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The t'nited States said imperi
alism in Germany had to go It
has sone William Hohenzollern.
former kaiser, iias been pictured
in all phases of his return to the
life of just plain Bill. N'ow. here
his heir, the loriuer crow
Prince of Germany, Fredrich Wil
lie Hohenzollern. in his demotion
to private life
First, we see him in his head
hunting" uniform as he launched
hie rtfFunciiru at lha Jir-iincl
t.iic t inn Italia ladi jui', ntrat. wo
see liim un exile, on a tug at Enk-
huizen. bound tor his St. Hele
na.'' lie island of Weiringen. in
the . .-therlands. And last, re
duced to the sordid dress of his
peasant neighbors, stooping about
in the mud on his little tslxnd.
FARMERS LOSE
HUNDRED MILUONS
(By Snell Smith.)
Charging the Department of Agri
culture under the Democratic Ad
ministration with Inefficiency and un
fairness in the grading of the wheat
and potatoes of the farmers, Con
gressman Halvor Steenerson, of
Minnesota, has voiced what he de
clares to be a "universal complaint."
Asked at a meeting of the editors of
farm journals with the Chief of the
Bureau of Markets to state his views
frankly in criticism, he did so with
facts and figures that are somewhat
startling.
The substance of the charge of the
tall legislator from Minnesota, who
Is himself a farmer and will be chair
man of the Postoffices and Post
Roads Committee in the next House,
Is somewhat technical, but It reveals
a loss to the wheat producers of the
country of more than $100,000,000
every year. This Is due to a change
in the grading of the staple from the
older and simpler state methods
practiced at Minneapolis and other
central points up to a year ago to the
more complex system adopted by the
Department. In Minnesota, for In
stance, there had been five grades for
designating wheat. Numerous in
spectors carried out the details. The
method pursued was a perfection of
twenty-five years of experience dur
ing which time there had been de
veloped experimental laboratories,
bakeries and mills. As the result of
this; when the farmer sold his wheat
as No. 2 grade and it was found un
der inspection at the mill to be No. '
1, he was given the benefit and was
paid the larger return. !
But under the new method devised
by the Bureau of Markets ninety-six
varieties were established and under
the food administration act the In
spectors of Minnesota were taken
over by the federal administration.
There had been an appeal board un
der the state, but now there was also
a federal appeal board. Under the
new grading, penalties were imposed!
against the farmers for a slight
amount of moisture, for damaged
kernals and for mixing. Hence the
buyer of the wheat from the local
farmer became afraid to take any
risk, lest he lose in the transaction,
and gave the grower the lowest grad
ing possible in order to make sure.
Having but a faw bins to differentiate
the grades, there was no local means
of determining whether a mistake
had been made.
Ridiculous And Unfair Rules.
Steenerson charges, and he is back
ed up by experts in and out of the
Department of Agriculture, that
when this wheat, in which the farm
er has been deprived of an average
profit of about ten cents per bushel,
gets to the miller it is there properly
graded, with the certain net result
that the miller gets the advantage
which the farmer has lost. The farm
er gets less and the consumer pays
the same for flour and brand. The De
partment oi Agriculture, then, just as
it worked against the wheat farm
er and in favor of the cotton planter
during the war. has worked against
the farmer in grading his wheat and
in favor of the miller. Recently a
representative of the Department
said: "Complaints come from all
parts of the United States regarding
all claases of wheat. The least com-
Uncle Sam Says
Corporations Must Get Their Busi
ness on a Cash Basis
WE WISH TO EXTEND OUR
THANKS TO OUR MANY PA
TRONS FOR THE PAST YEAR.
We hope to be able to serve you in a more
efficient manner in the future.
Owing to the demand of the Government
for ready cash, we are forced to handle oor
business to comply with their orders.
Hereafter all accounts become due the
first of each month.
Fuel C. O. D. The Yard
Health and Prosperity to All. Yours
to serve
Turn-A Lum Lumber Co.
LEXINGTON AND IONE
laint was in the Pacific Northwest,
ut complaints have come from all
ue territory east of the Rocky
lountains, and they come principally
rom country grain dealers and pro
lucers. We formulated the grades
vhlch are now in effect, and when
xed prices and other measures came
a we received eomplalnts from
ver,ybody except the millers."
It is the expectation of the Minne
sota man that when he and his Re
publican colleagues come into power
it the next session of Congress they
vlll find remedy for this and other
injustlres now done the farmers by
he Department through arbitrary
rulings. He believes there will also
je a stop to the practice of grading
potatoes by screening them to such
a fine point that the farmer is unable
to harvest the smaller ones before
:he frost comes. He has presented
evidence to show that in one county
in Minnesota the growers lost $180,
000 by arbitrary and exacting rulings
of the Department, and declares that
the loss throughout the entire
country from this source has been
mormous. He reports that in
several states the agents of the
government actually ordered cars un
loaded and stopped the loading of
others because of the failure to
comply with rules of the Bureau of
Markets which have come to be re
garded as unfair if not ridiculous.
!t is likely that as soon as the new
Congress convenes the Republicans
will make, through the Committees
in Agriculture, a thorough Investi
gation of the methods of the Depart
ment in officiously retarding the
efforts of the farmers in marketing
.heir crops to their just advantage.
Y. W. G, A, WORKER
IS BIG SISTER
Industrial Woman's Service Club
Brings Home to Girls in New
Factory Community.
BLUE TRIANGLE MEANS CHEER
Club Stands for Hot Lunches, Clean
Towels. Comfortable Cots, Parties,
Games and Recreation to
Girl Workers.
Katherine Holland Brown.
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The privilege of continuing your
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stantially the same low rate. The
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The United States Government
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HOLD ON TO UNCLE SAM'S IN
SURANCE.
W. C. McADOO, Secretary.
W. B. Ewing, who for thirty-six
years lived on and developed one of
the very best alfaira ranches on
Lower Willow creek in this county,
writes us an interesting letter from
his home at Oakland, Oregon. He
states that Douglas county, where he
now resides, has a mild and most
congenial climate. There Is an
abundance of rain In the winter and
In the summer it does not rain any
more than In Eastern Oregon. The
entire county is hills and narrow
valleys, every ranch has pure spring
water and good timber, and deer and
game birds are plentiful. The
principal Industries are the raining
of shoep, goats, turkeys and fruit,
and farming is only to meet the
demand for feed. Sheep, goats and
turkeys run at large, there being no
varmints to molest them. In early
days the county was Infested with
coyotes and bear, but most every
farmer is a hunter and keepB hound
dogs and the varmints cannot exist
there. Mr. Ewlng further states that
the taxes are very low in Douglas
county, because of its large area and
thick population. They have good
roads also and Mr. Ewlng Is quite
woll pleased with his surroundings
In Southern Oregon,
County court should have met in
adjourned term on .Monday last, but
owing to the fact that Commissioner
Padberg is under quarantine and the
storm made it impossible for Com-1
mlasioner Bleakman to get to town I
from Hardman, the meeting was1
passed up until a later date. '
UTV f V name is -May Isabel Carnu
IVI him. I mn eighteen years
old, and I work in a hlg fac
tory in Michigan. More than four
hundred other girls work Ihere too.
I don't iilm to tell you about our Jobs.
You can read about our work in the
labor department reports. Hut I do
aim to tell you nhout our Big Sister
mid of the things she has done for us
"To begin with, our factory town
isn't n town ut nil. It's n huge burn
of buildings stuck down In the country
nineteen miles from nowhere. There
is a railroad siding, a stnlion the siye
of a dry goods box, seven farmhouses
and one general store and pnstofllce
combined It's pretty near ns hlg ns a
hot tuniiile stand. And that's nil. No
Main street, no hanks nor stores, n
lee-cream parlors, not one solitary
movie show, In nil those nineteen
miles. Lonesome? It's the rugged
edge of desolation, that's what It Is.
"I was one of the first carload of
forty girls that wns shipped up from
Chicago. The factory was swarming
with workmen putting in the machin
ery, and we girls couldn't begin work
for a day or so, so we began hunting
places to eat and sleep. That was a
trifle that the employment folks hadn't
thought of. The workmen were sleep
ing and eating In the cars that had
brought them there, backed on the
siding. Our only chance for beds and
food was with those seven farmhouses,
so we marched straight to the farmers'
wives and asked for board and room.
Farmers' Wives HotplUble.
"I will say that thosewonien were kind
and hospitable. They fixed It up be
tween them to feed us forty girls, and
they gave us good food too. But for
rooms, that was the question. They
could each spare one room. That
meant sleep five or six In a room. But
right then along came the boss of the
factory and told us the machinery was
ready and he'd expect us girls to work
double shifts, night and day.
"He wanted to make use of every
minute, you see. But that gave us our
chuuee ns to sleeping. We fixed It up
with the farm folks that we'd work
double shifts and sleep double shifts
too.
"So we planned It. Three gTrls
would use a room from eight at night
till six the next morning. Tlivn they'd
hustle over to the factory, and the
Hi ree girls who'd beer working all
night would take the room and sleep
till afternoon. It wasn't any luxuri
ous slumber, believe me. The farm
women had so few sheets and pillow
cases thnt most of us went without.
And towels were scarce as diamonds
on blnckherry bushes. As to soap
well, the general store kept yellow bar
soap, that kind that Is so full of rosin
you could use It to calk a ship. But
we made out till the next three car
loads of girls came rolling In. Then
we went 'most detracted. ThoKe poor
girls had to sleep in tents and In the
cars that the workmen had abandoned
by this time, and they were lucky If
they got a straw tlrt? and a blanket.
By this time It had turned raw cold,
and maybe you know what late au
tumn nights In Michigan feel like. To
cap the climax the farm folks cut
down on food, and for a week It was
potatoes and beans and mighty few
beans at that.
Along Came a Miracle.
"But, right when we were about
ready to quit our Jobs and beat It for
home, along came a miracle. Two
quiet, businesslike women climbed
down from the eastbound train one
morning. With them came eight work
men, a carload of scantling and tar
paper, another carload of cots and
blankets and pillows and sheets and
towels brand new blankets and beds
think of the glory of that! and
bushels of dishes and rolls of oilcloth
and enough burlap to carpet the coun
try. You won't believe me when I tell
you that In ten days their workmen
had a scantllng-and-tar-piiper shack
put up and burlap lacked over the
walls, add the Y. W. C. A. secretary
and her helper had set up board tables
and coffee kettles and were serving us
the grandest hot lunches every day.
And back behind the burlnp screens
were set those rows of clean cots, with
enough cover to keep you warm the
coldest night that ever blew, and a
towel apiece for every single girl. Do
you wonder that we nil felt, ns one
girl put It, 'I'll wager the Fritz-Carle-ton
lias nothing on this !'
"Who were those women? Why,
Y. W. C. A. secretaries, of course. I'd
think you'd know flint without being
told. All over the country wherever
we girls have pitched In to make aero
plane cloth or overalls or munitions or
canned goods you'll find a Y. W. C. A.
secretary working harder than any
body else to make the girls comfort
able and to keep them happy and well.
Sometimes they haven't money enough
to get nil that we really need. But al
ways they stretch every cent to make
it do Its level best for us. Do you won
der that we girl workers have learned
to call the Y. W. C. A. otir Big Sister
the very best Big Slater of all? '
MARIE LEBAUDY MAY
NEVER FACE TRIAL
Madame nane Lehaudv may
ne.er face trial for killing her richi
eccentric husband. Jacques Le
baudy. at her Long Island home
District Attorney Weeks in his
first investigation after the shoot
ing of the self-stvled "Emperor of
the Sahara" found that for fif
teen years the beautiful Madime
Lebaudy had livpd In terror of her
life and twice within the last
three weeks before the fatal af
fair had suffered mistreatment
which threatened her life Al
though a jury may he mployed
there are few legal minds who
think a conviction will he made,
and that 13-vear Jarquen ia
fcaudy witl be left luotlierle.. (
Insurance and Influenza.
Partial reports from the life In.
sura nee companies of the United
States, printed in the Joum.i
Commerce, show the deaths fmm ii,
Influenza epidemic of the October-to-
uecemDer period in 1918 0f more
than 120.000
deaths caused claims against the
companies for more than $5?,!0ii,.
000. It Is exnecteri h t t.A
8how. a 1088 at !st ot
-v,v,u ve8 ana or sioo,000,0(0
in claims.
These
- reduc
tion to Dlain flcilroc f o
. ...... vt euiiio puruon
of a national calamity to which we
are accustnmoH t ,
human sorrow and bereavement. Such
"""",-B a piague are unusunl.
quoted here they are amazing,
lo guide us In an estimate of the
proportion of the loss in insured lives
t the total number of deaths from
the epidemic we may know that
something more than 11,600.000
policies were in force In the United
States In 1917, or a little better than
"uc every ten or population.
To pollcv-h
to- business Interests in any way re
lated to Insurance concerns, the word
"... uC reassuring that in a broad
way the companies are meeting the
liabilities stronelv. Tho. on
. - vn upon
their resources was unexpected but
ouiggeriiig.
Agreeing with ttm ni... i- .
. vauuil Ol
health authorities and others who
watched the progress of the In
fluenza, the insurance men report
that an unusual mrnant
died in years from thirty to forty-
covering mus au age period
ordinary robust. Thu i-..
calls on many policies on which but
few premiums had been paid. Be
yond the Insurance consideration, it
u. ..mucr oi considerable patho
logic concern. The insurance data
In full may brovo nf nDi i...
- r f,.o. miuu m
the post-facto medical study "qf the
epidemic New York World.
I WANT YOUR IOULTHV.
Am In the market for all kinds of
poultry, alive or tressed; also veal
and pork. Pay highest cash market
price and take all you have at any
time. HENRY SCHWARZ, Heppner.
Oregon. Phone 636.
IX)8T A sorrel mare colt, coming
year old; long, white stripe In face,
branded JB connected with bar under
it on lert shoulder. Notify
BERGSTROM, lone, Oregon.
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HINES QUALIFIED TO
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so say friends of Walker D. Hlnes,
new director general of railroads
to till the place vacated by Secre
tary McAdoo through resignation.
Hlnes Is both railroader and law
yer. He was formerly chairman
of the Santa Fe before taking the
place as assistant to McAdoo dur
ing the war.