The Monmouth herald., May 19, 1916, Image 2

BIG PARADE VOICES
U.S. PREPAREDNESS
New York Demonstration Has
150,000 inline of March.
ALL CLASSES IN PATRIOTIC PAGEANT
Twelve Hours of Mankind Pass Re
viewing Stand Great Awaken
ing Is Shown by People.
New York New York expressed ita
attitude on the question of national
preparedness Saturday by holding the
greatest civil parade in the history of
the country. An almost countless host
of men and women, estimated at more
than 150,000, representing all walks
of life in the nation's metropolis,
marched for 12 hours, 20 abreast, be
hind bands playing patriotic airs,
through flag-bedecked streets lined
with hundreds of thousands of cheer
ing spectators.
All the professions and trades which
make up the complex life of the city
were represented.
In one division were the street
sweepers in their uniforms of white,
while in another were the dignified
justices of the Supreme court of New
York.
There also were the clergy nearly
200, representing every denomination
in the nation's greatest city. Law
yers, physicians, trained nurses, vet
erans of the Spanish-American war,
were in line. But the most popular
division was made up of the city's 10,
000 National Guardsmen infantry,
cavalry and artillery who brought up
the rear.
"This," declared Major General
Leonard Wood, in command of the de
partment of the East, who reviewed
the parade, "is the greatest argument
America has ever known in favor of
preparedness againBt elements that are
at present unknown. It shows an in
terest in preparedness that amounts to
a National awakening. This is what
we need. It shows that the time has
come to do something in the matter of
National preparation."
The mammoth pageant began au
spiciously. Just as Mayor Mitchell
and a party of municipal officers left
the city hall at the head of the first
division an aeroplane appeared above
lower Broadway and hovered around
the great skyscrapers.
The paraders marched rapidly, more
than 10,000 passing a given point
within an hour.
With few exceptions, the marchers
carried small Americas flags. Most of
them also wore buttonhole emblems.
At frequent intervals came one of the
200 bands and musicians were the only
, persons in the civic divisions who wore
uniforms.
Plan to form Woman's Party
Attacked by Illinois Suffrage Society
Chicago An attack on the plan to
form a woman's party was issued
Monday by the Illinois Equal Suffrage
association, while officials of the Con
gressional Union, promoters of the
idea, were opening registration head
quarters at 73 East Washintgon street.
At the same time a campaign was
launched by the Union with posters,
banners and various advertising de
vices to boom the woman's party con
vention, which will be held June 5, 6
and 7 at the Black stone theater during
the time the Republican convention is
in progress at the Coliseum. Twevle
woman speakers will begin holding
brief meetings at once under the au
spices of the Congressional Union, on
street corners, in factories or shops,
offices, college dormitories and at la
bor union gatherings.
"Confusion and duplication of
work" will be the effect of the Con
gressional Union's activities in Chi
cago, it is declared in the statement
issued by the Illinois Equal Suffrage
association. The proposal to form a
party "on sex lines" is also assailed,
and the union'is defined as "a detached
group of Eastern suffragists."
Panama Police to Disarm.
Panama William K. Price, the
American minister, Monday delivered
to the Panama government the final de
mand for the surrender of 1200 rifles
used by the Panama National Police,
The disarmament of the police force
' has been sought on account of riots
which resulted in the deaths of Amer
icans. It is understood the adminis
tration is opposed to the surrender of
the rifles, but delivered up the arms
under protest.
ENGLAND TRIES KNIGHTED IRISHMAN
ON CHARGE Of HIGH TREASON
London The writing of a new chap
ter of the history of the Sinn Fein re
bellion was begun Tuesday when Sir
Roger Casement, knighted in 1911 for
services to the British government,
and Daniel Julian Bailey, an Irish sol
dier, one of his companions on the ill
fated submarine trip from Germany to
Ireland were placed in the dock of the
Bow-street police court for prelimin
ary examination on the charge of high
treason.
While considerable testimony intro
duced by the crown tended to incrim
inate Bailey, the main attack of the
prosecution was directed against Case
ment in an endeavor to enmesh him in
a net of evidence which would estab
lish without question the leading part
it is claimed he played in the conspir
acy, whose ramifications extended even
to America.
U. S. to Send Insistent Note to
England on Interference With Mails
Washington, D. C. Negotiations
with Great Britain regarding interfer
ence with mails to and from the Unit
ed States and interruption of neutral
commerce by the British fleet are to
be resumed in the near future. A
note insisting sharply on modification
in the treatment of mails already is
being prepared at the State depart
ment, and as soon as possible work
will be begun on a reply to the laBt
British note defending the operation of
the blockade orders in the council.
Secretary Lansing let it be known
last week that the implied condition in
the German note on submarine war
fare, expressing confidence that the
United States would hold Great Britain
to compliance with international law,
had made it difficult to proceed with
the British negotiations. He said,
however, that these negotiations would
be continued promptly in spite-of the
embarrassing situation.
fourteen Killed and Thirty Injured
in Great Powder Plant Explosion
Gibbstown, N. J. At least 14 men
were killed and about 30 injured Tues
day in a terrific explosion at the Re
pauno plant or the Du Pont Powder
company, near here. The blast oc
curred in the building in which trini
trotoluol is manufactured, and wrecked
that structure and three others.
The cause of the explosion is not
known, and, according to officials of
the company, may never be ascer
tained, as all those believed to have
been in the building where the first
explosion occurred are dead.
Trinitrotoluol is not considered an
explosive risk, and company officials
believe it caught fire before exploding.
This blast caused a nearby building, in
which nitro-benzolis was manufac
tured, to blow up. So great was the
force that two buidlings some distance
away, in which huxite was manufac
tured, were wrecked, but the explosive
did not go off.
Near-by Blast Causes Restaurant
Building to Collapse; Ten Killed
Akron, O. At least 10 persons were
killed, two are missing and a score
were injured early Tuesday night,
when the old Beacon Journal building,
occupied by the Crystal restaurant,
collapsed as a result of a blast of dyna
mite in an adjoining excavation.
Seven identified and three unidenti
fied bodies have been recovered and
two persons now missing are thought
to be in the ruins.
A tremendous roar, echoing the
screams of diyng people, brought
thousands to the scene of the disaster,
in the heart of Akron's business dis
trict. A great pile of ruins, broken tim
bers, twisted steel and tons of brick
and mortar buired the victims, who a
moment before were dining in the res
taurant. Eight bodies were taken out of the
wreckage after firemen, police and vol
unteer rescuers had worked frantical
ly, digging and chopping through the
debris.
Twenty more, some slightly injured,
were extricated and sent to hospitals.
Only two or three of those known to
have been in the restaurant succeeded
in escaping before the crash.
Dakota Snow Two Feet Deep.
Sioux Falls, S. D. Snow to a depth
of two feet fell Tuesday in parts of
the Black Hills in South Dakota, and
to a depth of 10 inches on the Chey
enne Indian reservation, in the central
part of the state. Heavy rain and
snow fell in the entire eastern half of
the state, but in Sioux Falls, Water-
town and Aberdeen and snowflakes
melted immediately. High winds and
falling temperature, recorded at 80
promise further wintry weather.
WORLD'S DOINGS
Of CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume of General News
From All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
Senator Cummins, of Iowa, presi
dential candidate, is touring the North
west. A small band of Mexican outlaws
kill another American on ranch near
Mercedes. Tex.
Tickets for the Republican National
convention at Chicago next month are
now selling at six for f 1000.
A Minneapolis mother of six com
mits suicide, that her life insurance of
1000 may revert to the benefit of her
children. .
Colonel Goethals has announced that
he would resign July 1. It is reported
that he will not resign if there is
trouble with Germany.
A four-day dust storm, the worst
ever experienced in Northwestern Min
nesota, has abated with clear sky
and a chilly wave from the Northwest.
Colonel Roosevelt has formally en
tered the race for ' the presidential
nomination in the Chicago conventions.
He expresses desire to run on a "unit
ed ticket"
Survivors of the steamer Roanoke,
whichsunk off the Southern California
coast, declare the vessel was over
loaded, which .caused the disaster in
which some 30 persons were lost.
Announcement of a 10 per cent in
crease in wages for its factory em
ployes, effective May 8, was announced
by the Victor Talking Machine com
pany, of Philadelphia. Several thou
sand workmen are affected.
After almost two weeks of discus
sion the 'conference of Generals Scott,
Funston and Obregon over American
troop dispositions in Mexico came to
an end Friday night without any agree
ment. The whole matter was referred
back to the American and de facto
governments to be settled through
diplomatic channels.
Three Hawarden High School girls
Edna Borman, Neva Johnson and
Marjorie Fairbrother were drowned
in the Big Sioux river near Hawarden,
la., when a boat in which were five
pupils and a teacher was carried over
a dam. One girl clung to the boat,
the teacher and the other pupil held
to the dam, and these three were
rescued. The bodies of the girls were
recovered.
"Shave yourself, no barbers, no
tips, no waste of time. All the com
forts of home. Step inside, " reads a
sign above the "shaveteria," or bar
berless barber shop, first of its kind in
the world so far as known in Chicago,
which came into existence recently,
taking its place with the horseless car
riage and the waiterless restaurant.
Judging from the rush of patronage,
says a dispatch, a crying need has been
answered. It is a tremendous time
saver. .
Seventy-five thousand dollars' worth
of liquor was seized by the Seattle po
lice Friday in the most sweeping raid
made since the state-wide prohibition
law went into effect January 1. Two
large warehouses and nine drugstores
were searched, but no arrests were
made, and none of the liquor was de
stroyed. The police obtained war
rants for the search of 12 places of
business where liquor was suspected to
be stored, and in the first five places
searched seized $25,000 worth of
liquor.
A robber enters the National bank
at Francis, Okla., covers the cashier
with a revolver and fled with about
$4000. After an exchange of shots
with a pursuing posse, the robber
forced the driver of one of the posse's
automobiles to take him in and, with a
revolver held at the driver's head, dis
appeared in the hills. .
Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes has
been invited to deliver a Fourth of
July oration at Salem, Ore.
The munitions liner Cymric is re
ported torpedoed off the west coast of
Ireland, and is in a sinking condition.
President Wilson's approval of the
nomination of Louis Brandeis for the
Supreme Court bench, in a letter to
the senate, declares the charges
against Mr. Brandeis are "intrinsi
cally incredible to anyone who knows
him."
Recommendations of Inland
Empire Teachers' Association
That the teachers certificate law of
Oreogn is one of the best yet adopted
by any state is shown by the report
of the certificate committee of the In
luml Empire association recently held
at Spokane. The committee submit
ted a report every point of which is
covered by the Ore guff certificate law,
and recommends that all the states
forming this association; namoly,
Montana, Idaho, Washington and Ore
gon, secure certificate laws as outlined
by the report. As Oregon already has
such a law, this will moan that the
other three status will model their
laws after the Oregon law. Tho re
port of the committee follows:
"To the Educational Council of the
Inland Empire Teachers' association:
"In order to raise the standard of
qualifications for teaching and to pro
mote Interstate comity your committee
begs leave to recommend the follow
ing: i "1. The classification of certifi
cates and the standards of certificates
should be uniform in the four states
included in the Inland Empire. (This
to include a standardized list of insti
tutions from which papers are accred
ited.) "2. All certificates should be issued
by state authority rather than through
county superintendents' offices.
"3. All examination questions
should be prepared under state author
ity and all examination papers should
be graded by state authority.
"4. Certification through Institu
tional training rather than by examin
ation should be emphasized and en
couraged. "5. No certificate should be grant
ed to persons who have not completed
a high school course or its equivalent,
plus professional training.
"6. Within a reasonable time all
rural and grade teachers should be
graduates of a normal school course of
two years in addition to a four year
high school course.
"7. All persons who teach in ac
credited high schools should have four
years of training beyond a four years
high school course, such training to in
clude or be supplemented by profes
sional training. 4
"8. It is the sense of the commit
tee that statutes on certification
should be broad and general, leaving
details to be determined by the State
Board of Education or other legally
constituted agency.
"9. No laws enacted should be retroactive."
Cleaning and Refreshing Rugs.
Written for thU paper by lUrth Bechm, O. A. C.
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis Cleaning is absolutely essential
to keep a rug looking well and to
make it last. The cleaning necessary
depends on the use of the rug, but all
rugs should receive a thorough going
over twice a year.
The loose dust and dirt must be dis
posed of first. Lay the rug upside
down on green grass pr on an old bed
spring sufficiently raised to eliminate
much stooping over, and beat vigor
ously with a carpet cleaner or flexible
rattans. Never shake rugs by the end,
because this breaks the warp. Turn
the rug over and sweep thoroughly.
It is now ready for the chemical
cleaning.. Lay it on the floor right
side up and remove all spots first.
Those made by a sticky substance may
be removed with salt and alcohol. Oil
may be released by the absorption pro
cess, using either Fuller's earth, blot
ting paper or salt. Soot comes out by
covering spot with salt a few minutes
and sweeping it. For ink spots apply
a weak solution of oxalic acid, spong
ing it up quickly. If the color is
altered apply ammonia water.
When all the spots have been re
moved clean the entire rug with a
cleaning preparation for rugs. The
following are some recipes:
Shave half a pound of soap and boil
it in a quart of water until dissolved.
Then add one gallon of hot water and
one ounce of salts of tartar, mixing
thoroughly. The application to the
rug should be made with a stiff brush.
Scrub the rug with the mixture, which
should lather freely, and clean the rug
without allowing it to get very wet.
Wash only a portion at a time and
wipe hard with a cloth wrung out of
cold water. Continue until the entire
rug is finished then leave it to dry. Do
not use the rug while still damp.
Another recipe is: Dissolve four
ounces of good white soap in four
ounces of boiling water;- when cool
add five ounces of ammonia, two and a
half ounces of alcohol, two and a half
ounces of glycerin, and two ounces of
ether or chloroform; bottle and cork
tightly. Application: Add a tea
spoonful to a pail of tepid water and
wipe the rug with it; follow with
clean water. Two tablespoonfuls to a
pint of water will remove obstinate
stains.
For slight renovating or freshening
of rugs one simple process is to
sprinkle salt on the right side and fol
low by careful sweeping. Another
way is to sweep well, then wipe over
with vinegar and water In the propor
tions of a tablespoonful to a pailful of
water. ., ' .
NEWS ITEMS
Of General Interest
About Oregon
Equality in Distribution of
State School Money Shown
That tho state and county officials of
Oregon are much more zealous In safe
guarding the school funds than are
some of the neighboring states is
shown by an Investigation started a
short time ago by the legislative com
mittee of the stato of Washington
representing the State Federation of
Labor, the Farmers' Union and State
Grange. The secretary of the commit
tee wrote to State Superintendent J.
A. Churchill calling attention to the
fact that 25 per cent of the moneys
derived from the sale of timber and
rentals of the forest reserves Is paid
by tt)e Federal government to various
states and that the law provides that
It shall be by them divided among the
counties in which the forest reserves
are situated, and tho money expended
for the benefit of the public schools
and the public roads thereof, and not
otherwlso.
A comparison of the way this money
is divided in the different states is
quite interesting. This committee
sent a statement which shows that in
many counties of Washington all the
money Is expended for tho benefit of
roads, and the schools receive nothing
In some counties a very small sum Is
spent for roads and schools and the
balance Is "otherwise" expended.
Superintendent Churchill sent a let
ter to each county of this state asking
for a statement as to how the money
Is expended in Oregon. He has re
ceived letters from nearly all the coun
ties, and in every instance the money
is equally divided between the school
fund and the road fund.
Government Crop Report for Oregon
Washington, D. C A summary of
the May crop report for the state of
Oregon, as compiled by tho Bureau of
crop estimates, U. S. department of
Agriculture, is as follows:
Winter wheat May 1 forecast 12,
400,000 bushels; production last year
(final estimate), 16,200,000; two
years ago, 13,684,000; 1909-13 aver
age, 12,955,000 bushels.
Rye May 1 forecast, 430,000 bush
els; production last year (final esti
mate), 414,000; two years ago, 836,
000 bushels.
Meadows May 1 condition 93, com
pared with the ten-year average of 96.
Pasture May 1 condition 93, com
pared with the ten-year average of 95.
Spring plowing Per cent done to
May 1, 1916, estimated 89 per cent,
compared with 92 May 1 last year and
84, the ten year average.
Spring planting Per cent done to
May 1, 1916, estimated 75 per cent,
compared with 86 May 1 last year and
80, the ten-year average.
Hay Old crop on farms May 1, es
timated 75,000 tons, compared with
120,000 a year ago and 173,000 two
years ago.
Prices The first price given below
is the average on May 1 this year, and
the second, the average on May 1 last
year:
Wheat, 87 and 116 per bushel. Corn,
85 and 89. Oats, 39 and 51. Pota
toes, 77 and 77. Hay, $13.10 and
$9.60 per ton. Eggs, 20 and 19 cents
per dozen.
Timber Sale Approved.
Announcement is made by the Forest
Service that the district forester,
Portland, Ore., has juBt approved the
contract for the sale to Brown Bros.,
& Hubbard of 3,900.000 feet of timber
on the Crater Lake National forest in
Southern Oregon.
The timber is located on Crystal
Creek on the west Bide of Klamath
lake and consists mostly of western
yellow pine, although there Is some
sugar pine and other species. The
prices paid for the timber are $3.20
per M feet for the yellow pine and
sugar pine, and 50 cents per M feet
for the other species.
Mill Refuses Business.
Marshfleld Frank W. Rehfold, a
myrtle wood manufacturer here, has
more orders than he can fill and had to
turn down a large contract for myrtle
bobbins for spinning mills In Calcutta.
Myrtle wood novelties have become
much sought since they were exhibited
at the San Francisco exposition, and
orders for the wood are being received
from many sections of the United
States. The Rehfeld plant is now busy
on an'order for 1,000,000 auto writers,
a contrivance used in teaching children
to write.
Mill Burned; Loss $15,000,
Tillamook The Yellow Fir lumber
mill, 11 miles south, was destroyed by
fire one morning this week. The flames
originated in the engine-room from a
hot box. There was no insurance.
The loss is put at $15,000. Some 80,
000 feet of lumber was burned. The
plant will be built immediately to fill
big orders ahead, according to Frank
Long, owner.