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TIIE SUNDAY OR EG ONTAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 10, 1919. 19 i TRAINING INCREASES OUTPUT OF FACTORY Ohio Plant Demonstrates Val ue of New Department. WAGE INCREASE FOLLOWS "Report on. Success of Experiment Is Eye-Opener to Those Who Question Economy. WASHINGTON". From eight piece an hour to 55 pieces an hour. This is the increase made in the average production of the workers in an Ohio plant as a result of the Intro duction of & training department. And the wages of the operatives have risen correspondingly. Hera are practical, concrete results, not the theories of a scientist with an Imagination, and they confound the ekeptic who looks on scientific indus trial training as the plaything of the arm-chair economist. The works manager of a. factory in the Middle West had realized that things were not going right In the plant. The labor turnover was much too large; that is, too many workmen were coming and going. And the out put was too small; the factory wasn't turning out what he knew it ought to turn out. In January, 1916, the works manager made a survey. He found that the old fashioned method of training men in the shop wasn't working well. Pt re tarded the progress of the learners. The new workers acquired, along with knowledge of the work, the faults of the old employes who instructed them, and therefore turned out a good deal of scrap. The operatives seemed to be busy, but still they weren't getting much work done; for example, the average production of 31 women oper atives was only eight pieces an hour, whereas experiments showed that a fair production of the machines they operated would be 35 pieces an hour. The manager introduced a training department, the success of which is proclaimed in a report iust made by him to the superintendent of training of the Training and Dilution Service, United States Department of Labor. Labor Problem Solved. The labor and production problem ahs been solved, eays the manager. The labor turnover has been reduced to 10 per cent, as against the 200 to 300 per cent of many a manufacturer. As for production. experienced operatives, tome of those who used to turn out eight pieces an hour, now are showing an average of 55 pieces an hour. But it didn't take all this time to show a big improvement. After only four weeks of training the operatives were producing 25 pieces an hour. The following report from the De partment of Labor shows how the train ing was managed: A well-lighted room away from the factory was set aside for this training department, and therein were installed various types of machines, such as hand screw machines, millers, thread millers and small benches and fixtures necessary for assembling and inspec tion work upon which training was necessary. An expert mechanic and operator, with ability to get along well with women, was placed at the head of this training department. On account of the large number of women employed in this plant, some 5000, it was deemed advisable to place a women instructor in charge in all cases where women were to be trained. The employment department selects with care employes for the different classes of work and directs them to the training department. A standardized system of instruction is maintained. Each instructor handles from three to five girls at a time, de pending upon the nature of the work. The character of the metal, the kind of tools to be used, etc, are explained to each individual employe, and where possible machines are operated in order to illustrate each point After this preliminary instruction girls are permitted to start work them selves: Errors are pointed out in a kindly manner, and the two girls are encouraged to do their best. Operatives are trained to become skilled only on one particular job. General mechanical knowledge is later gained in the shop. The length of time required for train ing operatives varies with the class of work. It averages three days, but quite frequently training extends over 10 days. This training department can in less than 10 days turn out girls who are able to operate heavy hand turret lathes on work requiring great pre cision. They are now successfully working to .0003-inch limits. While in training they are paid 22 cents per hour. After reaching the fchop, on the bonus basis they are able to maKe o and S6 a day. Minimum ages are 18 years for inspectors and 21 years fnr machine operators. Careful records of progress and effi ciency are Kept, xne reasons why a girl is working less than 100, per cent efficient are investigated and an at tempt is made to eradicate the obsta cles found. Any girl working 100 per cent is never interfered with. Women Are Protected. This firm attributes a considerable f hare of their success and reduced labor turnover to the protection which they afford their women employes. The job boss' particular duty is to continue the training- in the shop of those operatives wno are last out of the training depart ment. He is not allowed to discharge any girl sent to him; therefore, he has rio personal power over her. The job boss is paid a bonus which depends upon tho output of th entire group of girls under his control, so that it is to his interest to help the newer and poorer operatives, rather than concen trate his attention upon the good ones. Neither is he permitted to drive his group of girls to a rate of production so high as to endanger their health or to make them nervous. The company im presses its policy towards its employes on tne loo Dosses, foremen and suuerin tendents by frequent meetings, where tne policy is explained. The protection thus afforded the girls gives them an incentive for quantity ..roaucnon, thus reducing labor turn over. Personal visits are made to ths training department by the works man eger every day or two in order that all employes may feel that the manage ment is behind them. As an example of increased produc tion, the following is cited: In an as sembly department employing over 2000 girls two sets of prominent production engineers reported that the best output possible from this assembly division was 15,000 complete fuses a day in two thifts. After thorough training the girls were able to reach an average production of 38,000 a day in one shift. The complete system includes the fol lowing: Operatives Are Trained. One A method of training the oper atives in the training department in order that they may reach a fair aver nge production on each operation. This "fair average production" should not le the highest possible rate of produc tion, as shown by a highly skilled oper ative, but should be a rate that the average operator can reach after be coming skilled' without undue stress or strain. Two A method of continuing the training in the shop through the Job bosses, and. in some cases, through spe cial shop Instructors. Three A system of organization that compels the subordinate and also the directing heads of departments to give attention to the poor, inefficient work ers and help them to Improve. This in cludes factory systems which will make close supervision of these conditions possible. Four A fair and generous system of Pay which will reward the employe for reaching higher rates of production. This should be based upon the rule that a woman should get as high a rate of pay as a roan for the same production. The system of pay should provide bo nuses that the. average operative can earn even when producing less than the number of pieces an hour shown as possible. Fie A system of supervision that will preent operatives overworking or straining themselves through attempt ing to work too hard in order to earn higher bonuses. Nerve Strain Relieved. a In addition to these methods there are, of course, hospital, nurses, doctor, restaurants and rest periods of 10 min utes each in both morning and after noon. This firm has found it useful to study operations, and where they think the nervous strain is somewhat great, they make it a point to change their operatives from one job to another at proper periods. This applies especially to inspection. Especial attention is paid to the health and spirit of em ployes. All these plans have resulted in a very large increase in output, a satisfied body of employes and an or ganization that will respond to any urgent request that may be made ofit. HOOVER TALKS OF PRICES Britons Told V. S. Farmers Are Not Profiteers. LONDON. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Herbert C Hoover, American Food Administrator, on his visit to England assured the people of this country that the high cost of food was not due to any profiteering by farmers in the United States. The statement he issued to the British press snows that the guaranteed price of grain to the American farmer not only is smaller than the guarantee to the British farmer but the American yield is 50 per cent less an acre. If the British shipping rate, Mr. Hoover said had increased only pro rata to the American farmer's increase, the cost of wheat in England would be about $23 a quarter of 4S0 pounds, instead of the present $26.79. "I keenly realize," Mr. Hoover said, "how hard the present price levels bear on all consumers and more especially upon the allied peoples, whose eco nomic wage plane is much below that in the United States. So far as the United States is concerned it is not a matter of profiteering, but is one of deep complexity of economic forces and provision for world necessities." He cited a table indicating the comparative levels before and after the e stablish ment of war controls by the United States Government of prices of wheat, hogs, maize, oats, sugar, steel and cop per, adding that "prices have been in variably the same to the allies as to our own consumers and our own Gov ernment." "The high price levels, however, cre ated before we entered the war," the statement continued, "caused our la bor and other food production costs to increase by leaps and bounds and to prevent any return during the war to 1914 levels." After discussing factors other than American conditions which . have in creased the cost of food to the allies, particularly overseas transport, he noted that feed prices paid to the Eng lish farmer were about 70 per cent higher than the prices realized by the American farmer' for oats and barley. "I, am in hopes," he said, "that the freeing of the seas from war losses may render it possible quickly to re duce eea charges to at least the same ratio of increase as the American farmer receives." Profiteering and speculation in pork have been removed in the States. Mr. Hoover told the British people, by Gov ernment control of the packing bouses. He added: "In a broad view I am certain that our agricultural margins aTe so low that a 10 per cent reduction In prices to our farmers would stifle our produc tion to the extinction of our conse quential export surpluses. This mar gin of 10 per cent is tne price mat our own consumers ana your consumers pay for stimulation or production, our American consumers rightfully but cheerfully feel that we are taking from them this extra 10 per cent in prices in order that we may take our part in carrying this world burden. As I view the world s food assets this moment I am convinced that the extra marginal surplus from the United States is of priceless value to the immensity of human life at stake between now and next harvest. DEVICE -SAVES MANY LIVES Inventor of Attachment to Warships Wins $150,000 Grant. LONDON. A device which for more than three years helped to protect British warships from German mines has won for its inventor. Lieutenant Charles D. Burney, of the British navy. the order of Companion of St. Michael and St. George and a grant of $150,000. Tho invention is said to have saved the lives of hundreds of sailors and pre vented the loss of many warships. It consists of a water-plane shaped like a torpedo, having a pair of large flat fins projecting on either side. It is towed overside by a wire rope in such a way that it runs from the ship's bows outward. The wire rope is Intended to Dick up the mooring ropes of mines and slide them along until they reach to the nose of the device, where a sharp saw is fixed inside a V-shaped slot. The saw cuts through the mooring rope and allows the mine to float free, where it can either be avoided or de 3troyed. The invention is known in the serv ice as the "P. V.," or "paravane." PICTURE OF CHRIST WINS Officials Grant Release to Convict for Attractvle Drawing. SAN BERNARDINO, Cal. When Ra mon Garcia, one armed Mexican rob ber, drew a picture of Christ on the cross on the walls of the county jail here, he started the machinery which ultimately brought his - release from San Quentin prison, to which he was sentenced. Since March, 1917, when Garcia first sketched the likeness, hundreds of pris oners have stood before It in reverence, according to the jailers. The fame of the picture spread and caused five judges of the State Supreme Court and the board of pardons to join with Judges H. T. Dewhirst and J. W. Cur tis and District Attorney T. W, -Duckworth in urging a pardon for Garcia. Ah the result of the concerted an- peal for clemency for tire imprisoned man. Governor William D. Stephens, two days before Christmas, commuted Garcia's sentence. Yukon Ice Two .Feet Thick. FORT YUKON, Alaska. Ice in the Yukon River here is two feet thick in places. Already the thermomters have registered as low as 35 degrees below. The Isle of Pines promises to become an important producer of Iron, copper. and other ores, as 11 mines have been located. WHEAT ITALY'S MOST T Grain Grown in Almost Every Part of Country. YEARLY ACREAGE IS LARGE Nation Raises About Two-Thirds of Its Cereal Requirements, Bal ance Being Imported. CHICAGO. Wheat Is ths most Im portant and most extensively cultivated cereal in Italy, where it has been grown since times Immemorial, some authori ties even maintaining that its original habitat was Sicily, while others contend it to be the Jordan Valley. Evidence this of the traditional importance of that island as a wheat-growing dis trict, whence it derived in antiquity the qualification of the "granary of Rome." Wheat is grown almost everywhere in Italy, except at considerable alti tudes, where it is more advantageously replaced by rye. It is raised success fully in the plains of Lorobardy, called by Voltaire "the promised land for wheat," as well as in the fertile alluvial clays of ths Aemillan and Venetian provinces. In the rich soils of the Tus can Maremma and Latial lowlands, as in the celebrated wheat lands of the Apulian Tavoliere, centering around Foggia. It does equally well In the classic fields of Terra dl Lavoro as In the Lusanian plains, in the bottom lands of the Calabrian valleys as in the productive Sicilian plains of Catania and Terranuova. Perhaps the most notable example of intensive wheat culture in Italy is of fered by the Fucino basin in the Roman province, formerly the lake of like name, drained by the late Prince Tor- lonia, and today one huge, continuous wheat field, noted for the unsurpassed quality of Its product, the famous Fu- cense wheat, like the no less celebrated Rieti. produced nearby, highly resistant to rust and not liable to lodge. Of the 6a, 995, 000 acres, representing the whole land area of Italy, 32,855,000, more than 48 per cent, were classified In 1916 as tillable. Of these 17,890,000 acres represented the area occupied by cerealicuture and 11,815,750 the wheat area, from which were harvested 17t, 321,480 bushels, with a yield of 16 bush els per acre, against 12.2 in the United States. Wheat represents 55.6 per cent of the whole cereal production of Italy and a value of 1.500.000.000 lire. Year 1916 may be taken, notwithstanding the war. as representative of average conditions for this crop in Italy. An exception ally good year was 1913. with a wheat area of 11,857.000 acres, a crop of 214, 518,840 bushels and a yield per acre'of 18.50 bushels. Although a year of gen erally short crops, 1917 is more truly representative of a yield under war conditions (scarcity of labor, of fertil izers, etc), when 139,834.340 bushels were harvested from 10,680,20 acres. averaging 13.64 bushels per acre. Italians are essentially a breat-eat- ing people. Bread and macaroni, an other wheat product, represent conser vatively for the great majority of the Italian people more than half of their nourishment. They use meat sparing ly, considered as "companatlca" and not as the principal fare. The yearly per capita consumption of meat in Italy averaged before the war 35 pounds, which the war has reduced to only 13 pounds. This explains why the annual con sumption per capita of wheat in Italy is 6.23 bushels, against 5.3 in the United States. The bread, ration in Italy un der the necessities of war and aside of wheat substitutes in the quality was first reduced to 12 ounces per capita, followed by a further reduction to eight ounces In 1918, a rather scanty allowance, especially for men engaged in laborious work. Italy produces only about two-thirds of her needs In wheat, the balance be ing supplied from abroad, chiefly from the United States, which furnished, in 1917, 24.549,217 bushels; in 1916. 47.933.- 099 bushels, and in 1915. 69.163.629 bushels, out of a total importation re spectively of 70.316.649. 67.144,411 and 82.654,015. The United States has re placed Russia, which supplied, before the war. most of the wheat to Italy, The yield per acre varied considera bly, due chiefly to climatic conditions. It is highest In the Po Valley, where rainfall Is plentiful and 25 bushels per acre are easily secured. It is lowest In the southern and Insular tablelands and the elevation of the Apennines where as low as 10 bushels per acre are sometimes harvested, owing to drouth. However the south, and espe cially the Apulian Tavoliere and Sicily, often yield a better quality, especially suited to the manufacture of macaroni requiring hard wheat, with a high glu ten content. In comparison with the average uni tary yield of England and Belgium, re spectively of 33 and 87 bushels, the average 18 bushels of Italy, if excusa ble to a certain extent owing to the lack of rainfall and to the extensive character of agriculture in the south ern latifundia (large estates), show at the Earns time the necessity of Intensi fication and improvement in cultural methods, to which the government is directing - its efforts. SECRET SERVICE IN WA.R German Spies Jn Great Britain Are Tracked Down. LONDON. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Secrets of the war work of the British secret service now revealed show that 'German spies or agents of the German government were making active preparations, even before the beginning of hostilities, to use the Isle of Wight as a landing place for German forces and for the bombardment of Portsmouth. One of the first precautions taken in August. 1914, was to place close restrictions on persons trying to land upon or leave the Island. From Harwich to Hamp shire, along the south and southeast coasts of England, nests of German spies and agents were engaged in des perate missions in the early days of the war. One of the urgent tasks of the British secret service was .to stamp out the operations of these men. For a long timo the authorities were unable to discover the origin of Morse signals that were being flashed out to German submarines from the sea front at Pevensey. Special watch was kept on a certain cottage, and, al though no lights were shown, th. patient observers finally solved the mystery. They learned that after dusk several persons near an upper win dow manipulated what appeared to be the dial of an ordinary clock. A raid on the cottage disclosed that the clock dial was fitted with a dark prism By focusing the prism on the strong beadlight of a fishing smack anchored off shore it was possible to send forth signal flashes. These flashes were not visible to a person standing on the beach, but out - in the channel they could be read easily. Between the coast and Tunbridge Wells, which was the headquarters of a British army corps, a band of gypsies mad ln rounds or villages uncus IMPORTANT PRODUC turbed until an officer made th sig nificant discovery that none of them could converse in Romany, the gypsy tongue. Investigation by secret serv ice men proved conclusively that the masqueraders. while pretending to trade with the country folk and tell fortunes secured important Information as to the movements of troops in the southern command. Prompt and dras tia action followed these revelations. At the beginning of the war numer ous instances came to llgtil of aliens attempting to enlist under false pre tenses. If the recruiting officers were dissatisfied with a man's appearance or accent he was taken aside and the oath was administered to him sepa rately. It is practically impossible for a foreigner to repeat the unusual phrasing of the other without betraying his origin, and in that way many dan gerous spies were captured. About Christmas, 1914. a foreign diplomat In London received an anony mous gift of pate de foie gras. Sus picion was aroused and analysis showed the presence of a deadly poison. Secret service agents were" called in and they proceeded to work on the theory that th pat da foie graa had come from one of three aliens then under surveillance. Accordingly, to each of them was sent, annonymously a can of the delicacy exactly similar in appearance to the can containing the poisoned stuff. The landlady of one of the trio opened and served it for his supper and it was not until late In the even ing that she told him that the can had been addressed to him. Thinking that ha had eaten bis own poison, the man actually became 111. IJe was promptly arrested. SOLDIERS TO HAVE WORK New Hampshire Organizations Pre pared to Give Aid. ALBUQUERQUE. N. M. When New Mexico's sons return from the battle field, they will find that their state can give a good account of its stew ardship during their absence. For a place will be ready for them in the In dustrial life of the commonwealth. Virtually all patriotlo and economic agencies operating in the state, includ ing the United States Department of Agriculture, the tat Council of De fense, the Red Cross, the Young Men's Christian Association and the United States Employment Service, at a meet ing recently held in this city, organ ized themselves Into a State Bureau for the Care of Returned Soldiers, or state labor exchange. Tho State Council of Defense already has formed community councils in 14 of the 28 counties of the state, to pro mote employment opportunities and to furnish legal advice when called upon to do so by returned soldiers. Th community labor board of Eddy County ts a pioneer along this line, having recently completed a thorough survey of the county with a view to ascertain ing the present available openings for labor of all kinds. The farm bureaus of the New Mexico College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts are doing valuable work along the lines of developing the agricultural resources of the state In order to pro vide work, for soldiers. A single opera tion of th Farm Bureau in San Juan County netted ths members $40,000. In the same county, the bureau brought in $21,000 worth of registered cattle, special seeds and high-grade poultry. In Dona Ana County, the bureau is per forming th work of a half agricul tural and cattle-raising association. In Eddy County, the Farm Bureau has had a cash value of $32,000 a year. In San Miguel County, savings of over $100,000 have been effected. The op erations conducted by the Union Coun ty Farm Bureau are valued at nearly $200,000. Roadbuildlng is another activity In which extensive reconstruction plans are being msde. GULF BUILDING CONTINUES Signing of Armistice Falls to Stop Ship Construction. BEAUMONT, Tax. Shipbuilding on the Gulf coast is booming just as it was before the armistice was signed. Th number of workers has not been re duced. Government contracts held by th four yards in Beaumont and two in Orange, Tex., for vessels for which the Keei naa not yet oeen iaia, were a Dan doned, but there were about 40 ships in th two ports In various stages of completion and work on thm is con tinuing. The ending of the war had no effect whatever on one yard at Or ange which is building ships for the Italian government. Contracts for 16 ships by the South m Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Com pany at Orange were cancelled, but they were quickly renewed and the ships are now to be completed. Ship builders say if not another vessel were started at Beaumont and Orange, the yards would be kept busy for a year on present contracts. Nothing official has been heard here concerning the announcement that work on vessels' on which less than $200,000 had been expended would not be completed. Work on all hulls is proceeding. Nearly 4500 men are en gaged in shipbuilding here and an equal number in Orange. OLD PALACE TO DISAPPEAR Modern Structure Will Replace Young Residence in Salt Lake. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Jan. 14 Amelia Palace, pretentious residence built for Brighain Young for Amelia Folsom Young, reputed "favorite wife' of the pioneer Mormon leader, here. Is to be razed and upon the lot It now occupies will be erected a modern structure. Announcement to this effect has been made by J. T. Keith, archi tect for Mrs. Edwin M. Holmes, owner of th property, who is known as Utah's "Silver Queen." Since the United States entered th war the mansion has been used as Red Cross headquarters through the kind ness of Mrs. Holmes. Amelia Palace was known for year as uarao House. it is said one o the workmen was responsible for th name. It being du to an Italian man eion which had that name. The man sion was planned and buiiaing com menced by Brigham Young In 18 PAIN RIGHT OUT Don't Suffer! Relief Comes the Moment You Rub With "St. Jacobs Liniment." What's rheumatism? Pain only. Stop drugging! Not on case (n fifty requires internal treatment. Rub th misery right away! Apply soothing, penetrating "St. Jacobs Liniment" di rectly upon the "tender spot" and relief comes instantly. "St. Jacobs Liniment" Is a harmless rheumatism and sciatica relief which never disappoints and can not burn or discolor the skin. Limber up! Get a small- trial bottl from your druggist, and in lust a mo ment you'll be free from rheumatic and sciatica pain, soreness, stiffness and swelling. Don't suffer! "St. Jacobs Lin iment" has relieved millions of rheu matism sufferers in the last half cen tury, and is Just as good tor sciatica, neuralgia, lumbago, backache, sprains and swellings. Adv. and during 1877 a portion was complet ed and occupied bv Mrs. Amelia Fol som Young. The Mormon Church au thorities loo over the property and completed it upon the death of the pioneer leader. It was occupied for a time by President John Taylor. In 1S85 the property was seized by th. United States authorities, later re stored to the church, and again, in 1891, taken over by the Government, together with other church property which had been seized. During the time the Government held it. the man sion was, for a time, used as an in stitute for addicts of the liquor habit. Late in 1893 the property was returned to th Mormon Church, th church au thorities having conformed to certain Federal requirements. Shortly there after the house was sold to Mr. Holmes. Prior to this sale the house was occupied by Colonel Isaac Tram bo, who was a candidate for the Unit ed States Senat In 1898. Amelia Palace has been one of th historic places pointed out to tourists who visited Salt Lake City. It is Just across th street from the famous Bee hiv and Lion houses, and the Eagle Dyspepsia Spoils Beauty Makes the Dark Rings Around Eyes, Caves in the Cheeks and Ruins the Complexion How to Get Rid of Dyspepsia. "Take My Advice and tne smart's U). pcpsla Tablets If Yog Want a Pretty Skin." Digestive troubles ruin th complex Ion. The eour. fermented, gassy con tents poison the blood, draw the cor ners of the mouth, rob you of sleep, give the lace that hungry, haggard, mournful expression in the morning and you are tired all day. It Is not what you eat but th fault of diges tion that hurts. Kat anything you like and let Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets di gest your food, tone your stomach, sup ply your blood with nourishment, then food looks, a healthy appearance and right eyes will soon return. Oft a 50-cent box of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab lets at any drug store. They are real health makers. LADIES! DARKEN YOUR GRAY HAIR Use Grandma's Sage Tea and Sulphur Recipe and Nobody Will Know. The use of Sage and Sulphur for r storing faded, gray hair to its natural color dates back to grandmother's time. She used it to keep her hair beautifully dark, glossy and attractive. Whenever her hair took on that dull. faded or Btreaked appearance this sim pie mixture was applied with wonder ful effect. But brewing at horn Is mussy and out-of-date. Nowadays, by asking at any drug store for a bottle of "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound,' you will get this famous old prepara tion. improved by th addition of other Ingredients, which can be depended upon to restore natural color and beau ty to the hair. A weU-known downtown druggist says It darkens the hair so naturally and evenly that nobody can tell It has been applied. xou simply dampen sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through - your hair, taking on strand at a time. By morning th gray hair disappears, and after another ap plication or two it becomes beautifully oars, anu giossy.-na.av. ' BIG FURNITURE ALES EN LANDLORD SAYS-Get Out Grand Rapids Furniture Co., Forced to Sell Their Great Mam moth Stock of Furniture To gether With the Balance of Stock of Morgan Furniture Co. for What It Will Bring. GrandRapids Furniture Co. HARRY I. GREENE, MANAGER SELLING TWO BIG STOCKS FURNITURE AT 390 EAST MORRISON STREET Union and Grand Avenues Gate, notable relics Briaham Young. of the days of !F KIDNEYS ACT TAKE SALTS Says Backache Is Sign You Have Been Eating Too Much Meat. When you wak up with backach and dull misery in th kidney region it generally means you have been eating too much meat, says a well-known authority. Meat forma urlo acid which overworks th kidneys In their effort to filter it from the blood and they become sort of paralysed and loggy. When your kidneys gat sluggish and clog you must relieve them, like you relieve your bowels; removing all the body's urinous waste, els you have backache, sick headache, dizzy spells; your stomach sours, tongue is coated, and when th weather Is bad you hav rheumatic twinges. Th urine is cloudy, full of sediment, channels often get ore. water scalds' and you sr obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night. Either consult a good, reliable phy sician at once or get from your phar macist about four ounces of J ad Salts; take a tablespoonf ul in a glass of wa ter befor breakfast for a few day and your kidneys will then act fin. This famous salts is made from th ctd of grapes and lemon Juice, com bined with lithia, and has bean used for generations to clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize acids in the urin so It no longer Ir ritates, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad baits is a lit eavtr for regular meat eaters. It is inexpensive, cannot injur and makes r delightful, effer vescent lithia water drink. Adv. An Attack of Influenza Often Leaves Kidneys in Weakened Condition Doctors in all parts of th country hav ban kept busy with th epidemic of influenza which has visited so many homes. The symptoms of this disease ar very distressing and leave th system in a run-down condition. Almost every victim complains of lame back and urinary troubles which should not be neglected, as these danger signals often lead to dangerous kidney troubles. Druggists report a large sale on Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, which so many people say soon heals and strengthens the kidneys after an attack of grip. Swamp-Root, being an herbal compound. has a gentle healing effect on the kid neys, which Is almost immediately no ticed In most cases by those who try it. Dr. Kilmer & Co., Kinghamton, N. Y-, offer to send a sample size bottl of hwaiup-Root. on receipt of ten cents, to every sufferer who requests it. A trial will convince anyone who may l in need of It. Regular medium and large size bottles, for sale at all druggists, lie sure to mention this paper. Adv. HAVE COLOR IN CHEEKS Be Better Looking Take Olive Tablets If your skin la yellow complexion pallid tongue coated appetite poor you have a bad taste in your mouth a lazy, no-good feeling you should take Ulive Tablets. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets substitute for calomel were prepared by Dr. Ed wards after 17 years of study with his patients. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets are a purely vegetable compound mixed with olive oil. You will know them by their olive color. To have a clear, pink skin, bright eyes, no pimples, a feeling of buoyancy Like childhood days you must get at the cause. Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets act on the liver and bowels like calomel yet have no dangerous after effects. They start the bile and overcome consti pation. That's why millions of boxes are sold annually at 10c and 25c per box. All druggists. Take one or two nightly and note tho pleasing results. BAD Get the Habit of Drinking Hot Water Before Breakfast Say wo can't look or feel right vrfth tho system full of poisons. Millions of folks bath Internally now Instead of loading their system with drugs. -What's an Inside bath?" you say. WU. it Is guaranteed to perform " miracles if you could believe these hot water enthusiasts. " " There are vast numbers of men and ." women who. immediately upon a rising V In th morning, drink a glass of ral -hot water with a teaspoonful of lime- stone pnospnate in It. This Is a very excallrut health measure. It is in tended to flush th stomach, liver, kid neys and the thirty feat of intestines of -the previous day's waste, sour bile and -indigestible material left over in th . body, which If not eliminated every day becomes food for th millions o-. bacteria which infest the bowels, th -quirk result is poisons and toxins, which are then absorbed into the blood, causing headache, bilious sttacks. f aul -breath, bad taste, colds, stomach trou- ble, kidney misery, sleeplessness. Im pure blood and all sorts of ailments. - - People who feel sood on day and. badly the next, but who simply can. not get feeling right, ar urged to obtain a quarter pound of limestone, phosphate at th drug store. This will! cost very little, but is sufficient to . mak anyone a real crank on th sub ject of internal sanitation. Adv. ADVISES TONIC Medicine and Nourishing Food . for Grippe Convalescents. Pure Milk Best Nourishment While It Is Believed That; Three-Grain Cadomene Tab lets Is Tonic Required Gives Reasons. Th victims of colds and la gripp ' should abstain from excesses of ail kinds whil convalescent. Even ex cessive eating of injudicious foods is not without its danger. Pure milk drunk slowly Is the most nourishing food known. Take it freely. Weakness, languor, aches and pain's, . tremors and nervousness assail th con. . valescent. Appetit is fickle, the diges tion faulty, bowels costive and th vl- tiin wonders if real health will aver return. A good, reliable tonic medicine, com- -posed of lron-peptonat. gentian, da--miana, Calisaya, palmetto root, nux vomica and phosphide, will b found at drug stores under the name of three-' grain Cadomana Tablets, to ba taken as . per directions to Improve the vital tune lions, and hasten the complete recov ery to health and strength. Elderly -paopli ar particularly requested to . adopt this fin tonic treatment before another attack of disease assails them. Every package Is guaranteed to pleas -th purchaser or money refunded. Adv. France's Sons Win Undying Glory No other nation has spilled Its blood ' more freely that democracy might live " than has France. Her sons have sacri ficed more of blood and of treasure than those of any other nation. Tho " world owes Kranre a debt of gratltudT not only for thlsv but for a perfect rm- edy for stomach, liver and intestinal disorders which. It ts said, has ssved thousands of lives the world over. Tho '. Ingredients are Imported and placed on ; sal In America under the nam of Mayr's Wonderful Remedy by Oeo. H. ' Mayr. for years a leading Chicago '. chemist. It is a simple, harmless prep- ; aration that removes th catarrhal mu- -cus from th Intestinal tract and allays th inflammation which causes prac- t tically all stomach, liver and Intestinal ; ailments. Including appendicitis. One ; doae will convince or money refunded. Druggists everywhere. Adv. . : Phone your want ads to Thj Oreg-o-. " nian. Main 7070. A 609S. I