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mm PROVIDES MEANS FOR RGHT ON FOOD-COST ADVANCE Representative Lester Pro " poses giving Power to Ag . . riculture Department, Washington, April 30. (I. N. 8.) Tha fight to kep down rising war 'time prices for food took definite abap in the house today when a joint food conservation resolution was introduced by Representative Lester of South Car olina, chairman of tha agricultural committee. The same resolution will ha presented in tne senate by senator uore. ment of agriculture to maks a thor ough survey of the food . situation throughout the country, including an Investigation into the present amount of food available. Us location and the sources of production. It is also of fered as a basis of consideration of final legislation to stimulate produc tion and conservation and bring about an equitable distribution and prevent excessive prices. STATE FACING SHORTAGES IN FARM PRODUCE Oon tinned Prom One.) Farm machinery is badly wanted. The college has 40 men trained to run tractors available when tractors are. Many need financial assistance in securing seed at high prices and in putting In crops. Federal and state rural credits acts apparently are not to relieve the situation this year, and while bankers have acted in a few In stances, concerted aid In finance has yet to be arranged. Crops Under Honnal, The conclusion was reached by Di rector Hetsel that through the hardest work and the aid of all possible re sources Oregon crops this year will not be up to normal. " Briefly summarized, the reports from county agriculturists follow: " C C. Cate, Jackson county Live stock short, hogs scarce, tendency to ell breeding stock, high schools drained by enlistments. Labor need will soon be acute. Prospects for al falfa, barley and spring grain best for years. II. R. Olaisyer, Klamath Farmers Heed capital. Some method should be devised to compel owners of vacant land to give use. Hay short, abnormal ly large number of cattle sold out of country. Crop prospects normal. A. K. Chase, Wasco Labor and ma chinery badly needed. Labor need se rious at harvest time, Prospect for excellent fruit crop. Fanners want 1918 Minnesota corn seed. Grain b low normal. Farmers need calves and pigs. Need labor putting in the spring crop. Paul H. Bpillman, Union Water in Grand Ronde valley high, winter grain submerged. City gardens make truck- The Theatre Beautiful' 3 MOIRE DAYS ' I f I . .LLUJ k4 1 Proclaimed by Everyone That Attended "3terday "A GREAT SHOW" Also HER NATURE DANCE Doors Open 10:30 A. Af.- Continuous . Admission lSc Children JSc . ' U AGRfcULTURISTS MEET 1 f - TT-TTV ft w .V ' H If l w i fe' , fSW? .f 'V"' ill f:'J Back row 11. J. Warner, a.sistant county agent, Multnomah county; P. T. Scnooley, assistant county agent; t. U. inompson, county agent, Joaepiune county ; iw jonw. county agent, Tillamook county ; W. W. Howard, county agent, Malheur county. Second row- W. !. Kadderly, farm management demonstrator; C. I Jamison, county agent. Wheeler county; J W. Brewer; W. A. Bailey, assistant county agent; T. D. Case, assistant county agent; C. J. Hard; A. It Chase, county agent, Wasco county; H. A. Vlckers, secretary extension service; J. E. Oooter; R. A. Ward; It. A. Blanchard, county agent. Crook and Deschutes counties. Front row J. K. Larson, extension spe cialist, agronomy; J. D. McKay, assistant county agent; Mrs. Winnie BradenJEL B. Fitta, extension specialist, dairy husbandry; R. D. Hetzel, director extension service; Stanley Armstrong; C. C. Cat., county agent, Jackson county; H. R. Glaisyer, county agent, Klamath county; B. V. Maris, state leader county agent; J. L. Smith, county agent, Coos county. Others who attended conference, but who are not in the picture are: F. W. Kehrti, extension specialist, dairy husbandry; D. C. Howard, county agent, Columbia county; M. S. Shrock, county agent, Yamhill county. growing unprofitable. Labor enough at present. Kay and Hog gbortaga. W. W. Howard, Malheur. There Is a hay shortage but wheat is normal. Hogs are scarce. Business men are preparing to close stores to work In fields several days each week. Fruit prospects not nettled. R. A. Blanchard. Crook and Des chutes Winter wheat 85 per cent normal; rye. 115 per cent prospect over 1916. Labor mostserlous need; men Jeine paid JBOto $75 a month. From tne i rinevine run" " b4s enlisted. Organized campaign against pests. C. D. Thompson. Josephine Some need of capital, labor problem not now serious. Fall wheat below normal. ProsDectlve surplus of beans. Stock going on range in poor condition c. Jamison. .Wheeler v -Winter severe. Farmers' local needs for hay and feed driving them more than na tional emergency. Many stock winter killed. Lack of labor and transporta tion great handicap. Bd Is Kttch Wanted. N. S. Kobb. Lane Vetch in poor con dition, oats below normal, season 30 to 40 days delayed; 60,000 acres seeded late, great demand for bean seed. Will be about 50 per cent increase over usual bean crop. Fruit prospects good. Stock poor. Fifty per cent deoreaaa in sheep. Seed corn needed. Hay scarce. Machinery a problem. Labor short. R. C. Jones, Tillamook While many boys have enlisted, women and gfrls are milking the cows and keeping up county's greatest industry, cheese mak ing. ' Bankers are letting farmers have Sixth St. at Washington A two-reel comedy features Ke3rstones nifty nymphs in a symphony of grace, grass, giggles and sylvan scenes. TO CONFER ON WAYS AND "r '1 5 . f, i si. W i Mmmiwrnmiuimmmmitimm 6 per cent money for silos. Season nearly three months delayed. J. L. Smith, Coos Wlll.be short of cans to put up fruits and vegetables. Capital needed. Ten bankers will loan $5000 each at 6 per cent to help buy pure-bred stock. But one thresher in the county. Milk and cheese production good. rears Milk Famine. S. B. Hall, Multnomah Labor of a kind close at hand. Farmers not alive to the situation and inclined to drift. Not hampered by lack of capital or seed. Hogs scarcer Saw two truck loads of cows being taken from dairy herds thla morning. Milk being sold less than cost to produco when feed is bought, and high water will soon com pel Columbia river dairymen to begin feeding again. Prospect of milk short age next winter. D. C. Howard. Columbls, County 70 per cent foreign. Finns, Swedes, Danes and Poles responding to appeal. Capi tal greatest need. Livestock condition serious. Farmers feeding alfalfa from eastern Oregon at '$31 to $34 a ton. Labor need serious. Brood sows want ed. Clover and timothy prospects good. M. S. Shrock, Yamhill Livestock came through winter well. Dairying increasing. Business men offer help In farm labor. Campaign for com munity cannera organized. Need pota toes. Clover and fruit good. Grain short. nan to Aid rood XMtv. The remainder of the day's session was spent in perfecting plans to aid tha food production campaign. Director Hetzel saying that the country must depend for organization upon tha de partment of agriculture, and the de partment on the extension staffs of the land grant colleges. He believes that county agricul turists will be given military authority and that congress will pass the $25, 000,000 appropriation in aid of the national food supply campaign. In Oregon all paid and volunteer service available will be used to meet the emergency. BEAN MEASURE MEANS A BIG ANNUAL DEFICIT IF BILL IS RATIFIED (Cod tinned From Page One.) would be a nullity in case the Chamberlain-Ferris act were to be upheld. The supreme court has upheld the Chamberlain-Ferris act, and that act specifically says that title to the grant lands "shall be and hereby is revested in the United States of America." It must ba patent to all, even to Mr Bean, that the Bean bill Is in conflict with, the United States supreme court and the Chamberlain - Ferris act. and that any attempt to enforce ita pro visions would be in defiance of both court and congress and would b un constitutional and void. If that be its status, taxes levied pursuant to its direction would be un collectible and void and would result in the state and county deficits that have been mentioned. The Bean bill makes it mandatorv upon the assessors to place the rrat lanas upon ,tne tax rolls, so that, if the measure were to d ratified and at tempted to be enforced, the assessment rolls of the 18 land grant counties would carry, as a basis for assess ment, levy and taxation, $21,225,485 of property, upon which no taxes could be collected because its title is in thn government. Grant Xands In Levy. The State, in flxlnr th afafa levy, would be required to Include the Kitmi rnuua jn its calculations to meet the appropriations made by the legis lature, ine 0111, However, provides that tax money due from grant lands shall not be taJd hv th state unless nd until it has been paid to tne tax collectors. The state's annual har. nf grant tax money, on the basis of the 1914 assessment, which would be prac tically th samA aa at nrount ,4 be approximately $73,500. tm' give the remainder of the total $500,0.10 ui srni iana taxes or approximately $426,500 annually, to the land grant counties for countv Durnoan But the assessment and levy would be void and uncollectible, resulting in the failure of the land ST TJ1 T Ail1nla s a - v uu 1,103 to pay $73,500 of state taxes assessed utainsi uiem eacn year, and it would &ibu result m tne counties falling short by $426,600 in the amount of money needed each year to conduct their county affairs. By concrete illustration. Douglaa county, according to Mr. Bean's argu ment in the state pamphlet, should re ceive $100,000 annually from taxation Of the KTant lands. Of thi. approximately $14,700 would be re- " J mi.a.ij uun wane US,3uu would go for county purposes. It the.e taxes could Hot be collected, as they could not be against the government, then' Douglas county would fall short $14,700 in state and $85,300 in county taxes each, year the lands are assesssd upon the rolls. In the same propor tion. Lane county, where Mr. Bean lives, would fall short approximately $12,435 in stats and $72,505 in county taxes, using Mr. Bean's eatimata that the Lane county gran: lands wouid yield $85,000 in taxes annually. A sjtate deficit would saddle interest beariug certificates of ..' Indebtedness MEANS Ttf AVERT THREATENING GRAIN AND PRODUCE a.J, ' m upon the state through the emergency board, and a county deficit would cause interest-bearing warrants to o issued against the counties In order to meet the necessary expenses of gov ernment. MAY DAY EPOCHAL FOR RUSSIA! SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY RULES (Continued From Pr Qne.l "The officer stood there in no man's land alone, urging them to attack, but without avail. Finally they went back disgusted. Not a shot .had been fired, not a German soldier harmed in that death territory. "However, we mistrusted flags borne by Germans and Austrians. Now we fire with all our strength on such ap proaching enemy forces. "We have proved our right to the red flag now let the Germans and the Austrians prpve their right to it." Russian exiles from America are now received In the innermost councils of the soldiers and workmen's unions. Those with whom I have talked de clare the Russian people are unani mous for a republic. "Only a superhuman dictator can Impose even a limited monarchy on Russia," said M. Cacaracofsk, former ly editor of a Russian newspaper In New York city. "Such a monarchy will be immediately overthrown by the army ana the workmen of Russia." Situation.. Regarded Critical. Washington. April JO. (I. N. S.) The most decislva political step of the general war against Germany will be taken Tuesday, state department offi cials confidently believe. On the out come of the threatened general strike of food producers and munition work ers in Germany on May day will de pend whether Germany must bow to defeat at an early date or will be able to fight on for months longer. Officials admit that should Germany survive the anti-war demonstrations planned by the German populace on May 1. the empire will bs able to fight for a far longer time than is generally believed In America. This belief was based on official reports upon condi tions in Germany from Switzerland, Denmark and Franca The unrest In Germany and the dis satisfaction with present conditions has reached its climax, the reports state. If German officials can pass safely hrough this crisis they can continue another year of war. In the meantime. Germany's submarines will probably contlnue to play havoc with food and munitions this government is to fur nish the entente allies. The present critical condition in Germany has been largely brought about by President Wilson's war ad dress to congress, the state department has been officially advised. Reports show more than 800,000 copies of the message in which the president said tne united States has no quarrel with NowPlaying ! tn "Her Greatest Love 99 Regular Prices -'SVpoUo (Club- SPRING CONCERT TONIGHT, APRIL 30TH LIBERTY THEATRE ; Prices $1.00. 60c 26c Q X.i'SXMTllli BEATS ; ' ;SfrV V,0 s4tflwM 7.-. -fj the German people" have been trans lated Into Gerfnan and dropped behind the German lines by French. British and American aviators on the west front These copies have been distributed among the civilian population to a large extent by Socialists and other anti-war organizations, it has been learned, and are said to be in large measure responsible for the sudden ac celeration to the feeling of the Ger man people against the government. Socialists to Test Strength. Washington. April 30. (I. N. S.) The Socialistic movement, impotent for three years, will force a test of whether it can get back again as a vital political force tomorrow. A May day strike has been called for Austria, Germany and all of the neutral Scan dinavia. Officials here frankly say the outcome may be very Important in this country so far as the duration of the European war is concerned. Officials point out that internal dis turbances have been controlled In all of the nations affected because the military has been all-powerful. A suc cessful demonstration In Sweden, how t 1 " " 1! To be sure look for St TZhe Bayer Cross on every package genuine TAB LETS i oekat Boxas of 12 BettUe of 24 and 100 CAPSULES! Saabs' Base of 12 ami 14 'Mm HEW 1EEPH0N The SHORTAGE IN OREGON, T w ... 1 i rtfrAiwrifrflsyfis ever, very probably will overturn the government. In Austria such a de velopment easily might mean the counterpart of the Russian revolution. In Germany It is felt here that the only effect would be to lay the ground work for a concerted movement for peace. The greatest Interest is being taken here In the situation and instructions have been sent to all American diplo matic officials to keep the govern ment well informed of all develop ments. Nations Prepare for Violence. v London, April 30. (I. N. S.) Mill tary preparations to cope with expected violence during the iiay day demon' st rat ions were completed today by va rious governments throughout Europe. On account of the growing vigor of the Socialistic peace movement in some countries May day this year takes on unprecedented political importance. Extremely serious situations face the Swedish, German and Austro-Hunga- rian governments. A dispatch from Copenhagen says that great bodies of troops have been massed In Stockholm and other Swedish cities. Your Guarantee of Purity" and evei tablet of Aspirin. The trade-merit Aspirin" (Rag. U. S. Pat. Office) U a guarantee that the mono-aeeticacidaaterefaallcyUe-eld in thaae tablets and capsule is of the reliable Bayer manufacture. Our New Telephone Directory which is how being delivered con tains many changed numbers. Please consult this directory im mediately upon its receipt before placing a call. Do not call from memory from old memoranda or lists. Pacific Telephone GUILTY PLEAS MADE, MOO RNE PA D IN CEMENT TRUST SPIT Four Defendants Withdraw Demurrer Pleas and Ad mit Law Violations, - Pleaa of guilty by four defendants In the so-called "cement trust" cases were made this morning in federal court by permission of Judge Wolverton. and an aggregate sum of $10,000 In fines was paid immediately following sentence. .United States Attorney Clarence L. Reames asked that the defendants be allowed to withdraw their demurrers to the indictment charging violation of the Sherman anti-trust act, whlc Judge Wolverton granted. The four defendants are Wf II. George, secretary of theCow-erf Port land Cement company-""? G. Drum, president of the Pacific Portland Ce ment company; W. G. Henshaw, presi dent of the Riverside Portland Cement company, and C. T. Canieron, president of tha Santa Crux Portland Cement company and of trie Standard Portland Cement corporation. Attorneys Xaka Btatsaaasta. Apportionment of territory beyond which no company of the alleged com bination could do business, and the fixing of prices were arnong the charge in the indictment. Peter F. Dunne and Alfred Sutro of San Francisco represented the de fendants in court this morning. They made statements following the pleas of guilty. Mr. Dunne asserting that the defendants. reputable, public spirited citizens, were not prompted by disobedience of the Sherman anti-trust law, but by the compelling demands of the laws of trade. Alfred Sutro pointed out that secret organization, black listing and oppres sion of consumers was not charged, but simply the fixing of prices by con certed action. Others Will Stand Trial. United States Attorney Reames ex plained to Are you wearing the old fashioned kind glasses that Have the visible line dividing the far vision part from the near-vision part? Or do you carry two separ ate pairs, one for street use and the other for reading? Tk . .-a wxjspj MS We have fitted hundreds and hundreds of pairs of them and never yet had one wearer give them up and go back t6 the old kind. Columbian KRYPTOKS are like so many other optical things a little better for having come from the store that is carefulest in its fitting and adjusting. It doesn't cost any more to have glasses fitted CORRECTLY. Columbian Optical Co. T. T. Xrower, Mgr. 149 Sixth Street iiiiiiiiiiiiiiisiiiiiiinniiiiiiiiii HRECIORT r and Telegraph Company named In tha indictment 1 defendants, a tha officers and agent ,of nine cement ' companies doing business ; in the states of Oregon, Washington and California. ; The companies and officers not af fected by tha entry of the plea, ana against whom tha covatnment will proceed with trial, are the following: : John C. Eden, president of the bup rlor Portland Cement company; A. A. Sutherland, treasurer and aaies man ager of the Superior Portland Cement company A. F. Coats, president of the Washington Portland Cement comi pany; Alexander Baillia, resident agent . of the Olympic Portland Cement com pany; W. P. Cameron, general manager . and sales agent of the Olympic Iort- president of the Oregon Portland Ce ment company; and Clark M. Moore, general sales manager of the Oregon, Portland Cement company. v The fines imposed, $i60 each, wera paid in certified checks. In asking fpr tha order for dismissal of the four' men. United States Attorney Reames stated that he could not present th evidence of the grand Jury, there were seven more .defendants to be pro ceeded sigainst. It wa further stated that any combination existing between the companies resulting from the prd-. ct-cdings in court had been dissolved. Mine Disaster Cost Lives of 120 Men Hastings, Colo, April SO. (I. N. B.V One hundred asd twenty dead. 141 orphans and S2 widows was tha 'toll announced today by officials as a re sult of tha explosion last Friday at mine No. 2 of the Victor-American Fuel company here. Every man under- vrnunil mt thft tlm. fit th. YTtlAfAH was almost instantly killed, it is be lieved. Oxygen-helmeted rescuers, who have been working constantly since the ex plosion occurred, have located all but three of the bodies of the victims.' but only zi bodies nave neen taxen rrorn the mine. - Miners and Operators Agree. Philadelphia, Pa.. April $0. (L N. S.) Central Pennsylvania soft coal miners and operators in conference here reached a tentative agreement on the wage question and other demands of the 65,000 miners, John Forsythft, ..rr,t kti, nf th fltMrAior. Announced You may have noticed some of the maf axine ad vertUemejits of the KRYPTQfc invisible bifo cals, but not stopped .to think the matter over. Maybe you didn't realise that these KRYPTOKS are intended for just ex actly your kind - of re- quirements. Or, maybe, yon didn't feel that you knew enoughabout them to place youronf idence in them. If this last is the case, please let us a ay that this Columbian store has handled the KRYPTOKS long enough now to be absolutely sure that they are all right in every way and a mighty fine thing. or mmmmmimmmtmammasms$msmmKmmsm