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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 191t.
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OREGON WEATHER
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Rain; fresh westerly winds.
COMMUNITY SALVAGE PLANT
The salvage work done by allied
armies in the war zone has served
to open many eyes to the value of
saving small things on a large scale.
In the army camps at home and
broad, "nothing was considered too
little or too worn to be examined in
the salvage plants.
Akron. Ohio, has now started
what is believed to be the first big
cooperative city salvage plant in the
country. The large manufacturing
concerns in that city have always
maintained salvage departments of
their own where the big quantities
of waste material were handled. Dut
even these large plants were obliged
to let a great deal of small waste go
because it was too slight in amount
to pay them to handle It individually.
And the small stores and shops
could do nothing with their waste
material for the same reason.
Under the cooperative arrange
ment about 100 stores and factories,
big and little, are turning their
waste material over to a mutual sal
vage establishment. In this way
scraps of metal and waste paper, all
the things that are simply small rub
bish and usually burned or dumped
into an ash heap, are collected. They
soon amount to large quantities well
worth conserving.
Government officials are watching
the Okron experiment with Interest
If it works as well as it is expected
to, it will probably serve as the
model for a national salvage system
FIGHTING HOOZE IN THE AIR
Airplanes are Indeed useful in
peace as in war. Would-be "dry
Florida has been having difficulties
with airplanes that bring liquor into
the state from "wet" localities
along the Gulf. And now comes
dispatch from Jackson, Miss., stat
ing that the government is using mil
itary planeB to locate moonshine dis
tilleries. One moonshine outfit was
located recently by a scouting plane,
Very shortly afterward the illicit
distillery was raided by officers of
the law. The entire equipment and
250 gallons of mash were destroyed
It Is not stated in the dispatch
whether the airplane observer used
the wireless telephone to notify the
officers or whether the official raid
was conductd by. airplane. There
are many fascinating possibilities
And when "dry" pursuit planes go
out after liquor-carrying flying ma
chines, the rest of us mortals down
on the ground may see some air bat
tles almost as thrilling as those of
the western front, as well as live' to
eee the 'time come when it will rain
whiskey. ' '
For You Coffee
VXIFOKM GRADES
' AT ltl(iir PHICKS
ALWAYS
TRY OVR NVMRER IS
KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY
QUALITY FIRST
BREAKING QUARANTINE
Chief of Police C. E. McLane made
his first arrest yesterday in connec
tion with the breaking of Influenza
quarantine, although the party
breaking it was Innocent in the mat
ter and did so through a misunder
standing. The officers predict, how
ever that there will be a few
arrests made for the rea
son that many people do not
take the quarantine seriously. But
the quarantine means exactly what
Mayor Demaray says a quarantine
in the full menlng of the word. That
means that as long as you are under
quarantine you must not leave the
house, under penalty of arrest and a
fine. Don't forget the "fine," be
cause Chief McLane says he will see
to It that the fine is imposed. If
you have a dear friend who is under
quarantine and go to make him or
her a short call, be prepared to be
quarantined yourself. It you are
caught, that Is what will happen to
you.
Don't buck the quarantine it you
do you will get the worst of it but
stick by the rules and . help Btamp
out the epidemic.
MIXE SWEEPERS
Throughout the war a notable
work has been going on, accorded
little notice and yet involving a
bravery which makes it one of the
romances of the sea. This is the
sweeping of mines from the waters
in order that the big battleships and
transports may approach their har
bors in safety.
All srt' nf small ctaft htve beo i
eguippe I ani prcssc . Into .".is dan
gerous but necessary service. Seven
hundred vessels have been constantly
employed around the British Isles
alone.
Each month the mine sweepers
operating in various parts of the
seas have swept up the mines from
46,000 square miles of water. It
was lately estimated that in all they
had traveled some 1,132,000 miles.
and every mile was fraught with
danger.
Of Walter D. Hlnes, his successor
as director general of the railroads,
Mr. McAdoo says: "Mr. Hlnes Is in
full sympathy with the policies which
have guided the railroad administra
tion, and with the views of the pres
ident on the railroad question." It
will interest the American people to
hear Mr. McAdoo's Interpretation of
the president's views, particularly
for the Teason that President Wilson
informed congress that he had no
Judgment of his own in regard to
the railroad solution. Portland
Telegram.
8uiplolous Creature.
"A hard woman to please." "How
so?" "When her husband telephones
that he will be detained at the office
she wants to know whose office and the
nature of the detention." Birmingham
Age-Herald.
- Beecher's Poetic Fancy.
I ilke best a forest of mingled trees,
ash, maple, oak, beech, hickory and
evergreens with birches growiDg along
the edges of the brook .that carries
Itself through the roots and stones to
ward the willows that grow In yonder
meadow. It should be deep and som
ber, In some directions running off Into
shadowy recesses and coverta beyond
all footsteps. In such a wood there Is
endless variety. . It will breathe as
many voices to your fancy as might be
brought from any organ beneath the
pressure of Handel's hands. Handel
and Beethoven always remind me of
forests, Henry Ward Beecher.
Users
DR. EMMA WHEAT GILLMORE
Shortly after the death of Capt. Rob
art T. Glllmore of the United 8tatea
nedical reserve corps, his wife, Dr. '
Emma Wheat Glllmore, entered the
United States publle health ssrvlce.
Her first position was as active a
ilitant surgeon In the extra-cantonment
zone of Fort Oglethorpe. Now
he Is chairman of women physicians
. . in. ut.iii.rai medical board, council
:f npt rnal defentc. She also repre
wnts the interests of the medical wom
en of America en the central grfvnr.i
Ing board of the volunteer medical
lervice corps.
YOU ARE THE JURY
Hear the Testimony of Grants Pass
People and Decide the lose
Doan's Kidney Pills are on trial
are being tried every day for weak
kidneys for exhausting kidney
backaches. What is the verdict?
Read Grants Pass testimony person
al experiences of Grants Pass wit
nesses. There can be only one ver
dict a chorus of approval.
Mrs. J. R. Gunning, 406 S. Fourth
St., says: "My back caused me a
great deal of misery at times and
there were dull, bearing-down pains
across my kidneys. During these at
tacks, my kidneys have acted too
freely and then again, have been
congested. Doan's Kidney Pills al
ways regulate my kidneys and stop
that misery in my back after I have
taken a box or two."
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy get
Doan's Kidney Pills the same that
Mrs. Gunning had. FosteMHiburn
Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
England's First Typewriter.
80 long ago ss 1714 a patent for a
typewriter was taken out in England
by Henry Mill; It was called a "ma
chine for Impressing letters singly and
progressively as In writing, whereby
all writings may be engrossed In paper
so exact as not to be distinguished
from print" His machine was very
clumsy, and It was not until more than
a century later (1829) that anything
further was attempted. Then the first
American typewriter, "called a typo
grapher," was patented by W. A. Burt
"Safety First" Tea Kettle.
A new tea kettle Is supplied with an
extra opening in the top through which
It may be filled without the Inconven
ience and danger of being scalded by
the steam generated when cold water Is
poured Into the hot kettle. The sec
ond opening Is a small one In front
of (he ball and Is protected by a
hinged swing cover, which may be op
erated by the thumb while the kettle
is being held by the bail under the
faucet
All Called On to Shew Courage.
Whatever your sex or position, life
Is a battle In which you are to show
your pluck ; and woe be to the coward I
Whether passed on a bed of sickness
or a tented field. It Is ever the-same
fair play and admits no foolish distinc
tion. Despair and postponement are
cowardice and defeat Men were bora
to succeed, not to fail. Tboreau.
ftp . 7y 71
STEADIER
HUG
MARKETS
BY THE AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT
In ncooi-dnnee with the pi. II 17 of the Food Administration since It founds
tlon to consult representative men In the agricultural Industry on occasions
of Importance to special brunches of the Induxtry, oil October 21 there was
convened .lu Washington a meeting of the Live Stock Subcommittee of, (lie
AgrlcuTkurut Advisory Board mid the special members representing the swine
Industry to consider the situation Inh hog' market.
The conference lasted for three days, and during this time met with the
executive committee of the fifty packing firms participating In foreign orders
for pork products and with the members of the Food Administration directing
foreign pork purchases. '
The conclusions of the conference wero as follows :
The entire marketing situation has .
se changed since the September Joint
conference as to necessitate an entire
alteration In the plan of price stabi
lisation. The current peace talk has
alarmed the holders of corn, and there
ha been a price decline of from 28
cents to 40 cents per bushel. The fact
that the accumulations of low priced
corn In the Argeutlne and Bouth Afri
ca would, upon the advent of peace
and liberated shipping, become avail
able to the European market has cre
ated a great deal of apprebeuston on
the part of corn holders. This decline
has spread fear among swine growers
that a similar reduction In the prices
of hogs woufli naturally follow. More
over, the lower range of corn price
would. If Incorporated In a 18-to-l ra
tio, obviously result In a continuously
falling price for live hogs. In view
of these clumped conditions many
swine producer anticipated lower
prices and ns a result rushed their
hogs to mnrket In large numbers, and
this overshlpmenl has added to and
aggravated the decline.
The Information of the Department
of Agriculture Indicates that the sup
ply of hogs has lucrvnxed about 8 per
cent., while the hlchest unofllolul esti
mate does not exceed IB per cent. In
crease! production over Inst year. On
the oilier hand, the arrival of hogs
during the lust three weeks In the
seven great market tins been 27 per
cent, mure thun last year, during the
corresiMindlng period, demonstrating
the umimiully heavy marketing of the
available supply. In the face of the
excessive receipts some packers have
not maintained the price iigroed last
mouth. On the other blind, iniiny
of the pnekers have paid over the
price offered to them In an endeavor
to mntiituln the agreed price. The re
sult in any event has been a failure
to inalntnln the Octolier price basis
determined upou at the September con
ference and undertoken by the pack
ers. Another factor contributing to
the break In prices during the month
has been the Influenza epidemic; it
has sharply curtailed consumption of
pork products and temporarily do-
I creased the labor staff of the puckers
' about 25 per cent
The exports of 1.30,000,000 pounds
of pork product for October com'
pared with about 62,000.000 pounds
In October a year ago, and the
export orders plocenble by the Food
Administration for November, amount
to 170,000,000 pounds a contrast'
ed with the lesser export of
98,000,000 for November, 1017. The
Increased demands of the allies -are
continuing, and are In themselves
proof of the necessity for the large
production for which the Food Admin
Istratlon asked. The Increase In ex
port demand appear to be amply
sufficient to take up the Increase In
' beg production, but unfavorable mar
ket condition existing In October af
ford no fair Index of the aggregate
supply and demand.
It must be evident that the enor
mous shortage In fats In the Central
Empires and neutral countries would
Immediately upon peace result In ad
dltlonal demands for pork products
which, on top of the heavy shipments
to the Allies, would tend materially
to increase the American exports, in
asmnch as no considerable, reservoir of
supplies exists outside of the United
States. It seem probable that the
present prospective supplies would be
Inadequate to meet this world demand
with the return to peace. So far as It
.Is possible to Interpret this fact, It ap
pear that there should be even
stronger demand for pork products
after the war, and therefore any alarm
of hog producers a to the effect of
peace Is unwarranted by the outlook,
In the light of these circumstance
It I the conclusion of the conference
that attempts to hold the price of hogs
to the price of corn may work out to
the disadvantage of pork producers.
It is the conclusion that any Interpre
tation of the formula should be a
broad gauged policy applied over
long period.- It la the opinion of the
conference that In substitution of the
previous plan of stabilization the
Live 8tock Subcommittee or tne Agri
cultural Advisory Board, together with
the specially invited swine represents
fives, should accept the Invitation of
the Food Administration to Join with
, he Administration and the pnekers In
determining the prices at which con
trolled export orders are to be placed
This will be regularly done. The In
fluence of these order will be directed
. to the maintenance of the common oh-
' ; Ject namely, the Btablllzfttlon-of the
price of live hogs so as to secure as far
as It is possible fair returns to the
producer and the Insurance of an ade-
quale future supply.
ihesc forelKii order are tiluced
upon tne Dual or cost of hog to the
packers.
A the result of loan ncKotintlnn
De-ween . tills body and the Packers'
Committee, representing the 45 to flu
packers pnrtlclpntlnit In forelmi or
ders, together with Hie Allied buyers,
till under the Chiilriiiiinshl 11 tit 1 hi
Food Administration! the followlns un
dertaking hus been given by the pack
ers
In view of the undertakings ou the
part of th Food Administration with
egard to the co-ordinated Purchases
01 pori products, covered In the at
tached. It Is agreed that the puckers
participating in these orders will un
dertske not to purchase hoiri for liu
tnan tne following agreed mlnlraums 1
ror the month of November, that Is a
dally minimum of $17.60 per hnudred
pounds on sveruge of packer' droves.
excluding throw-outs. "Throw-outs"
to be defined as pig under 130
pounds, stags, boars, thin sows and
skip. Further, that no hoes of any
kind shall be bought, except throw-
outs, at less thun 610.50 per hundred
pound. Hie average of, puckers'
droves to be construed as the averuire
of the total sules In the market of all
hogs for a given day. All the above
to be based on Chicago.
We agree that a committee shall be
appointed by the Food Administration
to check the dully operations In the
various murkets with a view to super
vision and demonstration of the carry
ing out of the ulwvc.
The ability of the.packers to carry
out this arrangement will depend on
tnere being a normal marketing of
hogs based upon the proportionate In
crease over the receipts of last year.
The Incresso In production appcurs to
be a minimum of about 19 cr rent
and we can handle such an Increase.
If the producers of hog should, as
they have In the past few weeks, pre
maturely market hoxs In such Increas
ing numbers over the above It Is en
tirely beyond the ability of the pack
ers to maintain these mliiliniinm, and
therefore we must have the co-opera
tion of the producer himself to main
tain these results. It Is a physical
Impossibility for the capacity of the
packing houses to handle n similar
over-flood of hogs and to find a mnrket
for the output. The' packers are anx
ious to co-operate with the producers
In maintaining a stabilization of price
and U see that pniiluurs receive a fair
price for their products.
(Signed) TIIOS. E. WILSON,
Chairman Puckers' Committee.
The plan embodied above was adopt
ed by the conference. -
The Food Administrator ha appoint
ed a committee, comprising Mr. Thomas
E. Wilson, chnlrmun ojr the Pack
ers' Committee; Mr. Everett Brown,
president of the Chicago Livestock Ex
change; Mujor Roy of the Food Ad
ministration, Mr. Loul D. Hall of the
Bureau of Markets, to undertake the
supervision of the execution of the
plan In the various markets. Commis
sion men are asked to co-operate In
carrying out the plan embodied In the
packers' agreement. It must be evi
dent that offers by commission men to
sell hogs below the minimum estab
lished above I not fair, either to the
producer or the participating packers.
Mr. Brown bas, undertaken on behalf
of the commission men In the United
States that they will loyally support
the plan.
It I believed by the conference that
thl new plan, based as It Is npon a
positive minimum basis, will bring bet
ter results to the nrndtu-er than aver
age prices for the month. It does not
limit top prices and should 'narrow
the margins necessary to country buy
ers In more variable markets. It Is
believed that the plan should work out
close to $18 average.
Swine producers of the country will
contribute to their- own interest by
not flooding the market for It must he
evident that if an excessive over per
centage, of hogs I mnrketed In any
one month price stabilization and con
trol cannot succeed, and If I certain
that producer themselves can contri
bute materially to the efforts of tho
conferences If they will do their, mark
eting In as normal a Way a possible.
The whole situation as existing at
present demands a frank and explicit
assurance from, the conferees repre
sentednamely, that every possible
effort will be made to maintain a live
hog price commensurate with swine
production costs and, reasonable se,
Ing values In execution of the declar
policy of the Food Admlnlstratl .
to use every agency In Its control
secure Juetlce to the farmer. '
The stabilization methods adop
for- November represent the best
forts of the conference, .concurre
by the Food Administration an ' '"'
Livestock Subcommittee of the Agrl
cultural Advisory Board, together
with special swine member and the
representative of the packers, to Im
prove Ih present unsatisfactory situ
ation, which has unfortuustiily result
ed because of the Injection of uucoo
trollnhle factor.
W ask the producer to co-operate
with us lu h most difficult task.
The members of the Conference
were;
Producers-It. O. Stuart Elk Oar
den, Vs., Chairman Agricultural Ad
visory Hoard; W. M. McKaddeu, Chi
cago, 111.; A. Sykiw, Ida Grove, la.;
John M. Evvurd, Ames, lu. J J. II. Mer
cer, Live Stock Commission fur Kan
sas; J, (1. Hrown, Monon, Ind. ; R. O.
Itrowp, President Chicago Livestock
Exchange; N. II. Gentry, Sedulla,.Mo. ;
John (Irattan, Hroomfleld, Colo.; Eu
gene Funk, itlnomliigton, III. ; Issue
Lincoln, Aberdeen, S. D.; C. W. Hunt
Uigan, In.; C. K. Vancey. W. It. Dod
son, Food Administration Herbert Hoo
ver, F. S. Hnyder. Major E. L, Itoy, O.
1L Powell.
Depuriment of Agriculture Louis
D Hall, F. It. Marshall.
The pnekers present and others
sharing In foreign orders were repre
sented by the elected packers' commit
tee. Those represented were ;
Puckers Armour A ('41., Chicago,
III.; Cuduhy Clicking Co., Ctilcaicn, 111. ;
Morris A Co., Chlcauo, III.; Swift at
Co., Chlcauo, III.; Wilson & Co., Chica
go, III.; John Amir Co.. Chlcii'iin, III.;
Armstrong Piickliiu Co.. Dalliis, Tex.;
lloyd Diiiihinii A Co,, Chlcaifo, III.;
Ilrennun Packing Co., CIiIciikh, III.;
Cincinnati Abattoir Co., Cincinnati,
t. ; Cleveland Provisions Co., Cleve
land, .; Cuduhy Urns. Co., Cudahy,
Wis.; .1. Hold PiickliiK Co. IIiiITmIii, N.
Y. ; Duulevy I'ucMiik Co., I'lllsbtirg,
I'll.; J. i:. Decker ft Hons. Mason City,
lu.; Evnnsvllle PiH'kliiK Co., Kvsns
vllle, Ind.; Kasl Hide I'uckliiit Co., East
St. IjiuIs. III.: Hammond HlainllMi A
Co., Detroit, Mich.; !. A. Ilonin-I it
Co., , Aust In, Minn.; Home I'ackltii; A
lee Co., Terrn Haute, Ind.; Independ
ent Packing Co., Ctilcau". III. ; Imllan
ti polls Abattoir Co., Indianapolis. Ind.;
International provision Co., Hrooklyn,
N. y.j Interstate I'ncklng Co., Wlniuin,
Minn.; Iowa I'ncklng Co,. Ties Moines.
In.; Powers lleug Co., Jacksonville,
111.; Klnguii A Co.. Indianapolis, Ind.;
Krey Packing Co., St. IjiiiIs, Mo. : Ijiko,
Erie Provision Co.. Cleveland, O. ; Ijiy
ton Co., Milwaukee, Wis.; Oscnr Mayer
& llro., Sedgwick and Beethoven
streets. CIiIciikii, III.; J. T. McMillan
Co.; St. Paul, Minn.; Miller A Hurt.
Chicago, III.; J. Morrell A Co,, onmn
wa, In.; Nuckolls I'ncklng Co., Pueblo,
Colo.; Oplcn I'ncklng und Provision
Co., Ogden, Utah; Ohio Provision Co.,
Cleveland, .; Parker Webb A Co., De
troit, Mich.: Pittsburg Packing and
Provision Co., Pittsburg, Pa.; Italh
PiickliiK Co., Waterloo, tit. ; Huberts A
Ouke, ChiciiKo, III.: Kobe A Itros., New
York City; W, C. Itoiitb A Co., 1 .01; im
port, Ind.; St. l-oiil Ind. Piicklinr Co..
St !.ouls, Mo.; Sinclair A Co., T. M.
Cedar Itnplds, la.: Sullivan A Co., De
troit, Mich. ; Theiirer-Nortiui provision
Co., Cleveland, O. ; Wilson Provision
Co., Peoria, HI.; Western Packing and
Provision Co., Chtcnco. III.: Charles
Wolff Pucklng Co., ToH-ka, Kmm.
' BEAT AMERICAN PRISONER
Germans Alse Kept Him for. Day
Without Food, Hs Says.
The Stars and Stripes, the official
newspaper of tho American expedition
ary force, Identifies tho first Americas
private soldier to escape from prison
in Oermuny as Frank Snvlckl, and de
vote a three-column article to his ex
periences. Savtckl, whose home was
In Shenandoah, Pu Is a Itusslun Pol
by birth and has taken out his first
naturalization papers.
While a prisoner In the hands of the
Germans SaVlcki spent ten weeks be
helnd the German lines, where be
worked 14 hours dally on mllltury
work. He then wu sent to a farm.
He often went days without food and
water, and was, clubbed by his guards
for picking grass along a roadsldo to
eat Flnully be was sent to the prison
camp at Itastatt, where be received
American Red Cross parcels from
Switzerland.
After several week In the prison
camp Suvlcki escaped and got through
the mountains Into western Alsace,
where he hus rejoined his regiment
Need for Discipline.
The price we must piiy for contin
ually proving and possessing the good
I eternal vigilance. Often a sort of
plg-hendednea In self-assertion, la
elf-mnnugement, set up Its owner
ship. That Is one reason why , die
. clpllne submitting ourselves In some
way to the will of others I good for
us all, big and little, young and old.
It I the best and often tho only means
of breaking down the willfulness that
Is likely to enter any one of us at any
moment. Youth' Companion,
' r Object Lessen.
Staid' and serious Mary felt keenly
responsible for the deportment of her
younger sister, Murgaret, who was en
tirely lacking In a sense of decorum.
At a children' party one afternoon
Mary was horrified to see her sister
chewing gum with all the vigor and
abandon of her nature. Hastily sweep
ing the offender Into a corner,' Mary
pointed out a third little guest who
was managing her stick of gum with
commendable moderation and restraint
"Margaret," she snld severely, "I want
you to notice how a lady , chews gum."