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1 THE PRECOX STATESMAN FRIDAY. MARCH IB. 1018 r v ' J
WORLD'S BIGGEST
CONCRETE SHIP
PUT IN WATER
Builders Hope Type Will
Solve Great Need of Na
tion for Vessels
CAPACITY IS 5,000 TONS
Ship Is Ten Times Larger
Than Any Concrete Boat
in Country
14
A PAf'IF'C PORT, March
waiM vas launch-d here todav. If
i no
the versel stande all tests, the build-
era hope this type will help to solvn
the na'tion's need for ships. Kvery
step of the construction has been
wiched hy the government. The ves
r !r 326 frtft between perpendicu-lr--
ii ft frtr-t vrW ?0 Tret deep,
n ' ' -hen .Jnnded v-M drw 2.4 feet
of-wtpr. Her dip'e niet -will be
7P00 'on" id !h will have a carry
ing capac'ty of 5000 tons anjd make
fen or eleven knots an hour witn
triple expansion engines furnishing
1 horBpover. She is ten times
IflrJ-er- thnn any concrete boat now
on record !n this country.
. Advantages cliimed for the .now
vessel are that concrete' construc
tion doe not Interfere with steel
construction, plentvtof concftf can
be had: concrete vaselg can he built
for the prooent cost of wooden ves
sels; concrete yes-els of7O0 tons
can be launched wlthlur SO 'daVs after
work fiarts: while the cost of the
"plant" !s "as 25,000 tVfOO.OOO"
compared rHth a steel shipyard.
"When the first steel vessels were
hi. . i i j ikA,.M 1 i a
bnflte too! said they'd not float, or
if . they. did. they would be too heavy
to. he serviceable," said W. Leslie
Comyn, , president of theonxern,
which hnilt the boat. "Now thejr are
saying the same thing about (con
crete.; But all the engineers) we
have taken over this boat. Including
many who said It was an Impossible
undertaking, now agree that It lis a
success."
The floor of the vessel Is about
f onr and one-half Inches thick ; the
side four Inches, with a great steel
hoe drtwn the bow. Imbedded In
the concrete are 540 tons of steel:
a continuous basket work of welded
teel mesh, and hundreds of iron
bars, also we1dl together.
A water tight wood flooring rest
ing on the bottom beams constitutes
the double bottom of the vessel. No
provision is m$Ae for water ballast,
the theo'ry being that the vessel will
travel without ballast, riding safely
With her hfftYT bottom. Six concrete
bulkheads divide the Tessel. The
main deck is wood laid on concrete
stringers: the shelter deck is con
crete. The dead weight is pat at
00 toins more than that of a steel
vessel of like capacity. The vessel
' will burn oil, using 160 barrels a
day and her reinforced concrete tank
will carry thlrtr dayV supply.
This boat will have to stand her
tests, like any other vessel," said
the builder today. ,"I expect we will
send her to the Orient, and when
. she gets bask we will know all about
her. At ' present, there are no in
surance quotations covering concrete
vessels; it's all as . new to everyone
else as it was to us. as we had to de
sign our steel and have it rolled out
as we needed It.
"Besides the low, first cost, we
,..' . f
wm rur VK i
on later poais, Dy re-using u. iwuj
other vessels of 7500 tonsteachi will
one out of the way. In j these we wi t
use forms built if sections and bolt-
ed. . When we strip them from tJe
concrete they will come off a section ;
nine. i i
'A concrete boat will last I don t
auuw uuw iuu, . v huuw iuat m;"-
crete ets better the first nine years
STUMEZE
TUT TIIIH MAV
ILiCK TO WOItK.
Thl U to certify that Mr. II. L..
Wolfe. 220 Ah Kt, 8n ri-Ro, Oatr
fornlit, purrhanfd thr bottles Ait
8TUMKZH Mr. Wolfe itatrd that hit
stomach wn giving; him much trtju
bl hfo ynm tinwble to wrk: but incn
taking STUMKZK U in entlrtly Te
llvd and able to i;kuiii bia Uutita.
; thgn"l). j
THE MO.VATtCH I)ftl'(5 CO., w.
San Diego, Oalifornln.
Whn your stomach Is nick you are
alck all over unon knock you nut.
tea now to yoiir irui?R'iit ana nei n.
VaitomfacHUTIulKZn-l,Ua
r- r a ! rr n
. ww..
graceful line to the
BENJAMIN H JOHNES,, SI Warren Street,
mhhii in 'ii.iiiihH in.. .Hi
wift,Mi Age Advances the Liver Requires
E ICApfTdT ccaslonal alight stimulation. CARTER'S LJTTLE
y yj;7clJ OLIVER PILLS correct CONSTIPATION.
Colorless or Pale Faces TJt Carter's iroa fgh
) -. . . :
that it should."
The life of a.
Is twenty-five t
Red Cross Canvassers to
Hold Meeting March 24
At the call of Director W. A. i
Denton of the Red Cross pre C net ,
captains and. workers, large n in
bers of them met in the auditorium
of the comercial club last ni,bt to
perfect plans of action lor the jpusb-
to-house canvass for funds for Wiil-;
! amette chapter's use in carrying on
f it a U"IK trtTV
t I. J mil ii vi .
Tho plans as formulated last!
night rail for a mass meeting of,
nrecinct captains and their workers
j to be held in the parlors of th Bap
tist church Sunday. March .S4, at
i 34. at:
in joint
lirectors.
3 o'clock in the afternoon.
session with the board of d
i At this meeting the collectors for
(each preefnt captain will be given.
S final Instructions, and with one- per- i
! son ior eacn block in tne city, using
about ten minutes of his time, so tot
j speak, the work can be accomplish
j ed like a whirlwind, and the people
J will hardly know that they have sign
P d l,ct"
i ... . . . .
muie man .,u'.t. eacu
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CROPS BIGGER,
1GILLMAN SAYS
President of S. P. & S. Finds
Increased Acreage in
Oregon
"There has been at least a f.O per
cent Incras In fall wheat all over th-
state, a large ircieafie in beans, and
about a HO per cent InereaFe in the
sowing of .j-pring wheat in Orecon."
f-aid President I. C. Oilman of the
. Spokano, Portland & Seattl raProvl
Mr. Ollmnn spnt only a few ho'irs H
Salem yesterday, but In that limited
lime made many calls on lumines-' i
men of the city, in an effort to in-j
form himself 'of conditions here. j
"The use of evaporated ttotnlos
in Alaska proved very succe ?f it 1 la-?t
year," said Mr. Oilman. "It is not
only a cheaper and better way of
preserving food Tor government use,
but it, is a more economical method,
from a transportation point ff view,
and I am glad to hear that Salem has
landed a big contract for dehydrated
potatoes for the government, but am
sorry to say, that so far as I have
been over the state, the farmers
having had bad luck with their po
tatoes last year, do not intend
plant so many this year. It should
bo done, and. more than ever before
are potatoes needed to take the n!ac
or -wneai uour it we are ever to j
nave enonxQ ior ourselves ana our
allies in this war. .
Would Employ Women.
"Your Idea gets to me as a splen
did one that of employing women
and girls on your farms here In the
valleyi It Is ,d one In other parts of
Oregon very successfully, and In En?
land and parts of Europe it is th'
common rule. Any young girl or
woman can easily run a traction en
gine, or a binder, and -they often do
better ! work than men. We have
women clerks in our oTflces plenty
of them and at some of the sta
tions along the line. They are often
more efficient than men in the sama
positions, and I don't see why. under
proper conditions, they should not
do certain kinds of farm work, and
do it well and the out-door lifa
might he the saving of many from ill
health in the cities.
"But what we need now more
than big crops or men for oirr army
and navy is ships.
In the state of Washington there
was not so large a crop of fall wheat
planted, but the spring wheat .In
that state has beenvery much
in-
i creased over last year.
'As a parting suggestion, let me
' ;th eirlicf than us
, , h b an(1 Jrl3 a fhanc4
h haest f7elds? Th
can do rpUndiJ work The wor
need not be put onto th
.i w..ih in
icrease their
health, and the money
would be
ood for them to have.
"Thero must b some solution of
the farm labor question, and that Is.
one way, and the 'farmerette' an
other very good method to adopt in
this! valley."
TRAP AND F(ELD
ly I'KTKU B. CAKNKY
Kditor National Sports Syndicate.
Several new features in game pro
tection have been introduced duin?
the paKt year.
The first game law placed on the
rtatute books of any plate through
the medium of an iuitlatlve peti
tion hm udonteil In Arlmnn Hunt.
ner r-rne with flvlnir m.irh nc hat
f Nor.h Carolina
'by a law prohibiting shooting of the
of Its life and after
last a long while,
steel boat ordinarily
years,"
lU'autiful Uust and SliouMers
r po"it!ft if rnu wiil war a - n-ctiii' llr intrn tnl
The drasrsinc wfiht ofmi imrnnfinrH tot o trrU't.e )"
uptortinK miucliat that tl.c icmtnur of the lis 11 re it xileil.
yllgr! V - P"' t',! b't lck v hern it b
fgj&l'& lone, prrveut tlio foil tmt from
p M MtXl l'g" havinr the rwa-n tt Sb-
' ftt -AMnficti hioeM. chiniimt tjio lJUlirT of
V V rrcirit musrirs ami eonnn nc
- flesh f the bnld
itdcr irrviii? a
entire upper tnidr.
Ther are the ditintient and mt rrririraM:irmnt rmici
nable rune in all material toil ntyteo: t renw !( k. lnk
Front, Surplire, liamlrau. rtr. IVmcd with " U'altin," tlie
ruotleM boniDtf penaittinxru-Hliirig witliout n-uioval.
Have your dtwler uliow ynu Bin Jolic Brasairrm. (fruit )wk
vtl, we will gladly ntnd him. prepaid, ample to rtinw j i,u
Newark. N. J .
VINOL CREATES
STRENGTH
posjtjve
onvincing Proof
It is all very well to make claim.0, j
but can they be proven? We publish I
the formula of -Vinol ot prove thj I
f.'tements ve make ahont It. :
H -Cod 1'ver nnd IVef IVp'one-;.
Iron , and Manganese Peptonatef.
Irm and Amonium Citrate. Lime d
Sod-i Glycerophosphate:, Oascarin.
Any doctor will tell you that the'
ingredients of Vinol as published
above, combine the vey elements
needed to make strength.
n
l'
All weak, run-down, overworked
ervoiis men and women may prove
hi. at our expense.
There is nothing like Vinol to re
store strength and vitality to feeble
fid peoi.le drlhu'e rhi'd'-en and u1'
nersons who need mon strenKth.
Try it. If you are not entirely at
isfied. we will rety'Ti your mony
without question; that proves ou-fa!rn-!s
and your protection.
V" il A S hefr, f'rysjlp! S.tleni'.
and :it the best drii;? store in every"
town and city in the country. i
water fowl on any of the waters of
t he sate from an airplane.
Cat-license bills Introd!urf d in M""?
!--nc--ttseMi. New York. New Jersey
"d elvhere, seem to have failed
n'formlv. but in two stag's bri'lf
'at lawn were passed. Massach'-i-setls
passed a law prohibiting pos
session of cats on Muckegat island
or the bjin.ing of any cats to th?
island, and Michigan declared cafs
following on the trak of game bird-i
or small game, public nuisances, and
decreed that the owner who permits
them to run at laree after notice
from the game commissioner shall
he deemed gallty of a misdemeanor.
, I'lum'nge . legislation has been ex
tended In at lea-t two s'ateH. okla
hma now prohibits possession '('
I rale of aigrettes, and California of
-lisyettes, birds of paradise, goura
pigeons ana numidi.
Administration of gime laws has
been modified In s vral important
details Oklahoma has a fixed pen
nifv ior any offense tor wtucn no pp?-
cific penalty Is otherwise provided,
thus gunrding against a condition
.vhich sonietimeH art.TS whereby a
certain act is made an offense with
out a penalty, and the law conse
quently Is uninforreablo.
Oregon has authorized the hoard
of fiph and game commissioners to
permit finder such regulations as it
may adopt the sale of any gam?
which cannot otherwise be sold.
Pennsylvania has Imposed, as a pen
alty for conviction for a second of
fense under the name law. imprison
ment equal to one, day for ench dol
lar of the fine and denial of lieene
tr
hunt or fish for two years. Utah
has passed a lav?1 prohibiting al'ens
from hunting In the state.
Wisconsin has extended Its provi
sion relative to seizure of parapher
nalia used in violation, of the game
laws to Include automobiles, whieh,
when used by persons bunting Ille
gally, may be confiscated by conser
vation officers".
The law In New Hampshire au
thorizing th? payment of damage
for injuries to livestock caused ;hv
persons hunting m"r has been modi
fied so that In future such damages
will be assessed by the commlssione
of agricultnte and paid from the fish
and game fund.
Several meansres effecting private
game" preserves merit mention. Tex
as exempted from taxation buffalo
kept In captivity, while Oklahoma
exempted not only buffalo, but also
deer, ejk and antelope. In Sont.
serves was Imposed on all holdings
in exoess cf r.000 acres; except in
Berkeley county. "
In two states there was a manifest
effort to extend the scope of work of
the state warden beyond the field of
t'ctual game protection to coopera
tion In certain public improvements.
Wyoming has provided for the es
tablishment of zoological gardens in
cities and towns and authorized thj
game commission to supply birds
and animals for the collections, while
Iowa has author'zedvthe state war
den, with tfce consent of the execu
tive council, to establish public parks
on the shores of lakes, streams or
other waters of historic or scientific
Interest, .and has provided a $r.0.)
annual aprpopriation from the fish
and game fund for the Improvement
of such parks on condition that thin
amount.' does not exceed one-half or
the total receipts of the fund.
Shooting a revolver in the -wr Morn
manner, with movement or banJ too
fast for the eye to follow, is in real
ity juggling, a pistol and mtiscles
and nerves must undergo the name
training a those of a jurjghr who
keen half a dozen balls in the air
with one hand. ;
The wing shot who ainu? ly point-
Ine alo juifRles bU weipo ir. p wav
though the training t.ecessary to do
ivi nit t,n Kiivi if 1 ie;i ii - . the
movements aic n?t e 5 pec hilly rapid.
Xeverthf U he under sot h a degree
of trainHe that insures hi;-; weapon
being aligned a'.Btcm.' tlcally or with
out copfcious effort before he be
comes an expert, shot.
When he h?i ic u b"i! a stage
where none of flie m iveii. nl - of his
pi-- r'i'iire conscious supervision,
then they are said to Ite instinctive,
though instinct has jiothing what
ever to do with: it; it is training
pure and simple,
f Cleaning a Klnti;tin.
In cleaning a double barrel gun
one barrel of which Is plain cylinder
and the other choked or when one i
used to cleaning a heavily choked
trap gun. It will add to your com
fort of person and 'mind to put a
heavy glove on the rand that pushes
the rod through' the c Under barrel.
There i a tendeney to forget and
push harder ast'e 4 warn ncars the
muzzle wnieh In the case of the cyl
inder bore allow tne swab to pop
out of the muzzle resulting in a
thumb being jabbed again! the
sharp edge of the breech end of the
barrels making an annoying rut.
"This same thumb on the morrow
may have to push a safety slide up
and back many times.
How Paris Rec
in fiV -s v-a' t . . - -r If
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. t?r.: nwn . - i
'-.At- ; r-l'vVi 'i - f . . - . . i
l. A -; d' t V!' - "t
;hi' i- vvr .-'kk , -K Km&-x -; jr
Thlf! photograph shows how the
troops o arrive in Paris on leave, af
a soldier by the arm proud lo march
Fish Dealer Explains j
Big Quantities of Smelt
"It in not special! that I nm j
working . under the. new mvun. or i
that there Is any special dher reason j
'or it. excpt that. there Is now such!
an a bund --nee of fine, fresh mi It ;
running 1:1 tire Cowlitz river in
asrinifton. only a fuw hours from:
Saleyi i(y express, that I am averag-i
ing Ihe'sa'e of l.'.oo pound of mielt
every day," said W. S. 1'itf yester
day, when ;ikf( about the enormous
quantities of fre.h smelt seen in thy
ci t y.
"It may partly be laid to the new
government food substitution cam
paign opened here in Salem yester
day." he continued, "but I am sell
ing smelt bv the box to families to
sa't down for winter or fall use,
wcn we cannot get smelt at any
price." -
V.'hen as':ed ab'Vt the report n a
'"cent is-ie of The Orecnninn
that
the innrle'pal f?h boat of Portland
had recently caueht 70AQ pounds of
halibut, Mr. Fitts snid that he knew
ihat Captafn Anderson, one of the
nest fishervnen in Newport, was oil'
the same day, saw the same boat
from Portland.4' and Anderson
brought in two halibut and about
10ft pounds of cod.
"I th'nk the Portland municipal
boat whteh the captain said had ope
rated at a loss, mar have caught
7fo pounds of halibut instead of
7000. as there H no run of halibut
off the coast of Oregon now to sjeak
of and we do not expect any halibut
In quantity until after the middle of
April."
Senator Protests Against
Order or Herbert Hoover
WASHINGTON. March M. Sena
tor McN.iry has protested to the ad
ministration todav auainst the Hoov
er order requiring purchasers of
"heat flour to buy ;in equal amount
of nbi-titute cereal products.
Senator MrNarv submitted a tf -leer
am frorn ex-Mayor II. O. While,
of Salem, declaring that It inos
sltde t( comply 'with the order be
cause not sufficient substitutes are
o be had. Mr. White said it had
been Impossible to ft ertonj.-h to
meet the former order, requiring
one-third substitutes, and that spec
ulators had cornered substitutes and
raised prices; that the price of sub
etitntes had been raised to twice the
price of flou'-. while 'thousands of
bushels of wheat are being fed to
hoes. Mr. White wired:
"Small mills are being forced Itn
close and farmers are thus forced to
4ced wheat for there is no market."
Hoover personally promised. Sena
tor McNary to convene Ji!? couneii Jrf
tidvisers at once and investigate nnd
be may order. ' restoration of th-one-third,
substitutes. Instead of the
one-half. livening Telegram.
Right Rev. O'Reilly
To Go to Nebraska
I'.AKKU, Or.. Mnrrh i 1 i. lit v.
Charles J. O'lieilly. bishop i f th
Catholic (i '''':?! of 11a. ! n (Mcgoni
rf.hce 10fi, has Lr-en n'p:--ir!ted bv
Archbhhop iSonzano a' Y:u-i:iimot!.
D. C. bishop of the Lincoln. -Neb.,
diocese to 'succeed the Kight ltev. .7.
11. Tihen. wh goes to t?:' lietiver
dioecKO. Won! to tiii. effect was re
ceived here today from Archbishop
Iionzano and from Isi.-diop O'KeiHy
Who Is ft Oakland, Cal., rt'civini'
medical treAatment.
liishop O KeiHy, in addition to his
(liocfRo in Oregon, has been in cha.pf
of the Iloise, Idaho, diocese Kinci-'
the death in October of ilishop
Glorieux of Isoige.
4. .
Portland Would Double -
Money for Guard Work
- '' - i
In official circles here it U i-.iid i
that when thetate emergency board
meets Wednesday,. March' 20. Portr ;
land citizen will submit a request j
that th sum of nioooy now allowed 1
ly the State for guard purposes on
the wafer front' be doubled. While
the request may not meet strenuous
opposition, it in apparent that some
members of the board will not hold
for proportionate - allowances for
eived First Americans Back
people i,t I'aris, particularly the women, received the first American
arter t?dr bit in the trenches. The girls turned out and each grabbed
with him th-ough the streets.
Oth'-T
eit ios
of the
work ins
state where fac
on government
torios are
eootrn,cts.
Poitland is nfjw allowed $r00l a
mojith for tfte irtalntenance of
guards on the -water front. There
remains in the .military fund only
about $",, 000 aad if the amount al
lowed Portland is doubled, it is said.
1 uem icrcy win n cueateu. nen
iff;,.
national guard was federalized
tii Military fund became available
for state purpose', and already has
been drawn pon heavily for the
payment of patrols. Some of the
fund has been ured In the organiza
tion of .home guard companies.
German Plot to Corner
Wool to Be Uncovered
NEW YORK. March 14. An in
vestigation to determine whether
certain American wool manufnetur-
rs have been parties to a Germa i
pjot to corner the world's wool mir-
I ket will begin" here tomorrow' undev
the direction of Morton F. Lewis,
attorney general for New York stat?.
The invcsiiation rcsulterl from a
perusal of papers belonging to Hugo
Schmidt, a New York banker, now
interned as an enemy alien. Schmidt
was the Ko-ealled "paymaster" In
this country for Polo Pasha, now
Under sentence of death for treason
in France. -
I'ugene Sehwerdt-. a wealthy wool
merchant of New York and Hoston.
was arretted here February 23 in
connection with the wqol hoarding
plan. He is to be interned.
Willard-Fulton Match
Still Is Problematical
' KANSAS CITY, Mo.. March 11.
Whether Jens Willard. heavyweight
ehampion. and Fred Fulton of Min
nesota, aspirant to the title, are to
be matched for a bout July ', re
mained pi oblematical "tonight, t fol
lowing a conference of more than, an
hon- here late today between Mike
Collins, manager og Fulton, and
Colonel J. C. Miller of Oklahoma,
representing Willard. '
The conference did not get beyond
the financial discussion tdagc, al
though the two men parted with
the understanding that they would
meet again. The sums mentioned
were not divulged, hut Fulton's man
!Br .:rld he-was unable to -eonsirter
Hie offr. At the conference he
Informed Miller that he would guar
antee Willard SHMi.ono to-fight Ful
ton in N-w Orleans on Julv 4. Noth
ing definite concerning the latter
proposal hiis transpired.
Leaders Plan to Force
Overman Bill to Vote
WASHINGTON. March I -I. --Willi
the hope of soon petting the measure
before the senate, administration
lenders tonight planned fo force a
vole tomorrow In the judiciary com
mittee on 'the Overman bill, autbor
izing th" pre?id-nt to reorganize the
government departments to facili
tsste v,:ir work.
S n:iior Overman of North Caro-
t:,... .1.,.:........ ..r ... ...;ii....
I Jill. s. 10. 111 1 01 fur- iiiiiiiii'i
j paid lie would accept minor amend
ments proposed to the bill, limiting,
; the ,r; idt nt's power to lite period
'.f the war and providing ffr 'the V-
turn of the U-iai t ments to their
;pre-w;w status at the conclusion of
peace. Th'ie wre no indication's.
however, of a . com pi 0111i.se on the
major provisions of the measure.
Pastor Fires at Those
Entering His Residence
KI.GIN, III.. March 1 S.-Five nhot.s
fired from the residence of tfce Key.
Father J. McCann toniy.ht routed 1
Committee appointed by UishoD J.
i Muldon of the Kockford dioeese to
take charge of the record and prop-
ertv of St. Mary's iiaiifh.
Fa-ther McCann was suspended ns
patrr or St. Mary's aboat a month
pgo but has 'refused to leave and is
nUl to have roughly treated the kev.
Gilbert Flynn who carm in take
charge nhorlly after Father McCann's
suspension. Neatly all of the 2'S)0
members of the-parish have quit at
tending Father McCann n church, it
is said.
f rom Trenches
Northern Pacific Allows
Cars on S, P. Railroad
The public service commission
was yesterday informed by R. H.
Aishton, regional director at Chi
ago, that he had prevailed upon the
Northern Pacific company to allow
thirty-three automobile cars at Port
land, billed for Fan Francisco, to
make the trip south over the lines of
the Southern Pacific. Seventy of
the automobile cars were held up in
yards at Portland, hut thirty-seven
have been unloaded and other cars
provided for the freight. j
Timber Manufacturers
Organize at Spokane
i
-
SPOKANE. March 14. Organiza
tion of ?n association known as the
Timber Products Manufacturers has
herr perfected here with a mem
ership ef lumbermen of eastern
Washington and northern Tdaho It
was announced here today. The
members have voted to furnish
blankets and other bunkhouse equip
ment to their employes, which will
be provided as soon after April 15
as possible. JTT. 'McqoTdrICk'er
Spokane was elected President;
Hnntlngton Taylor of CoeuY d'Alene,
Idaho, vie president, and J. II. C.
Ueynolds of Spokane secretary treas
urer. Submarines Do Little
Damage to French Fleet
WASHINGTON. March '14.- Little
damage to the Trench and Italian
merchant fleets was done hy subma
rines during the week ending March
0. Official dispatches' -from Paris
and Home today said the French
lost no ships of over 1600 tons and
four below that sifce. while the Ital
ians lost two vessels of over 1500 J
ions ana one oeiow. one Italian
ship was unsuccessfully attacked.'
MAJHOV IHtlFFS.
MAItlON. Or.. March 14. Mr.
and Mrs. K, A. Olson and daughter
Alma hnve moved hack to Marion
from Portland.
The school bord has elected the
Vame teachers ifor another term of
M-I ool. Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Hoag and
.miss Marie Moritz.
The"i tvival meetings are continu
ing In the Friends church this week
.Miles Harber has bought the olF
Marion hotel.
M ISTA Ki: IIHINTITV.
A souther' man tells of a balloon
ascension made fj-om Charleston one
not s miner, afternoon. A thunder.
storm came up. Th balloonist.
amid bucket of rain, Uie roar of
thunder and the flash of lightning,
was blown about like a thistle down.
On toward midnight he found him
self over a plantation and threw ut
hi:; anchor-a grapnel at the end i t
a lon rope.
It happend that a negro hod died
In one of the huts of thin plantation.
The funeral was to take place In the
luoihlng, A dozen ft lend of the de
ceased hat in the roft summer hfght
b-ffne the hut, telling ghost storiet.
Sudd nly in the darkness abova
thrm they heard strange noises a
flapping, as of great, wings, menac
ing; cries.- And they saw dimly aTJs
formless black shape
All but one man ran. This one
man. an he cowered on his stool, had
the ill-luck to 'he seized by the grati -
. .1 . !
The grapnel, going at a great pace
whirled him up for four or five feet
in the air, and jerked him along
at the rate ;f fifteen miles or i-o aa
hour.
"Oh tnassa," he yelled, squirming
nnd kicking in that strange flight,
"I's not d one! F not de cawpse!
Henry's In de house dah! . In the
hoijKe dah!" --Kverj body's Maga
zine. Hoover sav we can eat all' of the
apples we rdease. That is. If we
have the price. l-n't llooyr that
kind man? - Exchange,
There Is nothing especially new
about Mooverlr.lng. The poor have
had it with them always.
USE OF 11 ARID
STATES OF U.S.
PLAN OF LUBE;
California Agriculturist Urges
Expenditure to Increase
Food j
USE STREAMS IS PLEA
European Cattle Supply Di
rninished and Need for
1 Supply Is Seen
j nu,wn, rcuiuarj w. -1 Vorrespon.
. dence)- "The reclamation ior cattle
raising of the lands of the eleven arid
I states of the United States is the key
I to the food problem whieh our ti
n r r T7- rrtx. a m-:
nes in r.urope are looKing to u to
solve," said David Luhin of Callfof-,
nla. United States delegate to th Ia-!
ternational Institute of Agriculture
"This is the most crIUcal food year
j of the war and I have proposed to
j congress" in my reports that measures
j be taken at once by the government
to carry out the plan right now, "said
Mr. Lubin in an Interview with The
Associated Press. f
"The cattle of Europe are being
rapidly eaten up. and the cattle sup
ply of the world is diminishing is the
jinnreeedented demand of the war for
hides with which to make shoes, for
wool, and for meat. I am not pro
posing thin, merely for the war, but
as a lasting benefit to the nation for
all time. If the war were to stop
right now, there would still be not
enough leather, nor enough wool.
"You can grow wheat from one
season to another but you cannot re
plenish your cattle supply at once. In
Northern France the Germans -eut
down all the fruit trees because fruit
trees are the result of many years of
growth, and as they did with fruit
"trees in their devilry we have been
l"we Streams Is Plan,
obliged to do with our cattle supply.
"The land of thosarid states is la
the same condition now as would be
the famed fertile valley of the Nile
If the river were taken away. What
I propose is the leading of a lot of
small Nile streams from the noun
tains, dr by striking artesian wells,
until these lands are made to flour
ish In the same way the Mormons
have made' Utah to flourish. Take
away the Nile from Egypt and it
couldn't support a church-mouse.
"While this reclamation Job would
ordinarily take many years, if the
government ets at is quickly, as a
war measure, and provides the money ,
to buy machinery, the easiest part of
the work could be done in time for
helping now. - Then we would be
lending-money to ourselves Instead
of hmding it to our allies and yet
helping them.
"By this plan we would reintroduce
the oldfashioned extensive system of
cattle and sheep range in some meas
ure. Instead -of the Intensive systems.
On the old system water was merely
needed to make the grass grow and .
give drink to. the animals. The in
tensive system cannot be carried out
on the farms now otherwise avail
able In the United States because
land is being used for growing wljeat
and corn and bats, and these foods
are expensive to be used In feeding
cattle When corn is cheap, as a
rule the farmer keeps It' at home
and feeds it to his cattle in winter,
and in this way we get cheap meat in
the cities, and cheap shoes.
Ford TMea Made.
"Of course the Immediate objec
tion has already been made: to by
congressmen that the plan will take
money. But we must not stop at
money, no matter whether It be a
hundred million dollars or a billion.
If we don't win this-wwr we won't
have anything left at all of our mon
ey, and we can't win the war without
food. If -we don't look out starva
tion will soon be a normal condition
for all nations, allied or enemy.
"I have recommended that the
United States shall first take over
watershed rights In these arid reg
ions, build the Irrigation plants, and
let them out to the states concerned
at an interest of two per cent, per
mitting the states to sublet the irri
gation rights to counties at say two
and a half per cent, and the counties
to the users at say three per ceat
on the dollar; or the system could
be modified so that water users
should .pay a fixed rate. There are
alreadyj irrigation schemes enough
worn 1 rig m me wesi xo snow me dci
practical way of handling the mat
ter. I,
llefc Is the great opportunity, al
so, for the arid states. The blacK
man gave us cotton, and that was an
era. Protective tariffs gave the east .
and the middle west vast subsidies,.
rand that was another era. Now we
must subsidize the farmer or go hun
gry,: and . this Is the opportunity of
the groat arid states whose territory
many times that of the Nile. These
states can have by Irrigation vast
populations, great wealth on top of
the land. This war has given them
the right of way."
now tv)ri,i sin: tlll?
One of the girl ushers in a Flat
bush theater had a problem offered
her th other evening. She iwas
showing two women to their seat.
"Is the show this evening fit fo"
church Women to see?" asked one of
the plllar?sse of a Flatbush congre
gation. "I I don't know," rehponded the
lrl. Then he brightened. "You
reo," nhe said, "I don't have no
time to go to church." New YorX
itlain. L
If MrAdoo has control of the rail
roads Dext summer he will be able
to silo himself a nice little vacation
trip.
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