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ALBANY DAILY DEMOCRAT. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 30. I9IS. PAGE THREE In pulling up a buildiiiK, the flrnt and most Important consideration li the foundation. If it i right tl e hi met uro will hold ha uliape, retain the architectural beauty and l. o pcrmnnent. The nample principle In involved in cornel. - A garment to look well mutt have even, smooth, well proportioned llnra. If comeia are properly constructed they will lmtire thene tinea, essential in pre arntlug a plearing appearance. ' Health in .-. big (actor in all of our line. Complexion, gracefulneaa and disposition will need very lit tle thought if good health la maintained. The human body in as strong as it a weakest part. Be aure that you have Real Corset Satisfaction A graduate Corxcterle will gladly explain the merila of the Kedfern end Warner's corset. A rpoclnl diiiplny in window number 5. ahow 6 of the newest Warner model. They represent the most careful and correct corset construction. A noticeable change i that they are nipped in at the waist. Other (enure prove their newness. Notice the model In the window, then viit the corset department where a fitting room is main tained. Redfern Distinctiveness That the Redfern Is a corset of unusual worth is proven by the fact that many noted act resses wear them. Ladies who necessarily must depend upon their appearance. This corset ' made in the newest and mos: authentic styles. Designed by artists, to please the most ex- acting people, they possess ev. cry desirable feature. The material and workman ship are positively first class They weser satisfactorily and keep the shape intended. A good assortment of model are ready. Each $3.50 to $8.50 Warner's Great Values See the special display of W.irner corsets in window number 5. The new styles are shown on models. You can easily see and appreciate the latest change. Warner's corset are exceptionally good value. They are mudr of Rood serviceable niateriulii, and will give cotrplete a.-uii.facilon. Priced (rom $1 to $3 Corset Department, Second Floor Remnant Are Half Price Wednesday! Watch fur Our Wednesday SpoclaU VALUES for CASH WORTH WHILE Deliveries Leave Store Morning 1st 8:30; 2nd 10:30; After noon 1st, 2; 2nd 4:30 i (asnanaTCM l'.;it at St. l;i.iiK'is llotrl tabic d'llntf New Years dinner. d.'K-.W Careful iiMriition given to all jew elry repairing at Kirmnur new siorc. o25f adv A $1.50 ticket for $1.25. Good for anything at New Elite. o25if adv Jewelry repairing of all kinds at K reamer's new store. o25t( adv ePAII OUR WANT MIS University of Oregon Glee Club at GLOBE THEATRE Saturday Night, Jan. 1 Prices 35c-50c Seats on sale at Voodworths Drug Store Thura. 1 0 a.m. CORVALLIS PAPER MAKES A STRIKING DISCOVERY Pays as Much Dray age for Half a Mile as the Railroad Charges for Eighty. Corvnllis Gnzetet-Timcs: We hear a good ileal about the grasping cor poration especially the railroads and express companies. But avc get a little freight from Portland every week. Frequently the freight amounts to as little as 25 cents. Then it costs another 25 cents to have the article brought from the depot to the print ing office. In other words, the ra.il ro.nl company charges us no more for hauling an article 100 miles than the local drayman does for hauling it half a mile. To put it another vayif the railroad company charged the same proportionate rate that the dray man charges, the freight that we now pay 25 cents for would cost $50.00. Marion Poultry Show The Marion county Poultry Asso ciation announces a big poultry show at Salem January 11 to 14, with a large list of prizes, including a num ber of specials. The single bird prizes will range from 25c to $2, with an entry fee of 35 cents for each single bird, exhibition pen $1 extra. Exhib itors will be allowed advertisements over their pens. Entries will close January 7. This is said to kc the only poultry show in the valley this win ter, and therefore will attract wider attention than usual. 14,000,000 ACRES FOR FARMS. Government U Giving Up Its Land for Agricultural Purposes Wherever Justified. U. S. Department of Forestry, Portland, Dec, 29. In his report for the last fiscal year, the secretary of agriculture make quite plain the de partment's policy in regard to agri cultural landB within the N';.lional Forests. The report states: "It is the department's policy to make .available for settlement nil lands which arc chiefly valuable for farming. In order to open such areas a careful classification) is being made. Large tracts found to be valuable for agriculture or mi suited for perma nent forest purposes arc eliminated. During the last five years about 14, 000,000 acres have been released. In addition, individual tracts arc classi fied and opened to entry upon appli cation of home seekers. Since the work was begun, more than 1,900,000 acres have been made available for the benefit of 18,000 settlers. "In short, lands within the Forests really adapted to agriculture arc be ing occupied as homesteads under favorable conditions. While the lauds suited to settlement arc classified and opened to entry, those which arc elite fly valuable for agriculture are retained in public ownership. The alienation of timberlands under con ditions that will lead not to settle ment but to speculation and to in creasing the holdings of private tim ber owners would defeat the very purpose for which the Forests were established. "In Oregon and Washington alone there are about 3,000,000 acres of log-gcd-off land, much of it agricultural in character, now lying idle. In this condition speculative holdings of the land for higher prices play a large part. Another cause is the lack of transportation facilities. A settler may clear land and raise crops upor it, but he is helpless if he cannot mar ket them. There are great acres of fertile land unused today on this ac count. In many sections near the National Forests pioneer conditions still exist. The populatioin is small and the task of road building is be yond the means of the residents. There is little or no demand for the limber and the receipts from the for ests which go to the community are small. The fact that the public prop erty is not subject to taxation makes such communities feel, and very just ly, that the forests arc not contribut ing enough to local development." In conclusion, the secretary repeats his recommendation of last year that "upon a showing of public necessity appropriations be made for specific roads and similar improvements, to be charged against the state's future share of receipts from the forests. Such action would promote the local development of agricultural and oth er resources." THEDA BARA IS GALLED THE MODERN MEDUSA Writing in the Chicago Herald Miss l.ouclla l'arsons the celebrated critic delves into an analysis of Theda lia ra, the wonderful French actress, who comes to the Rolfc theatre, on Friday and Saturday in the latest William Vox Photoplay Supreme, "Sin," which was written and produced by Herbert Brcnon. "Her hair is like the serpent locks of Medusa, her eyes have the cruel cunning of Lucrctia Borgia, till now held up as the world's wickedest wo man, her mouth is the mouth of the sinster, scheming DeMah, and her hands are those of the blood-bathing Elizabeth Bathory, who slaughtered young girls that she might bathe in their life blood and so retain her beauty. "Ctiii it he that fate has reincar nated in Theda Bara the souls of these monsters of medieval times? Scientists have questioned this most extraordinary of women to secure fresh evidence to support their half- proved laws of transmigration of souls; hut the result has only been to prove that, though Miss Bara is great est delineator of evil types on the stage or screen today, she is in real life a sweet wholesome woman who detests the abnormal." o . To Return to Dallas Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Thompson, who up to three and a half ycaers ago conducted, the Hotel Gail, at Dallas, have taken the lease of that hostelry off the hands of Henry Scrr and will resume operations again Saturday. Mr. Scrr is, n former travelling man and was popular with his patrons while in the business. The Gail has always had an enviable reputation among valley hotels, and the return of the Thompsons will Tc good news to scores of their former patrons. FORCE A CUT IN COTTON ACREAGE Bankers of South Planning to Curtail the Output MEANS DIVERSIFIED FARMING South May Now Become Qr.t Cattle and Grain Section Climatio Condi tion, Excellent For Production of Wheat and Corn Three Thousand Finenoiere Co-operate In Movement Atlnnta. Ou. Three thousand bank president, coimtltutlug a majority of all in the cotton region, have algned pledge "to extend financial aid to farm era who reduce tlielr cotton ucreage uiiv-hair In 1U15 and plant the remain ing land In food crops." Tlie.v uIho promise "to discourage In every proper way the planting of mo.'e than half of this year's acreage In cot ton next year and to urge the supply lucrcbunts of their reniiective comma Lltlcs tu adopt the wiine policy." It la believed that this assures a rt ductlun whhb will wle out the cotton surplus In one year and will open a new era of diversified farming In the Olltll. The nctlon is the result of a cam paign begun by the Atlanta chamber of commerce In September. Letters were sent to all bank presidents in the cotton stattfi explaining the plan and asking a pledge of co-operation on postal card. The replies received are prnctlcally unanimous. Three thousand and ten pledges with signatures of the bankers b&ve been received, mid cards are still coming in. Of these pledges 517 are from Georgia, 71K5 from Texas. 223 from Alabama, 289 from Arkansas. 114 from Louisiana, 177 from Mississippi. 1110 from North Carolina, 4-13 from Oklahoma. 108 from South Carolina, 113 from western Ten uessee und 0U scattering. This campaign is based on the fact (but 80 per cent of the cotton fanners are more or less dependent on banks or supply merchants for advances with which to make crop. Heretofore the uvemge farmer to obtain credit bad to iliow that he would plant enough cot ton to pay the debt Now the hankers and supply mer chants will Insist on a reduction of cot ton acreage by one-half as a condition or credit This Is u reversal of the credit system of the south. Mell It Wilkinson, president of the Atlanta chamber of commerce, made this statement: "Being actual or pros pective creditors of the south to a large extent, northern people wish to know whether it will meet Its obliga tions. This depends on its ability to 'nuke the cotton. Just now cotton is celling 30 per cent below the cost of production. "It has neither an ojn market nor a fair price, because o the surplus caused by the European rar stopping thousands of cotton mills. This work of the Admits chamber of commerce Is intended to accomplish two great oblects. One Is to wipe out the cotton surplus and to re-establish the market This answers the question of the north. I'ue other object Is tu replace the one crop system with diversified farming Thai Hieiius the south will become the Brent grain and cattle region of the continent No other section has pro duced us much corn per acre under good conditions Soil, seed and culture bring equal, a month more sunshine makes mere corn. "Ceorgia. the (.'nrollnas and Alabama Hit ve authentic records of more than 300 bushels per acre. Three thousand Georgia boys averaged nearly sixty bushels and seventy-six boys made more than 100 bushels per acre last rear. "Our returns show that the Tanners of the southeast made this year two thirds of a year's supply of corn and forage. We have marshaled the finan cial resources of the south behind the farmer In his snpreinc effort to emanci pate himself from the nil cotton sys tem." The letters show n spirit of grim d termination. bred by bankers, supply merchants and termers, to cut the next cotton crop by half.' These expressions coHie from every state from North Carolina t. Texas, and the keynote 1 struck by .1. W. Bolton, president of tb Rapides bank nt Alexandria. La., who says: "It would be folly for us to attempt to tnke care of this year's crop and allow customers to plnnt a full crop next year, when by so doing they would depreciate the value of the se curlty we have taken from tbem, whlCD Is their cotton." Special Library Lamp Sale $23.50 Library Lamp $15.70 $22.50 Library Lamp $15.00 $18.44 Library Lamp $12.00 15.50 Library Lamp . $10.34 $12.50 Library Lamp $ 8.34 $ 8.00 Library Lamp $ 5.33 $ 7.50 Library Lamp 1 $ 5.00 Ralston Electric Supply Co. 310 WEST SECOND STREET STATE TEACHERS' ASS'N. Adjourns, After Session at Medford. E. F. Carlton Was Elec ed President Medford, Ore. Dec. 29 After adopting resolutions commending ing Governor Withycombe for urging the establishment of normal schools in southern and eastern Oregon, rec ommending the continuance of state supervision of rural schools, the fif teenth annual session of the Oregon State Teachers' association came to a close tonight with the election oi these officers: President, E. F. Carl ton, assistant superintendent, Salem: vice-president, Geo. A. Brisco, Ash land; executive committee, .Miss V, Ortschild, Portland; O. M. Elliott, Salem; H. D. Sheldon, Eugene; J. Percy Wells, Jackson county; com mittee on credintials, chairman, E. D. Ressler. Coi-vallis; J. G. Rcmcl, As toria; F. B. Hamlin, Roscburg; C. P. Bonncy, The Dalles; Mrs. M. S. Suk erson, Salem; W. T. Foster, Portland; Miss Rca B. Parrott, Monmouth. Eat your New Year! dinner at the St. Francis. d28-30 LOST Pair of glasses, gold frame, one glass out, East of Lyon St. Re turn to Democrat Office. D27-30 HONORED BY SENATE. Oemoorata Present a Qold Watch Assistant Doorkeeper and Whip. Washington. The Democratic sena. tors have presented n handsome goM watch to Tlmnins W Keller In reeoir nltlon of his thirty five years of faith ful and efficient service to, the pnrtj In the upper house Though Mr. Keller's official designs Hon Is assistant doorkeeper of the sen ate. his (lutlps are more nearly thost of a parliamentary clerk or whip fo the Democrats. He Is responsible foi Hie pah's of all DemoiTiitle senator! and by arranging transfer sees to I that every xisslhle Democrat get I vote. MAZDA True Lighting Economy Demands Good Electric Lamps Electric lighting bills are always higher in the Fall anil Winter than during the Spring and Summer months. Everyone knows why they realize that the hours of darkness increase greatly as winter approaches under stand how the short, cloudy days make a great deal of artificial lighting necessary in home, store and factory. The greatest help toward keening Hunting hills where they ought to be consists of using Mazda tamps. Most people interested in getting the best illumination at smallest expense already use Mazda lamps. Get them'at your electrical dealer. Oregon Power Co. "Reliable Service" Telephones 15 306 West Second St. QUALITY PRICE SERVICE This shall be our motto for 1916. The best drugs that money can buy sold at the lowest prices with quick and courteous service. We guarantee everything we sell. Burkhart & Lee, Druggists Bicycles at Special Prices $22.50 to $60 Until Jan. 1, 1916 we will give off 10 per cent, on Bicycles, and 15 per cent, on Bicycle Tires. Why not a Bicycle or pair of Tires for Christmas? BALTIMORE GUN & BICYCLE WORKS To Our Friends and Customers: With our best wishes for your prosperity and success for the coming year, we extend to you the GRCCTltGS OF THE SEvlSOrt 1 ST NATIONAL BANK I SAVINGS BANK