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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1921)
o A. R. C. Saves These Litcle Ones From Starvation Converted by Visit to Russia Former Champion of Bolshevik Theory of Government Returns Completely Disfflusioned. GOLDMAN WOULD COME BACK I I.enln's government and BOARDING A DIRIGIBLE praised A l praised Russia and complained of conditions In America. I thought I I had convinced hlui, hut apparently 1 hadn't.” Regularly every week Mr. Rubin's room was entered either while he wus • Captain I’eillo*, A. K. head of the American Red C'roaa bureau nt Budapest, surrounded l.v "Ids children’' a few of the thousand* of hungry little Austrluus and Hungarians tjje Red Cross i* keeping from starvation. Census Again w in 1925 Likely Says She’ll Be Good Little Girl If She he was nsleepP and the raider's searched for papers w hlch they thought Can Only Return— Rubin Narrow i lie might have lu Ids possession, lie ly Escapes With His Life— Liv ■ ing Conditions Horrible. • ; wus never kept longer thnn one night • In Odessa, however, Rubin did not city, who recently returned from a fare as well, for he was forced to visit to Russia, say* conditions In thnt spend seven weeks In n Jail at the country ure appalling uuder Bolshevik ■ infers of General Denlktne,* who v ' fule. Mr. Rubin bus for u number of accused him of being u spy for the years been a prominent socialist and Bolshevlkl. He was arrested on Oct. went to Russia convinced thut the Bol- Tall mooring masts for dirigibles shevlki had set up an Ideal state there. iunded and was sentenced to he shot “Conditions In Russia today are al on Jan. 24. Some weeks before the constructed of steel lattice work have most ludescrlbable," he suld. “People threatened execution, the American been erected In the I’ulham aeronautic In this country are made to understand ambassador obtained his release. field in England. The use of these towers obviates the necessity for an thut Lenin and Trotzky are democratic Telling of living conditions In the aerodrome shed except In the stormi to the extreme and every one loves ! Soviet capital, Kubln suld that all est of weather. The photograph shows them. The truth Is that the govern houses were nationalized, even the members of nn airship crew climbing ment over there at present Is no dif large, costly mansions of the well-to- the mast to board the dirigible. ferent from the one under the czar do. Every workingman, he said, must and Rasputin. Just as the peasants go to the housing commission for an feared the tyranlcnl Romunof! before application for rooms. If he has a Prepared for a Revival. his overthrow, they fear the Soviet wife and one child he Is permitted to Vanccburg, Ky.—Boys found a leaders now. have only one room; If his family quantity of bootleg whisky under the “There are nine antl-Bolshevlkl to consists of five, two rooms ure given Holiness church on Stute creek. Just prior to the beginning of a meeting. every adherent to Sovietism In Russia j hltn. There Is not a house In the entire Some enterprising bootlegger had today, even lu such cities as Moscow and Petrogrnd where the Bolshevlkl city which Is not In need of repairing planned to have his supply close at hand to sell during the meetin g are considered powerful. But the peas- j and repluuihlng. outs had to submit when the govern ment was under the seal of the eagle ur.d they are nfrald to do anything dif ferent while It Is under the red seal. I Uprising Called Futile. “We reud recently of an uprising against the government In Kronstadt, j Nothing came of It because the Soviet j officials there are too powerful. Like wise there could be no successful coun ter-revolution In Petrogrnd or Moscow. ful and the offer of the I’ost Office de Tho only places where they might ! Wireless Service Extended by partment to send similar reports from meet with a little success are Odessa. I United States Bureau Aided some of Its wireless stntlons was glad Kiev and Charkoff, which have not yet ly areepted. The sending of reports by Postal Department. been made Soviet strongholds." from Washington which hud formerly Mr. Itubln told of meeting Alexander been handled by the bureau of stand Berkman and Emma Goldman in Mos ards was transferred to the I’ost Office cow, where they ure working for the department on April 5. government compiling data on the In- j "The tentative schedule for seudlng dustrlu! movement since the present ^ reports Is us follows: From Omaha government lins been established. They 1 Amateur Operators Expected to Re a complete report of (he Omuhu live are both very much dissatisfied with | ceive and Distribute Reports From stock market will he sent at 11:15 their lot ami Miss Goldman had com- j Central Stations— Give Price* each day (central atundurd time), und plained to the Interviewer frequently on Principal Products. 11:45 a. in. a complete report oq ihq tlint she wns sorry she left Amerlen, Kansas City live stocW market. At he said. 2:15 p. tn. a grain and potatoes report, Washington. — Tho radio market "But you have free speech now nnd giving prices and conditions at the should he satisfied,” Mr. Itubln suld he uews service of the United States bureau of markets has been expanded Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City told her. to Include tho sending of agricultural and Winnipeg grain markets, and sim “Forget It," wns her reply. market reports by w ireless from Wash ilar information ut the Chicago and In the course of her conversation ington, I>. C , Bellefonte, I'a., St. Louis other potato markets, will be dls- with him. she said : and Omaha, nt stated periods euch putched. At 5 p. in. u dully 'radio "Mr. Rubin, if you use your Influence business day. This increased radio marketgram’ will he sent, covering In getting me hack to Amerlen I prom market news service Is made possible, national market conditions on live ise I'll he n good little girl.” Emma Is it is announced, by the co-operation of stock, fruits and vegetables, grain, only one out of mnny who has seen the United Slates I’ost office depart hay, feed and seed. the mistake In Rolshevlsm, suld the ment which, through Its air mull serv Products Covered. former socialist. ice has offered to send certain agrt- "The reports to be sent from 8t. Every one In Russia Is eyed with oultnrnl reports of tho bureau of mar Louis are n national stock ynrds live suspicion by every one else. Even Americans In Moscow refuse to talk kets at specified hours from its wire stock market report at 11 a. m. (cen less stutlous ut the cities nniued. tral standard time), a Chicago live openly to other supposed Americans "On December 15, 1920, the bureau stock market report at 11:30 a. m., for feHr they might he spies, Mr. Rubin said. And he wns no different from of markets Inaugurated un experi a grain aud potato report ut 2 p. in., the others. When It became known mental wireless market news service und the rado marketgram nt 7 p. in. tie had a brother who Is an officer nt Washington,” ■ statement from the From the Wushlugton and Bcllefonte in the American Federation of Labor ‘ bureau of markets reads, "for the pur- stations will he dispatched n radio iind a daughter Who had been active poso of determining Hie practicability marketgram giving u geueral dally In collecting money for the various of sending dully agricultural market summary of eastern market prices on drives In this country during the war. reports to farmers by wireless. Re live stock and meats, fruits and vege ho wns looked upon by every one with ports of prices and conditions of lead tables, grain, hay, feed and seed, nt suspicion. But when they learned thnt ing fruits ami vegetables, live stork 5 p. tn. and 7 p. tn., respectively, ho had sent a letter to a St. Louis and meats, grain, hay and feed at Im (eastern standard time).- The weath newspaper saying that he wns dis portnnt national markets were pre er report from the local office of the appointed with practical socialism, pared, and at 5 p. tn. each day were United States weather bureau will l*s tl elr suspicion became greater and he sent by wireless from tho United appended to the forenoon live stock was thought to be a spy. States burenu of standards' Washing report. ton radio station to fanners and other Surrounded by Spies. “These reports are Intended to be “I knew I would be shot If I let agricultural Interests within a 2UO- received by amateur radio operators within tlie territory covered by the them know whnt I thought of them,” mlle radius of Washington. 30l)-mlle radius of each of the four he said, "so I decided to be careful Proves Successful. wireless stations named. There are with whom I spoke. One day a man who said his name wns Williams came "Largely ns the result of the co-op some 2.300 licensed wireless opera to me and declared he, too, was an eration of some of the radio experts tors In the area covered, ami the bu A lerlcnn nnd occupied tl^ room next connected with the bureau of stand reau of markets hopes that as many to mine. When he !>egan denouncing ards, the experiment proved success- j of these operators as can convenient- | ly do so will receive the reports and j see that they are placed In the hands of fifVmcra and other agricultural In- I terrsts as aoon as possible after the | Information la received. "Each operator Indicating a desire j fo receive nnd distribute the ninrket . reports will be supplied with blank forms, so thnt It will he necessary for him simply to fill In longhand the prices and the brief comments on gen eral market conditions." . he In normal or similar conditions In ten, twenty or thirty years. The Mg difficulty is that the last decade lias been too abnormal to use it as a basis for calculation. In 1900 our population wns 73.994,- 573. In 1910 It jumped 15.977,691. or 21 per cent, over this figure to 91.972,- 206. and In 1920 It had jumped 13.738.- 305 more, or 14.9 per cent to a total of Figures of 1920 Count Will Be of data by states and minor subdivis more than 100,000,000. Among other ions and the publication of the census things the period from 1900 to 1919 Almost Worthless in Two abstract and finally the census report j was a good one for Immigration. The for 1924. This will complete the “Job" Years. 1910 to 1920 deende was decidedly and will probably be done by the end j otherwise, and Its percentage of In of the year. Then It is probable that crease was the lowest In history. Instead of settling down to Its minor The coming decade, from now until lnterdecennlal census, it will be In structed by congress to get Itself 1930, Is expected to he an unusual Im ready for three yours more of national migration period. With our natives Increasing by births in addition to Abnormal ' Conditions In After War “stocktaking.” Period Caused Anomalies—Gov More than 100,000 persons were em prospective Immigration, If congress ernment and Business Depend ployed In taking the present census. puts no bar In the way, the Increase Much on Statistics. In all, congress appropriated $23.300,- in the next decade should approach 000 for the three years of work. The between 20 and 25 per cent of our Washington, D. C.—With the popu period covered In taking the census present, and a total of 130.000,(XX) lation of the country counted nose for was from July 1, 1919, to June 30, people in 1930 Is not considered by statisticians of the census bureau to Dose and ths census of 19-1) virtually 1921. be too wide. completed It looks as though congress In 1913 and 1919, when congress From the growth of the country in would huve to dig down into the pock wh s appealed to for funds for the ets of the treasury for $2l),UU0,lXX) work the members were warned that the Inst hundred years It Is easy to more to repeat the operation in 19-3. the results wrnuld probably be unsat appreciate the growth In the size of It took $23,500,(XX) to take the four isfactory and that another census the Job undertaken euch ten years by Gradually the teenth decennial census, the census might he necessary almost immedi the census bureau. that started three years ago, the to ately. So Important was the census work of enumerating the population tals of which are now being compiled. considered, however, that congress de and the facts concerning them has The fifteenth census will probably cided to take It at the regular time been reduced to mechnnlcnl processes. Front the days of horseback travel hare to drop the term decennial, for set nside for It and then. If necessary, In 1790 the census taking lias gone It now a p p e a rs that It will 1m e to take a following census. through an evolution In respect to be started within the next year or two Importance of the Census. size, methods and matter. At first If the country Is to have any relluble Unless one studies the reports of statistics, and If this is the case it will the census figures he does not realize only Individuals were counted and be the first break In the long line of how Important It Is for Uncle Sam later Information concerning the fam “stock takings'* Uncle Sum bus In to count noses, first of all for reasons ily was gathered. It wns not until dulged In every ten years since 1790. of government and, secondly, for the 1850 that Information concerning agri culture. Industry, religion, literacy, The truth about the 1920 census Is harmonlztug of our Indivorlal and so schooling, occupations, quarries and that for this year, last year and next cial life. The census, of course, gives mines and the like were noted. year its figures are Invaluable, but for fairly accurate figures of actual and The census of 1850 was called the the remaining eight years Intervening potential wealth throughout the coun between this and the next census, ex try, which Is Invaluable for tax pur "modern census” for a number of years following. In 1870 mnchlne perts declure. Its figures will be w >rth poses. tabulation was Introduced and later little more than their own historical Consider the plight the staff of the and Intrinsic phenomenal value. That army would have been in during the catne the more rapid electrical ma Is to say, they cannot be used for the wnr, as well as the rest of the coun chine tabulation. By 1880 150 super year to year computations that the try, it it could not estimate either the visors and 31.382 enumerators were government and the industries of the source of human or material supplies. engaged In taking the census. Today there are almost three timer that num country are accustomed to making. All the statistics of the government, ber of enumerators. The fourteenth decennial census was of labor and of business; all figures | In addition, the census bureau takes taken on the regular periodic occasion used by Insurance companies, banking vnrlous speelal censuses, such as a set aside since 1790 for taking the na and agricultural statistics would be census of the fisheries, central electric tional census. In 1820 that proved for vague guesses without the comprehen stations, schooling, religion and has the first time to be an unfortuuate and sive and aproximately accurate ten- even got down to taking a census of not propitious occasion. Of course It year tally made by the government as drainage conditions In agricultural was the war that was to blame. For a I »a sis from which to compute. areas. To do this work It employs the six years previous to 1920 im When the government sturted com many special ngents skilled In thnt migration had not only been restricted piling census figures in 1790 the work because of the war tn Europe, but an of enumerating the populace was in-1 line of work. The most modern feature of the cen unusual number of our recent Immi trusted to 17 United States marshals, | sus Is Its card Indexing and tabulat grants returned to their native homes and the actual enumeration was done ing work. The census burenu has de and armies to take part In the war. by 030 marshals' assistants. The fig signed Its own tubulating card. This Upward Swing in All Lines. ures complied were sent to the Pres card registers the section of the Added to this, industrial conditions ident. who turned them ovej to the country In which a i>ersnn lives, wheth early became upset in this country. secretary of state. In turn they were er a mnle or fpnmle, age, nativity, oc Our munitions and Industrial plants transmitted to the printer and printed cupation, whether employed or unem took on gigantic and actually gro In an octavo volume of 50 pages. ployed, what langunge l.e speaks, tesque capacities and they were flood There Is a striking contrast between whether a naturalized citizen by birth ed abnormally with labor. Even the the first census report In a hook of or. alien nnd similar data respecting per capita wealth of the country 30 pages 8 by 3 Inches In size and his parents. S w u D g well over toward the golden 1 the hundred or more volumes In qunr- ! The cost of taking the census In era during this period. j to (12 by 9 InchasJ of approximately 1920 amounted only to about 21 cents The contrast of unemployment, d i-. 40,000 pages published as a result of per capita for all the people In the minlsbing wealth of the mass of the the 1910 census. e United States. people, shutdown of m ills* an.1 the The first census taking was fraDf turning flood of Immigration witnessed i with hardships, the enumerators mak- during the last six months Is the best ® ln g Journeys over unimproved r«>nds FINDS HILL OF MAPLE SUGAR example of how useless the figures In stages and on horseback. In fa c t,! taken 1 will bo a year ov two some smaller c..mmunition were con Huge Deposit Discovered In Ohi^ by S c ie r» it Has Qual'ties of front now. Yet even this condition sldeied*too Isolated to visit. Among Maple Molasses. will not t>e permanent. In a year or | these were Detroit, and Vincennes, | two ttie country hopes to l>e back to tnd. Western New York wns a wil Chilllcothe. O.—There wax no need for derness at that time, Elmira and Bing its normal stride. Tl.e figures of the last few years hamton being only detached hamlets. Ross county to suffer during the sugar The chief data taken for the first famine, for there's a hill of the stuff will furnish u splendid concrete ex census related to the bends of fam in the vicinity o f Chimney Rock. It ample for the future of what to ex ! was discovered by Clinton F. Houser, pect In times of great social upheav- { ilies and other data were c..nsi ; ala, such as the World war. but sta-1 as related to these family heads. 1’hll- head of the chemistry and physics de tistics that are to serve the country j adelphla was the capital at the time partment of the Chilllcothe high as a normal guide for Its legislative ’ This census showed the great metmp- ......... I. Near A'lilr.nej lb>ck is.on • and business activities in times of oils of New York with n population vatlon composed of sandstone silicates peace must be taken in the normal In those days of 33.000 Inhabitants and covered with shale. Between the days of peace. ; Even then It was the largest city In j layers Is a hard layer of stone of pecu The great hulk of the present cen- 1 the United States. But the state of liar characteristics. An analysis of sus has been completed. The census New York ranked a poor fourth In this shows a solution having the quali bureau has already published the to- population In comparison with Vlr- ties of maple molasses. Presence of tal imputation of the United States, glnla. Pennsylvania and Massachu- the sandstone In the deposit Indicates that at one time the hill marked a there being 195.708.771 souls account- setts. spot on a shore line and It Is thought cd for throughout the United Spates U. S. Had 3,893.635. la 1790. This represents on Increase of l.TT^a,- The total population of the United that the maple sugar rocks may he 506 Inhabitants, or 14.9 per cent In- States In 1790 was registered as 3.893,- the result of a gum like deposit crease of population since 1910. It 633 persona. For 1920 the census fig- washed up by the waves. The sugar has even moved the Imaginary point ures show a total population of 105.- hill Is now 175 feet high. represeiitlng the "center of popula- 708.771. of a percentage Increase In t l '» " from Bloomington. I ml., to a 130 years of 8.500 per cent. To ex- Lovesick Man Shoots Young Girl Dead. Fresno, Cal.—Exclaiming "I'm a point 9.8 miles west and about one- pect the same relative Increase In the flit.v of a mile north, where it la now next 130 years would give us a popu- lovesick man; I could kill both of flxed In the little town of Spencer. Ind. latlon In the year 2060 of something you," * strange man leaped from a fteveral British war veterans and their families, unable to secure other Little Work Vet to Be Don*. |n excess of three and a half billions. clump of hushes In a park and abot shelter, are living In miserable huts at Sundrlge Camp, Woking, England. All that remains to be done Is the But getting down to earth. It Is and killed Miss Alice Byxbee. A com Of course the sanitary conditions are bad. The veterans, however, say they computation of the statistics In hand rather easy to calculate from past hls- panion. Miss Virginia Thompson, tvas must live and Insist that they cannot find other quarters. The authorities fvr various special data, the totalling tory what the population mark will . not banned. are Investigating. ARE NOT A TRUE RECORD Send Market News by Radio EXPERIMENTS ARE SUCCESS British War Veterans in Huts $1.830 KEEPS FAMILY A YEAR Will Support Worker, Wife end Three Children, Wisconsin Figures Shew. Madison, WIs..—It costs $1.830 71 a 1 year for a workingman ami his wife and a family of three children to buy the actual necessities of life nnd to maintain health and comfort, accord ing to figures made public by II. O. Packer, Wisconsin commissioner of Immigration. The quantities of food and clothing needed are based upon recent surveys made of the Department of Labor In eleven American cities, and the prices are those paid at Madlsoa. WIs., one | store checked against another, (basis j of only very ordinary quality are ron- ' sldered. The children of this typical family are a hoy of 12, a girl of 6 and a boy of 2.
