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PAGE TWO DAILY KOatB RIVER COI'IUKR Tl KHIVIV, t'KIIIUWHY 5, DAILY HUE RIVER COURIER Published Dally Except Saturday 4. B. VOORHIES, Pub. and Fropr. KntrdatthPoatomc,Qrants Pass. Or., aa second elaaa mall matter. ADVERTISING RATES Display apac, per Inch. ... ISo Local or paraoaal column, par Una 10c Readers, per line..... 5e DAILT COURIER By mail or carrier, per yar...l.0Q By mall or carrier, per month.. .10 MEMBER State Editorial Association Oregon Dally Newspaper Pub. -Awn. North west Patriotic Presa Aasn. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS - The Asaoclated Presa la siclualvely entitled to the ti e lor republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the 1 cal news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of spe cial dlapatchea herein are also reserved. TCKRDAY, FKHKIARY ft, lIM. ' OKKtiOX WEATHER 4 . 4 Fair; colder tonight; tuo- derate southwesterly winds. FOl'R YEARS OF FREE TRADE The close of September, 1917, marked the fourth full year's opera tion of the Wilson-Underwood tariff law. a year which, compared with the last 12 months operation of the republican tariff law, October 1912, to September, 19 IS, Inclusive, re corded a gain in our Imports of fl, 030,000,000 and a loss in customs duties of $95,000,000 a 57 per cent Increase in Imports and a 30 per cent decrease In port revenues. Imports for the 1912-13 period totaled II, 813,000.000, duties collected there on, $318,000,000, or an average ad Talorem rate on all Imports of 17.4 per cent: under the present law, 191M7, imports totaled $2,843, 000.000, customs duties, $223,000, 000, average ad valorem duty rate, 7.8 per cent, the lowest In our his tory. Group classification of these im ports, comparing the 1916-17 with the 1912-13 period, shows that (1) erude materials for use in manufac turing Increased from $620,300, 000 to $1,205,400,000; (2) food stuffs In crude condition and food animals, $206,601,000 to $361,100, 000; (3) foodstuffs partly or wholly manufactured, $195,800,000 to $369,100,000; (4) manufactures for further use In manufacturing, $357. 000,000 to $510,600,000; (5) manu factures ready for consumption, de creased from $418,200,000 to $381, 900,000. The remainder were made up of miscellaneous imports which were about the same for the two perlods. The total value of groups 3, 4, and 5, which underwent more or less foreign manufacturing pro cesses, Increased from $971,000,000 to $1,261,600,000. Of course the values cited above have been affected in a considerable degree by world-wide rise In price of commodities, and this Is an addel re flection on the democratic tariff law as a revenue producer, inasmuch as it is based on ad valorem rates, but statistics of the volume of im ports give ample warning that we should begin to lay the foundation for a tariff wall which will defend us from the bitterest trade war ever waged when the war of arms is over. Otherwise when the dove of peace sails in she will have in her beak, not an olive branch, but a sheaf of orders for foreign goods to be de livered In the American market. American Economist. The comptroller of the currency reviewing briefly the financial and business conditions during the year, the inflation in commodity prices. Health Foods fUNNEY & TRUAX GROCERY QfALITT FIHS1 and the depression in securities, de clarea that the enactment of emer gency laws, entrusting the president with power unexampled In this country to Bx prices for food, fuel, etc., has averted calauiltlea which no financial syatem, however strong or powerful, could have prevented or overcome. He predicts that, with the return of peace, we may look for ward to an era of great activity and development In the work of rebuild ing and equipping, with Implements and equipments of peace and Indus try, the countries now engaged In unprecedented destruction. Just supposing all the factories of the country were being run by water power that Is now going to waste In the great northwest? There'd be no fuel crisis and the power would be so cheap and unlimited that the world's manufactured articles would largely be made here. It seems the greatest folly, yes, criminality, to continue wasting what the water jower rep resent. Talk about conservation! Xezperce, Idaho, Herald. I COUNTY AGENT'S ) ( NOTES J Beginning on Monday, Feb. 11th, we are to make an agricultural sur vey of Josephine County. The government expects that every farmer will respond to this call. Blanks for the survey are be ing sent out to some one In every locality this week. If for auy reason you are not presented with one of these blanks by the middle of the coming week, phone our office 199, and a blank will be sent to you. Seed Com Do not buy any seed corn from the store unless It has a germination test accompanying it. Dealers are required by law to furnish this test. Some of the business men gave out good seed corn, well selected and tested, last year. Now It Is up to the farmer to get and plant only the best. He cannot afford to plant any other. Good 81 res A movement is being made in southern Oregon counties to get a co-operative shipment of Herford and Short Horn bulls from the east. If you are Interested communicate with us. C. D. THOMPSON. County Agriculturist. II CATTLE KILLED Roseburg, Feb. 5. Three cars of cattle, a part of train No. 222 north bound, In charge of Conductor Hary Cook, left the track near Oakland Sunday afternoon with the result that 17 head of cattle were killed.; The track for a considerable dfs-; tance was badly damaged and the I wrecking crew from this city was! called to the scene. It required near-j ly five hours to clear the wreckage1 so that traffic could again be re-1 sumed. The wrecker and crew returned l this city shortly before 8 o'clock last night and thin morning went back to clean up the debris. GKIt.MAX MVXITIOX8 DEPOT IS A TOTAL WKKCK iondon, Feb. 5. The explosion of a munitions depot near Prague, cap ital of Bohemia, involving the loss of many lives, is reported in dis patches from that city to Zurich, at forwarded by the Exchange Tele graph company. According to come accounts the depot was blown up Intentionally. MUT-O-MKAL ItOMAX MK.iL KAI.KWN HKAITH MIAN tilUNTS IIYGIKMC It V KKIt.S rnTiJuiiNH flock - ma MY ROWS AWIU (With apologies to the author of a Famous Bong I The hour I spent in sweater art, Are aa a string of purls I sigh To count them over every one apart, My rows awry my rows awry. Each-hour I purl each purl take car To drop my stitch lest I be stung, I count, yea count unto the end, And there a sleeve Is hung. O, memories that bless and burn, Of raveling out at bitter loss. I drop a purl, yet strive at last to leara To knit across, sweeet art, to knit acroae. The Red Cross Bulletin. U. S. WILL SURPRISE BY Wellington, Feb. 3. Chairman Flood of the foreign affairs commit tee told th bouse today that the L'ulted States will furnish more men and money for war "lu far shorter time than had been the fondest hopes of our people or our allies." A classified ad brings results. Calling cards at the Courier. LEADS L Amsterdam, Jan. IS. (Corre spondence of the Associated Press! The question whether, and to what .extent, Holland Is responsible for the continuation of the war by her fond supplies to Germany has canted a controversy In the Dutch newepa- 'pers. C. J, K. van Aalwt, head of ' the Netherlands Overseas Trust, In his recent oxn letter to President Wilson, pleaded fur the removal of the Amerhan government's embar go on food shipments to Holland; one of his arguments being that th continuation of Holland's trade with i the Central Powers, while of vital importance io iiouami Itself, is or small account, so far as aid ami rum fprt to the entente's enemies Is con cerned. An article In the Amsterdam Telo grar from entente sldo of Ameil rau origin, It la hinted replies to Mr. van Aalst's arguments be show- lug that according to olll.liil Dutch slatlstlca for 1916, there were ex ported from Holland to Germany of potatoes, potato flour, butter, eggs rice, cheese, olemarglne, sugar, fish meut. fruits', pears and beans, 91K,- 3.". 3 ions, sufficient to feed 1-200,00)1 soldiers for a year. The same authority culculutes that In 1916 Holland Imported from over seas 918,231 tons of cereals, flour, cocoa, rice and dried fruits and comes to the conclusion that Holland exported more than twice the quan tity she heeded for the sustenance of her own population hence the re strictions placed upon these Imports by the United States government. Now comes professor J. A. van llnmel, a Dutch writer of note, who in support of Mr. van Aalst's con tentions, puts the case this way. Assuming that the entente author ity's figures as regards the exported food values are correct, how far would a year's Dutch exports go to feed the 120,000,000 Inhabitants of Germany and Austria-Hungary? That, he says, Is the way the que- ' ( ym a Compare the Work The high standard set for "ROYAL" Typewriters per mits of no compromise. Materials MUST be of the highest quality; the workmanship MUST be that of skilled artisans; the service rendered by the machine and the company MUST be beyond criticism. A "ROYAL" Typewriter does a variety of work and does every thing so perfectly that it is impossible to buy a typewriter today, and to be certain of having bought the best, without having had a demonstration of the "ROYAL" No obligation to buy a "ROYAL" is implied if you tel ephone, write or call for a demonstration. Certainly you will want to know the merits of the "ROYAL" before you decide why h typewriter is the best for you. RDYA L TYPEWR TEH Factory: Hartford. Conn. Main Office: 364-366 Broadway, New .York. Seattle: 1217 Fourth Ave. 25 CENTS To) WVU WW IN-mE-FlVZ-PCUND'SIZE the most, economical cot tee you can Pi&t BACKED BVA-GUAPANTEE THAT MEANS -SOMETHING Hon ought to be looked at, and (he answer In 3 Hi days. Hut the figures, he claims, are not correct. Professor van llnuml pro luces a detailed schedule, also based on offlclul'ststlstlrs, showing that the aggregate export of the articles named amounted, not to S 1 8 , 3 " .1 tons, but to 590.066 ton, or roughly 30 per rent less than was alleged. Ills conclusion therefore Is, that a whole year's exports from llolluml to Germany ate Just sufficient to keep alive the Joint population of Germany and Austrlu-llungury for 3 "4 dava less 30 per rent, or two days, 10 hours and 4M minutes. Cards at the Courier office. 1 1 M Wm m . ii , . I M. t I HODY OK KCUKNK HOUHKR HOY IlKTTUXr:!) FOR tU'ltl.lL Kugtme, Feb. 5. The body ot James W. Morgan young Lane coun ty sailor, who died at Mare Island, Saturday, arrived here early this morning. Services will be held at the Gordon and Vealch chapel at 1:30 this afternoon, snd Interment will he made In the Dempaey ceme tery." five mile beyond Cobtirg. The boy enlisted In the navy Is, comber I, end was sent to Mare Ulnnd. He has been 111 for soma time, hi mother having been called to his bedside a week ago. He died from the effect of typhoid pneumo nia. 1
