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-
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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.,
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I leave the roots to continue their
growth.
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$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.
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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.
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