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ASHLAND TIDINGS Monday. January 21, 1018 PAGE SIX American Red Cross To Help In Italy (From Bureau of Publicity, N. W. Division, American Red Cross.) Washington, D. C, Jan. 19. The Red Cross war council has impropri ated $4,771,990 for activities of the American Red Cross in Italy from November 1, 1917, to May 1, 1918. These appropriations are based upon cabled recommendations embodying results of observation and Inquiry by Major Grayson M. P. Murphy, Red Cross commissioner to Europe, and also by the permanent operating com mission which lias arrived in Italy, headed by Robert 11. Perkins of New York. The Red Cross activities In Italy were undertaken upon a large scale after receipt November 2 of a cablegram from Ambassador Page to the effect that holp was needed in stantly. Major Murphy ras asked to go to Italy. He reports by cablo: "When we reached Italy refugees in a pitiful condition were streaming down from the north, Indescribably pathetic conditions existed, involving the separation of the mother and children, and cold, hunger, disease and death. The unexpected military reverse had stunned the nation. If ever evidence of friendship, and confi dence were welcome to a country It was in those days before the Piave line was established. Fortunately the Red Cross was in a position not only to respond immediately to the call of the suffering, but also to carry the message of the American people to Italy In the hour of her distress, ' working in conjunction with our own state department and the Italian gov ernment, which received us most eagerly In the spirit in which we came. We used every available means of supply and distribution to assist the ally of our country." In1 November and December the American Red Cross put at the dis posal of its temporary commission for work in Italy . $2,988,464. This amount has been used mostly for emergency military and civilian re lief and for formation of a contin gent relief fund. Foreign includes $1,088,856 for purchase In this coun try of foodstuffs, medical supplies and blankets, and $407 808 for surgi- The Hen that Roosts on the Limb of an 'Old Apple Tree Produces Nothing Moral : Build a Hen House Ashland Lumber Co. Phone 20 cal dressings, which are being for warded with all possible speed from the United States to Italy. In re sponse to cable advices now received from Mr. Perkins, head of the new commission to Italy, giving estimates of probable cost of operatipns for the Immediate future, the war'councll lias appropriated $1,062,016. Included In this amount is $800,870 for mili tary relief, made up as follows: Sol diers at the front, $30,000; surgical dressings service, $90,000; hospital service, $415,870; ambulance service, $120,000; canteen and rest houses $120,000; administration, $5,000. To render aid to civilian population through caring for hundreds of ref ugees, operating canteens for civil ians and for other measures of relief, $692,580 has been appropriated. Other appropriations as follows: For transportation to cover cost of auto mobllos, camions, gasoline', rental of cars and garages, transportation in surance and salaries of those filling positions for which volunteers cannot be procured, $59,381. For bureau of purchases, $7,969,. For secretarial bureau to cover cost of office furnl ' ture, salaries af clerks, supplies con sumed in operating telephone post age, rentals, telegraph, express, pub licity, etc., $41,35G. For bureau of finance and accounts, salaries of clerks, cost of stationery, books, etc., I GET THE HEARD BUT LEAVE THE HOOTS I'm not after the "pound of flesh" I leave the roots to continue their growth. "You are next." Ruckhorn Barber Shop ' Clyde Costolo Cleanliness, Personal Attention and Courtesy Combined to Make the Eagle Meat Market Popular INSPECT our market and your confi dence will bo behind the oleatnre of of shop L. Schwein $14,280. For bureau of stores to cover salaries of clerks at Rome in branch warehouses, and for labor, printing, stationery-, traveling Insur ance and rentals, $35,581. Total amount thus appropriated as budget from January 1 to May 1 for military relief, civilian relief and other pur poses is $1,662,016. In addition the war council has authorized Mr. Per kins to apply to surgical dressings service and hospital service $32,230, and for relief of refugees and for children's work $89,280, which has been received in local donations. Both the commission to France and the commission to Italy have received various sums in donations, some re stricted and some unrestricted. Where money Is restricted It is added to the Red Cross war fund, and later appropriated for work of the commis sion to which it is donated. Includ ing the $2,9S8,464 put. at the disposal of the temporary commission, the $1, 662 016 appropriated for budget to May 1, 1918, and the $32,230 plus $89,280 received in Italy, the Ameri can Red Cross has thus appropriated since November 1 for relief work with soldiers and civilians of its ally, Italy, $4,771,990. In addition to above ap propriations the war council has ap proved a co-operative arrangement with the Italian Red Cross whereby the former will assist in re-equipping of field hospitals in Italy, many of which were lost or damaged In the retreat of the Italian army. No ap propriation has yet been made for this last enterprise, but It is expected that about $175,000 will be needed for the equipping of nine tent field hospitals of fifty beds each, and mo tor transportation for these and for three large front base hospitals. The necessary appropriation will be made as soon as detailed figures are pro vided by the Italian Red Cross. CHROME ORE IS NOW IN DEMAND With the great war preparations all over the United States and the demand for chrome ore as a harden ing compound for steel used In big guns, Humboldt county, Del Norte county and southern. Oregon are be-i ing looked upon as among the de pendable sources of chrome deposit. Eureka already has a record of being a shipping point for approximately 1,500 tons of ore since the first ship ments were made to the east from Eureka. According to dispatches from Eu reka, the richest deposit of chrome is located in Del Norte county, at the French Hill mine. This mine, It is ' stated, has a higher percentage of , pure chrome than any mine of its ' kind in the United States. j A nnrtifli lor era Arweatt s t nTa 1 lies in the hills back of Smith river and five large trucks are working with all haste to transport enough metal to supply the demands of the large steel manufacturers. Crescent City is the distributing point for tha metal and some ore has an outlet from Smith River. H is stated that every steam schooner leaving Crescent City for San Francisco or San Pedro, in addi tion to their lumber cargo, carries from 45 to 55 tons of chrome each trip. Owing to a recent car shortage several tons of ore were tied up on a Eureka wharf, but through the co operation of Northwestern officials cars were secured and the shipments routed east to Chicago, the eastern distributing point. The gasoline schooner Magnolia of the Coggeshall fleet has carried nearly 2,000 tons of ore to Eureka. This week she was forced by rough water to leave the open harbor of Crescent City and return to Eureka without ore, but will return when weather conditions permit, her regular trips. From Eureka the chrome ore is taken by the Northwestern Pacific railroad to San Francisco and trans shipped by way of the Western Pa ciflc, Southern Pacific and Rock Island to refining plants on the At lantic coast. Metals of silver, copper and gold found in the chrome rock are then separated and put to the nation's uses and the chrome put into steel which will finally reach the battle fields of France as a part of the huge guns. Applications for appointment as agents for the sale of the govern ment's Thrift Stamps and War Sav ings Stamps are being received at Portland headquarters of the cam paign at the rate of 25 a day. eating our meats. The Knowledge cleanliness and a sanitary work- will aid yoar digestion. Stamp Campaign ' Making Good Gains In the stamps campaign Clatsop still leads in the sale of thrift stamps and war savings stamps In the state outside of Multnomah county. Clat sop's total for January to date is $1,062.50, with grand total sales of $7,005.47. Marion county is next with a grand total of $5,738.92 and total for January to date of $1,637. 50. Yamhill county leads In sale3 for January so far with sales amounting to $1,699, being in third place with total sales reaching $5,410.64. Clackamas is second for the month with $1615.94 and a grand total of $5.162,o's. Other counties are re ported as follows, for January sales and total sales, respectively: Baker, $833, $2,963; Umatilla, $615.30, $3,504.70; ' Douglas, $526.40, $4, 345.97; Jackson, $562.73, $2,734.46; Josephine, $638.86, $1 960.62; Lane, total sales, $4,130.18; Washington, $1,307.35, $4,540.83. Multnomah's tatal for the month is $29,092.12, with a grand total of $141,412.42. DU. FOSTER LEAVES FOR TOUR IV EAST President Foster of Reed College, vho made a favorable impression when he lectured in Ashland some time ago in the interests of the Red Cross, has started on a lecture tour in the east. He will make addresses under the auspices of the American Red Cross and the National Chamber of Commerce at Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Buffalo, New York Boston, Washington and other cities. He made an address January 10 at the annual convention of American Col leges at Chicago and spoke January 16 at the University of Michigan. On his return trip he will meet a series of engagements In Montana at Bil lings, Bozeman, Helena, Great Falls, Butte and Missoula, reaching Port land again about February 15. Since his return from France In the latter part of October President Foster has addressed American Red Cross meet ings with an aggregate attendance of about 87,000. WELLING TO DO BIT TO LICK THE KAISER P. E. Thomason of Turner, making application for appointment as a thrift campaign stamp salesman, writes: "I am too old to go to the front, and I am on the jump from early until late, but if putting every spare moment into selling war sav ings stamps will help to give the kaiser some good blows in the short ribs, I am with you." According to the Department of Agriculture, over 5,000,000 eggs spoil in cold storage each year be cause they have been washed or in some other way become wet before being Bent to market. -:: - ir. i!"'"" " " DeUdoas, into, Melriiioos " -' ' ' " Made of Carefully Selected For Sale at all Grocers in Logging In Klamath Rapidly Increasing The logging operations in northern Klamath county are rapidly assum ing huge proportions, according to C. J. Claus, local agent for the South ern Pacific Company. The Modoc Lumber Company at Chlloquln Is now shipping two car loads of green logs per day to the Klamath Manufacturing Company at Shippington, and would send double this amount if the cars could be se cured for the purpose. The Pelican Bay Company Is now getting fifteen carloads per day from the north. Mr. Claus declares that thirty cars are now being used In the logging service between Klamath Falls and Kirk. A new station was Installed at Al goma this week, and a regular agent will be' maintained there in the fu ture. J. A. Tucker, a Klamath coun ty man, who has had previous experi ence as an agent, has been placed In charge of the new depot, which now occupies a part of the Algoma Lum ber Company's office. A telegraph office is to be installed there by the Western Union Immediately. It is now the intention of the rail road company to put on a special log ging train between Klamath Falls and Kirk later in the season', in addi tion to the regular freight. Klam ath Falls Herald. FOOD A DM I XISTRATIOV SAYS TO SAVE FAT "Save a pound of waste fats in your kitchen and trade it in for a cake Of soap at your grocer's." This is the latest conservation bul letln Issued to Oregon housewives by Federal Food Administrator W. B. Ayer, who has given a splendid im petus to the national "save the soap drive" by devising a unique and prac tical plan of co-operative conserva tion by soap manufacturers, retailers and housewives, that will, undoubted ly, be followed by many other states. The other day Mr. Ayer called In a number of leading soap manufac ture some expert chemists, offi cials having In charge the collection and disposal of. garbage, and Miss Ava B. Milam, dean of home econom ics at Oregon Agricultural College and the food administrator's director of domestic science for Oregon The soap business and all Us angles and particularly in its relation to waste from the family kitchen, was thresh ed out in detail, and when the con ference was over the food adminis trator was able to announce that any housewife who would save a pound of soap fat can now convert it dnto a pound of soap by the simple form ula of taking it to the corner grocery and "swapping" it. Incidentally she serves her country in four distinct ways, viz: By saving fats, the world shortage of which must be made up by the United States'; by assisting to The New Breakfast Beverage EVERYBODY IS DRINKING IT Better Than Coffee Costs Less Has all the snap of high-grade Java Coffee with the Caffeine taken out recover, in the process of soap mak ing, seven to nine pounds of glycerine In every one hundred pounds of fat for the manufacture of Uncle Sam's munitions; by patronizing a home In dustry, whose product is greally needed throughout the world; and by ' saving car space, which is so urgently i needed to move troops and govern j nient supplies. ! The cake of soap which will be . given In exchange for a pound of fat will be of various brands, all made in Oregon, the white soap to weigh eight ounces and the brown ten ounces. The fat must be tried out and strained free from rinds or other solids and be taken to the retailer in a tin can or other container. "Let every Oregon family begin to save soap fats now," says Mr. Ayer, "The soap manufacturers will make this exchange anywhere In the state, and every retailer will have his in structions within the next few days from the soap manufacturers. I hope for splendid results from this plan.." Housewives in some localities may be able to dispose of their higher grade of fats for cash. "At any rate," says Mr. Ayer, "and whether the saved fats prove profitable or not, from a monetary standpoint, the thing Is to save the fats. If all Ore gon housewives will do so, the aggre gate prevention of waste would be very substantial and of r,eal impor tance in the general conservation scheme." WEEKLY REPORT OF STOCK MARKET The week's opening market at North Portland showed an extremely light delivery, offering, however, a portion of the best quality, and that especially In the cattle market, that has been shown on the local market for some weeks past In the hog market conditions were steady to strong that Is to say, the market was active, with a larger per cent of the offerings passing the scales at the top of the quotations than had been shown In the previous week's market. The sheep market continues steady with the bulk of sales at the top end of the quotations and very light of ferings coming forward, which aye just about balanced by the demand. The demand for breeding ewes con tinues very active with a comparative ly small supply. ' The port of New York is under mil itary control, the water fronts being guarded by the regular army. Fully armed guards prohibit the passage of any person, alien or citizen', who cannot establish a business reason for access to the waterfront areas. The same military control will be established at' all other American ports and may include factories en gaged in war work. Uncle Sam knows this to be a fact. He knows that the American home wherein there cannot be more frugal ity, more thrift and less extravagance is the exception and not the rule. Government Has Many Positions The United States Civil Service Commission announces that open competitive examinations will be held at once for the positions of foreman, sawyer (band), saw filer (band), grader, stationary engineer, electrical engineer, machinist, blacksmith, and oiler, for employment in the cut-up plant of the Spruce Production Signal Corps, War Department, at Vancou ver Barracks, Washington. Standard wages will be paid for all of the posi tions for which examinations have been announced. It Is desired to secure men who have had experience In large lumber mills and who are not working on government contracts. Thoroughly experienced lumber mill men who have had experience In any of the above mentioned are urged to apply at once to the secretary of the Elev enth U. S. Civil Service District, room 303, Postoffice' building, or to the local secretary, Board of Civil Service Examiners, at any postoffice In the states of Oregon, Washington, Mon tana', Idaho and Wyoming, for appli cation form 1800, which should be promptly filed with the district sec retary at Seattle, Wash. J. W. Pierpont, well-known mill man of Hornbrook, was In Yreka on business Monday. While in town he said the mining districts in the vicin ity of Horjibrook are experiencing much activity. Until recently he was employed at the Black Jack or Ranch- erle mine. He said the owners of that mine have a valuable property and It is bringing them big returns, says the Yreka News. Mr. Pierpont has accepted a position at the Jlllson mine as mill man and commenced work this week. The Jlllson mine, operated by, a San Francisco com pany, is one of Siskiyou county's largest producers. It Is equipped with up-to-date machinery and ex pense has not been spared to put everything in shape for active opera tlon. A new compressor was deliv ered at the mine on Monday. Ladies of Ashland Have your FURS repaired and remodeled, by F. Bartlett of Medford We guarantee our work. Genuine Buckskin Gloves and Gauntlets on; specialty. 126 E. Main St- Medford ' Cereals Ashland 81 N. Main Phone 107