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WHAT YOU NEED- The other fellow may have; what yon have the other fellow may want Come together by advertising in the Press. Buy Your Groceries From Your Home Grocer BARGAIN DAY Is every day with the Merchant who advertises in the Press he has some thing to sell and says so. i VOLUME XXVI. ATIIEKA; UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1914. NUMBER 48. PARIS RECEIVES CAPTURED GERMAN STANDARDS Great ceremony attended the occasion of the conveying of seven captured German war standards to the mu seum of the Invalldes in Paris. The photograph shows the flags being carried across the courtyard. RESERVE BANKS NOW OPERATING Government's Elastic Currency System a Reality.' . . -. jf y .. Change Is First in 50 Years New Notes Ordered Evolution WM Be Gradual. Washington, D. C.--With the open ing Monday of the 12 Federal reserve banks the nation will begin actual op eration of , its new currency system, designed to provide an elastic circu lating medium based 'on modern ideas of finance and economics. - It has taken the reserve bank organ ization committee and the Federal Re serve board almost 12 months to work out details of organization to the point where an opening date was chosen, Notwithstanding careful deliberations which preceded every preliminary step, the 12 banks will not for many weeks take up and exercise all the functions bestowed upon them by con gress. Such evolution as will result from the old national banking system of necessity will in most respects be slow. The new system is generally conced ed to be a compromise between a cen tral bank and the present system with its thousands of units, scattered re serves and fixed limits of currency. Its chief attraction and value those who interpret it find the elasticity it will give to recognized paper currency. Under the present law National bank currency is almost a fixed quan tity, based upon the National capital bank, issued upon United States bonds and unresponsive to the chill of hard times or the exultation of boom days. Its use led, the experts say, to unre stricted loans and speculation, in the days when money was easy, and to a hoarding of resources and a tightening of the purse strings of credit when they were hard. It is said to have bred the panic of 1907, when solvent banks with large credits in reserve and central reserve cities were helpless. Under the new system the Federal reserve notes, which in time, probably will entirely replace the National bank notes, now so familiar, will be issued on commercial paper arising out of actual business transactions. It seemB plain that they will rise and fall in amount as the tides of businesss rise and fall and that there will be no plethora of money to lie idle. They will be obligations of the United States government, which National hank notes are not, and will have back of them a large reserve of gold in the regional banks. Through them the reserve banks are expected to come to the aid of any needy member bank which has plenty ' of good paper but needs cash. ' To insure the flow of money reserve banks themselves may be required to rediscount paper of other reserve banks. More than $250,000,000 of the new notes have been ordered by the con- Family Wrecked by War. Grass Valley, CaL Four sons killed in a battle, the mother a suicide and the father insane, is the fate of the family of S. Neuberger, of this place, according to a letter just received from Germany. The young men answered the first call to arms and fell about the same time in one of the early battles of the European war. When the news of their deaths reached home, the mother committed suicide and the father became insane, and now wan den over the country, placing flowers on every hillock, thinking it a grave. : German Submarine Sunk. London The Petit Calaisien says that a French torpedo boat entered Dunkirk harbor Friday and reported that it had sunk German submarine in the Channel. The French boat was attacked by the submarine off West ends. The French commander sighted the periscope and rammed and sank the submarine. troller of the currency for the 12 banks. They are to be accepted by all member banks and for all customs, taxes or other dues. Next to the elasticity of the new currency, officials value the "mobiliz ation" but not concentration of vast sums from country banks in reserve citiesjwid central reserve cities as un der the National banking act, but their appearance in large part on the debit balances of the 12 reserve banks in widely scattered parts of the country. These reserves will be as near as pos sible to the door of the member banks to which they belong in times of need and there can be no refusal from a re serve bank to return them in cases of exigency. A remnant of the present system still remains in the provision by which banks may keep a certain proportion of their reserves with other member banks in cities now known as reserve1 and central reserve cities. At the end of three years, however, that will be changed and all reserves will be held either in a bank's own vaults or with a Federal bank.. The 12 banks . will start out with a total cash resevre of about $243,000,000. Another point not forgotten by ad mirers of the law is the fact that the different reserve requirements will re lease about $464,000,000 now tied up in reserves and will afford far greater opportunity for a borrower to get a hearing and a loan. The reserve banks are not to do a banking business except with member banks. . Russians Fiercely Fighting Kaiser in East Germany London German forces which were forced to retreat into East Prussia from Russian Poland have placed heavy artillery in all defiles to the east of Mazurian lakes, where a new ter rific battle is in progress along a front of 150 miles forming a wide curve from Stalluponen, in the Northwest, through Goldap and Kruglaken to Sod lau in the Southwest. - The Russians are vigorously carry ing out an enveloping movement. The Germans consider their position, im pregnable and believe they will check the enemy's advance, according to a dispatch from Petrograd by way of Paris, which adds: "Throughout all Prussia railway passenger traffic has been suspended. The lines now are transporting only troops, apparently with a view to a new concentration which is said to have been decided upon by a recent council of the Austro-German general staff at Cracow. This council is re ported to have decided to change com pletely the plan of battle. " . California Gifts Go Soon. , San Francisco December 1 is the day on which the California ship load ed with supplies for starving Belgians will Bail. The cost of chartering a suitable vessel and of the insurance will be borne either by the London Re lief commission or by the Rockefeller Foundation. Thursday's cash contri butions here amounted to $4375, mak ing a total of $117,174 subscribed thus far. Great quantities of beans, flour, provisions and other commodities also were received. ' It is believed the cargo will measure 6000 tons. Scott Will Head Staff. " Washington, D. C. Brigadier Gen eral Hugh Scott was selected by Presi dent Wilson Saturday to be chief of staff of the United States army on the retirement next week of Major Gener al Wotherspoon. The vacancy of major general cre ated by General Wotherspoon 's retire ment will be filled by the nomination of Brigadier General Frederick F. Funston, now in command at Vera Cruz. : - ' Lumber Orders Pour In. Seattle, Wash. Inquiries for 9, 000,000 railroad ties and for 10,000, 000 feet of large timbers received dur ing the last 10 days have greatly stim ulated the Northwestern lumber situa tion, and local exporters look for heavy cargo orders. . ? The inquiries come principally from the United Kingdom. The supply for England has heretofore been furnished in the Baltic WILL EVACUATE VERA CRUZ SOON American Forces to Leave Mex ico November 23rd. Secretary Bryan Says Guarantee of Safety Is Obviated Nuns and Priests Have Gone. T Washington, D. C Monday, No vember 23, was fixed as the date for the evacuation of Vera Cruz by the American ' forces. Secretary Bryan has issued this announcement: "Both General Carranza and the convention at Aguas Calientes having given the assurances and guarantees we requested, it is the purpose . of the administration to withdraw the troops of the United States from Vera Cruz on Monday, November 23. "All the persons there for whose personal safety this government has made itself responsible have left the city. The priests and nuns who had taken refuge there, and for whose safety fears were entertained, are now on their way to this country." This statement was given out after a long conference between Mr. Bryan and President Wilson. ' It apparently was received with surprise in some official quarters. The general under standing has been that the evacuation might be delayed indefinitely pending reports on the alignment of the var ious Mexican chiefs in the latest civil war now in progress. Secretary Bryan declined to add to the formal announcement, saying details would be made public by the War department. Secretary Garrison had nothing to say, and to just what authority the port of Vera Cruz would be delivered was not made plain. , ! . It has been assumed, however, that as the United States throughout the Mexican difficulties has dealt with the authorities actually in control of ter ritory involved, the city would be turned over to an agent of General Carranza, probably General Candido Aguilar, isommanding the constitution alist forces in the state of Vera Cruz. So far as is known, there has been no final decision as to when and whom the more than a million dollars of Mexican customs moneys now held by the United States shall be paid. Both Carranza and the Aguas Calientes con vention have given guarantees that customs duties collected at Vera Cruz will not be reimposed. In view of the complications which might arise, how ever, in the event Carranza were driv en from power by Villa's army sup porting General Gutierrez, the conven tion's new provisional president, it has been suggested that payment of the money might be withheld pending a clarification of the situation. French Pay $182,000,000. Bordeaux The cost ; of war to France in October was $182,154,504, a daily average of more than $6,000,000. The daily average for the first three months of the war was $7,000,000. The government will disburse immediately $13,000,000 for repairs to the railroad system. These probably have been made necessary by the wear and tear due to the transportation of troops. The sum of $1,314,000 has been set aside for the relief of the unemployed. Various sums will be used to relieve localities invaded by the Germans. - SeaRght Site Unmarked. Washington, D C. Eduardo Suarez, Chilean ambassador here, is informed by hit government that Chilean ships sent out to search had not found the slightest trace of the Monmouth or the Good Hope, the British cruisers report ed lost in the recent sea fight with a German fleet off the coast of Chile. On their return to Valparaiso the ves sels reported that they had searched carefully over the zone of battle witn ont finding bit of wreckage. Larger Sums Are Asked , for Oregon Institutions Salem Announcement was made by the state board of control this week that estimates made by it for state in stitutions for the coming biennial per iod totaled $1,763,516.93, which is an increase of $107,955.32 over the ap propriations for the same purpose made by the last legislature for the present period. Of the last appropria tions $26,850. for erecting barracks at the penitentiary and $20,000 for the Solders' home was turned back into the state treasury, making the total appropriations used by the institutions $1,608,711.61. While increases for maintenance are suggested by the board for several institutions the esti mated increases are largely due to the belief of the board that improvements are necessary. Maintenance increases are asked for the insane asylum and the penitentiary .because of an increas ing population, and new wards are de sired for the insane aBylums because both of them virtually are filled to ca pacity. A comparison of appropria tions for 1913 and 1914, with those estimated for 1915 and 1916, is as follows: 1913 and 1914 insane asy lum, Salem, $611,353.50; Eastern Ore gon insane asylum, $284,829.80; peni tentiary, $203,600; feeble-minded in stitute, $202,243.81; training school, $73,450; tuberculosis institute, $53, 000; blind school, $37,235; deaf school, ; $79,950; training school for girls, $50,000, and soldiers' home, $67,000. 1915 and 1916 insane asy lum, Salem, $774,711; Eastern Oregon insane asylum, $316,950; penitentiary, $188,300; feeble-minded institute, $156,106; training school, $68,645; tuberculosis institute, $69,016; blind school, $37,789.18; deaf school, $58, 776; girls' industrial school, $56,876, and soldiers' home, $37,348.75. Powder Valley Irrigation Project to Be Revived Baker Work on the Powder Valley Irrigation company project will begin next spring, according to planB an nounced by J. A. Almirall, New York capitalist, who arrived . here to visit the project. Mr. Almirall said that the plans as now mapped out are to build the toe of the Balm Creek dam next " spring and thereby to store enough water to irrigate at least 2000 acres. The Balm Creek dam is north of the lower Powder. Mr. Almirall left for the site of the operations with W. A. Stewart, local representative of the company. i Mr. Almirall's announcement means much toward the development of Baker county, as its points to resump tion of operations on the project, which ultimately will furnish water for the Powder river valley.. It also answers the question of whether the Boy Gives Up Parole, On Account ot Lack ot Work Salem So far as analyzing business conditions is concerned, Henry Clews has a rival in John O'Connor, 16 years old, of Portland, who returned to the State Reform school after being out on parole a year. The lad said he had been working in a tailor shop in Port land, but, because of a falling off in business, had been laid off. "I spent several days looking for another joh," Baid the youth to Super intendent Hale of the school, "but without success. I had little money, for when J was working my wages were small and I could not save much. Being unable to find another job, and convinced that business would not pick up until spring because of war and politics, I decided to come back here to spend the winter. I went to the Juvenile court and asked to be recom mitted,) but the judge said he could not do that as I had done nothing wrong." The judge, however, called Mr. Hale over the telephone and the superin tendent told him to send the lad to the school for the winter. Mr. Hale says the boy will be able to make more than his living in the tailoring estab lishment in the institution. It was there that he learned his trade, and is a fine workman. - Court Cuts Down Valuation. Astoria The trial of the case of John Waterhouse against Clatsop county was completed before Judge Campbell of the Circuit court this week and the court awarded the plaintiff $663.50. The action was in the nature of an appeal from the de cision of the County court in allowing the plaintiff only $1 damages for right of way through his ranch near Knappa for the Columbia highway, i A total of 4.82 acres of land were taken and the plaintiff's claim was $1225. ' Ions of Prunes Are Shipped. Rickreall Several tons of dried fruit, principally prunes, have been shipped out of Polk county. The prunes that were sold brought a high price, the amount varying consider ably. Early contracts for the crop were frequent. The crop this season was estimated to be 65 per cent of that of last season, owing to early frosts in the spring injuring the blos soms and hindering the . devlopment of the fruit. Road Drags Made ot Old Iron. Albany By using old bridge iron in the construction of road drags, the County court of Linn county is not only utilizing material which would otherwise be thrown away, but is using it most effectively for road improve ment. Drags of this type are to be distributed among the road districts. - Old Friday Mine Opens. Baker The famous Friday mine, formerly a big gold producer, located 12 miles from Baker, near the Virtue mine has been reopened. Joseph Buck ley, one of the principal owners of the property, started a force of men at work under the direction of George Ray, foreman. The property will be worked continuously all winter. Office Expense Estimated. ' Salem Superintendent of Public Instruction Churchill has estimated the expense of his office for the next two years at $26,920, which is the same as the appropriation made by the last legisltaure. The estimate will be submitted to the next legislature. company intends to complete . the big project. v.- i ' "We cannot start more than this work at this time," said Mr. Almirall, "With the present condition of tht money market it is impossible to think of going ahead with any attempt to finance this undertaking. I look for no immediate relief in the financial situation. The European war is mak ing itself felt acutely and until condi tions are more settled the price of money will remain high. We can, however, make this start, and then possibly within two years we will be able to go ahead and finance the proj ect. . There is a possibility the next congress will pass land legislation which will relieve the situation and enable us to proceed with the entire project." . , , The company has already done $126,- 000 worth of work on the project. Health Bill for Cattle ' Ordered by Governor Salem A quarantine proclamation issued by Governor West here against the foot and mouth disease prohibits the shipping of livestock into the state from states . where the disease exists unless a thorough inspection has been made and permission given by the proper state or Federal authorities. It further is provided that the quaran tine shall apply to hog cholera serum, vaccine and other extracts of animal origin, unless no infection exists where they are manufactured. Shipments of livestock from coun ties where the disease does not exist in states that are infected are not pro hibited by the proclamation provided cars are disinfected thoroughly before being loaded, and unloaded en route in yards that have been disinfected. Health certificates giving this infor mation from Federal inspectors must accompany the shipments. Olympia, Wash. Dr. H. T. Graves, state agricultural commission, has gone to Portland to attempt to arrange a modification of the quarantine regu lations of Washington and Oregon to allow free shipment of livestock be tween the two states, in neither of which foot and mouth disease has de veloped, i Shortage of carbolic acid is faced here on account of the large quantities used for car and stockyarad disinfec tion, and state and Federal depart ments in consequence have authorized the use of chloride of lime and for maldehyde as substitute disinfectants. "Dry" Majority Is 36,000. Prohibition secured a majority of approximately 36,000 in the recent state-wide election. Practically complete returns from every county in the state give a total of 184,106 in favor of the amendment and 98,209 against it. This is a fa vorable majority of 85,897. A few outlying precincts in some Central and Eastern Oregon counties may not be included in these totals, and If they give the same vote in favor of prohi bition as given in the other rural dis tricts the majority doubtless will reach 36,000. The vote on the amendment to abol ish capital punishment is close and doubtless will require the official can vass to decide. Condon Aids Sufferers. Condon A relief fund of $257 was raised in Condon for the benefit of the British Red CroBs by a concert and dance given in the local skating rink. The talent for the concert was all from Condon and nearby towns and the Scotch and American dances appealed particularly to the fancy of the crowd. Although many attended merely to help the cause, everybody remained to en joy one of the most pleasant social affairs ever held In Condon. After the concert two orchestras kept the dan cers busy until a late hour. Opinion Backs Teachers. Salem Keeping children who are lax in their studies and deportment in after school Is legal, according to an opinion rendered by Assistant District Attorney Benjamin. The question arose over the action of two women In taking their children from the Buena Vista school while the teachers were detaining them after the regular school hours. When E. G. Dykstra, principal, remonstrated with the wo men they quoted a statute which says the school hours shall be from 9 o'clock In the morning until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, with one hour recess. ILLUSTRATING THE REAL JOY OF THE DAY Lord, we, thy children, small and great. Beneath thy care, where'er It be, The while thy grace we supplicate, Give thanks to thee. ' Clinton 8collard. HMirovv" Qoru VES, yes, Indeed! We would have had a perfectly lovely time at Iour house on Thanksgiving If it hadn't, been for an accident that ' happened at the din ner table. At the time 1 felt terri bly misanthropic about it ' and really had a very bad movay quart dour for a minute, but I soon con- soled myself by recalling dear Rob ert Burns' precious words, "The best laid plans of mice and men gang bide awee." We only had a small dinner party, Just the Bolivurds and Wood's sleter and her husband and their little boy, Harold. Did you ever meet Wood's sister? My dear, between you and I remember this Is strictly sotto voce she Is very ignorant and snobblBh, and such a talker! Wood himself ac knowledges that she would surely ex plode If she ever got tetanus, and ever since she went abroad she holds her head as high as Marie Antoinette go ing to the Moulin Rouge and talks nothing but Paris a perfect parricide, I call her! ,,. .-: And Ignorant! 'Why, do you know, she brought me back a little statu esque of Venus from Italy and apolo gized for Its broken arms, by telling me It was that way the diagonal was found! Ha, ha, ha! I could scarcely retain my specific gravity, I was so amused. She didn't know that Mickey Angelo bad carved It that way on purpose to make It look old and de bilitated, because the Romans dearly loved antique things. I don't blame them either, I do myself, don't you? I have a colonial monogamy antima cassar 600 years old with all the knobs broken off. I had a high noon dinner at one o'clock "when jocund day stands tipsy on the misty mountain top, you know, as dear old Will would say. It was a strict New Eng land dinner, of course. In honor of the day and Wood's ancestors I am an F. F. V., myself and before It was served we each agreed to tell the one thing we '.- were most thankful for. Wood was first. He said words couldn't express his gratefultude be cause be didn't have to pay an In come tax. Poor Wood! He staid up all the night before, figuring out what he would have to pay at the source. He was terribly puzzled at first and wanted me to help him, but I was too busy assisting Nora to make the stuffing. He didn't know whether to multiply the least common multiple by the fourth dimension and add 1 per cent of the remainder, or extricate the cuberoot of the net proceeds and square the result. One thing, be said, was certain. He'd Just like to get square once with the Democrats! My, but he was tickled when he came up stairs the next morning to tell me be had escaped after all, but, he said, It was a very close shave. I don't know whether to tell I was thankful because I had been elected president of my suffrage club, or be cause I had such a wonderful child as Gwendolyn, but I finally decided to in timate Cordelia, the mother ot the Qratchy, and display my jewel child. Besides, I am far too modest to boast of myself. " ' So I had Gwendolyn read a compo sition on "The First Thanksgiving," in which she told all about the hard ships of the poor Pilgrims who cam over in the Maybell with Lord Balti more to Plymouth, and how they sat down to their first Thanksgiving din ner of hominy and codfish balls, and gave thanks because they hadn't been scalped or burned as witches. Then Wood had her bind every state in the Union and tell what time it it in the Scandalous peninsula when it is six o'clock here.; Then she showed all of her beautiful sketches and played several duets on the piano. She is Mr. Boguslatchkey's favorite pupil, and he often tells me that she will bt a perfect tyro when she grows up Just then, the "tocsin of the soul, tht dinner bell," rang and we had tc evade the rest of the program. I wa glad, too, because the Bollvards looked awfully bored when Wood's slstei asked Harold to recite my, my, hon she does love to show him off! We had a lovely meal. Nora cer talnly Is a fine cook, even If she if Irish. I had her mix the mincemeat with strong tea and cane pepper in stead, of wicked things like cider and brandy, and the pies were delicious Everything was. - Nora hasn't qull talking about her fine cooking thai day yet. That's one trouble with the Irish, they are so boaBtful! I flrmlj believe It is the reason that Julius Caesar, when be conquered Ireland, christened It "Erin-go-Brag," doii'l you? Beg pardon? Well, the dinner bad passed off beautifully. Wood had kepi the table in a roar you know what a delightful bon mot he laj and had carved the turkey just like a surgeon. But first I muBt tell you about Harold. The little wretch, instead of peeling his banana into strips and laying them carefully on the table like Gwendolyn, turned his skin back and, after eating the fruit out of it in two bites, threw It under the table. He said afterwards It slipped oft his plate. At any rate It fell right at Wood's feet. Poor Wood! He had on some new shoes without any heels he didn't want to buy them in the first place, but I begged him to, because I love him to be the observed of all observ ers and have a moldy form, as my be loved Shakespeare would say and he wasn't used to them, so that when he got up to leave the table he slipped on the peel. Ours is an extension table with ball gearing rollers, and when he grasped the edge of It to save himself from falling, alas, alas, It parted in the middle and all the combustibles of tht dinner were participated onto the floor and Wood fell backwards on ton of bis chair with the most violent em phasls. Poor boy! He had been telling a baseball story and had been using such shocking paraphrases as "Jammed the cushion," "swatted the sphere," "clat tered across the pan" and "dented the platter." Don't you think it was s dreadful coincidence that just as he said "platter," down went the turkey? Ob, dear! I Just can't help hut feel someway that perhaps the whole thing was a nemesis on him for using such dreadful, undefiled slang. Well, he paid dearly for It, poor fellow! I'm afraid it will be weeks before his solar system will be entire ly renovated. When we disinterred him that day we found that his paral lax was dreadfully bruised, and that he had a severe attack of nostalgia: I declare I thought his dear nose would never, never stop bleeding! Yes, we all partook of some Injury Mrs. Bollvard hasn't spoken to me since because her new scrape-de-shin skirt was ruined; that In, all but Har old and his mother. It seems like the very Ironing of fate that they were the only ones present who escaped from damage, don't you think so? Real Cause for Thanksgiving. ' On every side there is cause for thanksgiving. We are at peace with all, even our enemies, if there be such. Our past achievements stimulate to further efforts, and our present dint- cutties breed fresh determination to overcome them. -,