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sVOL. XV. NO. 24. CITY EDITION .PORTLAND, - OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, : SEPTEMBER ,2,;i9HV PRICE FIVE CENTS NO GRAIN FOR HOLLAND WILL LEAVE Licenses to 1 00 Dutch Grain : ' Carriers to Sail From U. S.; : Ports Refused by Embargo . Administration Board. v BOARD PROPOSES SHIPS "BE USED FOR IMPORTS Holland Has Enough Grain to Mast Into December While, : United States Is Short. ' Washington. Sept.' 1. (I. "IN. S.) -I No grain Will be permitted I to leave t this country for. Holland at present, U vii announced today. Licenses for 100 .Dutch grain ships ha v been refused. i .. - , . X The agreement by which the llol A&mAmru wr. to divide their cargoes between Holland and Belgium has been cancelled' by the embargo administra tion board. . 1H making the announcement the board emphasised that the United Elates la willing to feed the neutrals. but that, the needs of this country .' must be considered first. The same 'attitude Is expected to be observed In " dealing with imports to other neutral ' countries. . j i In refaslng licenses fort the 100 uui.cn snips, aireaay loeacu grair the administrative board made a counter proposition' that the vessels be unloaded, their cargoes taken over by the United States at a fair price and the ships used to bring wheat and sugar from Australia and Java. Xelland Has Xnougb Drain ' ' The contention of the board is that Holland has a sufficient supply of grain to last her for months.! probably well Into December; The United States, on the other hand, has not yet determined what her own needs will en. . . , m e M a . a. be, further - than approximate esti mates, which tend to show a depleted Aiinml-v. i'Mann t. 1i irmtit. the 'In terests of both countries can be served 'best by using the ships now held up In American porta to bring wheat from Australia and sugar ' from .Java, 4 Another 'act .entering 'into' the board's decision. Is that a large pro portion of the grain on the Dutch vessels already has spoiled to lucli'tn . extent that It is unfit for human con sumption, v It 'Is still good for stock feed, however, and the shortage of ucb-i feed ta , this country la held to account In) a -large measure for the board proposed that the spoiled grain .- .(Cooclndea ea Page Two. -Cblanie gut) : POLICE iBREAK PEACE - DELEGATES ARE SAD Bluecoats Make Quick Work of .Routing Propagandists :; onOrders From Governor. ' Chicago. Sept. U P.) Worn and weary.Ielegates to the . Peoples Peace council. -were - wandering about Chicago tonight , while . their - leaders ' were trying to decide whether any fur- worth, wblla . ' a, I, ' - Barred from half a dosen prospective meetlnr places, the peace agitators ai most found haven Jn Chicago today. Shortly before noon they slipped quiet ly to an auditorium and opened their meeting. But even while the prelim inaries ot organization were Deing no vgotlated Governor Lowden at Spring field, apprised of what was j going on In Chicago, declared that he would not permit, Illinois to entertain I the visi tors, and telephoned the -Chicago police to break up the meeting at once. The '- police - obeyed - with" alacrity, and laughed 'at the demands of a- dosen peace enthusiasts, who courted martyr dom and demanded that ' they be ar- Delegates Are Dlsoouraged t '- ' The delegates are admittedly dis couraged. 1 A belligerent minority ad vocate further attempts at 4 meeting. Mwiwwii ut nuw uu ziiei m avui ;lng the action of a committee of nine delegates who will decide what Is to be done - next. . The - committee" has been empowered to call of: the entire ' convention plan, . to arrange ' for an other meeting place, or to iconstltuta .. Itself a - convention and go through ' with-the conference program all . by Itself, i While the committee la com muning with Itself, another team of delegates Is rolling-., toward Chicago hope has been born in the breasts of the discouraged peace :peopl here that some one of the westerners may have an Inspiration 'that will solve their ; predicament. ' - " ' ,Vlasji 'Ajr'3lsojised .' Among the delegates tonight, the ' possibility of attempting to meet at . Milwaukee, Washington cr New Torts ; was receiving some dispirited discus sion,' - . ' , . - - j 2 . If another attempt is made, a ma jority seemed to favor Milwaukee be cause of an- Invitation Mayor Hoan Is aid to- have extended to them. A' plan to charter a steamship and take the delegates out on Lake Michigan was also broached. Still another plan Was to herd the delegates aboard a special train, start somewhere and meet while the train Is on the way. , . ,'wi "We may know tomorrow what we -will' do a woman declared, "and 'we , may -sot: lt' all up to otfr committee HOW." .."-. L , AMERICA MEETING CHICAGO npHIS ISA NEW PHOTOGRAPH of the cabinet in summer attire, made-at the rear of the ; ": I White House executive offices, the only picture of the' cabinet' ever made out of doors. ' ; , .Left to right, front row William C. Redf ield, secretary ; of commerce ; Robert Lansing, ' secretary of state ; David F. Houston,- secretary of agriculture President Wilson, William G. McAdoo," secretary of the treasury; Albert S. Burleson, postmaster. generaL f Top. roW, left to V right Jbsephus Daniels,' secretary of . the' navy ; .William B. Wilson, secretary of labor; New ton D. Baker, secretary , of war r-Thomas W. Gregory, attorney general, and Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the interior. - ' ' . i k v v r A if f '.,. $ J if' . f- Onl tlLlxtllnn rLUrLL r frt - .x i r "DishonoriabJetoi Refuse-Wilr son'sDemand," Says Bep lin'Vorwaerts, ' . , ."1 i ,' v i i . i.. j i, . . ' By John Grandens Berlin, via Jjondon,. Sept. 1. (U. P.) Germany's : Socialists believe the government cannot . In -honor refuse President 'Wilson's -stipulation that Germ art people '' guarantee Germany's peace treaty.-.- v "' j Of all the comments on the American reply to, .Pofe Benedict some -of. It exceedingly'- bitter ' toward., the Ameri can", president this . expression- Irom the' Socialist organ vVorwaerts stood out today. - "' . " "It. w'ould be' dishonorable 'to refuse Wilson'', demand," 'declared.' the? Lib eral newspaper In , this, connection. s v - Wants tX. Sv to -Olve Troof , "The American govemment,";' the Vorwaerts ' editorial - continued, has repeatedly ' declared - that " It . is not n enemy of the German people, but proof Is laoking which -she could fur nish through the statement that Ger many shall not be robbed or ; made tributary to her enemies. "America avoid , carefully this point, .which decisively important to the ' German people. - v "Regarding -President -Wilson's ; de mand that the people guarantees the peace treaty, a certain part of t our press say this Is dishonorable we say It is dishonorable to refuse.' The Ger man people are fighting their, hardest fight, not - only . for -the right -of a single family or a governmental sys tem, but or their own existence. Cannot Weaken Defease " "The Socialists ; are ; making every effort to change; the. constitutional system, but they ! refuse to . use the means whlch would weakens the de fensive strength of the country.- ' Per haps President' Wilson's, words that America can -'only make , peace after democratization.' are only a'pretense, but It '1 a cleverly chosen ' pretinse, and can only 1e answered by deed?.'" "President . Wilson's note," aald the Deutsche Tages Zeltung, "appeals to democrats and Socialists to get' pos session of power by all possible meant. It appeals . to.therelchstag .majority to continue Its chosen way.- The. note's Intention Is to Induce the German peo ple to a revolution. , ., t J-" Tresldent" Wilson - knows . with the neoole taking over power, heretofore unconquered . Germany . will . be . de feated and mined, , a. helpless victim of her enemies.' ' V'j . - (The Vorwaerts is the foremost So cialist newspaper In Europe and: re flects 'the ..views of that party In Germany.) t . ' : coaservatlvea Are Blttex ', The conservative German press was exceedingly bitter In Its comment on the American reply, f . "The war wnicn nas created So much "vulgarity, had only left the -cre ation . or encn nero, as , this cold. figuring artist." declared the Lokal Anselger, "which a curious; fate gave power over a nunared million. people. The : Vosslsche - Zeltung declared Germany : is aireaay democratic. - ."Wilson..; the. . editorial, continued, (Coaclnded on Page Two, Column roar) ''A '" ' Xf: 7,v vfi v ! --a.?v .A Hi IfPIOVE gnwwasss; i-t TnsssjssjsMMSSMMsB-ssssMsjrTWMasr i n siimmi hi nil ssi a 4 ' I r- :x r i - y 1 1 feu m m.i v.. ' -: !vfA 1 WashtogtonrBept.:iKU.)-Cott- Ti fiat fir tnit t hsv jmnnkm rrtitmw 11 "nm Abbott." of the-? Federal , Children's . bu reau, today put It Into effect through out the country. Western North Carolina, the 'district under Judge Boyd's decision, Is the only territory where 'the enforcement of the. law Is held Tip .the only apot to the,, country today where . It . Is lawful for children under 14 to work In shops and factories and children under 18 to work in. mines and quarries doing in terstate business. - ElevehrOiit of Each , -' . Thousand Killed s Washington,. Sept. 1. Eleven out of every one thousand men Ton the -western front" in Europe" are killed In ac tion, according to French. off icial fig ures Secretary Baker' made ' public todayJ., :r , ' ' - 'The '.percentage of -Killed 1 much less now than, earlier in the war. The high mark of casualties in the French army was at the -battles-of -Charlerol and the Marne,,when 541 In every ten thousand "were-killed 'or wounded. The killed .have not -xce.eded 20 per cent of the total casualties. - " .iy(i.t r i ii i.;.t ir i v British Win Naval . Victo'ry Off Jutland London Sept. l.-(TJ.. P.) Four en emy mine, sweepera. were destroyed by British light naval forces off the Jut land coasts this morning., the admiralty announced today. - '. ,- ! s t This ; is , the second time in recent week British patrol ships have en countered German minesweepers In the North Sea. The popular belief Is that the activity of the mine sweepers may Indicate the German float; la preparing to come out again. - ..- ; t - Infantile Paralysis Germ discovered and Isolated Positive Cure for Dread Disease '. by Scientists; Method Employed in Finding Germ to Be . ' - Announced to the Medical Profession Soon. - ; - Philadelphia. Sept "Ld. N. &) The germ of Infantile paralysis, has been definitely, found and Isolated at the Jewish hospital after a scientific research of a year. Announcement has been made that the next step will; be the discovery of a cure. .-It Is believed that- the cure, will be found within,. a short time. -, ' ' Philadelphia physicians. Doctors Meyer Bolls-Cohen and George t. Heist and. Professor John A. Kolmer, of the University of Pennsylvania vara i re sponsible for the Isolation of the germ. The research work was supported by a Julius Mastbanm. " r - - ' s The germ was successfully Isolated f 1 V I ' fe'H I nw?.YitmmrTT'?wMii.si ThirdWeekiof'OffensiveBe gins With FUry' of Attack Unabated; 'British "-Win. ; London. Sept.1. (U. . P.) Italy's great offensive entered its, third week tonight with official statements plac ing the prisoners for the past 13 days at 27,301, men.-of "whom -720 were of ficers. 'The Carso and Isonzo-fronts tonight were the 'mostV desperately f ouglit-over points In Europe. Another big bag ov Teutonic pris oners was 'announced by Field Mar shal . Halg ' in his report 5 to the war office tonight. -v. . "Since the morning of July 21, when the British assault . opened,' 10,697 Germans have been captured ' by the British." Haig stated. " j - ;"East of yWysphaete,";-the. statement continued, "we carried out a. successful raid. ' Casualties were toflicted .on our enemy by our machine, gtfns as the en emy escaped, across, the open. -' KostUe 3Uld Beaten Off "Southwest. of Havrlncourt a. hostile raid was driven off yesterday- evening. "Normal 'aerial -fighting was re sumed. One hostile Plane was downed and another driven out of control; Ono of our flyers Is missing." . . - .? In the . western front French .troops successfully, fought off repeated at tacks by the German crown prince's picked troops, , seeking recapture of ground taken in ar sudden and violent assault on the Chemln Des Dames. A brief artillery bombardment yesterday-was succeeded by a combined French infantry- and aerial offensive over a mile front during the night. French planes, massed In force swept low-over the German trenches, raking them with fire and small shells. - The official word was ' that the (Concluded' on- Page Two,- Column Three) Is Now Confidently Xooked For by. sclenUsu of the Rockefeller Insti tute In 1913. The method was so com plicated, however, that It could not be established accurately. The method of the local -Institution : Is comparatively simple and will be announced to the medical profession. t t -The presence of another body found v' iwrujfws vkub inas" neen ex-. plained to a certain degree. Previously It! was thought this body was present only after death and Was contamina tion. Doctors Cohen and Heist and Professor Kolmer have discovered that this body. Is present before death and seems to ' be associated with the dis ease. Its' exact: status has not- been definitely determined. . v " ' N N LA' - 7 VIII MM FORCES 11 FIGHT 0(1 : -GREATER Tim Mass PJay of Finance. Com . mittee; and Senators of South Put to Temporary Rout Conscriptionists. - LOSERS CLAIM VICTORY ; OF ONE CONCESSION Committee Finally Compelled to Start Drive to Raise Sum $500,000,000. ; Washington. Sept 1. (U. P.) Tem porarily checked by the mass play of f inanoe committee forces and southern senators, wealth conscriptionists to night prepared to renew , their battle Monday to Increase tax on wealth; The 17 senators voting for the rejected Johnson amendment were: Democrats Ashhurst, Gore, Hollls, Husilag. . Johnson of South Dakota, Klrby, Thompson and VardaroaJv , Republicans Borah, Brady; Gronna, Johnson, of California, Jones Of Wash ington. Kenyon, La (Follette McNaxy and Norrls. . , : Attf Hrrtnsr annftal to lew ' a greater tax upon those deriving profit. out.of the world's sufferings. Senator. Johnson. California, went down to de feat today with his amendment to the revenue bill, asking an 80 per cent tax on war profits. But Johnson. Borah and. the rest have only begun the fight Ouf of their defeat today they find reasons for rejoicing. Their battle has forced the finance committee, origin ally bitterly opposed to increased war profits taxes, to begin a sturdy drive to pass Its amendment raising 3600, 000,000 more from this source than Its original bill provided. - ;- Victory Xs Claimed "This in 'Itself is '.a victory for-our pause." said Johnson tonight "It Is a conversion . ox - mose -wno ioujdi, us most bitterly to the principle that we have contended; for right along that great wealth must -bear- the greatest share of the war burden and- they must pay if the -people must fight ? "The .committee's - theory of; com puting the tax is fundamentally wrong! and never will win our support. but the result we have sought has been obtalnHl part . We, have net. given up Yfiv light norwiU- we until our last amendment la beaten v We .are. f lght lng the people's fight v From- all. over the ' land have come-" heartening mes sages and Jn every state we know the (jueeUon. of .who is lo pay la para mount" . y- t;.,M .' Senator Borah said In the-far west the people' are "deeply stirred on this question."- , , "We seemed to be beaten on our specific plan." he said, "but the senti ment, we have stirred up has , forced iConcloded oa Vt Two. Colnnra Foot) - News Index SECTION ONE 14 PAGES l. Wo Oiaia to Be Exported to Holland. Vilth .CoaaonpttoaMts pa Coatlane Eay'vThaet Prtoe Bui EMontial. Oermaa Socialista Approve Wilaoa Hot. Italy's Great Drive Coatuiaes. Katumal Army to Enter Service Shortly General Panning Wans of SlowPror- S. Half of Amy Cantonmonta aady. Joarnal &und-Vp 8peoia4 Annonnoed. ITational Army to Kobilixo ThU Week. om control eive Se.tisf action. Appellate .Draft Board Delayed. runuo Bcneoii aoopea Tnoiday. Pope Kay Offer OUier Peace Ti Fublio Scbooli Boopen Tuoida- Xdmnad L. Baylies Xauda Highway. Volunteers Sought by American yield Service. Portland Boy Under Artillery Tire. Vanguard of America' Air Fleet in Franco.. Anglo-French Taetic on, Went Front By Frank H. Simond. Another Inatance. of Wuaola'e Xypeo riy Ezpoeed. Camp Xowla Beady for Conscrlpti, Coait Artillerymem Go in for Athletics. Editorial. Brief Information. Town Topioa. ' B. B. Carpenter. Portland VUitor. Woman Heed Call to Conoarvo Food. Local Bed Croaa Work Reriewed. Milk Investigating Board Named. : T. 10. Baao Hospital Unit Heads Equipment. , Lanor to Ficnio at Colnmoia Beaeh,e 11. Budget Estimates ' Worry Council. : Salary Increases for City Employes. Portland Busmesa Hen Visit Centralia, Kajer H. H. Bobert Commits Suicide. j.wo men &uiea ea Jiigaway. Tillamook Dairies Thriving. Irrigation Bond 1 action Called. Oreron Counties Flan Laad Show T- hibits. . laker Day Celebrations at VanoeuTer and Oregon City. Southwest Washington Fair BjgSe- u. 13. : Astoria Bevels at Annual Bogatta. j Linn County Defense Council. Orgaa- . ised. 14.- Onstav Simon Xoumod by - Hoste of Friends. -Woodmen to Celebrate Home-eoming. Women Train to Become V arse's Aids. Historioel Society to Be Bemeved, . Belief Fund Sought t or Sumpter Or. -: SECTION TWO 16 PAt.ES . Sports Hews and Gossip. Automobiles and Good Bonds, Beal Estate, and Building. Want Ads. , Markets and Fmaaeev Marine. 34-9. - 10., 11-14. 16. :. It, SECTION THREE 12 PAGES: Pag ' L Illustrated Hews Barlow " " ,s. Bound-Up Champions to Compete la Vaudeville ' , la Stageland - " , Stage- Chatter S. .Photoplay Hews . Portland Girl Joins Fox Faroes . 4-5. The Week in Society ,.:i:- 1 . Able Help for Bed Cross - ' f Women in Odd Occupations " 7. .The Bealm of Muaio t -,., Hews of the Besoite - -k .(.' s.ii-i ; - 10. Foe the Stamp Collects . ( , Story for Children . i, ' , f " 11.. Women's Club Affairs - - i. The Book Corner , . " It, Fashion Chat By Kmc, ' Qui Tlva Beauty Talk By lolliaa BnsssU J - Heedlewoik Design - - . SECTION FOUR 4 ' PAGES : j-f' 1 : (Fiction. Xagasine) r . ' SXX3TION. FIVE PAGES (Comic rp HIS HISTQRUC PHOTOGRAPH-shows Nicholas, the ex-czar of , Russia, a prisoner at ;Tsarkoe Selo. ' It was .v taken before the deposed - monarch and his family were . transported' to Siberia,' . Nicholas is under close guard at all times and is said to take his fate philosophically. " He is re ported to follow closely the trend of events in the world and to pay, particular attention to physical exercise. , ' ' ; 1.--..' "Msjisjiiiiii mm iif1iiiiLrniiniiiiiw imih M ,?-,- -, r FAREWELLS TODAY Presidentr WjIson;::to7 ,Wish EverySoldiehGodrSpeedr Parades - Are , Arranged; Washington, 6ept 1. (TJ. P.) The country's prayers will go up Sunday for the new national - army, to be mobilized in part on . Wednesday. . With reports today : that churches throughout the . country would , honor democracy's - army -.came final ' plans for sehd-offs in : thousands of cities and - towps,; wherever, the first. 6 per cent, gather,, for departure . to canton ment a ! - These will reach, a climax on Tues day, when President -Wilson," congress and a vast column of paraders- march In honor of the district's quota. He will on ' Tuesday - send affection ate greetings-to every national army man -and 'wish him Godspeed; .- Many-cities held their formal -farewells ' for'-the men today. New York city's two divisions of the draft army will' be given the freedom of ' the -city on Tuesday. " , . The Liberty Bell -In Philadelphia was reverently uncovered today to call a second army, of democracy .together against an autocratic ruler. A. pageant in which the drafted men marched . passed the "Cradle of Lib erty." ' t& 5V t Jf? I' a ar- 1? .aims liiwAii a i . iKi mi . inaif s ... a if iw is ttm - t 11(111 f TQRECtlvtCfllJfuRrS I f ' -.- v " t I "t -t Baker Undertakers Row Pitt Up to Court to Settle " " f : ..... - . :: Firm Owning AU Cemeteries Declines to ell Burial Lot to Client : of Rival CeenwMandamus Is Resorted to in Order to . Compel SaleTrade Restraint sAlleged.. Baker, Or Sept. West Co., un dertakers, today field a mandamus ac tion against1 Welch 4b Co competitors and owners of all local cemeteries. The Utter company today refused to sell a bprial lot to W- A. Funk,;whos four-year-old daughter died last, night, the body being turned over to the plaintiff company for embalming and burial. Judge Anderson,, signed the order for the writ of .mandamus, which was la sued by the county clerk and served on . the manager of Welch & Co. The bearing Is set for next Friday. .In the meanUme the disposal of the body is unsettled " Kf forts are being made to find a temporary burial lot until the court rulestln th mandamus case. . The complaint alleges that the ac tion of Welch A Co, in refusing to sell tha lot Is to stifle competition by West & Co, and not through any,, necessity of tha defendant company.- which . re cently 'advertised that after Septem ber 1 they would sell no lots, except to people who employed them' to care for bodies, - furnish, coffins' and conduct funerals. When the father of the .glrj tendered the price of a' lot today., the sale was - refused in .accordance' with 4 ! ' T fr.-l SAVED ;BY RED . CROSS Nurses -Are Mothering " 750 Tots Who Were .Driven ' -. From Their; Homes. Washington,. Sept. L-i-(TJ , P.) Driven from home by the storm of ga bombs rained on their city by the Germans, ' 750 'little 'children of 'Toul, France, are being ' mothered by v Red Cross nurses rushed to the front from Paris. Cables J detailing the plight of these babies,, ranging In age from one to eight years, were received by- the Red Cross war council tonight,. When the. first Red Cross group. bringing : a doctor, a . nurse . and , two assistants, a . bacteriologist, a director and two motherly women .aides, ar rived at the front, 'they "f0tind 760 lit tie-boys and girls herded .together in an old barracks amid dirt and filth, wi thout bed or pillow or , even: a chair to', rest upon. Disease and. Infection abounded about the - frightened chil dren. , . . Within two days they were cleaned up - and moved: to the .10- new, brick buildings 'supplied by -the government There the children will be kept until the war la over or until the Germans have been driven. off. K . the advertisement. The suit was filed Immediately. .. E. r. West, president of the plaintiff company, was formerly v manager for Welch dc Co., but four months ago went Into business for himself.: Sines then practically all of the local business has gone to him,. Welch & Co. getting out utile, nut until now the latter com pany has never refused to sell lots. - Attorneys for the plaintiff take the position that the action of the defend ants is in restraint of trade, that the unaertaaing business Is of a voluntary nature and that Welch & Cot Is at tempting, to reestablish the ' monopoly on the undertaking business, which it formerly held, having no competitor untu west went into business. ; - V i" 1 ' " Recruiting Drops : V ;To New; Low Mark t, j"" f ssssssssBBwawasaswawas,. r"cjtit ' 'Washington, Sept. li-KL.wl S.)--A new low . watermark in regular, army recruitlnr was touched, yesterday 6 S3, New .York led with 80, Pennsylvania reported (9 ud ' Massachusetts 0. - r - -1 - - - ....v : . x v.'-x A . "a f -f x nii f g, -&efr'- 'i m&J TEUTON rGAS. BOMBS EARLY DEGISI00 ON PRICE BASIS VITALTO WEST , W4 - sss-JwSJBjBBSJSSBS-SSBSBfSWws Fall ' Planting Begins Iri Two Weeks i and Argument Is Assurance "of Higher Price Will Stimulate Production. NORTHWEST ASKS FOHr LOCAL MILLING ORDER Farmers See No Incentive Under Present Ruling to'-, f Plant Larger Areas. ? . . - i i i - i Hour Stoops 40 Cents. " ' Effective Monday ' morning. ' flouy prices in Portland will b reduced 40 cents per-barrel. It was announced last night by J. - W. Ganong of the -Portland " ' Flouring Mills company, speak- lng -for Theodore B. Wilcox, " federal grain commissioner for the Northwest. The' reduction will maka "No. ea - I grades of patent flour $11.20 " a barreL Mr. Ganong said this probably would be i-only vtha , v flrat of a series of reductions , as the price of wheat becomes stahUised on the lower - basis - as outlined In the government's -- : Indications are that the re-; duced flour price will find re-''w . flection in a lower price of bread as soon as tha benefits . ek reach the bakers. . siJ- Much depends on the government's decision of the appeal to dealgnate a Portland price basis for-wheat on an equality with Chicago. Without-favor ' m r aS A SW f s4 rvrk 4 MasMMavsyndlMApasislA. : e w Mvw4Ssay'M aasT esJsSAA(asBafa( ssv a,W 1UVI vsasjss Vl the Oregon wheat production In lilt may be materially affectedw - k The government , has . asked Oregon to increase the area of wheat , planted for the lill crop by 60 per cent .. ZSSOuO. aorea. f Similarly : the ; govern, ment has asked that the area planted ' to try tor be increased by 41 ; .' cent or 12,000 sores . v.'-., Jrrompt Actios Apparent . U the price basis of la-tO a-bushar' HacNdt 1 northern, Chicago,- as 4es!e . natea oy. ut government, is not mo&i-. fled to Include recognition Of Port--land on an 'equal - basis, growers de clare the i Incentive to plant more wheat for next year will be lessened. As. fall planting begins In about two weeks, r and the state grain com mi tee COoaclaaed ea Page Two, 'Comma Ose IS HASTE SLOWLY, AND: IS GETTING MEN FIT . ; .... fc'y- t: General in France Tells Amer ican People That Action May Be Expected in Spring Paris, Sept. 1. Major General Per-, shlng sent back home tonight through the United Press assurances that the United States is "making haste glowtov preparing her troops for the firing line.- . "The American people," he declared, "mast recognise the necessity for pa tience. r The American organisation for . war will take time. It cannot be ao compllshed by waving wand. "I wish to emphasize that American officials from the president doefn are doing the most efficient work. The war organisation steps to - date are wonderful when it is realised that the American people have always been a peace loving people,, unwilling before the war to sanction 'any thing indicat ing war preparations, a large army, etc. -; v - - "Americans at home, in Europs-and elsewhere have a tendency to - think something is wrong that-our prep arations are too slow. : It would be better for them to begin to realize the six of tha entire undertaking and have patience. . , ,r 'The coming winter will be a period of preparation;, in tb spring w can begin to think of action," - . ,f - Don't Miss New Today 5000 Records ' Itualcal Zastramenta--s4 I WANT 6000 phonograph- reor j ords. Will pay the best price. -V irew-Today Injhls column, which precedes the Want Ads, you - will find a -' team of horses with. full set of ; harness, advertised for 170. -,- - Apartments' ;' JTurnlshed and Vnfuralshe&-43 - r - ONe & room, also 2 room modern . furnished apt. All outside rooms,, flooded with light Close to bust- L - ness center and high schooL- Pri vate porches. - - Ixok over the NETW " TOD AT i 4 COLUMN of today's Journal '- - There you can find the NEW Ada. theones that carry crisp, fresh -bargains. Offers that are fastnaN lng because , they - ar , NEW- M If you" should fail to find fust - what you are looking for here you h may rest assured, that the article. Or whatever it is, may be located tn the WANT AD columns, ths .-, clearinr bouse for Portland's buy- ' lng and selling; public - PERSHING MING