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THK OA ZKTTK-T1 .M I S, IIKITXF.K. OREGON, TIU'TIDAY, SEPT. 1, 1021. rAfiK s::vr. AMERICAN rCCO $!!!? SAVES 1S.CG0 BABES ini Heroic Yankee Women Risk Lives to Rescue Children, in Service of Near bast Relief Constantinople. How the prompt action of Charles V. Vlckrey, (leneral Secretary of the Near East Itelicf. and Harold C. Jaqulth, representa tive of that American relief organi zation In Constantinople, saved the lives of 18,000 orphan children and even American relief workers In Alexandropol, Armenia, Is hat all the representatives of the Allied na lions in Constantinople are applaud ing today. For five years the Near East Relief organization bad built up a work of mercy throughout the former Turk ish Empire and Transcaucasia, to a point where 54,600 little children ware being housed, clothed, fed given medical attendance and taucht. and over 56,000 others beins sup plied with food. Then suddenly, on February 5, last, there came hurried cable reports of renewed fightin? in Armenia and Transcaucasia, where 76,818 of these little ones were loca ted under the protection of the Near HELP! yjnAf Nii s. j..., i ft A .....': 35 1 - v tKV"s:ufl to their posts. Tie last foud from Amenta hud come in tnx .November 6, l&Ju. It was not until four months later that the new government of the Transcaucasian states were estab lished on a solid basis. Hut famine threatened. An appeal was made to American philanthropy: ''Critical need for food products in Caucasus," the cable read. "No limit to need In Armenia. New government promises better facilities for relief activity than former government." A few days later, a further piteous plea fol lowed: "Total orphans In Alexandro pol 18,000. Supplies in Alexandro pol allow half-ralloiis, April 3rd to aOlh. After May 1st, nothing." But this splendid American relief organization had not waited. Food was already on the way. On April 22, Charles V. Vlckrey, general sec retary of the Near East Relief, cabled: "Expect ship first week In May: 1,000 tons rice; 1,000 tons wheat flour; 600 tons cornmeal, corn flour, hominy; SO tons sugar; 500 tons beans; 5,000 cases corn syrup, from New York and New Orleans direct to Batum. Additional 1,000 tons wheat flour from Pacific Coast June 1st." The seveil American relief workers in charge of the 18.000 little ones In Alexandropol cabled a last appeal: "No food at any price. Four days more and we are finished." Hut when the first relief ship "Que quen' entered the deserted harbor of Uatum on May 1, there were Just ten bag;- of Hour left. The food ship had come In time. America had saved the day and the 18,000 little or phan children, who had Buffered so mu.'ii and lost so much In their short, war-clouded lives, never knew that gaunt hunter In the robes of death bad knocked at the door of the or phanage m Alexandropol and that America had thrust the bony hand away. "It Is the great heart of America that made this work of salvation pos sible," Mr. 'Vickrey declared. "The ir.oney that Bends the bread to these children comes from ten million homes throughout the United States. It comes from the hearts of the most generous people in the world, who cannot bear to know that half a world away, little children are facing hunger and death, without helping them to life and happins." Mr. Vlckrey is making a notion wide nnne:il to the people of the United St;ite to keep this great work going. Contributions may be sent to Cleveland H Uodae, Treasurer, 1 Maclio'i " v"'v "e-k Citv. afiii.urit i.f .ff l.'iri'J in each M;if) La.'.d-owner inu-t plate tneir Ol-leis fiT tl.e luetic ari'i with tile Ort-KOn Ak ritultural ctilt-Ke. arroriliiiK to alvtes from Washington. When the nurttbe' ! of oniets e'lU Lii a carl;ad. tho Agri cultural collt-ce will forw.ird this order to the U. S. Department of Agriculture :int the explosive will be shipped to the j itate from 'lie nearest carti itlKloi- I plant, lmlivitlual orders !M be limlte-1 I to 1,0110 pound i, and the total Cost of j the explosive, inrlutliriK th-i cos', of car ! trlilfrlnK hamlliiiK. distributing and freight wilt be In the neighborhood of 13 cents per pound. "The State Chamber has been follow ing developments closely In regard to the distributing of pilrlc acid," said Mr. Hall. "We believe that the cheap ness and efficiency of this explosive will ! give a great Impetus to land-clearing I operations In Oregon. The total cost of picric acid to the consumer is much low er than commercial explosives at the present market price and a great de mand for the government explosive should come from some of our districts where the bulk of the undeveloped lands are logged-off and burned-oft." "T;ikf:i i't t-.lij'inrtion wl'h the Log-g.-.l-otr Land Hill wh!h ". hy the lat leirislaturo. T li'-l-'-ve that the l se of plt-iic acid will ni.-tri ni'i'-h to the development of the state ' pr:iits f f K,0 records Mill': labor coVs of Cost of Growing Wheat j Now Being' Determined ' USE OF 1,000 East Relief. Consular rcpreoenta tlves left the country. All foreigners piled onto skips and fled. War threatened to scatter the work and render vain the long, patient efforts of the Near East Relief to salvag' a whole nation's children. But the American men and womot who had cared for these little ones were undismayed. They refused tr leave under bombardment, with hostile armies sweeping through the streets where the Near -East U l'"f'r great orphanages had been e-U:li lished, with all supplies cut of a'"1 no communication with tho outsidt world, or with that far Aner'cn homeland whtise representative: these heroic men noJ ..j...-.-.i u.c I Portland, Ore., August IE (Special) A great Impetus will be given the clearing of logged-off and burned off lands of the state through the use of a large amount of picric acid which the government has made available for the , land-owner, according to a statement ( Issued by Charles Hall of Klamath ' Kalis, president of the Oregon State Chamber of Commerce, following the ! recent notification from Washington that Oregon has been allowed 192,000 pounds of this explosive. According to government bulletins, picric acid is of greater strength than dynamite and Is safer to handle. It Is an explosive which was used In the great war, and with a gteat surplus on hand at the conclusion of the war, the government docided to turn It over to the different states on a basis of the Use tyank Check Tlie plan is sufe because there is never a question as to when you made the transaction or the amount involved. Much check is a complete re cord, showing the date, the am ount, to whom paid. Futher inoro, the payee acknowledges receiving the amount from you, as each check must be endorsed on the back when presented here at tho bank. Your friends and neighbors use bank checks to make pur chases. The plan is practical for you. Fir& National Bank IIBPPNER, OREGON Klrat Yrar'a Work tm Thrre.Yrar Bar-, vrr of Prod urine Ceatllttona im Ore- i job Conpletrd j Orepon Agricultural College, Corval-j Us. Aup?. 29. To determine the actual cost of wheat production anl fundamen tal factors contributing to successful what growing, a party of federal and state agriculturalists has recently com pleted the first year's vork of a three year survey In Sherman county. In the party making the survey were R 8. Washburn, agriculturalist of the farm management department of the United States department of agriculture, . M. D. Scudder, chief In farm manage -; ment of the Oregon experiment station, ; R. V. Gunn, farm management demon j strator, experiment service, and assist- ants, thi crop. !: f.rfia of time and cost of, plowing with horss and with trnrtora i were obtained for comparing the two! mehods. The fact troui.-ht out by the survey, together with those from sim ilar surveys In the Palrnje district of Wahincton and Idaho, will be used by extension workers In farm demon strations of eurr-t.-sf'il practices. The records have been sent to Wash ington for analysis by rpeciailsts of the department of agriculture. As soon as the department has summarized the information contained In them they will be returned to the farm manage ment department of the Oregon Agri cultural college, and the extension ser vice for the Information of the farmers of Oregon. Sherman county was selected In which to make the survey because of the wide Interest taken by farmers of the county In keeping cost of wheat production records. Forty farmers have been keeping records for the last two years In a wheat cost project carried on by the local farm bureau. Milk Compounds Menace Public Health and endanger Dairy Industry Says Borden Company head, but states that Company will be forced to make the substitute article unless 'protected by law. ,.vfll w ARTHUR W MILBURN New York, N. Y Arthur W. Milburn, President of the Borden Company, announced that, unlrss the bill to prohibit the manufacture and sale of milk compounds is madr law, the Company will be forced, to meet competition and pro duce much against its will, nii'k substitutes. The hill, lntrod'nu! by Representative Voir!, of i--ronsin. as an amendment to the pure d art, is now in the hands of tt. :nmmitlee on Agriculture, which nas been takins testimony re fcardint; filled milks. These are condensed or evaporated products, consistinR of skimmed milk, to which foreign (ats and oil arc added to take the place of huttcrfut in whole milk. Coincident with Mr Milburn's announcement, the Horden Com pany filed a brief with the Commit tee 'on Agriculture, summing up the objections totr.i!k compounds, on the principal grounds thi't they con tlitute a menace public health, defraud the public and endanger the dairy industry of the country. Cit mv, sixty-four years' experience in the handling of milk, so that every pair-guard is 'brown around its pur ity, the Conil-Jiiy nits a &. 10114 plea for an additional protection namely, that no milk in which a for eign fat has been substituted for the buttcrfat be permitted manufac ture or sale. Kluid milk now enjoys this protection, and because con densed and evaporated milks are often used for the same purpose, particularly in the feeding of babies ;ind the young, the Company argues in its brief that a similar measure is required for them. "Unless the bill now before the Committee on Agriculture or a similar measure is passed, the com petition of the so-called cocoan it cow will prove too strong for us. and we will be forced into the manufacture of substitutes The case is of one of plain arithmetic (icmrinc evaporated milk takes 211) pounds of whole milk at l 10 a hundred pounds and therefore costs J4.41 A hundred pounds of filled milk is made from 215 pounds of skimmed milk at 25 cents a hun dred pounds and 7.8 pounds ol co coanut oil at 15 cents a pound bringing the total cost to $1.70 There is nothing to distinguish one product from the other except the presence of vitamines, hidden to everybody but the laboratory expert I he figures 1 'piote tell the whole story of the amazing gri .th ( production of milk compounds, and why the coccanut cow is going to supplant the real cow to the de triment of public health and the dairy industry of the country, unless wc pass this legislation. As we have explained in our brief, the necessary vitamines are not found in skimmed milk and cocoanut oil. Pellagra in the South and the stunted citizens if other nations which depend on a less perfect food than full milk, emphasize the importance of these vital elements. Unlcs we desire as a people to lower ourselves to such physical standards, it is time to get busy with additional safeguards for milk products and our dairy indus try. "The problem is no imaginary one. . With cocoanut, peanut and cotton seed oils competing with butterfat, there is bound to be a de rided slump in our dairy industry. The milk supply rises and fails with the prices obtained for the ar ticle. The butterfat replaced by foreign oils and fats creates a sur plii' 0 be used in oilier products sue. as full cream, butter and cheese, over-supplying the market and reacting is decreased produc tion Last year 7.000.000 pounds of cocoanut oil displaced a like amount of butterfat in evaporated milk and put 8,000,000 extra pounds of butter on the market, that competed and lowered the price of creamery but ter The public may see in this a benefit, but it is of a very tempo rary ehaiacter, since a lower price for milk products has always cur tailed production and induced the sale of cows for meat instead of re taining them for the milk supply C urtailed production means much higher prices, the public thus ftif lermg in the low run "1 do not think these tacts arc generally recognized by the public or by the press, which may have looked upon this agitation of the milk compound questioi. as me-ely a trade manufacturers' w ar W have another oleomargarine situa tion with the much more important angle that the welfare of babies and young children is especially in volved. Milk cannot be replaced as their food, and while this is an age of substitutes the milk supply should not be tampered with by tin subslitution of cheaper ingredients. Digest of Brief Filed With the Com mittee on Agriculture by ths Borden Company, August 12. 1921 Hesides the unfair compel-11, ,n offered by the manufacture and sa.e of milk compounds, composed of skimmed milk with vegetable fat or oil used in place of butterfat, 1,1c Horden Company describe in i's brief the menace to public hrV'li and the deception and fraud ; r; .. liced on the consumer who pur chases the substitutes. Hcetoforc. there have been two recognized standards fulfilled in good milk the percentage of butterfat and total solids, and the bacterial count. The company asks that a third and just as necessary standard, proposed in the bill, be added. This is that (lied milk, or the products manufactured from such fluid milk, contain the all important vitamines and that no for eign fat or oil shall be substituted for the wholesome butterfat given only by the cow. A thorough investigation in Chi ra?o. Pittsburgh. Kansas City and Omaha, has shown that the milk comnounds have supplanted, not s'ippleniented, the full-cream prod "ct to the extent of 20 per cmt, thus answering the argument that the substitutes created a Dew market Here's why CAMELS are the quality cigarette BECAUSE we put the utmost quality into this one brand. Camels are as good as it's pos sible for skill, money and lifelong knowledge of fine tobaccos to make a cigarette. Nothing is too good for Camels. And bear this in mind! Everything is done to make Camels the best cigarette it's possible to buy. Nothing is done simply for show. Take the Camel package for instance. It's the most perfect packing science can devise to pro tect cigarettes and keep them fresh. Heavy paper secure foil wrapping revenue stamp to seal the fold and make the package air-tight. But there's nothing flashy about it You'll find no extra wrappers. No frills or furbelows. Such things do not improve the smoke any mora than premiums or coupons. And remember you must pay their extra cost or get lowered quality. . If you want the smoothest, mellowest, mildest cigarette you can imagine and one entirely free from cigaretty aftertaste, It's Camels for you. TURKISH &-rx)M5nct HIT NJ n li (IflAKETTt S JVj 1 .aiiffl R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, Winiton-Snlem. N. C. The Morrow County Fair Heppner, Oregon September 15, 16, 17, 1921 -, f COME" ON, MA, i -Jxop; go look v"y q M ) AT THE HOGS! j If )m Morrow Comity Fair, Heppner, Ore., Sept. 15 to 17. OUR PRICES RIGHT OUR PRINTING THE BEST 0.-T. School Supplies THE opening of school is only 4 days away. Why wait until the last moment to purchase those text books and supplies? Waterman Pens $2.50 and up Eversharp Pencils 50c and up Loose Leaf Note Books, Paste, Tablets, Pencils, Rulers, Ink, Pen Holders, Pens. Humphreys Drug Company ONLY "QUALITY PRINTING" PRODUCED AT THE G.-T. STOP If you want GOOD repair work done on your car or on your truck or tractor at reasonable prices, see Jack Turner at Hardman Garage Hard matt, Oregon