THE SUiXDAY OREGO.MAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 30, J921
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PRE-WAR BASiSHELD
KEY TO PROSPERITY
Cut Profits to Bone, Is Advice
of Alexander.
ALL ASKED TO ASSIST
which will be held in Des Moines, la.,
June 14, 15. 16.
The Afifi temple's band and patrol
of Tacoma have been designated as
the official escort of the imperial po
tentate and will be quartered in the
same hotel aa the official Shrine
headquarters. Many bands and pa
trols of the northwest and the Pa
cific coast will also join ir the Des
Moines excursion.
The Chicago. Milwaukee &. St. Paul
has been chosen as the road, and ar
rangements are being; made now for
the excursion. A fare lower than
has ever been granted heretofore will
be piven the Shriners on this special
train, Mr. Garretson believes. Port
land Shriners will join Mr. Garretson
hure for the trip to Den Moines.
liter j 0110 From Wage-Earner to
Consumer Must Co-operate in
Ktturn to .Normal.
EV 1IAHDEX COLFAX.
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AVASHlNtlTON". Jan. 29. (Special.)
The dollar must be brought up to
par in American markets to approx
imate the purchasing power of the
pre-war period, and everyone pro
ducer, middleman, retailer and wage
earner must help by selling his
wares at a smaller profit than here
tofore. Until this is done, in the
opinion of Secretary of Commerce
Alexander, prosperity will not be re
ftorcd to a permanent plane.
The producer miift help, Secretary
Alexander said, by contenting him
silf with smaller profit, or if neces
sary with none -at all during the
next few months. The doctrine ap
plies equally to the joh ber and the
retailer. The wage-earner must be
content to accept a lower wage. The
railroads must lower their rassenger
and freight rates.
Alexander ll Informed.
Secretary Alexander Is perhaps the
best informed man in America on our
industrial situation. He receives re
ports almost daily from all sections
of the country. His agents have their
fitiKcrs continually on the pulse of
business. His foreign representatives,
scattered under every sun, keep him
equally abreast of developments In
commerce and industry abroad.
Suppose, I asked, a thousand earnest
Americans representing every activ
ity 'of industry, commerce and busi
ness should come to you and ask you
what they should do to speed reviv
ing prosperity what would you tell
them?
"I should tell them," said Secretary
Alexander. "to co-operate with one
another. We are all together in the
tame boat. We must pull the oars
together if we are going to get any
where.' What would you advise specific
ally'.'" Pre-war Prloca I'rRed.
"We must get back to something
like a return to pre-war prices. All
of us must help the process. The
consumer must be content with less
profit. So must the wholesaler and
retailer. So must labor. Producer,
jobber and retailer must quit pass
ing the buck, blaming each other for
high prices. The railroads in time
must reduce their passenger fares
and their freight rates. The work
ing man must do his part by accept
ing lower wages in the general read
just mont.
"This can't be accomplished in
day, of course. The process will have
to bo somewhat gradual, but the
point I make is that everybody must
help it along. Cheaper prices will not
come if the producer insists on reap
ing the profit he obtained during the
period of industrial inflation. He
must also reduce his cost of pro
duction and in that labor must assist
by accepting a lower wage. The man
who sells at wholesale must be-con-teiit
now with a pmall profit. The
retail merchant must mark his goods
at a figure that means much less
profit to him than he got a year or
two years ago.
Non-Profit Plan Advised.
"Better run our mills, our factories,
our stores at no profit at all for a
month or two or three and bring
down the hisili cost of living quickiy
Titan to clo.-e them up and insist on
high profits."
"The basis of all our prosperity."
Secretary Alexander continued, "is
the ground. Farm products now are
celling at prices but little higher than
they were before the war. If the
fanner could take the money he thus
receives and buy with it what he
could before the war we would be
today a prosperous and busy nation.
P.IU he can't do it. While farm
prices have dropped, other prices re
main at high levels. They must come
eiown.
"1'riceS generally are not so high
today as they were a year ago. but
comparison with last year's prices is
not a fair standard. We must go
back farther than that. "We must
compare prices today with what they
were before the war. Take the price
of shingles, for instance; I was told
the other day that high-grade shin
gles were selling at 17.70 a hundred.
The man who told me said it was a
reduction from $10. But it was not
a real reduction, for a little more
than five years ago shingles were
telling for $5.10.
Bate Cut Held Needed.
"Freight rates are up, but when
the dollar Is worth nearer 100 cents
. than now they will have to come
ic4vn. Their coming down will help
to restore the dollar to its normal
value. People are not traveling on
passenger trains as they used to be
fore the fares were so much higher.
The government has found that it can
do more business by charging 2 cents
than by charging 3. and the railroads
will find they can do more busi
ness by charging the public less to
ride on their trains than they are now
doing.
"Labor cannot escape the process.
V.en who earn $S a day when the dol
lar is worth only 50 cents are no bet
ter off than the men who received $4
a nay when the dollar would buy 1U0
cents' worth of goods.
"1 understand that in many indus
tries, such as coal mining, the pres
ent wage scale is based on a contract
that has tome time yet to run. Such
contracts must be lived up to, of
course, but when the time comes to
renew them the revision must be
downward if we are to bring back
live dollar to par in our own markets.
The immediate outlook is good.
Money is easier, industry is showing
signs of revival and there is much
work ahead for us all. But we must
all do our share to bring about a re
turn of real prosperity. If some of
ns hold back, we will delay the proc
ess. Y.ach one of us must be content
to make a sr aller profit on what we
have to sell, whether it be goods,
werviccs or a day's work."
MAY PETERSON TO SING
CONCERT STAR TO BE WITH
SY-MPHOXY ORCHESTRA.
R IDAHO
EDUCATIONAL BILL
Measure Tries to Abolish
Commissioner's Office.
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Concert Xext Wednesday Xiglit Will
Be Fourth in Series; Soloist
Tasses "Superb Test."
May Peterson, famous concert star,
will appear as soloist with the Port
land Symphony orchestra at the
Hellig theater Wednesday night. Miss
Peterson has passed the "superb test
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Handwriting on Wall, However,
Points to Defeat When Rep
resentatives Cast Vote.
May Prterflon, concert star, who
will apprnr with Mymphony
orehCMtra here IVednenduy.
given by experts, that of comparison
with Caruso.
"She is a splendid artist, artistical
ly and vocaily," wrote a New York
critic after her appearance with
Caruso at the Metropolitan Opera
house. "She sang her aria and duet
with Mr. Caru-so better than it has
been done in years Not many voices
stand out well In contrast with that
of Mr. Caruso, but the duet was all
to her credit."
Miss Peterson was born in a small
town in Wisconsin. She was the
daughter of a clergyman and one of
nine children. After her fathers
death she helped support the family
with her music. As a child she had
learned to sing and play the phuio
and was a member of the choir in her
father's church and organist at times.
Later she earned an opportunity to
go to Europe, where she studied tire
lessly. She lived in a tiny room in
Paris, the city in which she later
made her debut at the Opera Comique.
The concert Wednesday night here
wiil he the fourth in the series which
the Portland Symphony orchestra is
giving this season. Carl Denton will
direct the orchestra.
RULER TO HAVE SPECIAL
One Train Aili Carry Imperial
Potentate and Party.
TACOMA. Wish, Jan. 29 ((Spe
cial.) Arrangements have been made
by Ellis Lewis' Garretson, Tacoma,
imperial potentate, for an official
Shrine train to carry himself and
pi'ficials to the ncit imperial council
KEARSARGE HERO DEAD
Friend of Colonel Roosevelt Dies
in Owyliee, Idaho.
BOISK, Idaho. Jan. 29. (Special.)
"Dad" Allen, said to be the last sur
vivor of the battle between the Kear
sarge and the Alabama off the coast
of France, has joined his shipmates
on the other sloe. Allen aiea mis
week at the little station of Owyhee,
on the Oregon Short Line railroad.
about 20 miles' south of this city.
He was employed in the railroad
pump house at that place.
When the late Colonel Roosevelt
passed through Idaho he always
stopped off at the station of Owyhee
to greet "Dad. In the battle Allen
saved the. life of a relative of Colonel
Koosevelt.
RAIL MEETING IS SECRET
Exeeutives Considering Pay and
Working Conditions of Roads.
CHICAGO, Jan. 29. No announce
ment was forthcoming Friday from
the executive meeting of the labor
committee of the American Associa
tion of Railway Executives, which is
considering rates of pay and working
conditions on its member roads.
Officers of the largest roads in the
ccuntry were closeted with the com
mittee today in a six-hour session.
S. & H. green
Holmaa Fuel Co.
Adv.
stamps for cash.
Main 35S. 660-SL
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BOISE. Idaho, Jan. 29. (Special.)
Valiant efforts of the chairman of the
house committee on education, vv.
Scott Hall of Oneida, to obtain In
dorsement of the committee of the
whole house for his bill to abolish the
office of state commissioner of edu
cation, brought out today what seems
to be a certain conviction that the
measure will be killed.
Twice reported from the educational
committee, the bill was on general
orders for amendment. It was reached
only at the noon hour, and no action
was taken, the house adjourning be
fore general discussion was finished.
But it was this discussion which
evoked the handwriting on the wall.
Chairman Hall made a strong and
eloquent speech supporting the . bill's
two provisions; namely, that the sal
aries of heads of state educational in
stitutions should be fixed by the legis
lature, and that the appointive office
of commissioner of education should
cease to exist.
People Give Mandate.
He declared that the people had
given a definite msndate rcgaraing
the latter when they voted against
the abolishment of the office of super
intendent of public instruction in the
face of the assertion that there was
duplication in the two offices. He
read a telegram from the Lnlted
States commissioner of education
stating that this duplication existed
in no other state save Wyoming.
He pronounced the board of educa
tion as it is established in Idaho the
most autocratic and independent of
any In the United States and yet
maintained that the board was ruled
by the commissioner, whom they could
employ by a majority vote, but could
discharge only by a two-thirds' vote.
Representative Hugo of Latah at
the conclusion of Mr. Hall's forceful
address, declared the bill had found
Its way into committee of the whole
on a subterfuge and did not deserve
long consideration. Representative
Young of Ada briefly remarked that
he would favor "quick disposal" of it.
No others look the floor for or against
the bill, nor were any amenamenis
submitted, but it will remain on gen
eral orders until Monday.
Amendment Sot Likely.
It was learned after adjournment.
from members of the house, who have
followed the bill Into and out of the
education committee's conferences.
that there is little probability of
amendment. The measure will receive
short shift on final consideration.
Five minor house bills were passed
by the house, among them being th
hotel inspection and cold-storage egg
bills of the public health committee
and the one requiring mining cor
porations to report to the state mine
inspector, instead of to the commis
sioner of commerce and industry.
Eleven new bills were introduced.
One of them is assured of passing the
lower house from the moment of its
submission, as the names of 31 out of
the 64 members appear upon it as
sponsors. This is house bill No. 128.
providing that school district special
levies shall be limited to 8 mills in
stead of the 10 mills now allowed, but
that the county general school tax
may be raised from $15 to J30 per
capita of school census.
This, the introducers declare, will
remedy the ills of districts rich in
children, but impoverished in funds
Another measure introduced would
empower independent school districts
to levy emergency taxes in 1921 and
1923 in excess of the now statutory
limit.
Treaaurera May Be Elected.
Other bills which were introduced
include proposals to make treasurers
of second class cities elective instead
of appointive; to place a civil en
gineer on the public utilities commis
sion; to make auto repair men liable
for three times the amount of any
damage they may do to a car through
inefficient or careless repair work
and to place a penalty of fine or jail
sentence or both on anyone who in
terferes with irrigation ditches or
gates after they are adjusted by spe
cial deputies.
A test vote on the strength of the
Witty tax relief measure was blocked
today by Senator Whitcomb, who
moved as a substitute motion that the
bill be reported out of committee of
the whole without recommendatidn.
Senator McMurray had previously
moved that the committee arise and
report the. bill with the recommenda
tion that it do pass. Senator Whit-
ccmb and others said they wished to
study over a substitute for section
one and Senator Witty, the author
and others voted for the substitute
motion that the bill be reported out
without recommendation.
McKlnlcy la Euloa;feed.
An Impressive feature of the morn
ing session was the elougizing of
President McKinley to commemorate
his 78th birthday. A large picture of
the martyred, president, draped with
flags, stood near the president's desk
County auditors of Idaho effected
a permanent organization today in
the rooms of the Boise chamber of
commerce. Byron E. Hyatt, Boise, was
elected president of the new county
DAxcrc
703 Grieving for You Fox Trot
My Wonder Girl Fox Trot
By I'aul Whitman pnd His
Ambassador Orchestra.
1SGU0 Whispering Fox Trot
The Japanese Sandman
Fox Trot
By Taul Whitman and His
Ambassador Orchestra.
1S67S Lovo Nest Medley Fox Trot
By Joseph C. Smith's
Orchestra.
1S702 My Sahara T.ose Fox Trot
Stop It One Step
By Pietro.
VOCAL
18S95 The Love Boat, by John Steel
Whispering by John Steel
E7572 Banjo Song By Mine. Homer
and Miss Louise Homer.
1870G The Rugged Cross By Mrs.
Asher and Homer Rode-heaver.
Forgive Me. Lord By Homer
Rodeheaver.
649H Stein Song By Reinald Wer
renralh. 45199 Waiting for the Sun to Come
Out
I Cannot Sleep Without
Dreaming of You
By Lambert Murphy.
Mall orders given prompt attention.
C.F-JOHNSON PIANO CO-
I'll) Sixth ft., Itet. Morrison and Alder
auditors' association; Robert S. Mc-
Crea, Sand Point, vice-president, and
C. Lee French, American Falls, secre-
tary-treasureii, for the coming year.
Plans were nWide for the holding of
the next annual convention of the
auditors and a tentative constitution
presented.
humming up the activities or ine
legislature during the past week, the
following developments of interest
may be enumerated:
The state-wide primary bill, call
ing for re-enactment of the primary
law, which was repealed by the legis
lature two years ago, was Introduced
in the house and organization work
immediately started to push it
through. This measure would have
all senatorial, congressional, judicial,
state, legislative and county candi
dates nominated at a state-wide pri
mary for all political parties. Party
integrity. Is safeguarded by requiring
all voters to register and designate
the party with which they expect to
affiliate.
Deficiency Claims Tested,
It was reported to the house by
the chairman of the state affairs
committee that there are so far listed
deficiency claims in the state reach
ing a total of $221,000 and not all of
the claims have yet been filed.
A measure was introduced in the
senate by the state affairs committee
calling for the abolishment of the
Albion state normalschooi at Albion,
established in 1893. The state bard
of education is given power to dis
pose of the Albion normal property,
valued at several hundred thousand
dollars. The act is to become effect
ive on July 1, 1921, If passed.
At the same time Jhe senate indef
initely postponed the supreme court
salary increase measure.
In the house a bill was introduced
to repeal the soldier settlement act,
carrying a $100,000 appropriation,
passed two years ago, because federal
aid was never provided by congress.
A measure was passed repealing
the state law carrying a $50,000 con
tinuing appropriation for the state
militia as well as other continuing
appropriation measures.
The house adopted the Van de Steeg
anti-Japanese resolution to congress,
urging that Japanese immigration be
barred from the United States and
no treaty he made permitting Jap
anese not citizens to hold land here,
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LUMBER CUT IN HALF
Retail Trice at Spokane Down 15
lo 60 Per Cent.
SPOKANE. Wash.. Jan. 29 (Spe
cial.) Retail lumber prices in Spo
kane are on an average of 50 per cent
less than a year ago. according to
Henry L. Lilienthal, general manager
of the Hinland Supply company, inc.
Mr. Lilienthal declared this morn
mg that practically all grades of
.umber and building materials In his
yards had dropped from 15 to 60 per
cent during the last year.
Engineers Hear Talks.
ABERDEEN. Wash., Jan. 29.
(Special.) Twenty-seven members of
the National Engineers' association
of Grays Harbor were present at the
regular monthly banquet of the as
sociation at Moose hall. Speakers at
the dinner included H. J. McOrade,
Fred Lawrence, W. H. Peters, W. W.
Campbell and Carl Middlestate. E. R.
Sturtevant, of the Standard Oil com
pany, acted as toastmaster.
Wisconsin -Jurist Deatl.
MADISON. Wis., Jan. 29. Justice
James TCerwin. 71, member of the
Wisconsin supreme court since 19U1,
died today following a long illness.
Refrigerator Cars Plentiful.
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sell. It is a big reputation but we live up
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We opened this store and bought this
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Francisco, vice-president of the Pa
cific Fruit Kxpress company, who is
in Portland checking up on conditions
here, there Is now an ample Pimply
of refrigerator cars to handle the
products of the Pacific coast as rapid
ly as necessary. He said yesterday
that the cron of f'alifornia oranrp,
amounting to about 45.000 c.irs. is
movlnc well and that when thin is
finished, other crops will be ready
for movement.
"They WORK
while you sleep"
Why Woman's Work and Household
Cares Cause Such Severe Strain on
Her Nervous System
MAKE HEU WEAK, NERVOUS AND IRRITABLEand
her to LOOK OLD, and lose her beauty and magnetic charm
The average man thinks woman's work is easy because be does not
realize THE TERRIBLE STRAIN ON THE NERVOUS
SYSTEM which is caused by CONSTANT DRUDGERY
doing the same thing over and over.
MAN GOES OUT WHEN HE PLEASES, (rets
fresh air and exercise, sess different faces, BUT WO
MAN STAYS AT HOME, looksafter the children
and performs the monotonous household duties.
SUCH A LIFE WOULD PROBABLY DRIVE
THE AVERAGE MAN NEARLY CRAZY IN A
MONTH but woman patient and persevering as she
is, goes on and on until at last the indoor work and
nervous strain sap the iron from her blood leaving
her weak, nervous, pale and aged looking.
It's a common thing to bear "OH! HOW OLD
LOOKING MRS, JONES HAS BECOME!"
With iron starvation of the blood most any man or woman
would become old and haggard looking.
cause Mmmmy
To make up for the great loss of Iron
caused by the life woman it compelled to lead,
she should eat more iron-containing fruits and
veee tables and take organic iron rom time to
time to put sew red blood corpuscles into her
Pale thin, watery blood. Without iron vour blood
loses its power to change food into living eel Is J
and tissue and nothing yon eat doee you the
proper amount of good you do not get the full
strength out of it, and you therefore become
weakened in body and mind.
THERE ARE 30.000.000.000.000 RED
BLOOD CORPUSCLES IN YOUR BLOOD
and each one must have iron Iron is red blood
food.
When yon get np feeling tired in the morn
ing when you can no longer do your day's work
without being all fagged out at night, when
your digestion all goes wrong, or you have pains
across the back and your face looks pale and
drawn, do not wa t until yon go all to pieces
and collapse in a state of nervous prostration
or until in your weakened condition you contract
Some serious disease but consult your family
physician and have him takea specimen of your
blood and make a "blood count" of your red
blood corpuscles, or test the iron power of your
blood yourself by adding plenty of spinach, car
rots, baked apples or other iron-con taiaing fruits
and vegetables to your daily food and take
organic iron like Nuxated Iron with them for a
while and see how much your condition improves.
Thousand! of people have
surprisingly increased their
strength , energy and endurance
in two weeks time by this sim
ple experiment. Butin making
this test be sure that the iron
you take is organic iron and not
metallic or mineral iron which
people usually take.
Organic Iron is Itketheiron In
your blood and like the iron in
spinach, lentils and apples .while
metallic iron is iron iust as it
comes from the action of strong
acids on small pieces of iron.
Organic iron may be had from
your druggist under the name
of Nuxated Iron. Nuxated Iron
represents organic iron in such
a highly concentrated form that
one dose is estimated to be ap
proximately equivalent (in or
ganic iron content) to eating
half a quart of spinach or one
quart of green vegetables. It is
like taking extract of beef in
stead of eating pounds of meat.
Always Insist on having genuine Organic iron
Nuxatd Iron. If you are not feeling quite up
to the mark telephone for a package today. In
tablet form only. Look for the letters N. I.
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WORRIES AND
CARES.
They ha- steadily
sapped the iron from
her blood, until now7
she U nervous, irrit
able and "mil gone to
pieces."
oa every tablet. Your money will be refunded
by tne manufacturers if you do not obtain
perfectly satisfactory results. For sale by all
druggists.
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slonally to keep your liver and bowels
active. When bilious, constipated,
headachy, unstrung or tor a colli, up
set stomach, or bad breath, nothing
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