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BORDEN GOES TO NEW YORK Visit Made for Co-operation of Resources of Canada and U. S. WASHINGTON. Feb. 28. (Mr Robert Bordon, the premier of Can ada, went to New York tonight after three days of conferences on war problems with officials of the Ameri can government. He will spend sev eral days in New York and before starting for Ottawa may return to Washington to discuss further some of the questions taken up dvrjng his visit. . Before leaving Sir Robert ex- Ire3sea me greatest saxisiaenou over what had been accomplished He said he Came to "insure more ef fective co-operation In utilizing the resources of the United States ana Canada in the great common pur nose" and had been received In a most friendly spirit. He added: I have had many conferences with officials of the government and have every reason to believe that mj "visit will be attended with marked advantages." Persistent reports that the Canad ian premier had sought the transfer to Canada of a art of the British credits granted by the treasury were denied br Secretary McAdoo. -The Trime minister, Mr. McAdoo said, had discussed, in the conference the heavy trade balance now existing in favor of the United States. . ,, TRAP AND FIELD By PETER P. CARNEY Editor National Sports .Syndicate. Bob. Em si ie. the veteran National -Baseball league umpire, is the presi dent of the St. Thomas, Ont.. Gun club, and recently promoted the in ternational irapsnooung tournament here. Y . . - " The shotgun lias supplanted the rifle in . modern banking institu tions. There was a, time when a banking establishment wasn't fully equipped unless there were rifles in convenient places; but since one of the1 largest trust companies in - Chi cago, ;I1L. substituted scatter-guns for rifles many others have done likewise. A school was opened to instruct the employes in the .han dling of guns,' and 30 of the pupils have become regulars on the Lincoln Park traps- , ( . , The nineteenth shoot of the In dians trill be held at Cedar Point. 0.. in June. This will be, the eighth visit to Cedar Point. " . vision of the U. fc.X'iaUlled traps at the aviation fcchools, nd request ed the -ammunition companies to supply the names of possible, "in structors. After the traps were put In rtlare ' pnnneh enthusiastic tran- shooteraf who had enrolled in the air uirisiuu yuiuiccicu t.v p.1' mail tion to others, so that it has not been necessary for the government to en gage outside Instructors. ' While the war has proven a detri ment tomany sports, it has greatly aided trap&hooitng and helped place It in the front rank as a sport. . ' The Lake Placid (N. Y.) Golf and Country club will install traps and go into trapshoDtlng on an extensive scale this season. More than 200 golf and country clubs have' taken up trapshooting as a sport, the past two vpar It civet th members a wholesome exercise when it is impos sible ot find any other recreation out of doors. It also keeps up the Interest in the club. If the experts who lay out the golf Minks , would make provision for traps when lay ing out a course they would save" the club considerable expense later on. ; Lloyd Lewis, one of the best known professional trapshooters of the east, and a most efficient han- TELL THE PUBLIC WHAT YOU HAVE TO SELL J Is It a Farm, House, Cow, Horse, or piece of furniture? N will dispose of it for you. THE COST IS SMALL .' "'': : TRY IT ii STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY Phone 23 dler of shoots, be it known, is the burgess of Atglen, Pa. Philadelphia Wis a municipal trap- shooting team composed of some of the leading city, Wfiials. and at would, like to meet a similar team from some other city in either a match fhoot or a telexraph or -tele-, phone shoot. Among the officials who, would compete would be James Robinson, superintendent oT notice; Director of I'ublic Safety Wilson; Walter Gilbert, chier clerk to the department of public safety, and William IS. Severn. These are all shots of many years' experience. . r Wilmington (Pel.) will stage a big handicap this spring, as will the Portland (Or.) Gun fclub. These clubs hope to interest the shooters who would under ordinary circum stances attend the Eastern and Pa cific Coast handicaps. .. -J Car Shortage Pats Down Production of Coal WASHINGTON. Feb. 2 Because of the car shortage and railroad con gestion, bituminous coal production in January and February was some 3,000,000 tons below that In the cor responding months of 1917, the Na tional Coal association announced to night. The total lost output for the two months, the statement Raid is estimated at 31,000,000 and the sug gestion is made that passenger traf fic on the eastern roads be further reduced so that empty coal cars irav bo moved back to the mines. "The entire country is still face to face with a serious coal short age." said the announcement. "i.-vcn a slight cold snap is all that Is nec essary to bring about a repetition of the suffering caused by the short. age of bituminous coal in January." Vanderlip Overworks in ' War Savings Campaign LOS ANGELES. Feb. 28. Frank A. Vanderlip of the New York City, director of the thrift stamp and war saving certificate campaign,- who has been speaking In Southern California for the past week, returned from San Diego tonight suffering from an indisposition caused by too constant work. Mr. Vanderlip cancelled two en gagements for tonight and went to his ranch near Itedondo Beach. He said he hoped to be able to resume his work in a day or two. lileeting of on-Partisan League Is Prevented IOUX FALLS, S. Feb. 28. A. meeting of nearly SO 0 members of j the Non-Partisan League which wis scheduled to beJield at Madison. S. D., this afternoon, was preventedJlf byj orders .of Mayor Robinson yti Madison, according to advices receiv ed here tonight- -Mayor Robirfson in a telephone conservation declined to state the exact Kround for his action but declared thafc"fhe meeting had not been . advertised previous to to day. He said the first knowledge city officials had of the proposed meeting came when a number of league members appeared In town to day. A meeting was held later at a farm house outside the city. License to Cover U, 5. Shipments Sent Abroad WASHINGTON. Feb. 28. To fa cilitate small personal shipments by persons in this country to American soldiers and sailors and Bed Cross workers abroad, a special license covering Euch shipments has been issued! throusrV the customs service and postoffice department. In mak ing this announcement tonight the war trade board said this license does not rier-mit any shipments by persons n this Country to American prisoners of war, but was issued to obviate the necessity of securing an individ ual license for each exportation. Shipments by mail under this li cense. J the announcement said, must be made in accordance with rules and regulations soon to be announced hy th nostoffice department t- . TTIE EIGHT-HOUR DAY URGED ON BASIS OF EFFICIENCY Gompers Pleads for Better Economy, Health and -. Morals Among, Men WAR STEP POINTEtOUT Long Hours Lead to Drink, He Says; Employers Will See Truth CHICAGO, Feb. 2S. Samuel Compels,- president of the American Federation of Labor, made an ap peal today in behalf of an-eight-hour uay for employes in the meat pack ing industry at the stock yards wage arbitration. ile appeared as a wit ui.su for the "employes and hirf tt'stl money was eagerly listeiided to by "Mother" Mary Jones, an organizer for the United Mine workers, and several hundred oilier representa tives of organized labor from all sections of the country. After tracing the history of the fight for a I shorter working day, he read from a. number of reports and quoted various large e'mployers of labor to substantiate his contention that the eight-hour day in actual operation had proved profitable to the employer and highly beneficial to the men. . Defining! the attitue of organized labor toward the war the witness said: ' 'Labor will make every sacrifice for the successful prosecution of the war but it will not make any sacri fice for private profiteering during the war." . Advantages Are Three Fold. "I advocate the eifht-hour t day on the ground of economy, health and morals," he said. Men should only be xeqaired to work overtime iu times "of greatest emergency or. for the protection of life and prop erty, f "That is why we demand time and a half for overtime and double pay for holdiays. We think this penalty of added expense prevents the em ployer from asking their men to work overtime except when it is real ly ''necessary." ' . He declared that the saloon in the "back "tEe aidS"djstrict3 was an argjHiTent In faeor oPthe shorter vtCrk day and higher wages and that these demands are granted by the packers the money spent v by the stock yard employes In these drink ing places will materially decrease. He ridiculed ;the contention cf witnesses for the packers that short er hours and higher wages might increase saloon receipts. Long Hours Cause iwink. "It . is the long hours and low wages tha drive men to drink," Mr. Gompers said. "This is shown to aneconomic truth. The fairly wsil paid workman who-is not required to work more than eight hours a clay finds more pleasure and comfort at home or visiting a theater than he doeln going to a saloon." Mr. Gompers said he was present when John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, yards employes to President Wilson presented the demands of the stock at "Washington, previous to the agree ment to arbitrate the dispute and re membered Mr. Fitzpatrick stating that there was no shortage of pack ing plant labor and that if neces sary the men would work "naked and without pay" to meet the gov ernment's War needs. At the close of his testimony. Judge Alscbuie the arbitrator, stat ed the argument of the; packers that It is impracticable to installthree eight-hour "shifts in the large plants and two eight-hour gangs in the smaller houses and meet the govern ment's war demands without making Extensive building .'alterations and TP- " 215 S. Commercial ORWJOX STATESMAN; FRIDAY. MARCH 1. 1918 asked if Mr. Compels had any con crete 'suggestions regarding the prac tical, application of the shorter d;ry basi.- in the present emergency. The witness . said he had little technical knowledge of the details of the packing industry, but added "he believed it could be worked out if there as a real desire on the part of the packers to do it. Wartime Step Seen. "I would not ask you, Mr. Arbi trator, to find for the eight-hour day in this dispute If. 1 thought for a moment that it would hamper, hinder or interfere in any way with the win ning of this war by a single day," said Mr. Compels. "I know it is physically impossible to decrease this production by shortening the hours of the ba lc working' day. The eight iinnr il.iv will belli win the war bv increasing production and mobilizing the good will of the working men of America. Heaven knows this needs to be done. Cn willing employers, I fiad, neer ac&e.ut the'; requests of tl.eir nu'D for shorter hours and higher wages without raising objec tions. , -'They have a way of thinking In their own language. They get in a men tal rut from long practices. They wait to conduct "their business with out any suggestion from their em ployes as to the number of hours to be worked and the wages to be partd. "There is no such animal as an industry irrevocably built on the ten hour day. You may depend upon it that when the packers once find their nen rejuvenated and refreshed uv th n lontion of the eight-hour day they themselves will neer wantj ttornev Frank P. Walsh read a letter introduced before the federal trade cotimission and written by J. II. Hale manager of the Kansas City plant of Cudaby and company, de scribing the activities of an employ ers' association of which the pack ers were members in labor questions. The attorney sought to show by the loiter hat th naekers acted togeth er In the handlirg of labor and wege I questions. Bill Is Proposed for Protection of Salmon Secretary of State Olcott yester day approved the form of an initia tive petition for a proposed "bill protecting salmon by forbidding fish wheel, trap and seine fishing in the waters over which the state of Ore pon has concurrent jurisdiction." The petition for the measure which is initiated by E. . Walters of Oregon City, is now ready to receive signa tures. It will require 22,533 names, or 8 per cent ot the total vote Cast for supreme Justice. in the general election of 11H16. ; DIED HAl'SER - In the" cit5, Thursday, Feb. 28. 1918. Mrs. Marie Hauser, at the age of 61 Tears. She is survived by relatives in Portland. The body was sent there yesterday .aterr.f)an - by Ihe Rigdon company. ' - - MONUMENT FOR DEAD PROPOSED Commemoration of Tuscania Victims May; Rise on Is . land of Islay Port Ellen. Scotland, Feb. 23. It H proposed to erect a monument in the center of the Island of Isday, one of the liner. Hebrides, to com raernorite the soldier dead o' the Tuscania. Irobalrrj- the monument will take the form of a huse granite column; with the names of the vic tims carved thereon, and the sita will be a knoll facing the Atlantic or 3 an on a high elevation r,- from which can be. seen on a clear day three different points where the Americans are buried. The first proposals to erect this monument came from residents of the island and a modest fund was started for thi? purpose, even before the burials were completed, but when the American officials were consulted they decltred they 'would gladly assume responsibility for the project. "TOP KXOT OOMK DOWX." The Chicago minister who at tempted to stigmatize the secretary of war as "War Three Thousand Miles Away" liaker recalls, the "Top Knot Come tkwn" clergyman. This historic personage, , it may be re membered, resented vastly the ele vated ftyle of coiffure worn by the women in his congreeation. On a memorable occasion he preached el pqt'ently on th text, "Top Knot Come Down." i His oratory made a great impres sion, so greiY "one of the pillars of the church asked where the minister found a text .so apposite. He turnsJ to St. Matfiew, chapter xllv, verse 17, and read as follows: "Let him that is on the house top not come down." The country preacher was a piker in comparison with the Chicago di vine when it comes to isolating: a text from the context. Chicago Hen.ld. FOLKS AX 1 THKIK FOIIIIJi The first time Aunt Salley's daugh ter left the baby with her moth.?. she naid to her: "I don't think she will wake while T am gone, Imt if she does wake, mamma, if you will shake the bed a little I am sure she will go back to sleep. Hut if yo:i have to take her up, mamma, don't feed her anything. The least little thing upsets her stomach. And don't take her outside, mamma,: and don't take her near the' fire." ! Aunt Sally looked at her daughter over her fpecs and said to her: "Maybe you had better take the baby along with you, Moily." Kansas Ci,ty -Star. WORK COVERED BY RED CROSS ISFOUR-FOLD Stupendous Activities Abroad Win Approval cf Military M en PARIS FACTORY PUT UP Civil, Military, Transporta tion and Relief Wprk Ac complished - PAiriS. Feb. 27. (Correspond ence cf the Associated Press.) The American Red Cross has won unqual ified approval of the American mili tary authorities by its stupendous activites in France. Some of the facts concerning the achievements of the American workers already have been made public but the officials now are preparing a comprehensive survey of the work, by summarizing and eompilins: all data. The report will show that the or ganization is operating with ever increasing effectiveness -and scope In four great fields. It is engaged in miljtary work; in civil work; it ope rates a huge transportation and warehouse denartnient. and It is do ins more- and more work with Itel gian refugees and repatriated children. . Activities Are Listed. Under the auspices of the .military department of the organization the report will sJiow the following ac tivities: Twenty dispensaries are being op erated in the American army zone to care for the resident civilians and to improve health conditions before more troops arrive. A total of 3,423 French military hos pitals are being supplied by the dis tributing service, which i3 also laying a large stock for future needs; while 2,000 French hospitals are be ing supplied with surgical dressings, and immense supplies are beinc: stored up for the use of the Ameri cans. Twelve canteens are being operat ed at the front line in connection with the French Red Cross and twenty more are planned. - Six canteens, serving about 30.000 French soldiers daily, are being" op erated at the larger railroad centers of France. , Sixteen further canteens are beir?r operated in Paris in connection with the French and are serving enormous numbers of soldiers. Factory Installed At Paris. An artiflcal limb factory has been installed near Paris, as well ss special plants for the manufacture cf splints and nitrous oxide gas. A casualty service for gatherln-f information about the dead and wounded, and a medical research bu reau, have been established. f A larpe canteen for American sold iers has been Inaugurated at the larg est of the American aviation camps. At other camps the Red ross has sup plied the canteen buildings for the Y. M. C. A. to operate. The work of the civil department is devoted chiefly to refugee and tuberculosis problems. In this field the Red Cross has accomplished tho following results.: Opened a children's refuge and hospital at a point in the war zone where several hundred children have been gathered to keep them out of danger of shell fire and gas. Kstablished a medical center an 1 a traveling dispensary to accomo date 1200 children at a point among, the wrecked villages. Undertaken extensive medical work for the repatriated children at Evian, about 500 of whom return daily from -Germany. f Opened a hospital and convales cent home for children at Evian, where .an extensive ambulance ser vice is also operated. Taken over, carried on and devel oped the extensive anti-tuberculosis work begun by Mrs. Edith Wharton and. other Americans. Completed for the French and un finished tuberculosis sanatorium rear Paris adding one thousand beds to the number already available in the barracks. ' j Arranged on a large scale to help refugee families throughout the win ter with clothing, beds and shelter. For this purpose the entire devas tated district of France has been divided into six divisions with a res ident Red Cross delegate in each Warehouses have been established at four points to which are shipped food, clothing, bedding, beds, house hold utensils and agricultural imple ments. Begun repair work In four vil lages in the devastated regions to enable returned families to stay throughout the winter. 4. "V Provided barracks to asit lit tho work of training disabled soldiers to which will be added agricultural experiment stations. The transportation and warehouse department's activities Include: The establishment of large central warehouses , in Paris, and distribut ing warehouses at 'important points from the ocean to the Swiss border. In these warehouses are stored hos pital supplies, food, soldiers com forts, tobacco, blankets and house hold goods, kitchen utensils, cloth ing, beds and other articles of re I'ef. The department is receiving sev eral hundred tons of supplies rally, and is reshipping about seventy-five per cent of them to points nearer the front. The warehouse capacity of the de partment exceeds 100,000 tons, and the personnel .of nearly 200 con sists largely of volunteer Americans not liable to mflitary duty. . The transportation department has 1 .,roannl rf veral hundred, has i'- "- -- - its own auionoinin n .. - ing supplies, has.an organized force at every port in France." and tan handle several hundred tons dally, ivinkn I!litf Oraanlzed. ' Teh Delglan repatriate children department ha oreanized expensive relief work, both for s children and adults, and has erected warehouses near the llelsian line to hold mate rials that may be necessary for the relief of Helgians should t the front be forced back. , It is constantly aiding the queen Of Delgium in her work for the chil dren, and assisting in the support of hospitals and other work for the re lief o? soldiers. . ! It'has opened a refuge for 600 Belgian children, and a home for convalescent repatriate children at Chateau des Halles. - ' It has instituted a moving child hygiene campaign at Chartres. where the first exhibition was given, in a motor , truck equipped with hygienic suggestions and aparatus from which lectures are .given to mothers. Originally the Red Cross planned to devote much time and enerby to rebuilding of the destroyed towns and villages In the devastated dis tricts. It was soon found that this is virtually impossible -' until , after the war, and Is not favored by the French government. In the first place, the inhabitants are not all readv to return to their former home cities until the Ger mans have been driven further back than at present. Secondly, the work involved stupendous difficulties be cause rto rebuild any ?iven city or town means that quantities of mate rial and labor forces entirely un available at present would be needed. The organ i zai ion therefore has been diverted from its original pur pose and is spending its energies as, summarized largely in temporary re-1 lief work. . WOLF CAUSES UNTOLD LOSS Old "Peg-Leg" Is Terror of Range on Ranch Near Damy, New Mexico DAMY, N. M-. Feb. 1J. Roaming over an 87,000 acre ranch near here Is a wolf, so old, so wary and so wise that government experts say he cannot be caught In a trap and that only two ever have seen htm. This old wolf, who is called "peg Leg," because he lost part of one foot in, a trap years ago. lias caused ranchers of this section, such losses that their total .Is almost unbelievable. These run. stockmen say,, well Into the thousands of dollars each year. There is a good -deal of -stock run in thia section which Is better than the average "range cow" and it Is "Peg Leg's" chief delight, the stock men declare, to pick out some unus ua! good "yearling xr 2-year-old fitter, pull him down and make a meal of him. Peg Leg's work, the trappers and. stockmen say. is as eas ily identified as if he had left a call ing card, for he always eats from the same part of the carcass of his prey, just above the .haunch. At one time three government hunters, men chosen by the biolog ical survey for their adeptness. spent several weeks in a vain effort to locate the wily wolf. At present one of the best shots in the biologi cal survey's service is-attempting to "daw a head" on Peg Lee. R0STE1N & Do you know that wholesale prices are higher than our retail prices. This means that merchandise will cost you more money in the near future. Dark Outing Flannels are being quoted now at 30c a yard wholesale; our price for a short period only. . . . .18c A YARD Men's Work Shirts will be a . dollar soon. Our Price 65c Boys' Khaki color Work Shirts 50c Bleached Table Cloth, yard. . . . ... . . ... . . .... ...... I . .29c Fine heavy mercerized Table Cloth, pretty designs, yardl . .G9c Real Linen Table Cloth, yard.?. ...... . .......$1.50 and $1.00 ; . ' f ' ' Sheets Cotton Batts , Nice Bleached 81x90 3 Pounds Sheets 75c ; 75c ' C $1.00 : Large assortment of Toweling, yard. . . . ..... . . .10c, 12i2c, 15c,f 18c, 20c, 25c, 30c and 50c ' ' :' ' ' ' ' -' ' - 1 j .- 1 . MILLINERY DEPARTMENT Now open for the Spring Season, in rear rooija Beautiful dis play of flowers and foliage. Ladies' Hats and ready to wear, or plain shapes. New goods at reasonable prices. 240-246 Commercial Street CREAM FOR CATAHRH 0PENS;UP NOSTRILS Tells How To Get Quick Relief from Head-Cold. If Splendid t Jn one minute your clogged iios- trils will open,; the air passages of your head will. iearr and you can breathe freely. No more hawking, snurfling, blowing, headache, dry ness. No struggling I for breath at night; your cold or catarrh will be" gone. Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream Halm from your drugrlst now. Apply a little of this fragrant, antiseptie neaiing cream in your nosirna. It penetrates through every air pass-? age of the head, soothe the in flamed or swollen mucous mem brane and relief comes instantly. It's Just fine. Don't stay stuffed up with a cll or nasty catarrh -Relief comes so quickly. Connie Mack Announces Exchange xf Players ; PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 28.--Con-nie Mack; manager of the Philadel phia American league baseball team, announced tonight : that he had se lected Catcher Cady. lnfielder.. Gard ner and Outfielder Walker of the Boston Americans. In exchange for John "Stuffy" Mclnnis, the Athlet ic'a first baseman. SYMPATHIZED WITH HIM. "Now that America has entered the war," said Commodore J. W. Miller of New York, president of the National Nutical Training Associa tion, "the blockade of Germany real ly seems to amoynt tor something. ' "America's attitude reminds me of "A little chap who was ill refused to take his medicine, and his mother, in her wild, terror, wrung her hands and walled: " 'Oh, my hoy will die! . My boy rvrifr t n Ir A Kfa m txA Ir1na ttTil Via. Ut die!' ' . -'...-. : " ,' ' "Then a frail little voice spoke up encoruagingly from the pilloyr -" 'Don't worry, mamma. Fatherll be home "at dinner tinfe. . and he'll ftnake me take it." Washington Star. . t; en ipc from: other HLOCKIIEAIIS. Willis: The coal supply In oar town is several tons . short. Gillis: You're !lucky. In our town every ton Is short. Town Topics. Officer: The best friend I've got this old revolver of mine. Just as I was getting the worst of a scrapI knocked ' the beastly Boche on the head with it. ' She:? Oh. how per fectly stunning! TheBystander. Wife: " Did you secure a cook? Hub: I have hopes 'of one. She iteked.time to look up my standing In Bradstreet. Boston Transcript. riprlr fin small-town hotel: Will you have a pitcher of water sent to your room, sir? Colonel Bluegrass: Water? What for? Ain't ther any fire esc"apef rCleveland Leader. "I cyarn't hep tlhnkln'," said Charcoal Eph. as he stabbed another Baur," ual uiruiw -sums x wid they brainsv they'd be mo hald aches an a heap, less gout." Rich mond Times-Dispatch. S ITEMS ItEASOXABLE- A youn? catafry officer was tid ing a stroll early one morning when he came upon one of his men trying his best to ret a horse to Jumpi fence. After watching the green horn for some time the officer -said: "How do you expect to get the horse to go when you've only 'got one spur on?" , i , The recruit looked down at 113 boot and replied: J "Well sir. if I can only get that side of the horse to go the other on is bound to keep up with him.Mi 1 GREENBAUM Pretty Plaid Blankets 66x80, will be $10 soon, now $5.00