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0 I - TIIE PRECOX STATESMAX S-WntPAV, JFXE 29. 1018. - ' The Oregon Issued Daily Except Monday by THE STATESMAN PCBUSHIXQ COMPANY il ft 8. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication Of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein R. J. Hendricks..., Stephen A. Stone... Ralph Olover W. C Squter. Prank Jaakoskt . . . . . DAILY STATESMAN, served by carrier in Salem and suburbs. 15 cents a week, 60 cents a month. DAILY STATESMAN, by mall, C a year; S3 for six months; 60 cents a month. For three months or more, paid in adTance, at rate of $6 a year. SUNDAY STATESMAN, $1 a year; C cents for six months; 26 cents for three months. v WEEKLY STATESMAN, Issued In two six-page sections. Tuesdays and Fridays. $1 a year; (if not paid in ad ranee. S1.25): 60 cents for six months; Z5 cents for three months. TELEPHONES: Business Office. 23. Circulation Department, 683. Job Department, 683. Entered at the Postotflce in Salem, HOW LOGANBERRY GROWERS TREAT PICKERS. Editor Statesman : There is an insistent cry from fruit raisers for help to gather their crops and I hope sufficient labor will be secured so that none, of the fruit will be lost, but it might as well be plainly told now as any other time that whatever of unwillingness there may be among women and boys and girls to respond to the call of the, berry growers they are themselves to blame for it. They do not in some cases treat their help properly and in some cases not honestly. Some growers provide no means and make no effort to make life agreeable or even bearable for those who go to work for them. Soft, dusty grounds, no camping facilities, no decent water, no toilet conveniences, no comforts whatever of fered. They do not seem to give a tinker's imprecation for the people they hire, and that kind of a disposition is not going to attract help in this enlightened age. Another, and the worst feature, is that some of the berry grow ers swindle their pickers out of one-third of their earnings unless, forsooth, the pickers remain through the entire picking. I know of several cases wherein the agreed price was one and a half cents a box, but when the pickers became dissatisfied with the surroundings and quit, the grower refused to pay only one cent a box. You can readily see that women with children might find it impossible to continue as long as they expected, henee it is neither honest nor just that they should be docked in such a way. When growers learn to prepare for and treat their help decently, they will have no trouble getting their crops gathered. , Laborer. ,,!The Statesman prints the above communication in order to exon erate the great majority of the loganberry growers. V It is safe to say that 95 per cent of the growers are free from the guilt charged by the above correspondent to the few scrubs in the business. The scrubs deserve the, condemnation. , , But they should not be made to stand in the public estimation for the great majority of the men who grow loganberries. ' i ' The growers generally are going to great expense to make the picking conditions in their yards pleasant. Some of them are putting up permanent buildings. Some are buy ing expensive tents. , . Some are offering potatoes and other, vegetables free to the pickers. Most of the growers are now proposing to pay a cent and a half a box straight for picking. Some are paying a cent and a quarter, with a quarter of. a cent bonus to those who stay throughout the picking season. Their rea son is that some pickers will stay in a yard through the best part of the season, and then leave the grower in the lurch when the berries get small and thin on the vines. This is unjust, especially as these pickers have taken theplaces of pickers the grower might have se cured in the beginning; and who w,ould have been fair with him, and remained to the end 6t the season. ". There are unfair pickers as well as unfair growers. But, be it said to the credit of the pickers in general, that the un fair ones are in the minority, decidedly. However, the bonus proposition has been abandoned by a large number of the growers. These growers will run the risk of unfair treatment at the hands of the pickers. The Statesman wants to say again that the great majority of the loganberry growers are fair and honest, and that they are taking espe eial pains this year to make the conditions in their yards pleasant and , decent and agreeable for their pickers. Austria-Hungry is the new spell lag. Yon can Russia. hesr anything about The romor of the ex-czar's death persists. Perhaps it has not been exaggerated. r It is the psychology of war that a starring people, fed op on four years of victory. may like the taste of defeat,' Vl f: The admission that Germany can not win the war will cost Knehlmann his office.. The fact that Germany can not win the war may cost Kaiser 111 als crown. A committee of the British board of trade calls for the surrender of all enemy shipping at the close of the war as a condition of peace. How ever, it would be adequate to de mand merely that shipping, belong ing to allies or neutrals, which has been unlawfully destroyed, be re placed. The allies want restitution, not plunder. Springfield Republi can. ' ' : wvrxsnm dates June 29. Saturday. Home-coming -. flay. July 1. Monday "Worlc or fight" . regulations become effective. Thursday Celebration at Stehama. July 3. Tuesday Oreaon Prune Grow ers meet in Portland to fix price. July 4, Thursday. Races at State Fair ground. July . Saturday Republican State Central committee meets la Portland. July to 14 'Annual convention of Chrlntlan church at Turner. . Auruat 2t. 17 and St Western Wal nut Growers' Association to tour nut groves of Willamette valley Statesman , , .Manager Managing Editor .Cashier Advertising Manager , Manager Job Dept. Oregon, as second class matter. CHANCES FOR WORKERS. One of the results of the war will be that the rising generation in the United States will not lack for em ployment.. Thu millions or men slain and dis abled hare been mostly drawn from the pursuits of industry. The return of our soldiers, when the war shall be over, and the re sumption of diminished immigration from Great Britain. France and Italy will not supply the need of Indus trial workers. Immigrants from Germany, Austria-Hungary and even Russia will Had it difficult to receive the in dorsement of the Immigration com mission. As a result every man and every woman and every boy and every girl who Is willing and able to work will have no difficulty In securing well paid employment anywhere from New York to Oregon. A MOXROE DOCTRIXE FOR THE PACIFIC. '- (London Times, June 3). Mr. Hughes, speaking in New York on his way to England, has enunci ated an Australasian Monroe docT trine for the Pacific, and has under pinned the claim by advancing two propositions first, that this war "means life or death to Australia, and of course to New Zealand too: and next, that It is essential for the United States, as well as for British Australasia, to hare "guarantees against enemy aggression In - the Pacific In the future. This truth would be more generally understood here If it were realized that the Pa- clfic is an ocean with the western coast of America as one of Its limits, and with Australia and New Zealand flung like a barrier across one or its pathways to the South Pole. Un happily the globe being round convenience of map-making has en couraged the illusion that the Paci fic severs by a vast and illimitable expanse of almost trackless sea the western from the eastern hemi sphere. That is a very fallacious idea, which it is the Interest of the United States as much as of Aus tralia and New Zealand to uproot from the European mind. A sounder conception of the case Is that, so far from severing, the Pacific unites America with China. Japan. Austral asia, and the Far Eastern outposts of "the empire. Its innumerable Is lands, isolated or in groups, offer themselves as stages on the way of the traveler who takes the Pacific route from Australasia to Great Bri tain, jas the Australian and New Zealand members of the imperial war cabinet have done this year. This Germany saw. Her so-called 'colonies" In the Pacific were not colonies at all In the British or the French sense, but strategic points where her ships of war . or trade might coal and watesQor have some prospect of shelter In lime of war. It was this that dictated the prompt capture, when war broke out.1 of German New Guinea, with Its naval base at Herbertshohe, by Australian forces; of Samoa by a New Zealand expedition; of the Marshall group by the Japanese. And now the states men of Australia and New Zealand ses clearly that Germany can not be allowed to re-establish these, strate gic outposts In the Pacific. Thus ,Mr. Hughes, when he proclaims an Australasian Monroe doctrine for the Pacific, does but enunciate an axiom of security for Australia and New Zealand which must appeal with al most equal force to Western Amer ica and to Canada. OVER HERE. (By Cylde B. Wilson of The Vigilantes). What's that? Three thousand miles away? God, man! Say softly, that. I pray. For fear our friend who lives Just down The street yes. right here in our town May hear this thoughtless thing you say: That war's three thousand . miles away. .' I'd answer not for his reply If he should hear. He'd pass the lie To you so quick, hot blood you'd , sweat At words you speak but to regret. For Jutt a moment, come with me A few steps only, you shall see Right at yonr door this thiny you say x . Is full three thousand miles away. The list of 'Killed in Battle" gives Our neighbor's son 7es, he who lives Just down the street. Come, see, I pray. If war's three thousand miles away. CAMP LEWIS NOTES I Foch hit first, U i And he hit in two places. Is It was a synchronous offensive. S S Now Hindenburg will do the guess ing. Foch has been doing the guess long enough, and it should be the other way around till the end of the big show, as the boys "over there" call the war. " T Hindenburg cannot meet his be lated engagement in Paris, and he cannot get to the channel ports. But he might get. back across the Rhine, and to Berlin, if he would start soon enough. Loganberry picking Is going on now; but it will be In full blast next week. ls The growers who amount to any thing In the loganberry business have made' better provisions for their pickers than ever before. The pick era will be treated right. In nearly every yard. i St When the, United States Msrlnes hear of how the British and French got onto the front page this morn ing, they will be hard to hold around Chateau Thierry. They will want to be trying their luck on some Ger man chateaus and castles on the Rhine. Scale of Waxes Will Be Fixed by Polk Farmers PALLAS. Oregon: June 28. A meeting has been called to take place tomorrow afternoon In the circuit court room of the Polk county court house by the Polk county food ad rainstratlon for the organisation of the tbreshermen of the county. At the meeting George W Cable, county agent of Benton county, and Prof. O. H. Hyslop or the Oregon Agricul tural college, will talk on organiza tion of a permanent body and assist the membership in preparing a wage scale and scale of prices for thresh ing this year. r "Cured!" Mix. Ous Griffith, of Everton, Ma, wntest 'l suffered for three years with various female troubles. My life was a misery. I was not able to do anything . . . bear ing down pauis In my back and limbs, and bead-, ache . . . weak and nerv ous. Dr. recora- mended Cardui to me TAKE IS mn Tt3 Vita's Tonic "When I was oa the sixth bottle, she contin ues, I began feeling like a new woman...! am now a well woman ... I know my cure is per man cot for it has been three years tince I took CarduC Thousands of women, now strong and healthy, who once suf fered from women's ail ments, rive Card-u-t the credit Ict their good health. Try it, for your troubles. ft All Drnjjut, WAR SPIRIT IX AMERICA. America's feet arc winged as she hastens along with the war. No more the drowsy sleepers grunt as voices of "Awake! Prepare! Fight!" ring over the country. Men hasten into the ranks headlong. No more conscription harrassments, no more the need for ding-donging duty into the eons of the nation! All that is behind, gone forever. America is a big nation, a country of one hundred and more millions, and it takes time for an idea for an ideal to sweep from coast to coast and leaven the mass. But con sider the momentum behind that hundred millions once-as now it goes into action. Not only are the young men tak ing up arms, but the nation as a unit is into the war work with ever-growing concentration and Intensity. The school children comb the cities for old papers and waste, all of it being carried with ant-like multiplicity to swell the Red Cross funds; the Red Cross has taken from every class and caste tender, brave, loyal wo men, some to go to the battlefields, yirae to carry on the work of the organization at home. Tax on tax has been laid across the country, and never a murmur. Every liberty Loan has been oversubscribed. Miles on miles of broad acres, hitherto un titled, has been brought under the plow. Factories and shipyards ring day and night with the clangor of labor. The work goes on crescendo, and every blow of every hammer, every penny that rattles Into the cup of the classroom, every dollar that goes to Red Cross or Liberty Loan, every spear of what Is consecrated to war work; It belongs to the men behind the guns on the fl?lds of Flan ders and France, on the waves of the seven seas. America Is behind them, righting with them, for them. It matters not how; tight tue pinch at home may be. how long endured. While those boys are in the field r on the sea they can. have anything and everything. America may well be proud and loyaL Our fighting men abroad are uo'n what wc exyectedf They fight like four-year veterans. French and English communiques daily pay the tributes of unstinted admiration, and it takes tremendous valor, bril liant dash, homerlc courage to stir unusual admiration In the breasts of those generals who for four years have captained as brave soldiers as the world has ever seen. These Americans have In them the A DEAD STOMACH Of What Use Is It? Thousands? yes hundreds of thousands of people throughout America are taking the slow death treatment daily. They are murdering their own stomach, the bestfrlend they have, and in their sublime Ignorance they think they are putting aside the laws of nature. This Is no sensational statement; it is a stattling fact, the truth of which any honorable physician will net deny. These thousands of people are swallowing daily huge quantities of pepsin and other strong digesters made especially to digest the food In the stomach without any aid at all from the digestive membrane of the stomach. Mi-o-na stomach tablets relieve distressed stomach In five minutes; they do more. Taken regularly for a few weeks they build up the run down stomach and make it strong enough to digest its own food. Then indigestion, belching, sour stomach and headache will go. Mi-o-na stomach tablets are sold by druggists everywhere and by Daniel J. Fry, who guarantees them. CtrM wtaMiiiffls The Story of a Honeymoon A Wonderful Romance of Married Life Wonderfully Told by ADELE GARRISON A MISTAKE REALIZED TOO LATE "Oh. say. please. Missis Graham, there Is a man here he says he must splk to you." Katie's voice .anxious, troubled, fol lowed her deprecatory knock upon my closed dour. She had been In my employ less than 24 hours and she evidently was very much In doubt as to the reception of her in terruption of my afternoon nap would get. "Thank you. Katie." I tried to make my tone reassuring. "Will you ask him to sit down? I will keep him waiting ouly a few min utes." I dressed rapidly, resenting with every movement this Interruption of my quiet hour and nap. I had been much, upset the evening before over) the discovery that Katie, the maid whom 1 bad Just engaged, had once kept house for a group of artists, of whom Dicky was one, acting as a model when not busy with" her kitch en work. As a consequence my sleep during the night had been fit ful. Dicky had not added to my peace of mind in the morning when, after eating the really excellent breakfast or Katie's cooking he had said heart ily: ; "Well! Katie, as long as you keep this up, you may be sure of a home here." To me later, as he bade me good bye In the hall, h-s bad added In an undertone: "For heaven's sake. Madge, keep her. Put up with anything from ber until I finish that picture of Po land for which she was posing when I she ran away from us." Evidently the fact that I . might not relish this combination of ser vant and model had never occurred to Dicky. The very fact of his blindness disarmed me. I had re solved to accept the situation for a time at least, but it disturbed me nevertheless. Then. too. the knowledge that I had not answered Mrs. Smith's cour teous letter proffering me the leader ship of the Lotus Club's history sec tion weighed upon my mind. I had resolved that the matter of my ac ceptance or the position must be thrashed out with Dicky before an other day had ended. All these things made me welcome my quiet hour and nap as a preparation for the discussion I foresaw In the eve blood of all races. It Is not so much that they were born Americans as that they and their lathers have lived in America. . Like the Australians and Canadians, whom the Germans hold, in deadly dread, they have been 3red ,1a .forests "and prairies and mountains. Their fathers and their fathers' fathers had to oppose to the elements, to nature, the stub bornness, the Initiative, the hardi. hood that make men determined and fearless. And here's the main point our American fighters are freemen fighting for themselves, not vassals of any kaiser or crown. And though the years of comfort- which have come upon America in late, decades appeared to soften the national char acter, made the people careless of thrift, indifferent to the needs of valor, yet the true blood was within their veins, the true .fighting JJood. THEY SHALL XOT PASsi (By Alison Brown of the Vigilantes). They shall not pass. While Britain's sons draw breath. While strength Is theirs to strike with shining sword. They shall not pass. Rxrrept they pass to Death For British fighting men hare pledged their word. They shall not pass For France knows no defeat. Nor hestitates to nobly pay the price. They shall not pass. Till brave hearts cease to beat. And none shall stand to fall la sacrifice. to fri?y j They shMl not pass America will stand As long as lips can answer her, ' "I com." They shall nof pass. To Vtiko the loved land. That Freedom's children rise to call their home. BRITISH TAKE PART OF FOREST OF NIEPPE (Continued from pagel) In attacks against the Germans have advanced their line over a front of nearly three and a half miles to an averagedepth of nearly a mile east of the Nleppe forest, which lies between Bailleul and Bethune, ac cording to the British official com munication Issued this evening. West of Merrls Australian troops also captured enemy positions. - On both sectors prisoners and machine guns were taken. More than 300 prisoners aad 22 marhlne guns have been captured. All objectives were gained, includ ing the hamlets of L'Epihette Ver- terue and La Becque. The enemy was taken by surprise and British casualties are light. At the same hour Australian troops i ning. It was too bad. I told myself, resentfully, that I should be dis turbed Just because some unanowa man on an unknown errand awaited, awaited. lint mr resentment vanUhed when I saw the shabby little man who prang to his feet as I entered the living room. Evidently a trades man, he was such an Inoffensive, humble. Jittle maa. wlth an appeal ing look In the big eye that met mine half timidly. "Ton are Mrs. Graham?- he quer ied. "Yes. I am Mrs. Graham. I an swered. "Pray be seated again What ran f do for Ton?" " I am sorry to trouble you. mad am. he said, "but I can never fina Mr. Graham In. and this has been running a long time." He held out a folded paper. I opened It. and read: "Mr. Richard Graham. Dr..: "To Toursne Bros., cleaners and dyers. Balance July 2. 114. 127.53." I made a mental calculation. Why. his bill was over a year Id! What did It mesa? Was It pos sible that Dicky, lacky. prosperous Dicky, who. I knew, had plenty of ready money, was careless or worse at out the payment of bills such as these to tradesmen who so evidently needed the money? "There must be some mistake. I said, looking at the man. "I am sure Mr. Crsham rannot know about this or he would have paid long be fore thls.- The man coughed deprecatlngly. "I am sorry to say It. Mrs. Gra ham, but Mr. Graham does know !t. In fact, he stopped sending his clothes to me to be cleaned and pressed last summer because 1 asked him for the bilL You see I didn't know he had auests when I came to his studio and be was much annoyed. He told me then I could wait till well ma'am. I guess I'd better not tell you Just what he did say, but he meant I'd have to wait a Jong time for my money. I dldnt trouble him again for several months, for I hoped he would think better of it and come back he had traded with me for; years. Mr. Graham had but I've riven that up now. and I do. need the money. I must have It. in fact." "You shall have It." I said Impul sively. I went to my bedroom and emptied my purse. Yes. there wss, attacked and raptured, certain hostile posts west of Merrls, together with 43 prisoners and six machine guns. On the remainder or the British front the situation Is unchanged. ARTILLERYLVQ INCREASES. . BERLIN, via London. June 28. Between Bailleul and Bethune and south of the Alsne the allied artil lery fire increased to great inten sity Friday morning, says the Ger man official communication today. Infantry engagements developed on Isolated sectors. The statement follows: There has been lively activity on the part or the British and the French on both sides or the Somme. On other sectors also, between the Yser and the Marne. the artillery fire increased Thursday evening. The enemy's fire this morning Increased to great Intensity oh both sides of the Lys. between Bailleul and Be thune and south of the Alsne. Our aitlllery replied vigorously. Infan try engagements also developed on Isolated sectors. "Strong flying forces have been brought Into action and led to violent aerial combats. Yesterday our avi ators showdown 2S airplanes and one captive balloon and our anti aircraft guns shot down five air planes. TWEXTY PLAXES DOWNED. LONDON. June 21. Twenty Ger man airplanes were destroyed by British aviators In air flrhtlnr aver the western front Thursday, accord ing to the British orriclal commun ication dealing with aviation, issued tonighL In addition nine enemy air Helpful Hints on Banking Listing Checks for Deposit QN the printed slips pro-rided at the bank m for listing desposIU are spaces for item izmg each check. For instance,-each bank in the country bears a serial number and this nsuaUy apoears upon the checks of that bank. Place thu number on sbp opposite the amount of that check. If the number isn't there write then name of bank upon which drawn. We operate upon the baxig that the mnr. know, about the United State, iStional k, Se i Wit 1 enough, three It-dollar bills aai some small change were there. I took the bills and went back to the llvlas room. "Here Is your money." I said hand ing It to him. Will you kindly re ceipt the 1411?" But Mr. Toeralae was looking at the money la ember rassed fashion. "I shall have to come again. he said slowly, "or perhaps you would n't mind giving me part of the. mon ey. You see. collections are so bad and times are so hard I have very little ready money, and today none at all for change," The embarraaed flash oa his face wss not as deep as the oae oa ray own. Here Dicky and I had every comfort and many or the luxuries, and this poor tradesman, to whom Dicky owed money long dse, waa forced to such straits. "Take It all." I said, poshing It toward him. and. Indeed the very sight or the money wss hateful to me. "Give me the receipted tllL and then some day when you are passing this way yon may brlag me the change." I wanted to tell him to keep the change, but something about the msa warned me not to make the of fer He was no mendicant, oaly a man who wished his rights aad noth ing more. He took a fountain pen from his pocket, adjusted It in precise, me thodical fashion, receipted the ac count In full, rolded the bills aad put them In his pocket, and made m an old-fashioned bow. "I am very grateful. Mrs. Gra ham." he said.. "I hope Mr. Gra ham will not be angry. I will re turn with the change later." It was not nntil alter the door had closed behind him that I realised the full force or his remark. After alL this was Dicky's affair, not mine. I had paid a bill which he had delib erately Ignored. Would he consider my action an unwarrantable Inter ference with his affairs? I had had gllmoses of Dicky's almost ungov ernable temper, and this man's story had shown that he, was utterly un reasonable when , be was annoyed. I felt a sudden deadly weariness as sail me. There was nothing which. I so detest and dread as a scene of any kind. It looked to me as If life with Dicky would be one disagree ment after another. (To be continued) craft were forced to earth out of control The British themselves . lost 14 machines. ANGLE IS IMPORTANT. LONDON, June it. A successful advance or nearly a mile- was made today by the British troops between Bailleul and" Labaasee according to Renter's British headquarters cor respondent. He says the captured ground lies at the most debatable point on the British tront. Just west ot Bois d'Oval. which forms the fore most angle of the Nleppe forest. SUGAR BEETS BLIGHTED. YAKIMA. Wash., June 21, Sev eral hundred acres of sugar beets la the Sunnyslde district have been de stroyed by a disease resembling blight which Is unknown to beet experts. The ground is to be replanted to beans. HIS OWN HOME TOWN with CHARLES RAY Tomorrow THE OREGON -vi uuea patron he becomes. oalom Oro5rrrL i - T: (