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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1917)
ID HAPPEN! Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Government! and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. The highest number of cattle ever received at the South Omaha market In a single day was recorded Monday 24,600 head, comprising 950 carloads. The German daily newspaper Eco Aleman, published in Spanish, at Gua temala City, which has been active in its hostility to the entente, haa been suppressed. The government Tuesday advanced $35,000,000 to Great Britain, bringing the total advanced that country thus far up to $1,190,000,000 and the total of all credits to the allies up to $2,- 426,400,000. Captain Laureauti, of the Italian army, accompanied by an observer, Tuesday made a non-stop airplane night from Turin, Italy, to London, He covered the 656 miles in 7 hours and 12 minutes. Half a score of Mexico City news papers were ordered to ceaBe publics tion Tuesday on the ground that their further issuance was contrary to public morality. A majority of the news papers closed have been anti-American in spirit. Ten thousand Polish-Americans who will be part of the United States army are to go into training at once at Niagara camp near Niagara-on-the- Lake, it was announced in Toronto, Ont., Tuesday. They will remain there until November. Mobilization of the fish industry with a view to speeding up production is the purpose of a two days' conference begun in Washington Monday between wholesale fish distributers and the food administration. A campaign is planned to popularize frozen fish. Five hundred thousand sheep have been destroyed by pedatory animals in Utah this year, according to a survey just concluded by C. B. Stewart of the Wool Growers' association. Besides the loss of mutton, 4,000,000 pounds of wool has been destroyed. A bill to put the lumber Industry on an eight-hour day basis was introduced by Senator Jones, of Washington, and referred to the commerce committee. It would prohibit interstate shipments of lumber products upon which there has been labor of more than eight hours a day. Mobilization of the Argentine navy has been ordered at a rendezvous 37 kilometers from Buenos Aires. There is also unusual military activity in the republic. Although this is ostensibly due to the general strike, a high offi cial said, however, that the general staff has its eyes open to "other nec essities." Holland has reached an agreement with Great Britain regarding the sup ply of coal, according to the Amster dam Handelsblad. The newspaper be lieves the agreement was reached un der certain conditions, the most im portant of which is that Dutch tonnage shall be placed at the disposal of the Belgian Relief commission. A baseball game at Los Angeles Monday between teams captained by William A. (Billy) Sunday and Doug las Fairbanks was won by the latter's team, 1 to 0. A baseball autographed by President Wilson brought $200 at auction. Others were presented to Sunday and Fairbanks. The proceeds were to be expended for athletic sup plies for soldiers. Returns from ISO of the chief rail roads in the United States covering July operations, made public Thursday, show net revenues of $108,337,406, as compared with $103,170,216 in July, 1916. Operating, revenues increased nearly $44,000,000, totaling $33,407, 171, while expenses increased approxi mately $41,000,000, reaching a total of $227,069,765. Argentina has recognized the new republic of Russia. President Irigoyen Thursday signed a decree to that effect. "Soap-box sedition" was denounced by speakers at a luncheon of the American Defense Society in New York Thursday and resolutions adopted for a nation-wide campaign to "sup press treasonable orators and to sus pend all treasonable newspapers, whether in German, English or other languages." The steamer Umatilla, with $1, 000,000 in gold and a heavy passenger list, which included the cannery hands from Kvichak, arrived in Seattle from the North Friday morning. The gold is part of the season's clean-up at Nome and Golovan districts. Sergeant A. L. Alexander, SO years old, of New York, chief of squadron of the mechanical division of the United States Flying Corps at Scottfleld, 111. was instantly killed Wednesday when he attempted to inspect the running irear of an aeroplane that had just NGS CURRENT lighted. ARGENTINA FOR WAR Break With Germany Imminent En tire Army Called Out to Restore R. R. Traffic- Cables Cut. Buenos Aires The chamber of dep uties Tuesday voted in favor of a rup ture with Germany. The vote was 63 to 18. The president has power to veto the action of parliament, but popular clamor is such that this is unlikely. RumorB were current Tuesday that President Irogoyen was not willing to break off relations with Germany, not withstanding the action taken by the chamber of deputies. It was an nounced that a manifestation would be made before the congressional palace to demand an Immediate rupture in the name of the Argentine Republic. The authorities have been advised officially that the strike in the city of Santa Fe during the last month was fomented and supported by Germans. The entire Argentine army has been summoned to duty to aid the govern ment in attempting to re-establish railroad traffic at present held up by the Btrike. This action as decided up on after the strikers failed to accept an offer of government arbitration. All trains will be run by the military. In Cordoba strikers attacked a con voyed train. Women were placed in front of the crowd as a shield. There was an exchange of shots, three per sons being killed and ten wounded. Several serious clashes between troops and strikers are reported from other cities of the republic. The situation brought about by the strike is becoming more serious, and it is feared the conflict will assume a revolutionary character if an immedi ate settlement is not reached. The city's food supplies have been almoBt cut off. The cutting of tele graph wires has isolated the capital except from near-by points. Strikers have cut the telegraph line to Valparaiso, Chile, paralyzing direct cable to the United States. The gov ernment desired to postpone formation of its policy until it received from Ambassador Naon at Washington translations of the 415 telegrams re ceived or sent by the Swedish legation here. These messages were tele graphed to Dr. Naon with instructions to send translations. WON'T RUN FOR PRESIDENT Ex-Ambassador Gerard Will Retire to Practice of Law. Spokane, Wash. James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany, will not be a candidate for President of the United States at the next election. He will settle back to the practice of law in New York. His chifef desire to figure promi nently again in diplomatic affairs is that he may be a witness before an in ternational tribunal to tell of Prussian brutality. For instance, he wishes to see shot the German commandant of the prison camp at Wittenberg. These were among the facts dis closed by Mr. Gerard Tuesday in an inteview prior to his address before the Chamber of Commerce. "We never would have been forced to fight Germany if we had a million men in instant readniess to strike," Mr. Gerard said. That argument, an army in being, is the only thing which appeals to the Prussian conscience. 1 kept on reporting, month after month. what the people were thinking and saying about America, and what their attitude meant. But they would not believe me." TO LIMIT EXPORT OF GOLD Regulations Permit Shipments Abroad to Pay Trade Balances Only. Washington, D. C. Regulations governing the exportation of gold, sil ver and currency, announced Wednes day by the Federal Reserve board, in dicate that the government will re strict such exports to the maximum degree except where they cannot be avoided in settling trade balances. The board announced as its general policy that it would not authorize the exportation of gold unless it could be shown that the gold was to pay for a corresponding importation of mer chandise for consumption in this coun try. "In any case," the announcement says, "authorization will be granted only where the exportation of gold in payment for Buch merchandise is found to be compatible with the public in terests." Hurricane Kills Nine. Kingston, Jamaica Nine persons were killed and much property damage was caused at Port Antonio in the hur ircane which struck the Island of Ja maica Wednesday. The customhouse there was destroyed and a large hotel was badly damaged. Coasting vessels at various points around the islands were injured by the wind. Railway and telegraph service is still suspended except for a few miles outside of Kingston. The banana crop is believed to have suffered the most, although some injury was done to cocoanuts. Friendly Feeling Shown. Washington, D. C -Secretary Lan sing, when pressed to give some mdi cation of the progress of the confer ences with the Japanese mission, head ed by Viscount Ishii, said: "The con versations with Viscount Ishii have been of a most satisfactory character. and I think his visit to this country has been most helpful in benefiting re- laions between the two countries and in strengthening the bonds of friend ship." ITALIAN LEADER GREAT GENERAL noma, It Is said Id the little Italian water town of Prtllanza on the border of the Lago Magglore, away up toward the Swiss Alps, where Lombardy and Piedmont meet, that some years ago a learned German with a particular in terest In heraldry paused at some length before a weather-beaten crest embossed In a quaint old-fashioned doorway, and observed to those In his company: Remarkable most remarkable. The composition of this coat of arms points to a line of fate running In the same family from father to son, and to tremendous achievements to crown the family tree. I wouldn't care to be pitted against the star of that fam ily." And he marched himself off, growl ing: Remarkable, most remarkable 1" But it never occurred to him to ask the name of the family who had once gone through the deserted gateway, nor, at the ft me, did his reflection strike his Itullnn host as anything but a freak of "kultur." Time has proved that the German was right for once. The star and the oak tree and what not that had struck his fancy so are the crest of the Ca- dome, who come from poor but un sullied provincial nobility, with two chief Ideals running In the fumlly: Faith In God and devotion to Italy. The present General Cadorna'g grand father was minister to King Carlo Al berto, who led the movement for Ital ian independence, granted the constitu tion to his kingdom (then restricted to Piedmont and Sardinia), abdicated In favor of his son when he thought that such a course of action would help the formation of new Italy, and died an exile at Oporto. General Cadorna's fa ther, Gen. Count Ruffnole Cndorna, led In 1866 the Italian advance on the Isonzo, which was cut short by diplo matic Interference and the subsequent granting to Austria of the Italian lands beyond that same Isonzo and the Adri atic; an unjust and therefore unwise move which ultimately resulted In the war of today. The "line of fate running In the fam ily from father to son" Is evident now, when Gen. Count Lulgi Cadorna takes up the reshaping of history left un finished by his father, as all Italy of today takes up the strand of fate 111 twlned and distorted by the unfortun ate events of 1866. Lulgl Cadorna himself was born In Pallnnza on September 4, 1850, and he was bnrely 15 years old when he entered the military academy, gradu ating therefrom as a full-fledged lieu tenant In 1870, and receiving his cap taln's commission In 1875 In an artil lery regiment. Opportunity for experi ence in infantry work was afforded him by his appointment as a major In the Sixty-second Infantry regiment In 1883 ; but since 1892, when he got his colonelcy, he has been Identified with the Bersagllerl, the "wideawakes" of the Italian army. All these years were spent by him In active study of general military problems, as well as of Italy's partic ular characteristics In the military line. To this day his essay on the Franco-German war of 1870 and his pamphlet about tactics and the proper use of Infantry In legitimate warfare are consulted by the experts to advan tage, as are his studies on the Italian boundary lands. These he knows to perfection, so that he hardly ever needs to resort to charts and maps for his plans ; he has It all mapped out In his head, and the facility with which he draws from his memory the names and positions of Intricate passes, val leys, mule paths and roads Is nothing short of marvelous. When he took command of the Tenth regiment of the Bersagllerl, he started to work on It after his own mind, and brought It out in the grand maneuvers of 1805 In splendid form, practicing, In fact, on the adversary forces that same Type of outflanking and sur rounding move that works so capitally on the Carso today. Again, In 1011, (lie had attained his generalship then since some years), he led In the "grandes maneuvers," the Blue party against the Red, with all the strategic odds against his party, and astonished nil experts by the working out of a capital plan first; and when this fell through on unforeseen circumstances, by the promptness with which he sized up the new situation and turned It once more to his advnntage. Rut nothing th'en seemed to point out the magnificent heights to which he was culled. In fact, the breaking out of the European war In 1914 still found him a general on the list for the command of an army In case of war. And the Italian chief of staff was Gen eral Polllo, who, by the way, was blessed with an Austrian wife. His timely death was a good turn of fate for Italy, for the king appointed Gen eral Cadorna to his place. General Cadorna, It may be fraukly stated now, found the Italian army In practically desperate conditions of un preparediiess. The way he went to work and reorganized and equipped It was as remarkable and as brilliant an achievement as any of his most brilliant achievements In the fighting line; In fact. It was only the prepara tion of 1914 that makes victory pos sible in 101T. He is the only commander In the al lied world that has retained his posi tion, we might say, kept steadily his Job, throughout the war, without ever as much as a hint of a breakdown either In the wholesale confidence that his country, his king, bis army and the allieshave placed In him, or In the lively, energetic, all-around quality of bis action and command. In fact, Intimate Sketch of the Man Who Has Beaten His Enemy's Military Machine. LUIGI CADORNA'S BIS RECORD He His Molded, an Army That Drives Austrian Out of Alps Mountains In Hardest Campaign of World Conflict During Summer. NEED PLENTY OF GRUB Napoleon said, "An army fights on Its stomach." No one has ever dis puted his wisdom, so it must be right If any further proof Is needed, to con vince "Doubting Thomases," a visit to any army camp at mess time will dis solve all contradictory opinions. All United States soldiers are real fight ers, so It Is little wonder that they are all great eaters. Uncle Sam's grub Is good, but it must be plentiful and the supply must be on a huge scale to feed the million or more men Uncle 8am la to train and place on the bat tlefield In France. he seems to thrive on his work, and to gather new strength, as the days go and as time tests It, In the conscious ness that It Is good. His faith In God supports his faith In victory. For he Is a deeply religious man, his favorite daughter, by the way, Is a nun, ana while such feeling means a good deal to human lives that are Intrusted to him, It helps hlra to request of them all the sacrifice that the higher Ideals may require. It Is his firm conviction that "to sacrifice one life wantonly Is a crime; to use a hundred thousand If neces sary is a duty," for the commander of a nation at war. "If necessary" is his condition; and "If necessary, let It be done," his slogan, Just as the slogan of the officers with heavy responsibili ties Is: "When In doubt, go to Ca dorna." The pnrtlcular characteristic of his mind Is breadth of vision and the sweeping aside of all minor Issues, not to speak of petty details. He Is, above all, practical and simple. The funda mental law of his thought Is "common sense and a remarkable clearness In seeing things as they are" not as he might like them to be or as he might object to their being. He even has gone the length of writ ing that "The art of war must be gov erned chiefly by common sense pure and simple." And by the study of war on this basis he has reached a deep knowledge of the world, on the princi ple that "there Is everything In war, from geology to the human heart." Given his simplicity and directness of thought, the simplicity and directness of his written words ore consequential, and It may fairly be said that since the "Commentaries of Julius Caesar" Italy had heard nothing to compare with the splendid simplicity and the Latin "line" of his war bulletins. It Is whispered among those who know that, In the early days of the war, the task of drafting the dolly communique had been Intrusted to a very brilliant Itnllnn Journalistic of ficer, whose headline ran, "Gran Quar tlere Generate" (Chief Headquarters, or something to that effect, with ob vious reference to the Germanic equiv alent). General Cadorna, after hav ing firmly established his men on the outer side of the Italian border line and carried the war Into the land of the enemy (a privilege which the Italian army alone of the belligerents has enjoyed since the beginning of the war), turned back and saw that the reports were not half so good as the work literary, but not razor-keen. And this Journalist was thanked (which, by the way, in the Italian war zone slang, Is expressed by sllurate (torpedoed), and this characteristical ly Latin headline was adopted : Com ando Supreme (Supreme Command). From that day on, the communicato j&yn Cndorno has brought to the expectant Italy the dully word of her great gen eral and the unspoken assurance of his faith In ultimate victory, every day mado nearer and more resplend ent, for the general bellovos In what might bo called the contagiousness of faith, and the Identification of the Ideal with the reality In ultimate achieve-, ment. n behoves that victory, be fore materializing as a fact, must be potentially blazing as an absolute cer tainty in the hearts of the soldiers and tholr loaders In fact, must de scend from the leaders to the musses as an Irresistible, Joyous flow of truth.' He believes that discipline Is the spir itual flame of victory. Never for one Instant has he doubted the ultimata Issue of the war j nevor once doubted his own power to win, not on ac count of personal conceit, but be cause he considers himself as an ngent of necessity, an exponent of the Inevi table march of history. His will Is Inflexible, because he never seeks strength In the opinion of others. On the other hand, he never nukes up his mind until every side has been considered and every Item of the contention outweighed. After that his conclusions are drawn, and anything that may follow finds hlra unswerving, His strength lies largely in his absolute, naive unconsciousness of anything that might disturb it ; that, In fact, would disturb another man. No useless anxiety In him; no nerve- racking impatience. Once, away back In 1915, a mayor of an Italian city sent word that his constituents had an Italian flag ready for Gorltz. Cadorna dismissed the subject with a whimsical smile. "Tell him to put It away In a drawer for now." But when, about one year later, Go rltz was taken, the mayor received this rather cryptic telegram from the general himself: "You may now send along that oh Ject. Cadorna." Which rather reminds yon of Dante's famous answer about the egg with salt, at one year's distance. On New Tear's day of 1916, an ac quaintance sent him, with good wishes, the offering of a shaggy fur coat, and the general answered accepting "the fleece" es a good omen "for the con quest of our Ideal golden fleece," and added: "But then, you know, In Ja- Bon's time there were no barbed-wire fences nor other infernal devices, and It was possible to step more lively." Which, by the way, Is a mighty good hit at the closet-crltlcs of the war. It Is characteristic of the general that such a gift he may accept with a smile; but he definitely waives any collective token or demonstration, Knowing his affection for his native place, and his regret at circumstances having compelled his father to part with the family homestead, it was pro posed to purchase and present to him the house by national subscription. He stopped that, and desired the pro ceeds to be given to the home for mu tilated soldiers and victims of the war, Other demonstrations were similarly thwarted, but It Is believed that he will not refuse to accept a sword once owned by Garibaldi, since It Is planned to present It to him "at the end of the war." If a general proves unfit he Is "tor pedoed" on the spot ; If a soldier shows the right stuff, he Is rewarded. His constant preoccupation Is: "Find the men who have the stuff. With such men as the Italians, first values must have been developed during the war; find them and put them up." His ruddy, genial, open countenance, his boyish freedom of movement and gesture, Interestingly contrasting with the whiteness of hnlr and mustache; his clear, forceful voice and the defi nite, resolute things that It expresses, with a breezy sense of vitality that Is quite refreshing to the hearer, all come In for a share In the exceptional ly attractive personality of this "gen tleman warrior," who, as a young lieu tenant In 1870 stood by his father and helped him give Rome to Italy, and as a mature leader of men may or may not give Trieste to Rome In 1917, but will forever stand In the eyes of Italy and the light of the world as the true representative of the righteous fight of Latin civilization against the barbaric brutality of the Huns. PUTS OUT FIRE IN THEATER Audience Cheers Soldier Who vented Building Burning In Texas. Pre- San Antonio, Tex. In the course of the "B-10-15-cent" theatrical perform ance In a Houston street theater Sun day afternoon, one of the actors had "died" and had been stretched out upon the "cooling board" with the con ventional candles at head and feet After the action, which was somewhat rapid, one of the actors, alone, stood before the audience and sang. Soon candle fell from Its position and lay burning on the sheet that lay ovce the "dead person. In the commotion that quickly fol lowed, civilians whistled, called, stirred about and motioned to the singer to put out the flame. A soldier, however, mounted the stage and put out the, are with his hare hands, receiving hearty cheer from the audience. And the singer continued his song. No Chance. Dingus By the way, Shadbolt, talk ing of those X-rays Shadbolt (sheering off) No use, old boy. You'll make no x raise from me this time. STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. ! Otnlier wifl be "eo-to-church month" in Albany and the ministerial association is developing plans to in crease the attendance in all- the churches. Rallies will be held to coun teract the "Btay-at-hoine" habit con tracted during the summer vacation. Glen Meyer, 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Meyer, residing near Crabtree, lost his rii;ht hand in a cornchopper Saturday. The boy was carrying away the chopped corn and placed his right arm so that the ma chine severed the hand from the arm. I. B. Hazeltine, of Canyon City, who has been district game warden of Baker and Grant counties for several years, has Deen reappointea oy state Game Warden Carl D. Shoemaker. The State Game commission was recently reorganized and Mr. Hazeltine was re tained in the Bervice end Harney and Malheur counties added to his district. F. A. Pierce, of Days Creek, who took a number of his long-haired goats to the California state fair at Sacra mento, made a clean sweep of all the prizes offered by the fair in the de partment of goat exhibits. Altogeth er Mr. Pierce took 14 prizes on goats. Mr. Pierce also sold a number of his high-bred goats, one to a South Amer ican breeder. Out of 473 accidents reported to the Industrial Accident commission during the week from September 13 to 20, in clusive, two were fatal, these being Walter Francis Fuller, of North Fork, railroad operations, and Charles Buck, of Portland, construction work. Of the number reported 402 were subject to the provisions of the compensation act, 48 were from the public utility operations and 23 from firms which have rejected the provisions of the act. J. J. McDonald, a rancher, 40 years old, and Rae W. Clark, aged 20, of Portland, his farmhand, were electro- ucted Saturday eight miles west of Freewater. They were moving a der rick when the cable came in contact with the wire of the power line, and Clark tried to pull the cable free. Mc Donald, coming to the assistance of Clark, was also stricken. The bodies had to be left in the road until mes sengers could ride to Umapine and tel ephone to Walla Walla to have the power shut off. A. E. Bradley, a rancher of Turner was acquitted at Salem Monday of a charge of murder in the second dergee. Bradley shot and killed Fred Moore, a neighbor, one night last month. Moore had come to Bradley's house and stolen a load of wheat, Bradley alleged, and had returned for another load when the altercation ensued which resulted in the firing of the fatal shot. Testi mony developed the fact that Moore had a reputation as a gunman and had on a number of occasions threatened to take Bradley's life. Fires that have occurred in Bandon and at Two-Mile in the past two years are being investigated by Frank W. Roberts, a deputy fire marshal. Ban don, for some time, was the scene of frequent fires, usually in residences, and the insurance companies suspected that not all of them were accidental. Two schoolhouses at Two-Mile, where there was a school district quarrel of long duration, burned within the past 18 months, the last one being a new structure. The impression is general that both fires at Two-Mile were of in cendiary origin. Shipments of stock from Baker Fri day included 300 head of cattle to Portland, consigned by F. J. Fraser. They came from the John Day Valley and were sold at Baker bv H. H. Trowbridge. Medford mining men are expectnig a genuine gold rush to the Klamath riv er in late October, when the immense power station dam at Copco will be finished and the river from Hornbrook, Cal., to the ocean will be nearly dry. The question as to whether the Fed eral government or the state of Ore gon is to have the immediate services of George A. White, adjutant general of the state, has been satisfactorily adjusted between Secretary of War Baker and Governor Withycombe. The secretary telegraphed Governor Withy cmbe, in response to a vigorous protest made by the governor against orders to General White to report for duty im mediately with the Forty-first Infantry division at Camp Greene, N. C, that the government is willing to permit General White to remain on duty in the state for the time being. The women of Grant county did not register last Saturday, as no one was appointed to make arrangements and no instructions or suppliesfor the reg istration were received. After further investigation into the advisability of convening the legisla ture in extraordinary session, Gover nor Withycombe has expressed the be lief that there will be no necessity of calling a special session to care for dependents of men called into the mili tary or naval service. The Frank Johnson company, of Portland, hop contractor, has filed suit in equity at Oregon City against Fred H. Anderson and Elmer Anderson, Eagle Creek ranchers, to enforce spe cific performance of contract on their il l hop crop. In the hope of forsetalling what promises to be the worst coal famine in the history of Baker, the Commer cial club of that city has sent two tel egrams, one to Senator McNary and one to Secretary Garfield, asking that government aid be given as quickly as possible.