Eagle Valley news., May 24, 1917, Image 6

HOOVER 10 HANDLE
COUNTRY'S FOODS
Volunteer Plan Outlined by Wil
son as War Policy.
NEED CURB ONLY FEW
Absolute Authority is Declared Neces
sary and Government Asks All
to Help While War Lasts.
Washington, D. C President Wil
son in a statement Sunday outlining
the administration's food control pol
icy, announced he had asked Herbert
C. Hoover to become American food
administrator and that Mr. Hoover
would accept the offer.
A statement given out by Mr.
Hoover after the White House an
nouncement was made, gave his plans
for food administration and called on
the country to render voluntary assist
ance in carrying it out.
Explaining that it is absolutely nec
essary to vest unquestionable powers
in the government, the President de
clared he is confident that exercise of
the authority granted will be necessary
only "in the few cases where some
small and selfish minority proves un
willing to put the nation's interests
above personal advantage."
He makes it clear that the food ad
ministration is only for an emergency
situation and that since it will be com
posed for the most part of volunteers
"there need be no fear of the possi
bility of a permanent bureaucracy
arising out of it."
Mr. Hoover proposed that the food
administraiton be divided into four
great branches, who3e duties he de
fined in detail. Most of the work
would be carred out by men and wom
en of the country on a voluntary basis.
"If this cannot be done," Mr. Hoov
er's statement says, "I shall certainly
and willingly surrender the task to
some other method of emergency. I
hold that democracy can yield to dis
cipline, and that we can solve this food
problem for our own people and our al
lies in this way, and that to have done
so will have been a greater service
than our immediate objective, for we
will have demonstrated the Tightness
of our faith and our ability to defend
ourselves without being Prussianized."
PATRIOTISM TO RULE
Portland Rose Festival Will Celebrate
National Flag Day Second Day
of Yearly Spring Carnival.
Portland Between 35,000 and ."30,
000 men and women will participate in
the huge patriotic pageant on National
Flag Day, the second day of the 19 7
Rose festival, June 13, 14 and 15,
while 20,000 school children will take
part in the children's parade, June 13.
Oregon's great floral event will this
year have patriotism for its theme,
and the flag will be entwined with the
rose. The eight Italian societies rep
resented in Portland, the Italian Red
Cross, the Girls' National Honor
Guards, the Spanish-American War
veterans, the Grand Army of the Re
public, the Woman's Relief Corps, and
other semi-military organizations have
signified their desire to take part in
the military pageant. Other entries
are pouring in daily. The Festival
Center this year will also be the Court
of Patriotism. The heart will bo a
replica of the Statue of Liberty, tow
ering 50 feet in the air and composed
of roses and myriad electric lights.
President Wilson has endorsed the
Rose Festival as a demonstration of
patriotism and of loyalty to the Oregon
rose, and at the White House on the
evening of June 13 he will press the
buttons which will set the lighta of the
statue aglow and mark the formal
opening of the Festival.
June 15 will be given over to the
annual floral parade and in the evening
the spirit of the rose will blend with
the spirit of patriotic America.
Streetcar Men Receive Raise.
Tacoma, Wash. The Tacoma Rail
way & Power company and Pacific
Traction company voluntarily have in
creased wages of all motormen and
conductors in their employ effective
June 1 the increase rangiftg rm 5 to
10 per cent.
This is the second voluntary increase
that has been made in six months to
trainmen the last increase being made
December 1, 1916. About 300 men arc
affected by the increase.
STATE NEWS
x IN BRIEF. !
Coos Hay again is threatened with
an invasion by I. W. W. and prompt
measures nro being tnken to prevent
the organization obtaining n foothold
there.
The referendum petition directed
against tho Gill bill of the last legis
lative session has been filed with Sec
retary of Stato Olcott by the Clack
amas Fishermen's union. The petition
contains 16, ICO names.
E. B. MacNaughton, an architect of
Portland, has been named by Governor
Withycombe as a member of tho In
dustrial Welfare Commission to suc
ceed Father E. V. O'Hara, of Port
land, who has submitted his resigna
toin. The appointment becomes effec
tive June 1.
The State Highway commission will
hold a joint session on Juno 1 at Fossil
with tho Wheeler County court and
award a contract for six miles of im
provements between Fossil and tho
Wheeler County lino on the John Day
highway. It is expected the improve
ment will cost about 10,000.
The past week has seen several mad
dogs in Lakeview, and it is feared that
an epidemic is about to break out. A
dog belonging to F. M. Duke went mad
a short time ago and had to be killed.
It is feared that this dog ran at large
during one night and infected a num
ber of dogs throughout the town.
Bids for contracts for paving the
Siskiyou Highway from the summit of
the mountain to the California line are
to be advertised for at Ashland, ac
cording to State Highway Engineer
Nunn, who is in the valley to attend
the tri-state good roads meeting.
Work is to be started immediately and
finished this summer if the money
holds out, according to Mr. Nunn.
Governor Withycombe has appointed
the men who will serve on the State
Lime board under the provisions of
chapter 397, enacted at the last session
of the legislature. The appointees
are: Benton Bowers, Ashland, recom
mended by the Taxpayers' League;
B. G. Lcedy, Corvalhs, recommended
by the State Grange; John Simanek,
Crabtree, recommended by the Farm
ers' union.
With the business streets of Rose-
burg gaily decorated with carnival col
ors and patriotic emblems, the citizens
entertained several thousand people at
the festivities attendant on the open
ing of the Ninth Annual Strawberry
Festival Thursday. Although a "straw
berryless" Strawberry Festival, there
was no lack of enthusiasm on the part
of the visitors, and the first day's pro
gram was pronounced the best ever
witnessed in Roseburg.
A number of farmers are making ap
plication to come under the Workmen's
Compensation act, since the recent
ruling of the Supreme court, which de
clared farm hands were protected un
der the Employers' Liability act when
engaged in hazardous occupations. At
the present time, a statement issued
by the commission recently says, an
average of 11 employers are daily
bringing their operations under the
act, and during the last 20 days 215
additional employers have been listed.
Jacob Trott, of Echo, who was ser
iously burned Wednesday while start
ing a gasoline engine, died from the
burns at a Pendleton hospital.
Damage from the cloudburst at
Heppner probably will reach $100,000.
Crops, roads, bridges and fences are
ruined, and wires are down. Some
stock was killed.
Though the weather has been show
ery, the majority of the farmers of
the Gaston section have taken advant
age of every available moment to get
their plowing done and get their grain
crops in. There is no scarcity of help
so far, and plans for a larger acreage
than usual are going forward.
The stigma of "deserter" will be
removed from the National Guard rec
ords of Carl von der Aho and Arthur
Lofts, the Hood River young men who
recently were posted as deserters when
they left the Twelfth company, Oregon
Coast Artillery, and enlisted in the
navy without first having obtained
their discharges from the Twelfth com
pany. Crumbling like tinder when the abut
ments gave way, the county bridge at
Island City, three miles from La
Grande, dropped into the Grand Rondo
river Monday, and now rests on the
bottom of the turbulent stream. Some
estimates place the total land under
water in the Grand Rondo valley fol
lowing the recent high floods and pres
ent inundation at 20,000 acres.
A box factory and sawmill located on
Neil creek, seven miles south of Ash
land, formerly operated by tho Ashland
Manufacturing company, but which
have been in tho hands of tho First
National Bank of Ashland for tho past
year, have been sold to a group of Los
Angeles capitalists, who expect to
have 100 men at work in the woods
and at the mills inside of 30 days. I
Y FOR FRANCE
IS ORDERFD SENT
President Wilson to Send Gen.
Pershing With Division.
ROOSEVELT NOT TO GO
Upon Advice from Experts, Executive
Declined Offer of Volunteers
Other Service Is Possible.
Washington, D. C President Wil
son Friday night ordered that a divis
ion of regular troos, commanded by
Major General John J. Pershing, be
sent to Franco at tho earliest practi
cable date.
This is the answer of America to
Franco's plen that the Stars and
Stripes be carried to tho fighting front
without delay to hearten tho soldiers
battling there with concrete evidence
that a powerful ally has come to their
support againt German aggression.
Announcement of the order followed
signing of the selective draft war
army bill by the President and the is
suing of a statement that under advice
of military experts on both sides of
the water, the President said ho could
not employ volunteers nor avail him
self of tho "fine vigor and enthusiasm"
of ex-President Roosevelt for the ex
pedition.
Tho army law provided for an ulti
mate forces of approximately 2,000,
000 men to back up the first troops to
go to the front. When the bill had
been signed the Preisdent affixed his
name to a proclamation calling ujmn
all men in tho country between the
ages of 21 nad 30, inclusive, to regis
ter themselves for military service on
Juno 5, next.
The proclamation sets in motion im
mediately machinery that will enroll
and sift 10,000,000 men and pave tho
way for tho selection of the first 500,
000 young, efficient soldiers without
crippling the industries or commerce
of the Nation or bringing hardship on
those at home.
Washington, D. C. Colonel Roose
velt will not be permitted to raise his
volunteer expedition to carry the
American flag against the Germans in
France.
On signing the war army bill, Presi
dent Wilson issued a statement saying ,
that, acting under expert advice from
both sides of the water, he would be
unable to avail himself at tho present
stage of the war of the authorization
to organize volunteer divisions.
There was talk in army circles of
the possibility that a way will bo
found to use the ex-President s serv
ices in another way, but official com
ment on the subject was lacking.
TAX ON BIG INCOMES RAISED
House Levies lit Per Cent on Sums of
$1,000,000 and Over.
Washington, D. C. Further drastic
increases were written into the income
surtax schedules of the war revenue
bill by the house in tho committee of
the whole after announcement by Dem
ocratic Leader Kitchin that Secretary
McAdoo's latest estimate of one-half
of the cost of the first year of tho war,
which the bill is intended to cover,
would be about $2,245,000,000.
The increases, 25 per cent on all tho
proposed surtaxes on incomes between
$40,000 and $1,000,000 as reported by
the committee and a 45 per cent sur
tax on incomes in excess of $1,000,000
as proposed by Representative Lcn
root, of Wisconsin were included by a
vote of 146 to 107.
No attempt will be mado in the
house, Mr. Kitchin announces, to raise
the total of the bill to $2,245,000,000.
It is probable, howevor, he added, that
the total will be larger than tho $1,
800,000,000 contemplated in the origi
nal measure and if it is found that
more money is needed another bill will
be drafted at tho next session.
Naval Officials Explain.
Washington, D. C. Naval officials
resent tho report from Qucenstown
that tho American destroyer crews
were not properly outfitted for cold
weather duty. They did not have some
of the extra heavy clothing, officials
say, because of their hurried depart
ure, but they did havo sufficient cloth
ing for this time of year. Moro sup
plies nro going with tho destroyers bo
ing sent, and theso aro supplemented
by heavy clothing.
Honduras Cuts Relations.
Washington. D. C.r-Honduras has
severed diplomatic relations with Ger
many, following the lead of Guatemala.
ARM
ICE CREAM MAKERS RAP LAW
Protest Agnlnst Provision Requiring
II PvrCcnt lluttcrfnt.
Ice cream makers of the Northwest
nt n conference at Soknno with E. F.
Benson, commissioner of agriculture,
entered n vigorous protest against en
forcing tho law passed by tho last leg
islature regarding butter fat content
for ice cream.
The law provides that the commis
sioner shall enforce n standard not be
low that of tho Federal department of
Agriculture's regulations regarding
foods. It was contended that tho state
law reads that tho statu authorities
shall follow the Federal standard.
The Federal standard calls for 11 per
cent butter fat. The ice cream men
contend that tho government never has
enforced tho 14 per cent standard, be
cause It was found unwise to do so. It
was said by several speakers that 8 to
10 per cent butter fat gavu a bettor
quality of ice cream than tho higher
standard.
Farmer Operates Tractor He Invented.
Wlnlock A tractor designed espe
cially for use on the Pacific Coast,
whore tho excessive rains make all
other typos useless except in dry
weather and dry ground, has just been
completed and a patent obtained for it
by Henry Korovaar. Mr. Korevaar,
who is a prominent farmer living on
Cowlitz Prairie, has a full sized work
ing model in opemtlun on his farm.
The motive jwwer is supplied by an
oight-horscKwcr gasoline engine. It
has a harrow attachment behind,
which cuts out tho necessity of a sec
ond operation for harrowing, and will
plow a 17-inch furrow eight to nine
inches deep. The tractor can be man
ufactured in normal times for about
$350 and weighs about MOO oum!s.
Hog Cholera Found On Tieton.
North Yakima A case of hog chol
era was discovered on the Tieton re
cently and steps are being taken by
R. P. Bean, agriculturist for the proj
ect, to check the spread of the disease.
The stock belongs to M. U. Brady,
who is a tenant on the Thomas Fear
place on tho north end of tho project.
Two shoats out of a herd of 20 have'
died. There was cholera on tho same
place two years ago. Vaerlno has
been ordered anil will bo administered
as soon as it arrives.
) NORTHWEST HARKCT REPORT
Wheat Bluestem $2.65
Forty fold 2.60
Club 2.60
Red Russian 2.55
Oats No. 1 white $51.00
Barley No. 1 feed 51.00
Cattle Steers, prime. . .$10.5011.25
Steers, good 10.00&J0.50
Steers, medium 9.50( 9.75
Cows, choice 9.25rfi 9.85
Cows, medium 8.60&U 9.25
Cows, fnir 7.50ft) 8.25
Heifers 7.00rjl0.00
Bulls 0.00r;) 8.50
Calves 7.500jlO.OO
11 ogs Pac k i ng $ 1 5. 506 c 1 6. 9 0
Rough heavies 14.50(ifil5.00
Pigs and skips 14.00ff,'14.50
Stock hogs 12.50V(14.00
Sheep Wethers $ 9.75ff7J2.00
Ewes 9.00ffi)11.50
Lambs 10.25ffjl3.50
Flour Patents, $12.90.
Millfeed Spot prices: Bran, $44
per ton; shorts, $47; rolled " barley,
$58; rolled oats, $58.
Corn Whito, $72 per ton; cracked,
$7.1.
Hay Producers' prices; Timothy,
Eastern Oregon, $30ff;32 per ton ; vnl
ley timothy, $226724; alfalfa, $20ffj)23;
valley grain hay, $18(7020.
Butter Cubes, extras, 36Je per
pound; primo firsts, 35Jc. Jobbing
prices: Prints, extras, 38c; cartons,
lc extra; butterfat, No. 1, 38c; No.
2, 36c.
Eggs Ranch, current receipts, 32 J c
per dozen; selects, 83c.
Poultry Hens, 17ff7jl8c per pound;
broilers, 20ffi23e; turkeys, 22tfi24c;
ducks, 22fft23c; geese, 12ff)13c.
Veal Fancy, 14 J(f) 15c per pound.
Pork Fancy, 19jc per pound.
Vegetables Artichokes, 85 ffTj 90c
per dozen; tomatoes, $2.50(3.00 per
crate; cabbago, 5ff(,0c per pound; egg
plant, 25c; lettuce, $1.6567)1.80; cu
cumbers, 90cff7j$1.50 per dozen; cel
ery, 75cffJ$1.25; cauliflower, $1.00(77.)
1.75 per crate; peppers, 20(7J35c por
pound; rhubarb, 2(7,3c; peas, 5ff,0e;
asparagus, 8(gj2Jc; spinach, $1.25 per
box.
Potatoes nuying prices, $3.25ffJ)
3.50 per hundred.
Green Fruit Strawberries, $1,50
por crato; npplcs, S5c(7Tj$2.50 per box.
Hops lUlo .crop, iioioc per pound;
1917 contracts, nominal.
Wool Eastern Oregon, fino, 40c per
pound; coarBo, 4550c; valley, 45
50c; mohair, 6005c.
Cascara Bark Old and now. 61c
per pound.
WORLD
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Event of Noted People, Governments
and Pacific Northwest and Other
Things Worth Knowing.
Tho death at tho front of Guuoral
von Vlrtingholf is retried In a dis
patch from Berlin. General von Vie
tlnghoir formerly was governor of
Strassburg.
The loss of tho Zeppelin 1X12 Is olll
dally admitted by tho German admi
ralty. Tho British reported that it
was destroyed in tho North Son by
English forces.
Rumors are In circulation that the
principal express companion nro about
to fllo with the interstate Commerce
commission an application for an In
crease in rates.
Presiding Judge Martin, of Common
Pleas court of Philadelphia, signed a
decree authorizing tho removal of
Harry K. Thaw to tho Pennsylvania
hospital for the insane.
To allay apprehension of Mexicans
in this country near tho liordur that
they might bo drafted Into tho United
States army, the govurnineiit has Is
sued a denial of any such intention.
According to the best information
obtainable, President Wilson, follow
ing the signing of the conscription
army bill, will otter Colonel Roosevelt
a commission as brigadier general in
tho army.
II. J. Herrin, of Wolf Creek, Mon
tana, and Philip Chevalier, near Johns,
have contracted to sell their 1017 wool
clips for 52 cents a ximd. This is as
high as any price ever received for
wool in this district.
Assuranes of tho closest co-oporation
by the military forces of the United
States with those of Cuba will be car
ried to Havana by the Cuban commis
sioners, who have concluded their work
at Washington and left for home.
A vigorous movement to increase in
come surtaxes of tho promised war
revenue bill another 25 per cent on all
amounts above $10,000 has started in
tho house, under the leadership of
Representative Lenroot, Republican,
of Wisconsin, and Representative Slier
ely, Democrat, of Kentucky.
It was mado known at the Chicago
semi-annual convention of the National
Association of Garment Manufacturers
that employers are strongly in favor
of their girl employes wearing overalls
and that 10 largo factories havo al
ready supplied their girl workers with
that article of masculine apparel.
Tho British prime minister has sent
a letter to John Redmond, leader of
tho Irish Nationalist party, outlining
the government's project for tho set
tlement of the home rule question. He
asked Mr. Redmond to state his views
on tho government's suggestions, that
tho government may bo able to con
sider the matter at once.
Thu United States lent Russia $100,
000,000. Tho money was lent to bo
spoilt as needed, without stipulation or
understanding of any sort further than
Russia stands back of thu obligation,
will make it good, and will spend the
money in this country under the super
vision of a representative of tho Treas
ury department or a commission to lie
named by tho Amoricanjgovornmont.
Chihuahua City newspapers toll of
tho execution of Colonels Slxto Vega
and Francisco Saenz, of the homo
guards of Casus Grandcs, who were
convicted as Villa spies.
In sections cf New York City whore
tho trading stamp was popular before
tho advent of war prices, the onion
and potato havo been substituted. In
tho Ridgowood section of Brooklyn it
small potato or onion is given with
each 10 per cent. Motion picture
houses also havo adopted tho same
schemo, giving an onion or potato with
each adult ticket.
In rcnlv to ll nucstlnn In llin linnun
of commons, Chancellor Bonjir Law
said no treaty had over been contem
plated with Japan in which that na
tion would overrun Siberia if Russia
relaxed lier olforts in tho war.
Tho French nassontror Htonmnr Mod.
jorda has been sunk by a submarine
wniio voyaging uctwecn Oran, Algeria,
and Marseilles. Tho survivors were
picked ur and taken to d(nnmnt. nnria
Tho Mcdjorda was a vessel of 1918
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