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AMERICAN rCCO $!!!?
SAVES 1S.CG0 BABES
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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