops are as follows: -Eal Gli san, East Hoyt and East Irving streets. from East Fifteenth to East Eighteenth streets;-East Sixteenth atid Seventeenth streets, from East Flanders to Oregon streets. . .- These streets will net be closed ts traffic except during the drill period, when guards will be stationed at each end of all streets covered in the permit. KELLER ASKS FOR INQUIRY Parole Officer Asks District Attor. "ney for Grand Jury Probe. SALEM, Or., Sept. 14. (Special.) Parole Officer J. F. Keller, upon his return from Portland today, called upon District Attorney Gehlhar of this county for a grand jury investigation of the recent affair at the State Fenl. tentlary involving- the intimation that money had been used in procuring pa. rols for convicts. District Attorney Gehlhar stated that the grand jury has just adjourned, but he'w'll take the matter up with At torney General Brown and District Attorney Evans and if any facts de- he has set aside for liberty bonds, al-'velop that warrant it he probably will lotment or insurance, would get the flat sum of $7. SO every month. Then nee in every so often say, every four months he would have a settlement with the Government and draw all the balance due him. Reasons for Delay Given. One of the main reasons for the de cayed and long overdue pay day was due to soldiers who were taken sick or were on detached duty far away from Their commands. Under the old system it has always been necessary for each company to be assembled for muster roll. There was also a muster for signing the payrolL On several occa sions I went with officers on their irtumls to have men on detached .service sign the payroll. It was when the sol dier took sick and was sent to a base .hospital that the greatest trouble for the soldier began. Usually when a sol dier is sent to a base hospital he lost to bis command for good. He at once becomes a casnal and liable to bs sent to any organization in need of soldier. In the ambulance which takes him to the hospital goes with- the sick sol dier his rifle, tin helmet, his blanket roll and his barracks bag, containing all of his personal belongings. What he should always take along with him Is frequently left behind by some care less member of the "pill battery," or because his company commander was not on the job to see that a scrap of paper goes along with the sick sol dier. This scrap of paper is the sol dier"s service record, without which, in the eyes of the Army paymaster, even though he ia in uniform and has just come out of the trenches-reeking with mud.' he is not a soldier entitled to draw pay from the Government. Even the word of his Colonel or his Captain does not count unless the soldier has signed the pay roll. Not only that, there is no such thing as signing the pay roll once his nibs begins o fay on me regiment. The paymaster has brought the exact amount of money with him and to pay a soldier who hasn't until the last moment signed the pay roll well. It isn't done, that's alL Doa't Sea 4 Meney. The. Government has repeatedly asked parents not -to send money to their soldier sons. On the fact of this bald request it strikes many a mother or father as "rather putting on" the soldier. Truth of the matter is that the Government is right on this "don't send money to your sons." I am glad to say that I have had mother after mother tell me they have received let ters from their , sons saying: "Mather, don't send me money." I have even been told of a loving mother hav ing sent money to the soldier son only to have it returned. Of course, it's always best for sol diers to have a piece of money In their pockets.- He's a mighty happy hombre when he can feel a jingle. In the first place, a soldier in France -needs mighty little spending money, and because he Is much better paid than the soldiers of our allies it is the rovernraent's - aim not to have him flash too much money around. It has a tendency to make ths other soldier feel that he is underpaid, but the main reason for the government mak ing the request It did of the mothers and fathers is the government wishes to encourage thrift and economy among the troops and to prevent them from becoming spendthrifts. vjub vi uiv vest reasons lor not eeno- lng money to the soldiers is' there are mighty few places in France for a sol dier to spend it.. After he has pur chased a few French souvenirs for the folks at home, there being no candy for sale fa the French shops and mighty ask for a special session of the jury. HEALTH CONDITIONS GOOD Portland Reaches Lowest Record in Contagious- Disease for Year. Portland has reached the lowest ree ord in contagious diseases prevalent at the present time, during the past year At the present time, throughout the en tire city there are only two cases of scarlet fever, five eases of diphtheria and four- cases of smallpox. Of these 11 cases five are virtually ready for re lease. The contagion work is being handled by Assistant City Health Officer Leon Wolff. Various precautionary meas ures placed into effect by City Health Officer Parrish and carried out by Dr. Wolff are believed to be responsible for the low record of prevalent cases. Linn Anxious for Loan Drive. ALBANY, Or, Sept 14. (Special.) People have begun already to go to liberty loan headquarters here and apply to malce advance subscriptions for liberty bonds of the fourth issue. The subscription books here will open next Monday morning and advance subscriptions may be mads until Sep tember 28, when the drive begins. There is much interest here already in the forthcoming drive. .Argentina Names New Ministers. BUENOS AIRES, Sept. U. Honorio Puerredon, Minister of Agriculture, Act ing Minister of Foreign Affairs, has been appointed Minister of Foreign Af fairs. Julio Moreno, chief of police of Buenos Aires,, was named as Minister of War. The Government Wants 5,000,000 Pounds of Wool At Once for the Army and Navy One year ago I told you there would be a clothing famine soon. It has arrived on time. The woolen mills are selling no ma terials to manufacturers for the making of "civilian clothing. All the materials that will be made into civilian clothing next season are those now, left in the hands of the manufacturers, and they are making allotments of this limited stock to their pa trons throughout the country, and at an advance in prices that will astound you. Suit and overcoat qualities we now sell for $30.00 will sell next season for $65 to $70. ; Suit and overcoat qualities we now sell for $40.00 will sell next season for $85 to $90. We have a big stock of Chesterfield Suits and Overcoats on Hand, but the great demand will soon exhaust stocks we now have, so we say .buy your clothes now if you need them. And be cause of our profit-sharing, .cash-selling policy you can't afford to buy them elsewhere, because you save half the regulation profit charged by other stores through buying your clothes here. COMPARE GRAY'S COMPARE GRAY'S $20 Suits $30 Suits COMPARE GRAY'S $40 Suits With Suits Sold by Other ' Stores for $50 and $55 ' GRAY'S VALUES WILL TELL i TPfo T3 IW TTh & " 7 386 Washington iHf W d tt w A Y ' AT WEST PARK iLxL o XViLo JLLX ii. v Opposite Telegram With Suits Sold by Other Stores for $25 and $"30 With Suits Sold by Other Stores for $35 and $40 GERMANS N TERROR American Offensive Startles Border Towns. of last year and the potato crop was I Germany takes her heel off the Uber probably worse. ; ties of the world wherever It is." Meatless weeks must bo continued, the speaker' said, in order not to en- danger the milk and fat supply. Un fortunately,' he was unable to hold out GENERAL MOVING DAY NEAR Preparations Complete for Actual Evacuation of Territory Waldon ' Tells Trades Unions Food Outlook Bad. WASHINGTON. Sept 14. An official dispatch from France today says there are evidences of excitement everywhere Across the German border, and quotes the following . from . tne jbuimusou Tageblatt: "The American offensive m upper Alsace and the long-range guns sup. posed to be intended to reduce to ashes the towns of this country, is badly alarming the inhabitants. ''Even people of a high rank tremble at the news like little children listen ing to ghost stories. "Of course the evacuation of Mu-1- hausen and the whole of Alsace is again in question, and it is said that all measures for ths actual evacuation of the grand duchy from Baden -to Friberg have been already taken." AMSTERDAM. Sept. 14. Herr Von Waldow, president of the German food regulation board, speaking at a recep. tion to the leaders of German trades unions, said he regretted the lateness of the harvest and that there were no sharper means than were at present used to get more foodstuffs. " Bleatless Weeks te Coatlnne. The corn crop. Von Waldow said, was only 16 per cent Detter tnan mat any prospect of an Improvement In the food supply, but he was positive that it would not get worse. . - Herr Lenien, a member of the Reichs tag, who was one of the deputation, replying to Von Waldow, said that, in view . of the hopeless information he gave .regarding the food supply, the workers could not continue to work the present number of hours. WASHINGTON, Sept 14. Warning against a peace that will leave Ger many's military machine intact was voiced In the House late today by Rep. resentative Fess, of Ohio. Republican, who declared 'we must not stop until Peril Sees In Kindness. The kindness of the American heart is to be feared, lie faid, adding that his words were "wirhput criticism of anyone." "Four peace proposals have been made by the central powers in the last four weeks," said Mr. Fess. "Germany, I fear, seeing her horders about to be Invaded and to save herself from in ternal revolution, .will throw herself upon the mercy of ths allies. "My fear is that we, in our desire for fairness and out of kindness at heart, might be willing to accept a condition that win not reduce this autocracy." IJcqimmimi ill , STARTED YESTERDAY CAPACITY I jjj 9 If hubby's eyes are often green I . . (Although their hue HI 1 Be brown or blue), Come see "Green Eyes" upon the screen. 1 II II II II Of the 400,088 men employed in Amer ican shipyards nearly 80 per cent knew nothing about shipbuilding a year ago. Fine Diamonds Modestly Priced YOU are offered an opportunity to own a good diamond at a very modest outlay. 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