Eugene daily guard., September 21, 1917, Image 2

Friday Evening
UUiSNlS UAILY GUARD
Page Two.
KUES
DISCLOSED
BY LANSING
(Continued from pafe one)
ment have collected and compiled the en
tire story of German dopUcit and In
itrlfne and that additional chapters will
be added.
The reference to avoidin war Is taken
as an indication that Ambaaiador von
Bernatorff bad prior knowledge of bla
government's intention to proclaim a
merciless widespread submarine warfare
,and that ho was equally confident that
I the United Btatea government could not
j b easily placated by mere promiaea. The
German announcement of ita intention
! to expand ita aubmarine activities waa
sot made pnblio until January 81 when
the world waa atartled not only by the
determination to remove all restrictions
hut by the statement that it would be
come effective on the following day.
Three days later the United Statea gov
ernment had expressed ita diaapproval by
severing relatione with Germany.
That the German ambassador knew of
bla government'a intention waa aaaumed
by aome officials although at the same
time ho denied prior knowledge and thoae
in close touch with the embassy were
given to undertsnnd that he did not ap
prove tho course and worked to secure
modification.'
180,000 Smtil F.
It has not been assumed that the am
bassador actually attempted, to bribe or
personally Influence any member of con
gress and doubt that such waa hie pnr-
, pose la supported to aome extent by the
' comparatively email amount of money be
asked. Fifty thousand dollara, it waa
pointed out, would go but a ahort way
towards buying the Influence of-any con-
'gieesman.
Judiciously expended, however, it
might do much in compensating paid
agenta, auch aa are now known to have
belonged to the elaborate machine Bern
atorff had ao carefully built up for the
production of propaganda and for pur
poses of espionage.
Information In the poaaealon of the
government but not yet revealed, Is said
to ahow conclusively a mora direct con
nection of tke German machine in Amer
ica with the Irish question than that in
dicated in Count von Bernstorffs mea-
ease, The records at the department 6f
justice are said to contain the namea of
men implicated in that phaae of Ger
ivanlc intrigues well known in America.
, Today'a announcement by the state
AM )
MS lN
In these daya of statistics and csti
niotes the interesting disclosure has been
made by a wleo man with a sharp' lead
pencil, that nlno girls out of ten are,
at aome time in their youth,- "stag
struck." Samuel Hopkina Adams muBt
have been of a like opinion wen he con
tributed "Triumph" to Collier's. Mr.
Adama took for bla heroine the belle of
a country town who had made a great
hit with her friends when ahe played the
role of Rosalind in an amateur perform
ance of "As You Like It." This success
Inspired the girl's ambition; she visloned
the world paying homage to her great
ness. 8he decided , to run away, from
home (as hundreds of girls have done in
real life) that she might dazzle the
world through the brilliancy of her artis
try. The' "Triumph" is one of the most ori
ginal and entertaining narratives Mr.
Adama has ever written. Joseph De
Grasse, who directed Miss I'hillips in
Hell Morgan's Girl," and "The Rescue,"
created the screen version of the story,
and Lon Chaney and William Stowell,
who always support Miss Phillips in her
various presentations, will again lead
her assisting company in gripping por
trayals of an extremely emotional and
forceful screen revelation. .
The 'Triumph", will be the attraction
at the Rex Theatre Friday and Satur
day. .
department Is the first official utterance
of the government with reference to the
German ambassador's active ' personal
participation in the mate of plots and
Intrigues conducted for Germany's bene
fit in this country since the beginning of
tho European war, , : '
Referred to "Former Ooeaalena."
The evidence of Count von Bernatorff'a
peraonal activities in connection with
German propaganda bore bears tho date
of President Wilson's address to con
gress, January 22, recking hia appeal to
the warring nations to enter Into peace
negotiations. At the aame time the presi
dent waa addressing congress, apparently
Count von Bernatorff was appealing to
his government for funds with which to
influence congressional action.
It was not the first time, apparently,
that Count von Bernatorff bad sought
to influence congressional action, this bo
lng eloquently proclaimed by his refer
ence to "former occasions."
The name of the organisation through
which the Airmen government had
sought to Influence congressional action,
the manner In which the money used for
this purpose was expended, the previous
Instances and tho Individuals carrying on
the propaganda, although not disclosed,
are subjects of well defined, suspicions
ALL THE CARDS DM THE TABLE
It's very enjoyable, getting Into a card-game with a player,
who, like Bret Harte's "Heathen Chinee," has forty-seven
decks up his sleeve,. It gives one such a sense of security
and promotes so much good fellowship. And it is such
Insurance on the little old pocket-book.
.The same rule holds In a business transaction. We like the
flrocer. whose strawberries don't begin to mold until the
second layer. We admire the tailor, who constructs a
suit which doesn't turn green until we've walked a block
in the sun. We have an affection for the housebuilder,
whose original estimates were alluring, only he forgot
the "extras."
All kidding aside, there isn't one of us, too matter how
crooked we may be personally, who doesn't want to be
treated on the level. We like frankness and open-and-above
board methods. When we believe we ought to be
let In on' the ground floor and are not let in, we put up
an awful "holler." -
This leads me to remark that the Painless Parker brand of
dentistry Is unique in just this very particular. It tears
the roof off humbug and mystery in tooth-treating like
a Kansas cyolone taking the lid off the courthouse. There
are no secrets in dentistry that the mere common person
isn't entitled to know. And the main angles of the tooth
plumbing proposition are so simple, a chid irt" the kin
dergarten grade can understand them. So, we're for a
lot of blue sky and sunlight in this long darkened trade
of ours.
Here's what we mean by "all the cards on the table:" In
every Painless Parker office (and there are sixteen of
them), the invariable rule is "examination and consul
tation free." Do you realize what that means? It means
giving your molars the once over, telling vou wlmt is
wrong with any or all of them, explaining the treatment
necessary to restore or remove or replace them, esti
mating the cost and then putting it all up to you. If you
want some or all of the work, all right. You know what
the bargain is, and there's no fooling or jobbery about
it. If you don't want the work, we part good friends.
You've learned something about your teeth without any
cost to yourself. Nobody's nibbled at your bank roll.
Fair enough, isn't it?
1
A.
.
PAINLESS PARKER,
DENTIST.
SEVENTH AVENUE AND
WILLAMETTE STREET
EUGENE, ORE.
Portland and Salem, Ore. ; Tacoma, Wash ; San Francisco,
Oakland, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, Stockton,
Fresno, Bakersfield, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Calif.; and
Brooklyn, N. Y.
STEADY! EUGENE
Potato Market Remains Sta-
tiorwry; Price Predictions
Vary Greatly.
Steadiness continues to be the out
standing feature of the Eugene market
Little fluctuation ia noticed in any lines.
There la no marked change in the price
of any ataplea and little indication of
change apparent. .
On potatoee only is there uncertain
feeling and that in 'that commodity the
future local price is very uncertain. Re
ports from government sources ahow that
the 1917 crop ia 100,000,000 bushela over
and above, tho necessities for table use.
This would In natural course of eventa
bring a" big slump, from present prices,
but local dealers and raisera declare that
the car ahortage and other causes will
prevent shipment to Oregon where crop
la abort.
The following prices are quoted on the
market today:
.Butter.
Butter
Butterfat
Stock.
Veal, according to quality
Dressed hogs, fancy
Live Hogs ,
Steers , ,
Bulls
Cowa
at tho state department, whose bureau
of investigation for more than three
years has been conducting a rigid sur
veillance of German activities in tbls
country. ' ' ' .
German Intrigues Many.
Records of the department of justice
are overuowing wiw reports trom Hun
dreds of agenta concerning Gorman in
trigues here, many of which led to tho
German embassy and some of which re
sulted In the recall, at President Wil
son's request, of Captains Boy-ed and
von. Papon, the German naval and mili
tary aides.
Up to tbls time Boy-ed end von Pnpen
had appeared as the master spirits of
German propaganda here. Intimations
that German plots and intrigues were
directed not by them but by Count von
Bernatorff, with the full approval of
Berlin, heretofore had been met by of
flclals with silence. For months past,
however, there have been many indies
tlons that the American government had
established Bernatorff's direct conned
tlon with much of the German secret
work conducted hero and that thero was
amplo basis for a rcquost for his recall
months before the diplomatic break with
Germany.
Up to. tho time of Boy-cd's nud von
Papen s recall, von Bernatorff appnrent
ly, for diplomatic reasons, had sought to
remain clear personally of connection
and von Papon's manifold ac
tivities conducted hero by his attaches
From disclosures concerning ' Boy-ed's
Boy-cd's and von Papon's manifold ac
tivities officials apparently obtained the
Impression that von Bornstorff in most
Instances had left the conduct of German
propaganda in the hands of his subordinates)-
with only casual supervision of
their activities, if any,
Intimations have been nioro or leas
frequent, however, at trials and other
p-ocecdints Instituted against pro-German
ngoiitH iu this country that von
Bernatorff had, at! least, a general know
ledge of the work they were conducting
III most instances this knowledge would
appoar to be only of a general nature.
In a few cases leads pointing toward his
personal knowledge of specific instances
of German violations of American neu
trality were not publicly developed. Tho
government's purpose fn -'not allowing
these leads with public disclosure was to
permit of closer examination Into the
ambassador's actual participation In
them.
The auggeatlon was made that by "or
ganisation" the ambassador might have
mennt any one of the different sn-enlled
peace societies that wero actlvo at that
time, but It was learned that state de
partment officials do not know what the
ombassndor did mean. .
. It was assumed, however, that ho re
ferred to tin organisation he hud set up,
although some officials were inclined to
believe that the method of influencing
was the using of pacifists to rake out
the chestnuts rather than to any direct
sublimation of congressmen.
At least one, of the most active organ
isations flooded Washington with tele
grams just prior to the war and during
the dnys Immediately following the break
In relations, calculated to Influence con
gressmen to vote against any message
looking to war with Germany. It al
waya has been asumed that Teutonic
agenta were largely reaponaible for these
activities.
Secretary Lansing adhered to his de
termination not to discuss this latest
disclosure and refused to reveal the
manner In which the message to Berlin
came into the hands of the government.
While the United Statea waa one of the
neutrals, certain privileges had been ex
tended to the German embassy in tho
transmission of meaaagea but only after
their contents had been made known.
"No, this waa not one that passed
through this government'a channels of
communication," was the smiling reply of
an official at the Mate department when
it was aiiggeated that Ambassador Bern
atorff might have added to hia duplicity
the irony of using the United Statea aa
a transmitter of the message. It is
known that the message reached Berlin
but whether tho German foreign office
ever waa able to get a reply to America
Is not known. It waa indicated that it
entire into possesion of the state depart
ment aome time after it waa sent, per
haps after the break in relatione and
Boeslbly after the declaration of war.
...........55c
4Dc
...... ll12c
1818c
, .1016c
67c
..84c
...81-241-2
Ewes. To
Lamb 9c
Wethers .... ....8c
Ejge aa Poultry.
Egea
Heavy bens, per pound 14c
Light hena, per pound. . .-r....18o14c
Common hens, per pound... ...... .12c
Springs ITc
Ducks 10c
Geese, live 10c
Old roosters 8c
Vegetable.
Onions ..85e
Potatoes 23c
Cabbage ..84
Green Beans 48c
Cucumbers, dozen 25c
New turnips 24e
New carrots S&4
New beets, per bunch .......... ....5c
Brain and Hay.
Oats, whiti, per bushel 80c
Oats, gray, per bushel 85c
Wheat . ?1.85
Beana ..16
Hay, oat and vetch ......No quotation
Barley, seed, busbel $1.35
Mill feed, cwt. $2.50
Shorts, cwt $2.50
Bran, cwt $2.00
Middlings per cwt $2.05
Germans Yield
(Continued from page one)
ALSO HAVE REVOLT
Girl Soldiers in "Battalion of
Death" Make ' Attack on
Commander..'
(By The Attoeiatei Press)
Pctrogrod, Thursday, Sept. 20. A
small riot occurred today in the ranks of
the women's battalion drilling at Mos
cow and it resulted in an attack by the
girls, upon Vera Butchkareff, the twice
wounded girl officer who initiated the
woman suffrage soldier organizations.
According to the Bourse Gasette, an in
fantryman rescued Commander Butch
kareff after some rough handling from,
the Infuriated girls who resented some
acts of their leader not clearly defined.
Aa a result of the affair many of the
girls will he sent home and only 250 will
be permitted to go to tho front.
A second riot of more serioiia conse
quences is reported to have followed an
attempt by a crowd of women to take
away from one woman a small quantity
of cloth which she had purchased at the
market place. Militiamen tried to defend
the woman and they In turn were assail
ed. Mounted mllittr. and Cossacks dls
pcraed the rioters but not unUl they had
wrecked the militia headquarters and had
beaten to death a government agent who
had shot Into the crowd.
German territory along a line which in
many placea represented an average gain
of a mile in depth. '
Such redoubtable strongholds at Nun's
wood, Glencorse wood, Inverness Copse
and Shrewsbury forest, which have with
stood numeroua fierce assaults recently,
were entirely overrun by the Britlsbwho
reached points well beyond them. Heavy
fighting was continuing at close range at
various points and the ucrmans were
massing troops with the evident inten
tion of delivering a counter attack. It
haa been a day of great success for the
British arms, for the possession of wood
d heiehts which they, captured east of
l'pres unquestionably is of crucial im
portance since these dominating posi
tions form the keystone of the German
structure of defense in thla sector. The
greateat gaina have been made between
St. Julian and Hellebeke which was aa
had been planned, for within this stretch
of country lie the important defenses
just mentioned. -
The troops that went out to the at
tack reoreaented sums of the finest men
in the British army. They entered the
conflict in high Bpirita and eager for the
fray. Their advance was preceded by one
of the most porfect' and heaviest barrage
fires yet attempted. The men wont over
the top stripped light and aa a result of
this, coupled with the artillery support,
they were enabled to negotiate the first
stages of the difficult ground rapidly.
They had swept through Glencorse wood,
Inverness Copse and the eastern part
of Shrewsbury forest by 8 o'clock, two
hours and twenty minutes after the at
tack began, and other advanced posi
tions were reached with eejual rapidity,
which is a remarkable achievement in
view of the marshy nature of the ground
due to heavy rain.
On the left of the line attacked heavy
fighting developed on the high ground on
either side of the Zonnebeke-Lange-maTck
road. A number of strongly for
tified farms were encounteded in this
region and bombed into submission.
Among these was Schuyler farm, a short
distance southeast of. St. Julien. Schuy
ler farm held out long against attacks
and continued; to play on the British
with machine guns until it was taken.
Strong resistance waa encountered at a
redoubt on the Tpres-Roulers railway
west of Zonnebeke. This Tedoubt ia a
massive concrete steel structure and it
withstood all of the shell fire poured
against it. The British advanced on two
sides and stormed the place with bombs
until its occupants raised the white flag.
Similar tactics resulted in the fall of
another --great stronghold northeast of
Westhiek. .
The British casualties so far reported
are exceptionally light, the majority be
ing due to machine gunfire. British air
planes again dominated the air. They
were thick over the line of the British
advance and carried on a vigorous war
fare back of the German positions where
tons of high explosives bombs were drop
ped. German machines were far iesa ac
tive. A large number of prisoners al
ready have been brought In but it is im
possible to give an accurate estimate of
the total. V
Heavy righting olong tins front Is ex
pected to follow today's attack, because
it Is certain that the Germans will not
relinquish these positions without a bitter
struggle. Air pilots report that the roads
back of the German lines are filled with
troops being rushed up for a counter at
tack but this is a pleasing feature to
tbe British artillerymen, who express
the desire for nothing better than to get
e manv Germans as possible out in the
open where their shells wm reach them.
When the Skin Seems Ablaze
With Itching and B
There's just one thing; to do.
If your skin seems ablaze with the
fiery burning: and itching of Eczema,
real and lasting relief can only
come from treatment that goes below
the surface that reaches down to
the very source of the trouble. So
called skin-diseases come from a dis
ordered condition of the blood, and
the proper treatment is through the
blood. -
Se-irch far and near, and you can
not fifl.4 a 1.1-.
r- . a. to, re,
""7 Hat
It has been on ,h .?
years, during which SS.k?JS
giving uniform ,ti&lt
manner of blood 'M
want prompt and uSS'V'lJ
n rely upon S. & S,ft?2
advice as to the trutm. F.w
own individual c,.V "
Chief Medical Advise, c!,,..tWyt
Co, Dept. C Ailing
11. Turnbow, who has a store at Bear
Creek, was in Eugene Thursday trans
acting business, ,.t
It was pointed out that knowledge of the
ambassador's action at tho time it wna
taken would have precipitated more im
mediate action, but the suggestion was
answered by the intimation that the mass
of evidence being gathered then was of
such a character that it might not have
been considered necessary or opportune
to give undue importance then to a
knowledge of tho ambassador's duplicity.
Referring to "former occasions" on
which the ambassador had asked for and
used money In Influencing congress is in
line with other evidences now In pos
session of the state department, showing
the extent to which the German govern
ment had gone in building up an organ
isation for propaganda and espinage.
Little surprise over the disclosure was
manifested at the capital.
"In view of the fact that chargea of
lar$e expenditures of money in German
piopagand have not been denied," said
Senator Rted, "this new evidence is
cumulative. The money evidently was
spent, In propaganda."
Senator Norria disclaimed personal
knowledge of use of money by German
Interests, but added:
"I have heard it repeated," he said,
"that both Germany and England need
large sums of money in this country. No
organisation that I know of got any
German money or any other kind. As
suredly no German money waa need to
influence the members of congress who
were against war. The Bernatorff mes
sage waa sent, you may notice, al a time
when President Wilson was against
war.".
STRONG LINE ATTACKED.
(By Thl Aitoeialtd Vrtit)'
British Headquarters in France, Thurs
day, Sept. 21. The scene of tho present
British offensive includes one of the
most important and strongest parts of
the German line In this section and has
been marked by acme of the most bitter
fighting of the war since the allies have
seven weeks ago began their drive which
has become known aa the battle of Flan
ders. The wooded elevations east and
southeast of Vpres among which are such
dominating positions aa Glencorse wood
and Inverness Copse were the vital
points, and the Germans had made their
defense as nearly' Impregnable, as they
were able, being determined to retain
them without regord to the cost. The
battles of the pest few weeks bear wit
nesa to the strength of tho defenses at
these points.
The crucial sector may be Said to be
gin with the ridge known as Anc, which
lies about a mile southwest of Zonnebeke.
Southwest of Ansae is Nun's wood and
just east of this is the famous forest
known as Polygon wood; When tho Brit
ish In August fought their way forward
to Polygon wood they found Nun's wood
so flooded that they were forced to go
around it and the ground here still pre
sents great difficulties to the movement
of troops because of Its swampy condi
tion. Nun's wood merges into Glen
corse wood on the south and a little fur
ther down and astrldo the tpres-Menin
highway ia Inverness Copse of undying
fame. Between Glencorse wood and In
verness is an open stretch of aolW ground
of some 400 yards dhd here on the Fits
clarence farm the Germans had built
great steel and concrete redoubts whose
machine guns dominated the southern
part of Glencorse wood and the north
ern section of Inverness.
NEW POSITIONS CONSOLIDATED
. , f iuoMalti Prtu)
llrltlsh Front In Frnnce and Belgium,
Sept. Jl. During the night the British
forces with comparatively little opposi
tion consolidated and conalderably im
proved the new line which they had won
in their offensive against the Germans
io me ease oi Xprce,
ALLIES ADVANCE) AT LENS.
vmnaoian ucedquartere in France,
Sept 20. Pressure an the defences of
Lens is unrelenting and the Germans are
.a merauy sqoceied out of the town.
Poets have been pushed out im v-
Mans Land again In the region of St
I-nrent and the ground in defense of
which the Germans fought fiercely a
month ago haa been occupied hv n. .1.
moat without a etruggle.
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As rendered to September 11th., 1917.
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Other Real Estate 29,923.41
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