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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1914)
I courts or the natural forces ot cor rection outside the courts are inade quate to adjust the remedy to the wrong In a way that will meet all the equities and ctreunietancss ot the case. Aberdeen, Wash.—A resolution dis "Producing Industries, tor example, which have passed the point up to continuing indorsement of the Socialist which combination may b« consistent party was adopted by a small majority | with the public Interest and the tree- at the convention of the International I dom ot trade, cannot always be dis Th«- work of Floyd Rader, tho Wal Oregon Agricultural College, Cor sected Into their component units as Union of Shingle Weavers, Sawmill lowa county agent, has shown th« pos Workers and Woodsmen, in session in vallis.—Ten Oregon counties havs now readily as railroad companies or simi sibilities of expert agricultural super lar organisations ettn be. Their dis this city. The union has indorsed So made appropriations for the support of solution by ordinary legal process nicy cialistic principles for the past two vision. Largo saving« were made by otten-tlmes Involve financial conse county agricultural agents, and a num reducing tho damage done field crop« years. quences likely to overwhelm the se The adoption of a wage scale for all ber of other counties have taken atepe by smut, and a model pig house, de curity market and bring on its break- . down and contusion. There ought to loggers is in the hands of the commit to put the county demonstration policy signed by Mr. Rader, had resulted In a , be an administrative commission capa tee. It is believed that the new scale Into effect. Thus approximately one- material saving of young pigs. ble ot directing and shaping such cor- In Coos county Field Agent Smith Is will demand the same wagee paid for third of the counties of Oregon have I recllve processes, not only In aid ot organizing the dairy Industry. He Is the courts, but also by Independent a ten-hour day for an eight-hour one. now, or soon will have, county demon at present supervising an organisation suggestion. It necessary. The measures demanding a mini stration agents. "Inasmuch as our object and the mum wage of 12.26 for all timber The countie« that have already made of cow-testing association«. This is a I spirit ot our action In these matters Is workers and an eight-hour day have appropriations for this work are Har necessary stop in scientific dairying, to meet business halt way in Ila pro- designed to improve the dairy herds. I cesses ot self-correction and disturb met with no opposition from local ney, Wallowa, Union. Grant, Kla County demonstration work Is being ' its legitimate course as Ijttle as possi lumbermen as yet. The unionists are math, Coos, Tillamook, Lane and Mar ble, we ought to see to It. and the confident that It will be accepted by ion. Not all of these have been sup organized very rapidly In the North Judgment ot practical and sagacious the employers, and that no strlke^wlll plied with the Held agents, but appli- west. A conference of the stale load | men ot affairs everywhere would ap cations for the uositfons are being er« and county agents for Idaho, Ore plaud us It we did see to It. that pen- result. Resolutions protesting to the arrest considered by Professor H. T, French, gon and Washington will bo held at , lUtlea and punishments should Mil. not ; on business Itself, to Its contusion and of "Mother" Jones were unanimously state leader of the county demonst ra Pullman, Washington, January 26 to ‘ Interruption, but on the Individuals adopted and forwarded to Governor tion work, who announces that the po 29. The three stale leaders and a who use the Instrumentalities ot busl- number of county mon will participate sitions will soon be filled. ness to do things which publto policy Ammons, of Colorado. in all of these counties the sutq of in this convention. There will be rep and sound business practice condemn. Every act ot business la done at the money set aside for county demon resentative« from tho agricultural col • re , command or on the Initiative ot some Washington, D. C., Jan. 20—Presi . stood that we desire the laws we stration work will be duplicated by leges of the three states. The Oregon now about Io pass . to be the bulwarks ascertainable person or group of per dent Wilson personally laid before a . 1 and the state. The U. S. department of Agricultural college will be represent safeguards of industry agaisnt th« sons. These should be held Individually joint session of congress today the 1 forces that have disturbed It. What we responsible, and the punishment should agriculture falso co-operates in fur ed by Professor R. D. Hetzel, director fundamental principles of the Demo - have to do can be done In a new spirit. fall on them, not on the business or nishing resources for the work. of extension, und by Professor French. Vienna—Severe storms at Cracow, Throughout the entire country there cratic administration’s prograun for ■ ia thoughtful moderation, without rev ganization of which they made Illegal The demonstration policy haw re of any untoward kind. use. It should be one of the main ob dealing with trusts and "big busi olution "We are all agreed that -private mo- jects ot our legislation to divest such in Galicia, formerly capita) of the are about 200 such agents employed in ceived tho hearty endorsement of the ness.” The President presented the 1 nopoly is Indefensible and Intolerable' persons ot their corporate cloak and kingdom of Poland, uprooted an an the various states, some states work Union County Farmer«' union. After case, he said, "as it lies in the thought . and our programme is founded on that deal with them as with those who do cient elm, revealing the hiding place ing as high as 20 men In the field. hearing the plana explained by Pro of the country,”, reiterating "that conviction. It will be a comparative not represent their corporations, but of the crown worn by the kings of The work is being extended very rap fessor French, tho members promised ' but not a radical or unacceptable pro merely by deliberate Intention break private monopoly is indefensible and gramme. and these are its Items, the the law. The business men, the country Poland, dating back to the 14th cen idly and results in most instances are to support and co-operate in carrying I on the work in Union county. intolerable,” and declaring that con changes which opinion deliberately through, would, I am sure, applaud us tury. highly gratifying. scientious business men throughout sanctions and for which business waits: It we were tv take effectual steps to The hidden crown had been loat "It awaits with acquiescence, in the see that the officers and director« of the nation would not be satisfied until flrst since the middle of the 18th century. place, for laws which will effect- great business bodies were prevented practices now deprecated by public • ually prohibit and prevent such lnter- from bringing them and tho business Some magnificent diamonds had fallen opinion as restraints of trade and com locking of the personnel of the diree- ot the country Into disrepute and dan-' from the crotrn, but none is missing. merce were corrected. The President torates of great corporations— -banks ger. ¡and railroads. Industrial, 1 commercial "Other qurstlons remain which will spoke as follows: and public service bodies—as in effect ”In my report *On the state of the result in making those who borrow and need very thoughtful and practical treatment. union.' which 1 had the privilege of those who lend practically one and the reading to you on the second of Decem same, those who sell and those who buy "Enterprises In these modern days of ber. 1 ventured to reserve for discus the same persons trading with one an great Industrial fortunes, are often Spokane — Alfred Schweizer and “It is a possible thing," said Mr. Hood River—Through the efforts of sion at a later date the subject of addi other under different names and in dif times Interlocked, not by being under tional legislation* regarding the very ferent combinations, and those who af the control of the same directors, but four other«, including a woman 60 their president, H. F. Davidson, who Sieg, “that by the end of January few difficult and Intricate matter of trusts fect to compete in fact partners und by the fact that the greater part ot year« old, who «farted bouekeeping on has been passing the winter at New apple« will bo left In Hood River for and monopolies. The time now seems masters of some whole Held of business. their corporate stock Is owned by a sin- ; December 31, before the door of the York, where he has charge of all of sale. It Is our policy to sell the fruit opportune to turn to that great ques Sufficient time should be allowed, of gle person or group ot persons who are government land office in the Federal the eastern shipments of apples and on a basis that will give the buyers tion. not only because the currency course, in which to effect these changes In some way Intimately related In In- ‘ legislation which absorbed your atten of organizations, without inconvenience tereet We are agreed. I take It. that building here, were rewarded January the export trade, the North Pacific the advantage of some speculation. tion and the attention of the country in i or confusion. holding companies should be prohibited, 16, by filing on the land they have Fruit Distributor) are bringing about When thio system becomes thoroughly December. Is now disposed of. but also Forty-five other a new order of things In the exports understood by European buyers It will "Such a prohibition will work much but what of the controlling private | been cultivating. because opinion seems to be clearing more than a mere negative good by ownership of Individuals or actually ! be of inestimable benefit to the mar about us with singular rapidity in this correcting the serious evils which have co-operative groups of Individuals? «ettlers, who took their place« before of Northwestern box apples. other great field of action. In the mat arisen because, for example, the men Shall the private owners ot capital the land office door the day before, Up to this year all Northwestern keter« in handling future crops.” ter of the currency it cleared suddenly who have been the directing spirits of stock be suffered to be themselves In I filed either on landa on which they box apples have been consigned. Con Mr. Sieg says that growers have to and very happily after the much debat tho We don't I have lived or on lands claimed by great investment banks have effect holding companies? signments have been taboo this year, learn lessons as to the handling of ed act was passed; in respect of the usurped the place which belongs to in wish. I suppose, to forbid the purchase] those who had been before the door and the merchants of tho Continent fruit. “Too much of the crop of the monopolies which have multiplied about dependent Industrial management of stocks by any person who pleases to us and in regard to the various means working In its own behoof. and England have been making direct year is still in the hands of the grow It will buy them in such quantities as he can for 15 days. by which they have been organised and bring new men. new energies, a new afford, or In any way arbitrarily to The Northern Pacific railway, which purchases of the fruit. ers. Many loads of apples are coming maintained, it seems to be coming to a spirit of initiative, new blood, into the limit the sale of stocks to bona tide pur "The buyers find the new order into the storage houses this week. clear and all but universal agreement management of our great business en chasers. Shall we require the owners has a claim on lieu land and which in anticipation of our action, as if by terprises. It will open the Held of in ot stock, when their voting power tn was feared by certain homesteader«, of things to their advantage,” says This is too late to pack fruit,” says way of preparation, making the way dustrial development to scores of men several companies which ought to be did not file on its claim« until late in Wilmer Sieg, aalea manager of the dis Mr. Sieg. "Much of this tardiness la easier to see and easier to set out on who have been obliged to serve when Independent of one another would con the day. tributors. "I get daily wire commu due to tho carelessness of growers, but with confidence and without confusion their abilities entitled them to direct, stitute actual control, to make election The land on which the settlers filed nications and letters from Mr. David a system of co-operative packing of counsel. It will immensely hearten the young In which of them they will exorcise ia located in Stevens county. Wash. "Legislation has its atmosphere like men coming on and will greatly enrich their .right to vote? This question 1 son, and the new method is bringing houses, where the smaller orchsrdlsta everything else and the atmosphere of I the business activities of the whole venture for your consideration. about a wider distribution of the can haul their product and clean it up accommodation and mutual understand country. Im- “There Is another matter In which fruit, We are receiving calls from earlier In the season, will do much to ing which we now breathe with so "In the second place, business men as peratlve conditions of justice and fair points in Italy and much refreshment is a matter of sin well as those who direct public affairs play suggest thoughtful remedial •c- Scandinavian eliminate the bad effects of having cere congratulation. It ought to make now recognize, and recognize with pain tlon. Not only do many of the combi cities. overripe apples go on the market” our task very much less difficult and ful clearness, the great harm and in nations effected or sought to be ef embarrassing than it would have been justice which has been done to many, if fected In the Industrial world work an Berne, Switzerland — The situation had we been obliged to continue to act not all. of the great railroad systems injustice on the public In general: they ia Albania ia much more grave than is amidst the atmosphere of suspicion and of the country by the way in which also directly and seriously Injure the antagonism which has so long made it they have been financed and their own Individuals who are put out of business | generally known or officially acknow ledged by the European powers, ac impossible to approach such questions Interests subordinated to th« in one unfair way or another by the with dispassionate fairness. Construc distinctive Information Medford — The recent city eloction Gold Hill—New and novel employ interests of the men who financed them many dislodging and exterminating cording to authoritive tive legislation, when successful, is al and of other business enterprises which forces of combination. I hope that we gathered in diplomatic circles here. resulted in a victory for the Citizens’ ment for the idle hours of state game ways the embodiment of convincing ex those men wished to promote. The shall agree In giving private individ perience and of the mature public opin country is ready, therefore, to accept, uals who claim to have been Injured by The various governments are directing ticket. Councilman Millar in the Third wardens may be found in the example I ail their efforts in order to prevent a ward was recalled. Dr. Hargrave win ion which finally springs out of that these processes the right to found their experience. Legislation is a business of and accept with relief, as well as *P- suits for redress on the facts and judg fresh outburst of war in the Balkans. ning by a vote of 283 to 244, and set by Deputy Warden Hammersley, proval. a law which will confer on the interpretation, not of origination, and It the ments proved and entered in suits by Germany has suggested the dispatch Councilman Stewart, in the Second stationed at Willow Flat, In a typical is now plain what the opinion is to Interstate Commerce Commission the * the Government, where the Govern of a mixed army of Austrian and Ital ward, was recalled, V. J. Emmerick Oregon wilderness and hunters’ para which we must give effect in this mat. power to superintend and regulate ment has on Its own Initiative sued the ter. It is not recent or hasty opinion financial operations by which the rail combinations complained of and won ian troops into Albania in order to winning 368 to 300. In a large field roads ar« henceforth to be supplied dise, 20-odd miles north of this city. It springs out of the experience of a with the money they need for their its suit and that the statute ot Jlmlta- avoid the difficulty of deciding which Elmer F om , city recorder, was re whole generation. It has clarified Itself proper development to meet th« rapidly tions shall be suffered to run against part of Albanian territory should be elected by n large majority, and G. This warden is adding to the efficacy by long contest, and those who for a growing requirements of the country such litigants only from the date of the occupied by Austria and which by Samuels was re-elected city treasurer. of game protection by a trapping cam long time battled with it and sought °/ Vle J-\otvernry’en,t to change it are now frankly and hon for increased and Improved facilities of It Is not fair _____________ litigant * Italy. The other members of the Citizens' paign against predatory animals dur We cannot postpone '* * *-»- * that * the private * ““ "" orably yielding to It and seeking to transportation. -------------1--------------- should be obliged to set up and estab action in this matter without leaving ticket elected were T. W. Miles, F. V. ing the dull winter months, and al conform their actions to it. lish again the facta which the Govern Wireless Site ia Chosen. Medynski and Col. H. H. Sargent, ready has a long list of captured var "The great business men who organ the railroads exposed to many serious ment has proved. He cannot afford. h<* ized and financed monopoly and those handicaps and hazards; and the pros has not the power, to make use of etich Washington, D. C. — A special board councilmen. The women lined up mints to his credit. who administered it in actual every perity of the railroads and the pros processes of inquiry as the Government Acting under instructions from perity of the country are Inseparably of naval officer« has selected as a aite throughout the city for the reform day transactions have year after year, connected. Upon this question those has command of. Thus shall individual The administration forces State Game Warden Finley, the Wil- until now. either denied its existence who art chiefly responsible for the justice be done while the processes of for a high-power radio station on the ticket. low Fiat deputy outfitted with traps or justified it as necessary for the ef actual management and operation of business are rectified and squared with California coast a location on LaJolla threaten to contest the result. fective maintenance and development the railroads, have spoken very plain- I the general conscience. A strong effort will be made, how- and lures last fall, established a 13- Heights, about four miles east of San of the vast business processes of the ly and very earnestly, with a purpose mile trap lino, and' began the cam- ”1 have laid the case before you. no ever, to forestall this action. country with modern circumstances of we ought to be quick to accept. It will doubt as it lies in your own mind, as it Diego and 11 miles from the seacoast. paign which he is now so successfully trade and manufacture and finance, be one step, and a very Important one. lies in the thought of the country, It is expected that a tract of land waging. Each pelt secured is careful but all the while opinion has made head toward the necessary separation of the What must every candid man say of the comprising 72 acres with an elevation ly prepared for taxidermy purposes against them. The average business business of production from the busl- suggestions I have laid before you, of of 460 feet above the sea level soon man is convinced that the ways of lib-1 ness of transportation. the plain obligations of which I have and is shipped to Portland, where it is erty are also the ways of peace and That these are now will be acquired by the government "The business of the country awaits I reminded you? mounted. These trophies will adorn the ways of success as well and at last also, has long awaited and has suffered things for which the country Is not pre for about 616,000. As soon as title to Salem—Frank E. Wailace, an in the state biological collection. the masters of business on the great because it could not obtain, further and pared? No; but that they are old the site haa been acquired the depart mate of the insane asylum, committed scale have begun to yield their prefer more explicit legislative definition of things now familiar, and must of course ment will begin the erection of a sta from Portland, who gave his occupa ence and purpose, perhaps their judg the policy and meaning of the existing be undertaken. If we are to square our ment also, in honorable surrender. tion as sailor, soldier, salesman and anti-trust law. Nothing hampers busi laws with the thought and desire of the tion with funds already authorised. "What we are purposing to do, there ness like uncertainty. Nothing daunts country. Until these things are done, editor, engaged In a battle to death fore. is happily not to hamper or in nor discourages it like the necessity to conscientious <---------- -- - business men the country Chinese Eggs Reach Port. with Oliver Whitney, an attendant. *. They are In terfere with business as enlightened take chances, to run the risk or falling w"*, e unsatisfied, San Francisco—Six hundred cases Wallace, it io said, frequently attack J. C. Turney, of Bums, is of the business men prefer to do it. or in any under the condemnation of the law be- I , these * * things our mentors and coi sense to put it under the ban. The an fore it can make sure just what the law : leagues. We are now about to write of Chinese eggs, the product of Shang ed attendants. opinion that the development of the tagonism between business and gov is. Surely we are sufficiently familiar the additional articles of our constitu hai hens, were included in the cargo While he was polishing the floor in oil prospects in Central Oregon and ernment is over. We are now about to with the actual processes and methods tlon of peace, the peace that ís honor of the liner Siberia, which arrived the day ward Whitney approached and Harney county will prove a great fac give expression to the best business of monopoly and of the many hurtful and freedom and prosperity.” from the Orient, These eggs were asked him a question. Wallace jump tor in solving the problem of cheap judgment of America, to what we restraints of trade to make definition know to be the business conscience and | possible, at any rale up to the limits admitted duty free under the new ed upon the attendant and a rough- fuel for factories in Oregon. honor of the law. The government and I of what experience has disclosed. These tariff act. Under the 5-cent tariff anfi-tumble fight of several minutes "Cheap fuel is the basis of the man business men are ready to meet each [ practices, being now abundantly dis handicap 4000 cases of the Chinese resulted. Finally Wallace was thrown ufacturing industries, and will be the other half way in a common effort to j closed. can be explicitly and item by product were admitted into San Fran to the floor, his abdomen striking thing that will give manufacturing square business methods with both pub- | item forbidden by statute in such terms lie opinion and the law. The best-ln- ' as will practically eliminate uncertain cisco during the last year. Local the polishing block which he had been the biggest impulse in Oregon within formed men of the business world con ty. the law Itself and the penalty being Washington, D. C.—President Wil merchants say that the total Importa using. Other attendants went to the the next few years," he says. "The demn the methods and processes and made equally plain. son has nominated John Skelton Wil tion will reach 20,000 cases in the en assistance of Whitney, but their help oil prospects in Central Oregon have consequences of monopoly as we con "And the business men of the coun not yet been opened up, and thus far was not required. demn them, and the instinctive judg-1 try desire something more than that liams, of Virginia, assistant secretary suing year. ment of the vast majority of business the menace of legal process In the of the treasury, for controller of the Wallace’s groans Indicated that he the work has been chiefly prospecting, men everywhere goes with them. We matters he made explicit and Intelli- I currency and ex-officio member of the Money and Worry Loat. had been severely injured and a phy but I am of the opinion that in these shall now be their spokesman. That Is1 gible. They desire the advice, the Federal reserve board, which will ad Chicago — When Alexander McCo- sician found that several of his ribo fields lies largely the source of tho the strength of our position and the | definite guidance and information sure prophecy of what will ensue when which can be supplied by an admin minister the affairs of the new cur manche, of Vancouver, B, C., arrived had been fractured and that he was In fuel supply from which the state must istrative body, an Interstate trade rency system. our reasonable work is done. in Chicago to see the sights he had jured internally. He lived about two draw in future.” "When a serious contest ends, when commission. Williams is now in charge of the 1630, most of which was in Canadian hours. those men unite in opinion and purpose, “The opinion ot the country would fiscal bureau and is Secretary Mc currency. / He found difficulty In New Bridge la Wanted. who are to change their ways of busi- Instantly approve of such a commis Smallpox Cases Found. ness joining with those who ask for sion. It would not wish to see It em- . Adoo’s first assistant in matters of spending the Canadian money and Florence—Because the Lane County The office of finally told two friendly strangers of the change, it is possible to effect it in powered to make terms with monopoly government finance. Portland—Two cases of smallpox of court will do nothing to replace the the way then which prudent and or in any sort to assume control of controller of the currency has been his plight. They agreed he could not the malignant type have been discov bridge through Acme, the people of thoughtful and patriotic men would business, as if the Government made1 vacant several months. spend the money, but expressed will ■wish to see it brought about, with as Itself responsible. It demands such a It is understood that during the ingness to gamble with him for it. ered in St. Johns, a suburb of this that town held a mass meeting and few, as slight, as easy and simple commission only as an Indispensable Considerable complaint has adopted resolutions stating the condi business readjustments as possible in Instrument of information and pub-1 President’s absence Secretary McAdo The question of changing Canadian city. the circumstances, nothing essential llclty. as a clearing-house for the facts has been sounding senators about the money no longer worries McComanche. been made about the other alleged tions and applying for help from the disturbed, nothing torn up by the roots, by which both the public mind and nomination and believes it will be con case, which is in the family of a Mr. court. The town is built over a slough no parts rent asunder, which can be left the managers of great business under- ■ Baker on Willamete boulevard. The and the only means of travel through firmed. So far as known, the Presi in wholesome combination Fortunately takings should be guided, and as an Flood Food Condemned. son is reported to have smallpox, and it is by this bridge, which wss built no measures of sweeping or novel instrumentality for doing justice, to dent has made no other selections for Chicago—Four carloads of canned the father is going to and from the along the county survey by local resi change are necessary. It will be under- business where the processes of the the Federal reserve board. WILSON READS MESSAGE Socialism la Opposed by Mill and Timber Workers Ten Oregon Counties to Have Field Agents Great Throng President’s Address. Plans to End Trusts—Punish Men, Not Business Declares Enforcement of Strict Amendments Possible. STORM UPROOTS OLD ELM; UNCOVERS ANCIENT CROWN Now Sell Apples Direct; Long Vigil Ended by No More Consignments Filing on Rich tand Crisis Near in Albania; Balkan War Threatens Councilmen Are Recalled; Deputy Turns Trapper; Women Rally to Reforms Catches Many Varmint« Maniac Killed in Fight With Asylum Attendant Cheaper Fuel Forecast As Aid to Manufactures JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS IS CHOSEN CONTROLLER Cow New Credit Basis. Sayres Meet Poincares. Western Trip Is Revised. Topeka, Kan. — E. T. Ransom, a banker of Wichita, Kan., told the Kansas Improved Stock Breeders’ asso ciation that all bankers should change their system of credit from the steer to the cow. He was discussing the conservation of the cow, and asserted that when a bank extended credit to farmers on steen it meant the removal of the steers to a butcher shop. "But when the banker gives a farmer credit with which to buy cows, he does some thing that means additional animals on the farm each year,” Ransom said. I Paris — President Poincare, on re ceiving Francis Bowes Sayre and his wife, formerly Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson, at (Ke-Palace of the Elysee Wednesday, sent messages on behalf of himself and wife and the French people to President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson, to which Mrs. Sayre grace fully replied. The interview was ex tremely cordial. The French presi dent said he regretted that Mr. »nd Mr«. Sayre were sailing from Cher bourg the next day, as he would have liked to have them at dinner. Washington, D. C.—Revised plana for the Western trip of the reserve bank organization committee have been made. To the list of 13 cities originally selected as points where public hearings will be given, two have been added, Lincoln, Neb., the home of Secretary Bryan, and El Paso, Tex. The time to be consumed on the trip has been cut four days and the committee expects to be back in Wash ington February 18. This will be four days ahead of the time set on National bank« who want to enter the system. foodstuffs, which were submerged in the Ohio floods last spring, were or- dered destroyed by Federal Judge Landis. Judge Landis also confiscated 46 cases of decayed egg« shipped with the understanding that they were to be used in tanning. The government charged that the eggs were offered to bakers and grocers as "seconds.’’ Turke.v Promises to Exhibit. Constantinople—The sublime porte has informed the American embassy that Turkey will participate officially in thè Panama-Pacific exposition at San Francisco in 1916. house. For some time there have been several cases of mild varioloids in St. Johns, but so far they have es caped detection. It is said there are at least four or five cases of this form. dents in 1900, and has been main tained by them until tho last years. Now the court has bidden trav^j over the walk. Independent Company Complaina. Salem—Labor Commissioner ___ Hoff has issued a ruling that where possible the owners of shingle mills must In stall ventilating fans In their plants for the removal of dust from air sur rounding the operators of shingle ma chines. Mr. Hoff says that numerous complaints have been made to him by operators, and he has decided that the regulations relating to the machines shall be more rigidly enforced. Salem—The Home Independent Tele phone company has complained to the State railroad commission that the Co operative Telephone association had declined to interchange service with it over long distance lines. The Home company asks that the association be compelled to interchange calls and that it establish trunk lines leading to Summerville, Elgin and Cove. Hoff to Request Fans.