14 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 7, 1919. STATE OWNERSHIP - PLANS IRE AFOOT Measures Wouid Provide for Elevator and Stores. ALLIANCE BACKS MQVE Effort to .Unite Labor, Grange and Farmers' Cnion Will Be Made Next Month. operated for the benefit of the con sumers without profit. In all of these proposed measures the outstanding feature is state own ership and each measure is aimed to attract the support of the farmer and the working: man, the former because it is made to appear to him that he can gret more for his grain and pro duce and to the working" man because he is promised that the state will sell him his food necessities at cost. REBUILDING Providing the triple alliance can be formed by the State Federation of Labor, the State Grange and the Farmers- Union next month, a series of measures will be submitted to the people through the initiative which follow, to eoma extent, the Non-Partisan league programme in North Da kota and other states in that section. An effort to form the Triple Alli ance is being made by the State Fed eration of Labor and a general call to this end has been issued with the hope that there will be a response and the alliance brought into being in Salem in January. Persons who, have been in close touch with the movement, but not Identified with it. are of the opinion that the alliance will not be per fected as the cement is too weak. The three bodies have some ideas in com mon, but not enough to weld them Into one cohesive, political force. Labor Has Own Plana. In the event of failure to bring the Triple alliance into existence, the State Federation of Labor will do what it can on its own account in the way of advocating legislation through the initiative. One such measure which labor de files is the "right to work" bill, orig inally drafted by W. S. ITRen, and which Senator Walter M. Pierce was requested to introduce in the 1919 ses sion of the legislature. The bill draft as submitted to Senator Pierce did not meet with his entire approval, owing to some of the general details. Since then the measure has been worked over, and to a large extent has met with the approval of labor leaders. In the "right to work" bill, it is provided that in time of general un employment the state Khali provide work to any person who has been a rtsident of " Oregon for a period of five vears. The compensation suti pe.ted is the wage that would be equivalent to the purchasing power or $2 KO during the period from 1908 to 1913. . The character of employment to be provided would be clearing land, road work or similar construction or de velopment, to be diverted by a com mission Members of this commission are to be appointed by the governor and the members are to be suggested bv the State Federation of Labor, the State Grange, the Farmers' union, the tate Chamber of Commerce and the State Taxpayers" league. lVon-Partlnan Trail Seen. There is more likelihood of this measure being initiated than any of the others. In the general plan of proposed legislation are a group of measures which dovetail together and which, at first blush, look suspiciously like the propaganda of the Non-Partisan league. The triple alliance is consid ered bv some observers as nothing less than the Non-Partisan league camouflaged because of the sentiment against the league entertained by the general public in Oregon. Included In the group of measures which the Triple Alliance is expected to sponsor, if the alliance material izes, is a bill for a packing plant, state owned and state operated, for the benefit of consumers and pro ducers, without profit. The bill is designed to appeal to the stockmen of Oregon, but if the packing plant is to be operated without benefit to the producers, the stockmen are not likely to enthuse, particularly when they can hip their stock to privately owned plants and receive a profit. Warehouses and cold storage plants, state owned and state operated, is also one of the measures intended to bo initiated. The warehouses and cold storage plants would enable the farmers to hold their products until the market reached the point where a farmer would feel like selling. In addition to this advantage, it would cripple the commission dealers. through whom much of the produce is now marketed. State l'.levator Proponed. Also there Is a measure proposed for a state owned and state operated terminal grain elevator, which would give to the grain growers an advant age somewhat similar to that pro posed for the produce farmers in the state owned and operated cold storage plants and warehouses. The terminal grain warehouse would be located by a Btate commission appointed to per form that duty. The Portland Labor Council is backing a co-operative store. Fro- 0 vidlng the Triple Alliance is formed there is to be initiated a measure ex panding this idea into a state-wide institution. The intention of present iB to follow the plan of the Portland experiment and the Tri State Ter minal company, which is the name of the Farmers Union Co-operative store In its widest sense, this measure would provide something like the army store which the United States Quartermaster department is conduct ing in Portland and other towns now throughout the nation. Under the pro posed measure, the stores will be state-owned and state controlled and HENS DELAY ROAD WORK Blasting Cannot Be Done While Hens Are Setting. COTTAGE GROVE, Or., Dec. 6. (Special.) Road work, in the Cottage Grove country has to be regulated so as not to interfere with the chicken industry, -which brings so many thou sands of dollars of foreign money into the country. Heavy blasting in the vicinity where eggs have been set destroys the eggs and for that reason blasting has to be done at the seasons of the year when young chicks are not being produced. The county court plans to do con siderable work on the Delight-valley road. The large William Hands "& Son poultry plant is on this road and for that reason the court is arrang ing to do the blasting soon after the new year and to get it completed be fore spring eggs are set. GRESHAM AFTER AUTOISTS TASK OF NEAR-EAST BIG E Public Auditorium Waste of War Throughout! Syria Appalling. . ... I ARMENIANS HARDEST HITi Tonight S:1S Special Traffic Patrolman Is fcn- gaged by City Council. GRESHAM, Or., Dec. 6. (Special.) The Gresham citv council met in special session last night to take ac tion in regard to the violations of the ! town traffic regulations, offenders having kept Justice of the Peace John Brown working overtime lately. Deputy Sheriff M. M. Squire has been engaged, as traffic patrolman at a salary of J125 a month and will spend eight hours out of every 24 tagging. speeders. In addition to his titles of traffic officer and deputy sheriff he is also constable. He smokes Van Dykes. The council also considered nnen- ing a store for the sale of government goods. Councilman Thom was ap pointed to investigate the matter, as there seemed to be nothing available except tomatoes. GIRLS' SCHOOL PRAISED Washington Worker Here to Get Ideas for Clinic. SALEM, Or., Dec. 6. (Special.) Mrs. Fay Waters Fancy of Spokane, Wash., president or the women's In dustrial home and clinic of that state, passed today in Salem inspecting the training school for girls and other Oregon institutions. At the last session of the Washing ton legislature J 150,000 was appro priated for use of the home and clinic board, the duties of which are similar to those imposed on- the management of the Oregon training school for girls and the detention home for women in Portland. Mrs. Fancy pronounced the Oregon training school for girls-one of the most modern she had visited in the west. VERNON TROUBLE ENDS henool l'rnicipal Controversy Ap parently Settled at Meeting. vernon schools troubles over its principal are apparently at an end. The meeting of about 45 of the par ents Friday night at a private home apparently found means of remedying the trouble. The following statement was Issued: "In regard to the present contro versy in the Vernon district after the meeting held December 5, we desire to state that in our opinion the whole trouble is in a fair way toward set tlement. We desire no further pub licity in the matter." This is signed by J. B. Bakkenson. K. H. Cook. L. P. Keeler and E. Pedersen. Mr. Keeler declared the meeting was a quiet one but lasted until about 11:30 o'clock. CZAR'S SLAYER EXECUTED Death Penalty Reported Imposed by Soviet Authorities. COPENHAGEN. Dec. 6. The soviet authorities in Russia have executed the individual held immediately re sponsible for the slaying of former Emperor Nicholas and hie family at Yekaterinburg in June. 1918, says a Kovno dispatch to the Politiken. The bolshevik newspaper Pravda of Moscow, quoted as authority for this statement, reported that M. Jachon toff. a member of the Yekaterinburg soviet, has been condemned to death and executed at Perm for ordering the execution. Giants Buy Pitcher. SIOUX CITY. Iowa, Dec. S iVesl den George Andrews of the Sioux City baseball club tonight announced the sale of Pitcher "Zeek" Barnes to the New York Giants. The considera tion was $3000. Towns rtterly Wiped Out, Country Desolate Problem of Living Serious One for Millions. BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS. (CopyriKht by the New York Herald Com pany. Published by arrangement.) CONSTANTINOPLE. Any one of a thousand groups of migrating people in Turkey would. If seen in America. set the nation to Lalking. These; nomadic peoples survive dispersion, hunger, cold and raggedness that baffle the belief of Occidentals. With no shelter except an improvised tent and no bed except the ground, and so little food that it would arouse the S. P. C. A. if offered to animals, they have survived winter after winter in diminishing numbers, it is true, de spite tfce fact that babies are born to these homeless wanderers. Now they have entered upon another winter. This is not a "relief" article. I am merely chronicling the fact that groups of refugees from somewhere else may be found encamped outside of most of the cities ana towns in Turkey. They are not the local poor. They are strangers, driven out oy some one of several conditions some times Dolltical. sometimes racial. sometimes 'religious, sometimes eco nomic. In Macedonia I saw Greek refugees from Turkey; In Western Anatolia are a hundred thousand Turkish refugees from Macedonia. Armenians have been scattered throughout Eastern Asia Minor, Arabia and the Caucasus; Syrians have moved up and down their own land. No neoDle has a monopoly of misery; although the Armenians have been the worst sufferers. Towns Utterly Wiped Out. Usually reprisals or long smolder ing enmities have sent these people away from their homes into vaga bondage. Often the homes them selves have been destroyed the com pletes! destruction that I personally have witnessed was In the Caucasus and Kurdistan, where Syrian and Kurdish villages were utterly wiped out. Often, as in the case of the Armenians, massacre has accompanied deportation. Orientals are gregarious. Villagers hold together a thousand miles away from the old home. They encamp under the lee of ruined buildings, or in tents made from scraps of rags and carpets. Incredible toilsomeness alone could create these tents, some of which have no single piece of goods as much as two feet square. Of household supplies they have usually some sort of cooking dish; the family eat from a common pot. " , Children, unwashed and sometimes entirely naked, rummage for food like wild animals. They discover strange edibles. Of facilities for washing and sanitation there are none, and the camps I have visited have been an indescribable mess. Near Iaat Kacea Tuk. Impoverished as it Is, the near east faces a huge task of reparation and rehabilitation. It is not enough to send people back to their homes: the homes must be built anew for the people. This means not only houses and furnishings, but also looms and farming utensils and livestock. The American relief workers have done much in this respect, but the task, is herculean. In the matter of transportation, the British and French officials have been diligent and efficient. Any day along the Bagdad railway one may see car loads or trainloads of orphans and refugees being carried back to the Throughout Syria the devastation of war is still apparent. It will take millions of dollars to replace the rail way stations and roundhouses and re pair shops that have been destroyed by British airplanes. uring tne ingni of the Turks. Practically every sta tion from Damascus to Aleppo Is wreck. In this war-torn region much of the machinery of civilization will have to be repaired. Unknown to the outside world, be cause of the strict censorship, condi tions in and around Smyrna have been so unsettled that many of the ordi nary activities of the population have been suspended. The famous Smyrna fig crop was neglected last summer, because of the fighting, and" there will be no figs for export this year. In this Smyrna rfegion there has been especial distress among the Turkish refugees. They fled from the Greeks in Macedonia: now they and the vil lagers also have had to flee again from Greek troops, this time west ward toward Constantinople and Brousa. The inter-allied commission has dealt with -this situation and is removing the difficulty. America is disturbed over the prob lem of the high cost of living; per haps it will be wholesome to recall that there are a few millions of men. women and children in the near east whose acute problem is that of living at all throughout the winter. I m J WIIIMl'.i,tf..UUJHWU HUM UBWJWPHWBIP.' " f M if ,. tCxemxr 1 1 if fill v m&mm is r " s . 5 Phone ponian. your want ads to The Ore Main 7070. A 6095. Toadies se M. SlrheVs ad.pag- 5. -Ad v. 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Judge Catena next Saturday morning at 10 Read The Oreponian classified nri Sprinkle it with Xmas Tree Needles A Gift She Will Surely Appreciate Aeifousekeepers Friend. - Vacuum Cleaner Maltex fien-vy fiouf ework light fir back breaking broom or duster Wau A few moments with a Select Your Christmas Phonograph Now at The Wiley B. Allen Co. We have a complete and varied assortment of the highest types of talking machines in all sizes and all woods mahogany, walnut and oak. The advantages offered by the Wiley B. Allen Co.'s Talking machine department are many and include a superior service, both before and after purchase, an absolute guarantee of satisfaction, exchange privileges, etc. We offer you your choice of the leading makes displayed side by side for your convenient comparison. 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How to obtain a Regina $5.00 deposit Balance in monthly payments , Beaver Electric Co. 114 Grand Avenue IIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIII!llinillllllllllllllllllllllllll1IIIIIII 1 Frederick L. Rawson's 1 Lectures in Portland will be based upon the results of his in- . . vestigation, and will be a discussion of E vital modern problems in the light of Science, Philosophy and Religion, under E the general title of . "Lif e Understood" E Given at the Municipal Auditorium be- ginning Thursday, December 11, at 3 o'clock, and lasting six days. Lectures. 12 M., 3 P. M., 8 P. M. daily (except Sunday afternoon). - ADMISSION FREE E but Preferred Sittings on Lower Floor E win be held till 15 minutes before each E lecture ; transferable tickets for the en- E tire series $1.00. v Tickets for Preferred Sittings may be obtained at the Office of the Realization League 727-728 Corbett Bldg. E or at Sherman, Clay & Co. : V ! fcinriurf sWrri in r inhiiwfiffr rifflr" siimsv rt-iVrir iniiToW FREDERICK L. 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