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JLrx UfUK KOT ? I HEOE- MEOE . STOP THAtT . .jSrH Lf-'-ZX I IBS- bight OFF. WHAT'J THE yJU, -wS I VA,tf fOs. " " J .TPOUBLE ANYWAY? . A( That kid thebe said i was homely AS vOu POP' out that what STARTED IT EMI Will KOTHIN REALLY STAUrEO 'tiu i saio i wash s HOMELY AS YOU - POP' Ta I T Fo i, I FARMERS TO FINANCE SELVES UNLESS FEDERAL SYSTEM CHANGES OVCOALL'jj.iV, GOODRICH ifN"''''JWATiOry'6i;v 3i"lv" I .V I . Ef' eranent take some Immediate steps to finance tho f..rmen in their oresslnc needs the farmer. Way lay plans to create their own agricultural bank, ttamgbon the na Ion Thto was the elat of Proposed action at Indianapolis last week, when President Jamc, It Howard caUed Into ITffV T""l BvUreau representing some thirteen million farmerV asks that the federal reserve bank system be modified, which now loans money to dealer. Mn farm commodities over which the producer has lost control and which gluts the mark t due To "hi ca Ulng of ha enort-time loans. The total loss on farm commodities, including livestock was est mai.d?. 2f btllton dollars, as result of recent price declines. These first and wMTmtfanrt eho upper and lower panels, delegates to the convention: Center, left to right J W Powri!i tlcnal "cretary cf the A P. B. F.; Governor Goodrich of Indiana; Preslden I . R.' Howard l ot the ' Silver. Washington representative of the American Kara Uurca" NEW MAT CHAM? KEPT ON TRYIHG If at Grot you don't succeed, try. trv again",- has evidently bn the policy of the new heavyweight 'estilng champion of the world, d 'Strangler" Lewis of Louis- "e, Ky II .,, . the 8tran. eisr s bhh chance at the title, last week si New York when he threw Joe Sujcher Kebrusks farm boy and took the title in one hour and forly-one minutes of gruelling mat work Lewis was twice defeat ed by former champ Earl Caddock and this was his third chance at IT lW'8 wor8 Steclw with bis famous "headlock ' BONUS VGULD GOST OVER TWO BILLION Houston Makes Estimate Be fore Senate Finance Committee. HARDING MAY NAME WOMAN TO CABINET r. J MWj Washington. Passage o the sol diers' bonus bill would cost the gov ernment approximately !2.3f)n.nnn nun Secretary Houston estimated before the senate finance committee consider ing the soldier's aid measure. The treasury secretary declared pn. actment of the bill meant an added burden In the way of taxes, relterar. ing a statement made before the com mittee last week that the treasury ought not to be called upon to as sume any additional burdens. ' Assuming that all the men select one of the four optional plans, Mr. Houston estimated the c.nt nf each of the plans as follows: Adjusted service pay 11,342,000,000. Insurance provisions, M.534,000,000. Vocational tralnlnar aid imsnnnn. 000. farm and home development 11,880 000,000. "The purpose of the National Wheat Growers' association is to control the distribution snd marketing of wheat through financial and .elllng'agencles of Its own selection at a price based upon cost, plus a fair and reasonable profit," said Secretary McGreevy. u t?0Ughl tm President elect Harding will ak Congrws to create a Department of Educa- '!,srrle T Upton of Warren, t.. will be asked to head the ow HI be the first woman in if, United Stales ever, named-..-, lablaet position GROWERS PLAN TO FORGE WHEAT UP Wichita, Kan.-The Wheat Growers' Association of America, which has been conducting a cAmpalgn to Induce grower, to withhold their wheat from the market until price, are 'higher, plan, to have mid-western states so well organized .within the 'next six months that the grower, will be able to control the price paid for the 1921 crop, according to W. H, M(:Greevy, secretary and treasurer. , j The association now hes a member hlp of approximately 100,000 in the "tales of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska, according to Mr. McGreevy, who has his headquarters here, The organization will be ext. nd id, he said, to Minnesota, North Dabott and South Dakota,. HARDING CONFERS ON U. S. Cabinet Selections Also Expected to Be Discussed. Marlon, O. Question, of foreign re lation, and an association of nations gave way to domestic discussions at President-elect Harding's home this week. Among those with whom he wlU talk will be Porter McCumber, senator of North Dukota, a ranking member of the senate finance commit tee; J. w. Good, representative of Iowa, chairman of the house aorronria- tlons committee; Frank Mondell, repre sentative of Wyoming, majority leader In the house; Patrick H. Kelly, repre sentative of Kansas, member of the house military committee. Cabinet selections are also exDAnted to be discussed at a proposed con ference with Will H. Havs. chairman of the republican national committee. Portland Bond House Close Portland, Or.-Wlth the discoverv that a large deficiency exists In tha affair, of the bond house of Morris Brothers, Inc., of Portland.. San Fran- Cisco, Seattle and Tacoma, Fred S. Morris, who took over the firm's af fair, last week when John L. Ethnr. ldge, then president, resinned. an- nounced that the institution's doors In all Of those Cities would not nnnn Monday morning and when urged further for a statement as to the fu ture,, admitted that "This Is, the end of the Corporation's business." 'i Gooding to Succeed Nugent In 8enate. Boise, Idaho.-The resignation of John F. Nugent from the United State, senate, to take effect on Janu ary 15, was received by Governor Davis. Senator Nugent was recently appointed to the federal trade commis sion by PreBldet Wilson. Governor Davis has announced that be will ap point Senator-Bleat Frank R, Gooding to fill Senator Hugent't unexpired term. : OREGON KNOTES" OF GENERAL INTEREST I i i Principal Events of the Week briefly Sketched for Infor mation of O ir Readers. Clttjpin of Dallas are attempting to iwuro a fret mall delivery tervlce. Uiorce W, Wright, Albany attorney, I. compiling t history of I. Inn county The Lower Columbia Oil Gas com pany h.t. begun operatlou. it It. well In Clatsop county, An International mining convention will be held In Portland durlug tht first week In April. Brooding over family trouble., Rich ard Moss, aged 45, committed suicide at Ontario by .hooting himself. Barkley Walker ha. purchased and assumed control of the Wullowa Coun ty Reporter, published at Knterprlse. John Smith, who crossed the plains to Oregon In 1S5!, dlucl near Cottage Grove a few day. .go at the age ot 5 years. Legislation to compel farmer, to de stroy Canadian thistle, before thvy bloom I. ditlrtd by Potuoua Orange of Linn county. Enterprising cltlirn. of Boanlman, Morrow county, are negotiating to es tablish a terry au'oss the Columbia river at tlut city. Oil and ga. of tuperlor quality hare been discovers! on the Jay Man nlng ranch In Klamath county at a depth of 1595 feet. Two hundred dal ymen of the Bank, district have subrlbed (18,000 for the erection of a cromery and choe.e factory In that city. , Nearly a thousand doxen egg. were marketed by the Ashland Cooperative association In November, the price be ing 75 cents per dosen. More than 25 sawmills In Klamath county have closed down for the win tor. Only three ar .till running and they may tuapend coon. Four boys whose age. rango from It to 19 yean are In the Lane county Jail charged with the burglary of .evert! stores at Cottage r.rore. The fourth annua! automobile show of the Pendleton Automobile Doaleri association will be held in Happy Can yon March 10, 11 and 1J. Bobcats are having a hard life In Lane county this fall, bounty on IT of their hides being claimed at the clerk' office In the last few days. The city of Albany I. trying to ob tain a furniture factory to replace the furniture manufacturing plant which forniprlj operated there. Moro than 19,000 head of beet cattle have been shipped from Klamath coun ty since September 1, and 4000 head still remain on the feeding ground. Federal game authorities refuse to consider the suggestion of Pastern Oregon sportsmen that the o;en sea son for .hooting migratory bird, be changed. Marjory Ellis, 12 year, old, wa. In stantly killed two 1'lles souti of iillls boro'when a truck driven by her .tep- father capsized In a collision with an other truck. Mining men of Astern Oregon, at a conference at Be'rer to devise means of meeting present conditions, adopted a new wage scale providing for a gen eral reduction. There are 7 teX of snow at Anna Spring camp In the Crater National park, which Is tour feot more than i.here was at that point at the Same time last year. 1 Sparks generated by friction -while cleaning a silk dress In a Bend laundry fired the gasoline, sat the bulldlrjt on fire and burned the clothing of 0. E. Olsen, proprietor. The Delta 8alng!e company at Flor ence has shut down Its mill and log glng camp while the capacity of the mill I. being Increased by the addition of another machine. Sllverton want, on armory building. A large delegation of citizens went to Salem last week to urge appropriation ot 10,000 county funds, to add to the city's appropriation. All gravel on the Old Oregon Trail between Pendleton' snd Echo has been laid and the road h completed except for a bridge near Echo, which will have to be built In the tprlng. Among the various amount.' asked ot congress for Improvements In Oregor i. an appropriation ot $1125,000 for making a survey of tho Coos Bay Wagon road grant lands. 1 It Is roported that the Crown-Wil lamette Paper company will resume its operations near Seaside wltliln a short time. The Seaside camp em ploys several hundred men. j , Water two feet deep ran down Sea whipped by a 50-mlle gale, das bed over the board walk and .wept through part of the bu.lness section. I There were two fatalities due to In du.trlal accident. In Oregon in the week ended December 23, according to a report Issued by the state Indus trial accident commission. The vie tims were S, M, Thless miner, ol Bourne, and Joseph M. Fltt.gerald, la borer, of Salem. A total of, 456 acci dent! were reported. . -ill a U: ... Work of raising the Quota of the Itate of Oregon, outside of Porllsnd, for the European relief fund I. moving forward rapidly and approximately ITS. 000 ha. already been pledsrd. Harry Silver, mumiftor of the Pom ndour mineral tprlngs nar Athlaim, las a crew of men niuiwl lu pulling lows teat wells fur cnruoiilc add u wihlch the company inrU to dnvelon On account ot the success of the tate butchery stnbllshid flvi) year o at TWowutor, the plant hus been tnlu'raod to haudle 15,000,000 ciiKi lb ilace of the 10,000,000 bundled last veer. Plana have been announced by Ih Kaaociatlon ot Pacific Fisheries fur a nation wide campaign of education a. to the economy and food value of the more plentiful varieties of canned mlinon. F. M. This, an undurground miner employed at the K. K mine at tlourne. In Hukur county, was liiktuiil ly killed Whan a small rock hm-ame llslodn.Hl striking blui on the back ot the neck. Mia. Luke Jonulug. ot Mtdfurd. 35, a sister of Milton A. Miller, Internal revenue collector at Portland, wa. kill ed Instantly lu an automobile accident on the Pacific highway near Mcdford Christmas eve, For the second time within the past few weeks Uerval. I. without water The pumping station Is ample to sup p'y the dcm.ind, but tlie wells fill with a tlue sand and put the pump, out jf commission. Senator Chamberlain of Oregon was operated upon at the emergency hos pital In Washington. D. C, Friday. It was said that the operation was a complete success and that the senator was resting comfortably. Taxpayers of Multnomah county will be called upon next (ear to meet the Inrgmt tax bill that has ev biwn presented to them. The total will be approximately 114,718,000. or 153.44 per capita, based upon 276.211 popula lion as shown by the federal ceusus of 1920. A aquash so large that many people refused to believe It a rl vetetable but thought It was an Imlnilnn made of paper has been on eihlbltion tor several days In the window of Mur phy's seed store In Albany. It weighs 181 pounds. Two hundred phonograph, are now In process ot manufacture at the Cre mona Phonograph company's plant si Albany. Material, are on the way to Albany that will keep lite plant oner atlng at the rate of 15 finished cab Inets a day. The Talent lrr!stlon district hs filed with the state engineer applies tlon for certlflrati-'n of bonds In thi urn of J33.0U0, to be used for the pur chase ot additional land In connection with Installation ;of what will be known as the Em U rant reservoir, nea Ashland. Rogue river dairymen won highest honors In the Oregon Cow Titling as soclatlon as the r-iult of tisl. mad during November, according to nsultt which have Just been given out. Tha district also led others with 35 cow yielding above 40 pounds of butter fa for the month. Because of the wave of crime over the entire country and ot the recent burglaries and attempted burclarlei and much petty thieving, the Mcdford city council hat added another police man to the night force, and lights have been placed In all the alley, through out the buslnce. district. "Declaring In their complaint that Union county financially Is unable to proceed With road work, thut road funds are at low ebb, and that the road conditions should remain as they are until labor and matcrluls are cheaper, William R. Juspcr and Walter M Pierce have enjoined the Union county court from contracting two piece, of road, advertised, front the Iowa achool house to Island City, and from Island City to Cove. T'ee distance covered amounts to about i') miles. L. E. Bean of IS gene, who recently returned from Washington, D whore ho went several weeks ago In the Interests of the Chamberlain road bill, designed to aid the public land states of the west In building high ways, has received a telegram from Representative MrArthur stating he had received assurance from Chairman Mondell of the house committee on public highway, and othor house lead era that legislation providing for an proprlatlon. similar to those called for in tho Chamberlain bill undoubtedly will be passed In the house. To promote pure bred livestock rais ing, Klamath Fall. bank, are offering Inducement. . to communities making the best showing. The First National bank has offered a high-class regis tered bull to the district that first rids Itself of all scrub sires snd replaces them with purebreds. The First State Saving, bank promises a registered buck of standard breed to the district putting In the greatest number of reg istered ewe. In 1921, To encourage hog culture the Klamath State bank will give a registered boar to the dls trlct In which the large.t number ol registered sow. ar placed during the next year, and the American Nations bank, to promote the grading up ol dairy herd., offers a high-grade bull to the district making the best dairy tog record In 1921. ; ' HOUSTON ASKS FOR TAX ONFARM BONDS Secretary Holds That Exemp tion of Land Bank Issues It Wrong. Weshlngtoo.-Wlihdrawal ot the tag exemption provision from farm loan bonds liiued In the future by Joint stock laud bank. ha. bast recommend ed to eonirto. by Secretary Houston on the ground that then bank, art organisation, of private capital lor commercial purpose. In which the pro fit, accrue to the benefit ot the le velling stockholders. Tai MMnnllona In tht ease of Joint atock land hauka were declared by the secretary to amount to gilt at the ipente of the government slid tax payers generally. The privilege, he said, ahould not be continued with re tptt to the private mortgage eon- paniia, orgsnisea ior pnvaii yrvut. This Is emphasised, the secretary as- terted. In this period ot high taxes, when the government has established the policy of subjecting Us own securi ties to partial taxation and when the treasury cannot afford to dliptut with any ot the receipt, which other wise would accrue on account of teiri. The withdrawal et the tax et'tup tlon fur the United States from farm ' suggested, should be eccouipn.l' d b .' an Increase In the power, ot the ft d , eral land bank, to make any l"in ni' authorised by Joint (lock lanl In order that there be no cui'iil :,i m of the financial benefit, to scrlrul.ure provided by the farm loan sit. During the past fiscal yai, lbs see retarv said. I? lolnt .lock laud bank. were In active operation, making loan. In the aggregate ot 120.162,470 to 1141 borrowers. II, S. TROOPS IN EUROPEDWIN0UN6 Washington. The American force In Germany will soon be reduced nt the rate ot about 1200 a month, due to the expiration of term, of enlist ment, and no replacement, are being tent to Coblens. The war department estimates thst by May, 1921, the force will have been reduced to 7004 or. 7500 men, about one brigade, While President Wilton has Issued no orders for the withdraws! of to force, substantia! reductions are oo curing from month to month on an increasing ratio. The force now num bers about 14,000 officer, and men. Many of the enlisted men have been on the Rhine tor long time and their enlistments are beginning to expire In considerable numbers. The aggregate cost of the American force In Germany to June 30, 1934, which Germany must pay, amounted to 257,0li5,084.3C. This turn Include. maintenance of officer., men and ani mal., charge, peculiar to the army (civilian employe., rental., billots and claims), and net debit covering eur- voys, salvage sale, and the like. . MAY NULLIFY LAND LAW Japan Looking Forward to New Treaty With United 8tatt. Toklo. Addressing preliminary meeting, of the diet here, Vlscoent Ucblda, the foreign minister, express ed the opinion that a new Japanese- American treaty will be concluded leading to nullification of tha Cali fornia land luw. He .aid he expected such action to result from tht negotia tion! which have been In progrei. nt Washington between Ambassador 8ht dohara and Roland S. Morris, United State, ambassador to Japan, The ambassadors, he .aid. ware making effort, to obtain an under tending with the tenate to tecura passuge of the treaty. He announced that In view of the sincerity with . which they are endeavoring to solve ' the problem, Japan has refrained from protesting against the California law, but that lf the negotiations fall a formal protest would be lodged. British Letter Prompte Inquiry, Washington. Official coinltanee was taken by the state department of the action ot the British embassy In writing directly to Chairman Kellogg of the tenate committee Invettlratlnt oable communications, denying testi mony that the British authorities Im posed a censorship on cable messuges coming to the .United States (from Great Britain. At the department's request Senator Kellogg sent to Acting -Secretary Davil a copy of the em. bassy letter. New Type Battle Craft Under Way, Washington. Among the 140 ve ' el. under eon.truotlon for tha nnw . are four type, new to the American battle fleet but already In use by the other principal maritime power., They . are the battle cruiser, of which sli art being built; the scout or light crulaar. the airplane carrier and tine fleet tub-marine,
