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y THE OREGON DAILY : JOURNAL, PORTLAND, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1918. EARLY ACTION ON FIXING OF WHEAT ADVOCATED McNary and Sinnott Seek As surance to Farmers Before Crop Planting Time Comes. DIRECTOR BARNES OPPOSED Head of the Grain Corporation Thinks Time Not Ripe for De cision Appeal Is Possible. rations of grain ' growers and : elevator owners from the wheat and corn belt of the country told Director General Mc Adoo, It was announced Sunday, that there are millions of bushels of wheat, corn and oats ready for shipment to the Atlantic's seaboard If terminals can be provided. i f ;. -. -. They assured the director general that there Is no danger of food calamity. They said that if millions of bushels of wheat and oats now stored in elevators and warehouses along the western rail roads were moved to the mills for grind ing or for shipment" to the' allies, the soft corn now endangered; could be put into the elevators and the entire grain situation saved easily. Director General, McAdoo told a dele gation of IS big grain growers and ele vator owners of Central and Western states he would move their grain from specified points as soon as they named the point, and could ship 6,000,000 bush els of grain east in four days if ter minals are provided. ' . WILLIAMS HUkLS HOT REPLY AT HITCHCOCK Washington. Feb. 4. (WASHINGTON AUREAL, OK THE JOURNAL.) Rec ognizing that the farmers of the North west should receive some assurance a to the price of wheat for the coming year by March 1. so that they may pla.n their crops. Senator McNary and Repre sentative Qlnnott are striving to secure early action from the grain corporation of the food administration. Report have reached Washington that In the Far West the government was reported to have already fixed the price of wheat and the "principal pri mary markets" where this price would be paid. Nothing of the sort has been done, and Julius Barnes, head of the grain corporation, has Informed the food administration that he does not think the time has arrived to decide those questions. Isformatlon ftosght By Farmers Senator McNary . and Representative Sinnott will attempt to convince him that he Is mistaken. Farmers must know soon, they argurf) in order to decide the acreage they will put in wheat, in barley and in oats. Fixed conditions, when the farmers know what to expect, will pro mote larger production, it is argued. Many, farmers In the northwest were dissatisfied with results last year, and they may turn their backs on wheat growing if they are unable to learn any thing about market conditions for . the coming year. This is the view supported by A. 'V. Swift of linker. Or., who Is here as a representative of the Farmers' union. He was one of the wheat farmers' com mittee which went to the White House last year, following which a more favor able price for northwest wheat was . named. Another appeal to the White House may be made this year if the food ad ministration fails to respond to the ef forts now under way to secure consid eration for Portland as a primary mar ket. . Senator McNary has for some time had In mind the Introduction of a bill to amend the food control act in such a way . as to ojfen the, door for the north west farmer to a basic market. He will hold back the bill unless it appears that the same result cannot be otherwise achieved. . The food control act as it stands is generally interpreted to guarantee a $2 price of wheat at the "principal primary markets" In 1918. with a prospect that the food, administration may increase it beyond 12, as may be deemed twise. Many have assumed that the price will again, be fixed at f 2.20 Chicago, as it was last year. Wheat Price May Be Higher Tnis . may. be a fair guess, t but it is only a guees, as the food administration has made no announcement beyond the fact toat ' Mr. Barnes thinks it is too early to act. His idea evidently la that the price cannot properly be named until there is a better idea about world ' production in the coming year. If the government named a price now it would have that price to 'pay even if peace returns to the - world. By holding off. If peace should come before harvest, . tne government would pot have to. pay more than the S2 named m the law. Under a guarantee that wheat will be not less than $2 a bushel, that it likely . will be as much as last year, or 2.20, and that it may be $2.40 or $2.50. the view In food administration circles Is that the farmer ought not to worry, but can go ahead with his planting with full assurances that in due time he will have a remunerative price. (Continued from Pag One) peachment If he did that?" Interrupted months after they -were formed, because Senator GaUinger, the Republican leader, they had no machine guns. ' ' i "No ; I believe he would be within his Mistakes and Delays ' Alleged '" " constitutional right." answered Senator e found thousands of men drilling 2,l.am5 ;, v with wooden sticks for weeks and months "We hear the complaint that there la because of mistakes and delays In or- no war plan In Washington." he con- dering Rifles last spring. We found tinuJ?' . ?ott vr. ber anything mea sent to France without opportunity 5?JUfwId? EIt&er JPershtag Is going to for rifle or machine gun practice.. We fight this war or he should be put out rounl a aistressmg amdunt of sickness J'S0."- - " "'In the camps and unnecessary mortality "Tmnk of congress trying to tell due to lack of clothing and overcrowd- Pershlng how to fight the war. You." ing. We found camp hospitals without he saw. pointing to Senator .Hitchcock drainage, plumbing or heat and sick ,1. know ,w than I know about men without nurses.- fighting the war. and I don't know any- : "We found that we must depend upon iSEl o . . . overworked and overstrained France i.2P2n SenatoI Hitchcock character- for machine guns for ground use until fCLryBawer 'J sU,2't.eJ of th nly the end of this, year and that ?t.! 8o ?brod as-rwlld exag- not over on. tenth of the new Brown- T-l, ' 1nair .-enrl?? of peim" lng machine guns on which we are to sylvanla inouired. "how the secretary .....-. -a. fL7a" hacom to b Jar from the We founJ tkat the first heavy artillery of American make cannot be received Move Grain, Growers' Plea Washington. Feb. 4. (I. N. 8.) Dele- not in it with the senator from Ne braska." said Senator Williams. Pro-German Talker Recalled "He has made a-strong indictment of the administration. .He said that he was afraid to tell all he knew because he feared he might be accused. of giv ing Information to the enemy.. Well, he told about all he knew and be did give Information to the enemy. ' V1 "Mr. President, this day ' takes me back to a time not long ago In this very chamber when men stood up here and demanded an embargo on munitions to Great Britain. That was-; almost, as foolish as this war cabinet. That was the German game then., i The German ! game today is muckraking the admin istration. 4 .--.'. "If all the senator from Nebraska says is true, we are whipped already. We are out of this war game right now." Going back into history. Senator Williams declared that committees have always hindered. "Look at the committee of assistants that almost 1 ruined Lincoln," he said. "A congress or a committee cannot carry on a war." Americans Doing Great Work "It the president is a fool, how are you going to give him brains, by an act of congress." said. Senator Williams. "If the president hasn't brains enough to perform his functions he can't be lent brains. . - "The trouble with you, and the senator from Oregon," Senator Williams added, addressing Senator Hitchcock, "is that you have been engaged in the investi gating business and the business of an investigating committee is to look for specks. " "The American people have met this situation with magnificent efficiency and I am tired of hearing them upbraid ed. My boys are there and your boys are there and I deny the right of anyone to draw this indictment against the American people. "You have told me and the senator from Oregon has told me that the presi dent and the secretary of war don't know. If "they don't know, how in God's name do you know, for you are not their peers In mental ability or activity." Senator Williams declared "proudly that there has been no charge of moral crookedness in this war. Get Together to Win, He Pleads "What's the use of standing up here ana muckraking the administration V Senator Williams demanded. "Shoes?" We bought too many Bhoes.. What if we did We can sell them later. The senator from Nebraska tells we sent munitions abroad that had to be sent back- again, I doubt it. But what if we did? "What's the use of all this? Can't we all stand together and help win this war? There isn't a Republican in this House .who isn't with the president, ex cept a few fool pacifists, whose political ruture is settled for them anyway font we know we've got to win? And don't we know that the only way to win is by supporting the man .who happens to be in authority, no matter who he is?" "All this, talk about a. war cabinet to strengthen the president's hands, to hold up his,, arm," Wilson sneered. "Who's to know what will strengthen his hands and hold , up his arm ? -The president himself, of course, and he doesn't want this war cabinet." "Do you know what I would do If you tried to force the bills upon me?" said Senator Williams. "Why. I'd veto them. and If you passed them over my veto I'd refuse to obey them.? . Stupid Criticisms - Hade ' "Doesn't the senator think that the president would come mighty near im facts. :: "I wouldn't like to attempt to an swer," replied Senator Hitchcock. "I consider it reckless. I think It is a terrible thing to mislead t the people. My own opinion is that the secretary of war has not been in touch with the shipping board." Hitchcock Refases to Give Figures Senator Hitchcock, continuing his dis cussion of the shipping problem, de clared that he had been informed that the efficiency of the ships was but from until July, and hot much before 1919 can we expect to use in France Ameri can heavy artillery in any great quan tity. - What we get . before this fall we must buy from England. 5- "We found that we are only' now. nine months after entering the war. Just beginning work on two great pow der plants to cost sixty million dollars. We found that though . the medical department asked for hospital ships last July they have .not yet been or- 30 to 60 per cent because of Inefficient dered though sick and wounded men loading by the Quartermaster deDart-1 ar- now already beginning; to come ment. Senator Williams challenged this j home and it will take three months to statement ana senator - Hitchcock re- fused to divulge the source of his In formation. .. . "I have the figures here beside me of the available shipping," said Senator Hitchcick. "I have deducted that shin- equip the ships.' Blander Ssrpass Belief Senator Hitchcock said, however. Sec retary Baker "worked desperately hard'! and threw, the blame almost, entlrelv ; upon the system of government ' He re- Zl",S .n!ar5l for PassenKers I - have ; minded the senate that Francelnd Eng deducted the tankers and I have de-. land had hoth ht. mruX JL ducted the shipping which cannot pos sibly go into ocean service and the re sult is so pitifully .small that I. with some others, am inclined , to believe that we will 'be facing a disaster when the truth becomes known." Lack of Ships Dae to Congress Senator Williams declared that the lack of ships was not an executive fault, but the fault" of congress. , He declared he had Introduced a bill In the senate within a week of the outbreak of the European war to provide American ships and it had been cast aside. Why can't we drop all of this," Sen ator Williams said, "and go ahead and uphold the arms of tne president in the way the president wants them upheld? That's the best way." You don't expect the bill to pass, do you?" he asked, and Senator Hitchcock nodded his head. . What Is your motive?" continued Williams. "I can understand how In times of peace, I might want to put a Republican president in a hole and I can understand how a Republican, In times of peace, might want to put a Democrat president in a hole, but I times of war, wants to put a Demo- V wlu"ns snipmeni to Europe is cratlc president in a hole. Do you want i LUO us ol several sreai to get a wave of sentiment for the bill and then have the president veto it and make him temporarily unpopular?" "Let us unite and wage war in order that we may put an end to war as a national policy. Let's wage war as Americans, not -as Republicans or Democrats, or" north erners or southerners, but as Americans stamp out evils and I will send my boy to fight with the boy from Massa chusetts, to fight for liberty." Secretary of War Baker's recent an nouncement of the number of men the United States would send to France during '1918 was declared "an exaggera tion of the wildest sort" and "absolutely preposterous" by Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, ranking Democratic member of the senate military affairs commit tee, in a speech In the senate this after noon. Hitchcock Denies Baker's Statements Secretary Baker told the military af fairs oommittee last Monday that the United States would have 600,000 men In France "early in 1918," ajd would be ready to send 1,500,000 before the end of the year. L. "The present condition of shipping is nothing less than shocking." said Sen ator Hitchcock. "The present supply is worse than alarming. I am 5 a a Something : Uiay and ever; day ';'";u"'iliiil.llnlMl, ii'fiiiiiuiiiiiriiiiuiyniiiia FEBRUARY ' f$ 1 r 2 . 1 N OT a day of fasting, or of extreme self - sacrifice, but a day in which to take an inventory as to what, extent you are observing thrift, and just what readjustment you can make for increasing it. 'I Thrift is the most important habit you can cultivate the most profitable and most satisfactory. Thrift of food, thrift of time, thrift of clothing, thrift of money, are just a few forms. Buying War Savings Stamps, Liberty Bonds, etc, is a most commendable form of thrift. Having a savings account and adding to it regularly, as well as paying all bills through a checking account, are two other judicious forms of thrift. I':' . Open a Savings or Checking Account to- day make this old-established bank your banking home. LADD & TILT0N BANK 1 Washington and Third ; - 1 Washington and Third ; r m land had both been compelled to re construct their government to nreet the war requirements. "We shall lfe compelled to come to It," he stated. The senator related reports of blun ders, which he said "almost surpass be lief." "I am told."' he said, "that the number of shoes ordered for" the army so far amounts to 21,000,000 pairs ; and as we know, thousands of these are too small. I am told that one order of iron bolts completely stunned the com mercial world. I. am told that some genius In one -of the war department bureaus succeeded in shipping to France a carload of sawdust. I am told that three different orders were made for bags for gas masks one was, for a mil lion; another for two million, while a third was for five million. Fortunately, one of the civilian committeemen out side the department discovered the con flicting orders and the enormous aggre gate, secured a revision and stopped the Diunaer. Up to Congress to Make Change Senator .Hitchcock called America's transportation system "a gigantic wreck." More than 2.000.000 tons of Eastern harbors, he said. President Wilson, he concluded, does not know the real situation : because, "like a king surrounded by a court, he hears only one side." "It is up to us to change the system," he declared. , . - . Hitchcock attacked the fuel adminis tration for its failure to solve the coal question. Its shutdown order.- he said has set the country aghast and would not. have been Issued had a war cabinet been on the Job. Lack of coordination, he said, brought about a condition. . nci c uioio was ncxi i y iwu mriuun ions of freight piled up at New York wait ing for ships and only 83,000 at New Orleans where 250,000 tons of shipping was waiting to be loaded. Hundreds of millions of bushels of corn, waits out west for cars to be moved and actual corn shipments are -only 50 per cent of normal because oC lack 'of coordination. Corn is available as never before, he said, and: a. war, cabinet would devise methods of moving It T "Shall the congress of the United States not even be permitted to amend defective machinery?" demanded the senator. "Shall the senate be pro hibited from discussing bills duly re ported and widely demanded by public n! opinion? I cannot believe our duty to airaio to .... , j , i w IIOOVERIZED WEEK GIVEN DAY BY DAY M OJf DAY WheaUess. Oae meatless meaU as T e s d a y Mea ties wheatless meal. Wednesday Wheatless, e e meatless, meal Tharsday A meatless meal t s wheatless meal. ' .. Friday A meatless meal; a wheatless meal. Saturday Porkless; one wheat less meal. Saaday A meatless mekli m wheatless meal. STRIKE IN GERMANY IS FAILURE, IS INDICATION (Continued from Put. One) sible as the hour for the supreme test drew hear.' , J Travelers reaching Amsterdam from Germany early today reported German troops . concentrating in the districts where strike disorders . have been most noticeable. From the -same source, it was learned that the commander at Munster, capi tal of Westphalia.- had Issued a procla mation declaring that "Germany is facing her hour of destiny." "If the front totters, political resist ance will be shattered," he said. "Let everyone unite to end the strikes and punish the agitators. quoted further as saying that the mid dle of this week should see normal conditions prevailing In the German Industrial districts. go too deeply Into figures, for one might be charged with giving information of value to the enemy were one to tell the truth about the present supply of ship ping. AH who are Informed as to the pres ent supply of out shipping were thun derstruck at the statements of Secretary Baker before the military affairs com- mittee. His sanguine predictions as to I our ability to ship men to Europe and I to supply them, when there are exagger ations of the wildest sort Let any senator take a pencil and paper and figure the matter out for himself. Under the most favorable cir cumstances It takes five tons of shipping to supply one man In France. I mean by that, that the ships must sail regu lar ly cross rapidly, and be loaded and unloaded promptly. These figures take ; no account of transports necessary to j take men across the ocean. They con- 1 template only the supplying of men i over there. It makes no allowances for sinkings, no allowances for delays, no allowances for bad loadings, all of which have already occurred and are still occurring. It makes no allowances for hospital ships which will be needed. Shipping Board Alone Knows ! Now figure up what total tonnage of shipping, in constant and effective operation, would be necessary to supply a million men in Europe' supposing we could get them over there! We find that for a supply alone it will require, five million tons of shipping In constant use. Where Is that coming from and when is It coming? We all know the total tonnage of shipping now avallabue to the United States Is nothing like that amount. We all fear that It will not approximate that amount a year from now. I refer, of course, to ocean shipping. I -shall not undertake to say how much It falls short. Any senator interested can ascertain it from the shipping board. . "Yet, the secretary of war, .who la compelled to depend on shipping to get his army and supplies across the ocean, is so out of touch with the shipping board and shipping authorities and shipping Information that he makes a ' statement that is absolutely preposter- ' ous. I have no doubt of his sincerity, ! but his act Indicates again the extent to which one department is out of j touch with another." I Senator Hitchcock reviewed the testi mony given before the senate mill&ry 1 affairs committee during the past two months to prove the lack of coordina tion in the government and of the need of a war cabinet and a munitions, dictator to bring about an efficient j conduct of the war.- I Present System Is Obsolete "We found in the present system," he said, "such an obsolete and cumber some organization as to make efficiency well nigh Impossible. We found pro visions for checks, cautions, delays, de bates, and disagreements, but little or no provision for prompt decision and energetjc action. . We found the war machine much better equipped ' with brakes than with motive power. "Confusion of authority, red tape, cir cumlocution and Incapacity have their . natural fruit. Nine months after we entered the war, and three months after our men were gathered In the canton- j menta. -we found In the dead of winter) tens of thousands of men without over-1 coats, tens of thousands lacking woolen 1 breeches, tens of . thousands without woolen- blouses, and other serious 'short ages. - v found most of the machine gun companies : unable - to drill two the people would be performed by such weak abdication of responsibility." The answer to the woes of the nation, the senator said, is a war cabinet and minister of munitions. WWtlock on Belgium Brand Whitlock' recital of German atroc ities in Belgium in The Sunday Journal every Sunday beeinnios Sunday. February 17 - Conditions are normal In" Essen," the newspapers said. ' The Vorwaerts said, discussing the first courtmartial of strike agitators In Moablt, a suburb of Berlin, the building was heavily guarded by troopd and that citizens were excluded. ' Austrian Troable Beaewed The first case called was that of Henrlch Schultz,' an independent So cialist. .He received six months im prisonment for distributing strike lit erature. Dock and factory workers at Trieste. the Austrian naval base, who walked out last week, only to return within a few hours, have struck again, it was reported here today. Several corps of German soldiers home on leave, are said to have been among those fomenting the strikes in Germany. They have been recalled to the front. By Lowell Mellett London, Feb. 4. (U. P.) German militarism faced its supreme test with in its own borders today. The com mon people, whose general strike to fnforce demands for food and consid eration of peace negotiations reached its climax In rioting and bloodshed last week, had the alternative of returning to work or paying the extreme penalty death by the firing squad. The fate of Germany and In a les ser degree, the whole world depends upon the strikers' decision. If they submit to the supreme com mand's ultimatum. It will mean that German militarism has won another victory and that the central powers may again concentrate their efforts in preparing for the spring drive against the allies. Workers Expected to Submit If they do not submit, bloody civil war throughout Germany and Austria Hungary will result. There Is a tendency hero to belle v-s that the death threat will temporarily cow the workers Into submission. There Is belief, too, that such a victory for the militarists will furnish only a short respite. If the coming German offensive Is costly' and the slaughter heavy, which la anticipated, another uprising by the people is regarded as almost certain. The statement issued from the inter allied conference at Versailles yester day, declaring for vigorous prosecution of the war until a peace can be ob tained "based on the principles of freedom. Justice and respect for inter national law," Is expected to be seized upon by German leaders to convince the people that . It Is necessary to fight to. the last men to crush the allies on the western front. Yell of Censorship Draws Tightly ' At the same time, the statement Indi cates that the allies have made su preme preparations to nullify such an attempt. Therefore It Is believed that If there Is no revolution - In Germany now It Is merely postponed. The veil of censorship around the central powers was still tightly drawn today and was expected to be even more opaque than heretofore if pos- Ratlon Reduction Angers Amsterdam, Feb. 4. (I. N. S.) There were Socialistic manifestations in Ber lin and the industrial suburbs on Sun day, despite the order of the govern ment prohibiting public gatherings and processions, according to advices from the frontier. They indicate that there were clashes between the military po lice and the strikers, but no details were forthcoming. The cut down of rations for the families of strikers has aroused the working class to a high pitch of anger. A number of strikers who protested against this procedure were arrested. Socialist members of the reichstag held a meeting and adopted a resolu tion against the arrest of Herr Ditt man, at the same time denouncing the government for the attitude it has taken against the working classes. The Socialist leaders, however, are coun selling the strike leaders against vio lence. General von Kessel, commander of the Brandenburg province, who is act ing as Von Hindenburgs chief aide in handling the strike situation, was quoted in a press dispatch as saying that "the backbone, of the strike has now been broken." The officer , was Strikes Believed Subsiding Washington. Feb. 4. The Industrial strikes In Germany have reached their zenith and are now subsiding. This Is indicated In neutral press expressions reaching the state department. Baker. Contractor Secures a Big Job Baker, Or., Feb. 4. Contractor J. A. Hosklns of this city has returned from Ontario, where he signed the contract recently awarded to him at approxi mately $150,000 for the construction of the drainage system of the Ontario drainage project, which will, drain about 10,000 acres in close proximity to that place. Mr. Hosklns expects to get the work under way within the next two weeks and to finish the contract not later than August 1. Three miles of open ditch must be built and more than 11 miles of tile pipe laid. L. R. Stock man of Baker Is the consulting engineer. Liquor Store Robbed Chicago. Feb. 4. (L N..! S.) Three automobile bandits robbed the wholesale liquor store of James F. Crowe, on the west side, late Saturday ' afjterrtoon, of about $200 In cash, and escaped. South Bend Went Over Top South Bend, Wash.. Feb. 4. South Bend and vicinity responded splendidly I to the call for funds for the Y. W. C. A. in the recent drive. South Bend raised $300. her quota being $125. : Mrs. John T. Welsh was In charge of the drive. Early Resident of ; Union Passes Away La Grande, Or.. Feb. 4. Funeral aenr ices were held Wednesday at Union for Mrs. Caroline Dewey Blakeslee, who died at the home of her daughter. Mrs. J. R. Oliver, here Monday night Mrs. Blakeslee. who was past 90 years of age. came to the Grande Ronde valley in 1S65. She la survived by one son. Dr. L. K. Blakeslee of Pendleton, and two daughters, Mrs. W. A. Wells of Union and Mrs. J. R. Oliver, of this, city... The services were held In the Episcopal church at Union, which she helped to organize in 1869. Milk Producers Put : - Embargo on Chicago" New Tbrk. Feb. 4.(L N. a) Oyster producers, angered by the 12-cent-a-quart price fixed by the milk commis sion, have reduced the city's supply by . thousands of , gallons, and declared that fully 90 per cent of the normal -. supply will be cut off. 4 . Only governmental Interference . can check them. It Is said. Milk la allowed to come to Chicago only from within' a radius of 100 miles, but health authori ties today .threatened, to rescind that order and allow it to be shipped to thfl city from any distance. . 1 . .,. ... John Keen Asked to Serve Victoria. B, C Feb. 4. (I. N. &)- The cabinet has asked John Keen. Lib eral member In the provincial house, t become speaker of the assembly. It has been announced here. L i i eoooia VjoaowsKv in his concert tonight at 1 1 in M mi a ie muaitoriiim use THE KNABE piano "The World V Best" Exclusive Dealers The j C MorcJiandJa cc Merit 00 Seventh , V. Merchandise of cJ Merit Onf With Spring Just 'Around the Corner Here's - Ain Interesting Sale of New " Spring House Apparel 98c-$1.19 - $1 .48 - $ 1 .98 - $2.95 - $3.49 Apron Dreste 98c New gingham apron dresses in slipover style, with pointed yokes and front lacing. 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