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L Secretary McAdoo Reccomends to Congress Extension. WILSON SHARES IDEA Dlrcctor-firncnal Declares Prcwcnt Tic onomlc IVolilrni Crave nml Peo ple Entitled to Test. Washington, I). C. Extension of tliu period of government control of rnll ronilH for flvo yuars, until Jununry 1, 1924, U recommended to congress by Director-General McAdoo. Tho ndvniitnKOH of thin, ho said, are tlmt It would take tho rullrouda out of politics for tho presold; glvo (lino for carrying out of nu extensive pro i;raimno of Improvements and provldo opportunity for a fair tost of unified control and to indicate thu permanent solution of tho railroad problem. "Tho president linn glvon tno per iiiIhmIoii to nay that IIiIh conclusion accords with his own vlaw of tho inattur," Mr. McAdoo said, concluding a luttcr to Senator Smith, of South Carolina, and Hoprosentntlvo Hlinn, chairmen respectively of thu somite and houso lutorstato commorco com IlllttOCM. Mr. McAdoo oxplnlned tlmt to con tlnuo government operation for 21 mouths nftor formal declaration of peace under prosont condllloiiH would mean disruption of morale nmotiK em ployes and offlcorH, and could not on able tho government to go ahead with Improvements and purchases of equip ment, Thu other altcmatlvo, prompt return of the roadn to prtvato control, with out lobulation to permit elimination of tho old waflteful competition would bo "hurtful alike to tho public Interest and the railroads thouiHelvos," ho said, adding that difficulty of obtaining Im mediate legislation providing n per manent solution Is apparent. "There Is one, and to my mind only one, practicable and wise altcmatlvo, Mr. McAdoo continued, "and that Is to extend tho period of federal control from the one year and nine months provided by tho present law to five years, or until the first day of January, 11)24. This extension would talco tho railroad question out of politics for a reasonublo period." GREAT TELEPHONE INVENTION OUT Washington, 1). C. I'oBtmasterGon vral Ilurleson Saturday mado public u letter from Theodoro N. Vail, presi dent of tho Amorlcan Tolophono & Telegraph company, announcing tho invention and dovolopmont by tho technical staff of tho Doll system of "a practical system of multiplex tele phony and telegraphy by tho use of which It Is now posslblo to Incrcaso many fold tho message-carrying capa city of long tolophono and telegraph wires." "With this now system," said Mr. Vnll's loiter, "four tolophono conversa tions over ono pair of wires nro simul taneously carried on, In addition to tho tolophono conversation provided by tho ordinary methods. Thus, over a slnglo pair of wires a total of flvo tolophono conversations nro simultan eously operated, each giving sorvlco us good ns that provided by tho circuit working In tho ordinary way." Pitrogrnd Faces Hunger. Stockholm. Fugltlvos from Itussln say living conditions In Potrograd nro terrible. Tho fumlno thoro doflos tho Imagination. Flour Is soiling for CO rubles, and buttor and sugar for ICO rubles per kilogram (2.2 pounds). Hop ring aro tho only food obtainable, and soil for flvo rubles each. All mlddlo class olcmonts are ox cludod from publlo eating houses and nro dying of starvation by thousands. Ilundrods nro burled oach day be tween 0 mid 0 In tho morning, no fun erals being permitted later during tho day, Of a normal population of two millions, only u half million porsoim nro left In Potrograd. Tho city looks deserted, RAILROAD IITIIIJ Fill! 5 URGED STATE NEWS TTVT DtSTtJt? GOOD ROADS PLANS LARGE Hlato Highway Commission Give Out $.1,525,000 Program. Tho largest annual programme of road construction over presented by thu State Highway commission was drafted Inst Thursday at tho conclud ing session of- tho commissioners, cov ering practically every district In Ore gon and calling for an estimated ex penditure of ?3,G2G,200. Tho. commission ordered State Kit glueer Herbert Nunn to prepare tho projects for bids, which will bo oponcd at subsouuont sessions. Sovoral bids nro oxpoctcd to bo ready for considera tion at tho next mooting of tho com mission, which Is set for January 7, 1910. The proposed expenditures aro esti mated by tho stnto engineers from tho $0,000,000 bond fund nud also from the one-quarter mill and auto license fco fund, tho bond fund expenditure being estimated at $2,790,200 and tho latter at 73C,000. It Is said tho good roads programmo now In prospect will furnish employ ment for at least 3000 tnon, and should prove an Important adjunct to tho re construction labor problem. Tho Hood JUvor-Moslcr projoct, for example, will consume nt least ono year and will employ several hundred men. In tho cases of Douglas, Polk and a few other counties, details havo not been worked out, but tho commission contemplates taking caro of thoBO dis tricts at n later date. Tho programmo under tho federal fund of post and forest aid Is not Included In (ho Items of construction proposed. Tho Hood Hiver-Moslcr section of tho Columbia river highway and tho Gilliam county section of tho Colum bia rlvor highway will bo advertised at once, and bids are to be opened at tho meeting of January 7. In addition to tho programmo pre pared, there Is the 18-mllo pavement construction on tho Aurora-Salem hlghwny, a post road prETJect In co operation with tho government, which Is to bo commenced Just ns soon as weather conditions permit. To provldo for Immediate action on this project tho commission ordered tho delivery of C0.000 yards of crushed rock, to bo distributed along tho hlghwny. A sultcnBO of good whisky, said by tho officers to havo boon changing hands botweoii 12. Q. Holler, brakoman on tho main lino of tho Southorn Pacific, and P. I). Cowlcs, conductor on tho branch lino from Salem to Dallas, resulted In their arrest by Doputy Shorlff llort Smith. An eight-day open season for Chlnoso pheasants In Umatilla county will bo sought by representatives of tho Umatilla County Pish and Qamo club nt tho mooting In Portland noxt week. Shooters' want at least two Sundays open on this gamo. Tho delegates aro Instructed to opposo any othor changes In tho gamo laws. X.adlBlaY Horceny, nn 18-year-old boy, was arraigned boforo United States Commissioner Cnrnoy Friday on an Information sworn to by Dan J. Med 111, of tho Internal Ilovomia department, charging him with operat ing n still Illegally. Tho young man admitted his quilt, waived examination and was hold to await tho action of tho federal grand jury with bond fixed nt $1000. Prospective penco Is not roflocted by declines In prices for stato supplies, ub Indlcatod by a survoy of tho bids just mado for tho noxt six months for stnto Institutions. Alufost Innumer able bids mako nothing but n desultory examination posslblo nt tho prcsont time, but Indications nro that tho first quarter of tho coming btcniilum will sco curront expenses of stnto govern ment higher than over boforo. Tho Folic county court's budgot for tho coming yoar is complotod and tho totiil Is $250,020. Probnblo rccolpts will bo about $C0O0 and there Is In tho general fund n cash Imlnnco of $19, 000, Tho total amount to bo rnlsod by dlroct taxation Is plncod nt $232,020, Including geuornl road fund, $00,000. Special city lovles nro: Fulls City, $3800; West Salem, $2913,31; Indo pondonco, $9500.40, and Monmouth, $3083, SIX BILLION TAX PROPOSED Scnalo Ilcgtn Debate on Measure for 1910 Requirements. Washington, I). C Effects of tho nation's transition from a war to n poaco basis nnd of prohibition legisla tion on tho present nnd future prob lems of taxation aro outlined In thu sonata flnanco committee's report on tho revised war rovenuo bill filed Mon day by Chairman Simmons. Tho report oxplalns tho steps taken to revise tho houso bill so as to raise by tnxntlon noxt year $5,978,400,000 Instead of $7,560,000,000, ns planned by tho houso boforo tho signing of tho armistice nnd tho enactment of prohibition legislation. Proposed taxes In 1920 of $4,000, 000,000, tho reason for fixing them at this tlmo and tho manner In which they will bo raised, also aro explained. Tho most distinct changes mado by tho senate In tho houso draft of tho bill aro noted by tho committee's ro port as follows: Elimination of tho C por cont cor poration tax on undistributed corpor ate earnings, 'fixing a 20 per cent max imum on bona fldo sales of mines and oil and gas wells; elimination of tho tax on now stato nud municipal bonds, substitution of a slnglo war excess profits tax for tho altcmatlvo plan; oxcluslon of individuals and partner ships from war excess profits taxation and reduction of tho taxes on bever ages and tobacco. Senato debate on tho measure will begin with a statement by Senator Simmons. A dissenting roport on tho plan to fix 1920 taxes In the pending bill will bo filed by Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, for tho republicans of tho flnanco committee. Separate views also will bo presented by Sena tors Smoot, of Utah, nnd La Folletto, of Wisconsin, republicans. A considerable part of Senator Sim mons' roport Is devoted to tho plan for reducing taxes in 1920 to $4,000, 000,000. "Tho country Jms a right to know how soon and in what degrco tho bur don of wnr taxos can prudently bo re duced," tho report says. "During this period of reconstruction business, par ticularly now business, Is entitled to go forward without tho burden of nn 80 per cent tax on war profits. In tlmo of pcaco tho cxlstenco of nn 80 per cent profit would be nn nbsoluto ovll, for tho perpetuation or contlnu anco of which no sufficient reason has or could bo given." BURLESON'S SEIZURE OF CABLE PROTESTED Now York. Tho Commorclal Paclf lo Cablo company, allied with tho Commercial Cablo company, asked for an injunction in tho federal court Monday restraining Postmaster-General Ilurleson from further control of Its 10,000 miles of cablo between San Francisco and China, Japan and the Phlllpplno Islands. Violation of International law by urlcson Is charged in tho complaint, which asserts that tho United States had not obtained consent to tho sols uro from tho nations upon whoso ter ritory tho cublos laud. It Is further alleged such consont would bo uncon stitutional without a formal treaty ap proved by tho senate. This contention is uphold, tho com pany declared, by information from Its London offlco that a department of tho Drltish government has Instructed tho Commorclal Cablo company rep resentatives thcro to mako no changes at tho direction of tho American post-mastor-gonornl without first submit ting them to that department for ap proval. Big Tank Gun Perfected. Washington, D. C. An olght-inch gun, solf-propolllng on its caterpillar track, nnd prototypo of n fleot of bIiu llnr monsters that was being con structed for tho Amorlcan army when hostilities coasod, was demonstrated horo Monday beforo a largo group of Amorlcan officors nnd engineers. Gun nnd mnchlno nllko hnd success fully passod tho firing tests nt tho ordnanco proving ground boforo Mon day's test, which was under direction of Pliny 12. Holt nnd Colonol J. D. Dlllnrd, tho designers. Tho tractor-gun drove Its 55,000 pounds of bulk up a 45-dogroo ravlno wall, dovolopcd a Bpocd of four miles nn hour on n lovol surfneo nnd demol ished largo troos with thu aamo ruth lossiioss that Its wnr brother, tho tank, showed In action In Franco. OH looket here! My, wasn't Santa good! He gave me all the presents that he could. That's 'cause I always kept so neat and clean On Sundays dresst just like a fairy Queen. I minded darling Muzzer ev'ry day; Was careful of my dresses when at play, And held my Gran'ma's yarn when she did knit; For that's the way I did my little bit And when my Dad came home from work each nlgKj I tried to please him with my any might; . Always brought his pipe and paper, too, So he could smoke and read it thru and thru. Dear Santa Claus, in Toyland, heard bout me, 'Cause my Muzzer said he said, said he, "I'll just give that sweet and 'bedient chile The very things she's wanted all the while." So see thi3 pretty, sparkling Christmas Tree And the toy3 and things he gave to me; When you're good like me and try to please Santa Claus will give you toys like these. f As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still, Be peace on earth, be peace on earth To men of gentle will. Thackeray. HOLIDAY SEASON IN ITALY Dr. Grenfetl of Labrador Fame Explains Christmas Observances in the Sunny Land. Travelers visiting Homo whllo It was still tho center of n lnnd of peace, found Christmas there a day of Joy ousness; nud tho merry bidls of many churches, ushering lu tho day, spoko tho familiar language of home. " Just beforo tho wnr, Dr. Grenfell, of Labrador fume, Indulged In tho unusunl luxury of a brief holiday In Europe, nfter years of tireless service nmong the fishermen. His Journey brought him nnd Mrs. Grenfell to Homo Just ns tho many religious nnd civil observnnces of tho Christmas seuson were about to tnko place. Tho decorations, tho greetings, nnd tho crowds Hocking In nnd out of churches, emphasized tho spirit of tho seuson. "All tho places of worship Into which wo peeped," ho Bnys, "wero nblnzo with lights, whllo processions of priests In glittering robes, with so norous choruses nnd ascending Incense, nppealcd to tho various senses," At ono church they viewed tho flvo bonrds bellovcd to Imvo formed n part of the cradle of our Lord. Tho Amorlcan Episcopal Church of St. Pnul, where they worshiped on Chrlstmus morning, was crowded with the Protestant population of tho Holy City. A feature of tho service wus the ! dedicating of a beautiful new mosaic, covering one entire wall of the church. Of the Coliseum, says Dr. Grenfell, "we could think of no place better to suggest to our minds tho communion of tho saints; nnd ns wo walked round tho tiers of sents wo could seo again the 'men of like passions with onr-soives,' giving their lives for the same Master wo claim to serve." When darkness had fellen tho trav ellers wero attracted by numbers of bright lights over by tho Porta San Giovanni. These proved to announce "nil tho fun of a fair" there in Itnly. just as one finds them In this coun try nt a "county fair." Christmas Gifts. Ilnvo you tho ono glnd hopo Within your lienrt this morn? It Is u precious gift from Him Who on this day was born. Ilnvo you tho wondrous peace Which Jesus gives His own? O, priceless gift to know wo trust His finished work alone I Havo you n strong, deep lovo For lost sheep wondering wide? It Is tha tender shepherd gift Of Ulm who for them died. Havo you nccess by fnPh To nil tho gifts of grace? Your glory-glft will bo to 6eo Tho risen Saviour's face. L i Mrs. Merrill E-. Gates. i