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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
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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.
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t.aiitonboiil Memorial Services Will
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Members of tlie bench and bar in
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Circuit Judge KavanauKh has been
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memorial services to be held for the
late Judge Calvin U. Gantenbein in
the courtroom of Presiding . Judge
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