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THE WILL ORGANIZE NATION BY UNITS TO AID IN WAR Prominent Men and Women Start Movement Whereby Every one May Help. TO EXTEND COMMUNITY IDEA Works Out With Great Success In New York—Plana to Co-ordinate and Direct on Nonmilitary Side Patriotic Efforts of All Citizens. By DAYTON STODDART. New York.—Prominent men and women here have started a movement whereby every man, woman and child in the United States may aid their gov ernment to win the world war. It has been under way but a short time, yet assistance of great value was given to both the Liberty loan and Red Cross campaigns ; the next goal set is such co-operutlon with “Hoover of Belgium” as to make waste in the kitchen and on the table a problem of the past. The new organization is called the Patriotic Service league. It was con ceived by Prof. Ellery C. Stowell, ex pert on international affairs and mem ber of the Columbia university faculty. The league's purpose Is to weld the nation together, with the community idea extended to include the whole people. “Impossible,” you may remark. “It can’t be done. Community spirit is very fine for a small place or for a section where folks of similar inter ests and tastes live. But it wouldn’t work out In a big place. Not a bit.” “Works” in New York. But It has worked out In New York and that In a section where live both reformers of the purely theoretical type and insurgent workingmen in a board strip running across New York city, the political designation of which is the Nineteenth congressional district. It includes the homes of some of the richest and the poorest families of the metropolis. In New York, of all places, the com munity Idea of nationalism has worked out, and very successfully, too. As the terms “community spirit” may seem rather indefinite to some, the ex act significance of what Mr. Stowell means when he uses the term may best be set forth by himself. Several months ago, when the ne cessity of rousing the country to the fact that every resource of the United States should be available for war, Mr. Stowell thought of the old town meetings in New England. “If,” he asked himself, “this plan worked to weld together a town or village, why could not the same prin ciple be applied to the entire nation?" Intensive thought on the question confirmed his idea that It could. He selected the congressional district as the best geographical division for a unit of the league. He chose the Nineteenth congression al district to try out his plans. He bad as coworkers other members of the Columbia university faculty and women who volunteered their serv ices. Canvas House to House. Friends of those working directly with Mr. Stowell were obtained and a committee was made up with at least one representative from each election district. These, in turn, canvassed apartment houses and dwellings in every one of the 115 districts. The surprising part about the be- movement was that the pioneers found no hostility, only wel come, In the houses they visited. This in spite of the fact that although they may have lived for years adja cent to a family, neither had spoken. It was a means never before offered for everybody in the district getting to know almost everybody else. When the district hac been can vassed, a meeting was called. Tem porary officers of the small unit of the league were chosen. All it was neces sary to do to become a member of the league was to pay 50 cents initia tion fee. This is the only contribution paid to the league pr.per; other con tributions depend solely on the ex penses and aims of the organization in each congressional district or in each election district. Suppose that your own meeting, aft er it had been organized, decided that it would be a mighty good plan to adopt one or more orphans across the sea. Such a plan was actually put in operation In one of the precincts of the Nineteenth congressional district. Two French orphans were adopted, a little boy and a little girl, and the monthly cost of $7 Is being raised by leaving a tin box out at every meet ing in which contributions may be dropped. In the Nineteenth district, one of the first steps taken was the enrollment of every woman by woman workers. Every woman was asked what line of work she was best fitted for and the list was made up. election district by election district, so that Mr. Stow ell, as chairman of the entire Nine teenth district, knew exactly how many stenographers, cooks, clerical workers, members of any calling, were In his territory. The actual good this does Is that It allows every chairman to know the “home strength” of his district. He can tell you. after consulting his lists, just how many cooks, nurses and other workers are in his district. That, however, is not the object so much as the power of being in personal touch with people. Mr. Stowell emphasized this when he received a call for cooks to go with the Red Cross. He sent out the notice to leaders In the election districts and shortly afterward they had obtained a score or more of the men desired. One district leader himself persuaded two men to enlist. It is this “neighbor hood" touch, this knowing everybody in the apartment house or city block or county township where you live, that makes the possibilities of the plan so great, according to Mr. Stow ell. Purposes of the League. "We are .organizing that we may serve the government of the United States,” said Mr. Stowell, “and assist to the full In this great fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts—for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and lib erties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. “The Patriotic Service league alms to form In every congressional dis trict an organization to arouse, co ordinate and direct on the non-mili- tary side the patriotic efforts of all citizens of both sexes and of every age, so that an early and successful termination of the war may result. “There are other war organizations in existence, but not on local geo graphic lines. For an organization such as the Patriotic Service league, which is formed upon geographic lines, there is real need. These societies with their particular objects will find contact through this local unit of neighbors with the individual men and women In every household by whose loyal service the nation's task will be accomplished. We are not competing, we desire to co-operate. “It Is at this time obviously im possible to name all of the activities in which the organization may be come engaged. But it Is wise to state some present specific duties. Help Get Recruits. “The government has called for volunteers to fill the ranks of our ex isting military forces. We should see that those recruits are obtained, due attention being paid to exemptions. “Cases of need In the families of soldiers will occur. We should find them and co-operate with the Red Cross in aid. “We must have a bureau of employ ment for those who have lost their SHE RUNS AN ELEVATOR HERMISTON HERALD, jobs and for those who must now seek employment—wives and sisters. “Preparing surgical dressings and all the other activities of the military end of the Red Cross will demand time and effort. Let us all see we do our share. “We must make sure we do not have such juvenile delinquency as has oc- curved in England and in Germany. The Boy Scouts, the Junior Navy league and the Junior Police must use part of the boy power of the commun ity. The farmers of the state need 22,000 laborers. “Food will be scarce. We must find how to use it to the full. And we must make known to all the methods of this conservation. Only by intelli gent efforts for ourselves shall we be able effectively to stand back of those younger than we who fight. “Finally, the Patriot Service league, realizing It is more difficult in a de mocracy than in an autocracy for the government to initiate and to get things done will bring home to every citizen through speakers and litera ture the necessity and the opportunity for universal service In this fight for. democracy.” Prominent Men Enlist. George W. Wickersham, former at torney general ; Alton B. Parker, once Democratic candidate for the presi dency ; Oscar S. Straus, former am bassador to Turkey—these are but a few of the men who are working to extend the Patriotic Service league. The league has now been organized in the Seventeenth congressional dis trict, adjoining the Nineteenth, here, and has been successfully inaugurated In Boston. “The plans for extension through out the country have been formulated," said Mr. Stowell, “so that it may be possible to marshal the combined force of all loyal citizens behind the presi dent. The spread'of the league will save an immense amount of duplica tion. In each community the loyal of ficers will know their own people. They will, for example, easily secure cooks and attendants for departing hospital units. They will find needed mechanics. They will direct their ap peals for funds to all those who are willing to contribute. The Patriotic Service league furnishes the machinery by which the wisdom of Hoover can be brought with emphasis to every kitchen in the land. The clt'zen leaguers constitute the ‘third Une of defense.’ ” Mr. Stowell said that the term “citi zens” was used In Its new accepted meaning to include women in the full est sense. He pointed out that the success of the project in the Nine teenth district was due, in great ex tent, to the energy of women, prom inent among whom was Mrs. Nicholas Murray Butler, wife of the president of Columbia university. Another of the women was Mrs. James N. Taylor, who is devoting most of her spare time to the league. the Bronx zoo, asked the board of es timate for $1,400 with which to build an adjoining cage, so that while the keepers clean one cell the elephant can be shunted into another. HERMISTON, OREGON. t t’t FIRE ESCAPE IS HOME 2000000000900090999 I STATE NEWS ; Robin Selects Spokane Chamber of : %occccccccccccc0000000000% IN BRIEF. t Commerce Building as Modern Domicile to Rear Brood. Spokane, Wash.—Emily is a house wife who believes in safety first. Emily is a modern home builder who selected the fire escape of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce building as a most desirable site for a family domi cile. Probably it was the solidity of the iron platform which appealed to her, or perhaps she felt safer in the city than elsewhere. Anyhow, the fact that below her roars the traffic of a busy street and three feet away a noisy office force hammers typewriters and slams desks and chairs around makes no difference. Emily is thrifty. She believes in conservation of material. Pieces of an old rope twisted around the fire es cape and a few strips of bunting ap pealed to her as valuable. So she worked them into the foundation, weaving the loose ends of the rope through the bottom of her summer home and using the bunting in the side walls. Paying no attention to the interested audience nearby, Emily collected rub bish and completed her nest. Then she settled down to housekeeping and motherhood. Three beautiful blue eggs soon appeared and three weeks later Emily had a family consisting mostly of yawning mouths. The youngsters are now about ready to fly. The nest is located just outside a window of the Spokane Interstate Fair offices. President Thomas S. Griffith, of the Fair association, sees in the visit of the bird a good omen for the annual show to be held September 3-8. “We have had mascots before,” says Mr. Griffith, “but this is the first time any mother became so interested in our work that she made her home where she could watch all of our preparations.*’ CROP OUTLOOK VERY BRIGHT Northwest Counties of State of Wash ington in Excellent Shape. Olympia — Some cheering news in regard to the food situation and forest fires came to Olympia this week. M. L. Dean of the agricutlural depart ment reports that the northwest coun ties were never in better shape. The condition and some of them will har vest as high as 150 bushels of oats to the acre. The Whatcom and Skagit county farmers are all doing a big business, and putting up more vegetables and fruit than ever before, in some in stances doubling the pack of last year. Fire Warden Papex received word that the Skykomish, the forest fire re ported in green timber, was under con trol as the result of a heavy rain. The fires in Pierce county that threatened the town of McKenna were brought under control by back firing, and all danger is past. The most serious loss was that in Skamania county, where the Wind River company lost $50,000 worth of logs, machinery and equip ment, including five donkey engines. IS LOCKED IN REFRIGERATOR Urges More Food Conservation. Spokane — Care in investigation of Facing Death In a Sound-Proof Box la Thrilling Experience of Kansas facts before interference with normal Butcher. channels of distribution, lest sudden readjustment might force prices even Goodland, Kan.—E. W. Sullivan, the higher, was urged by Carl Vrooman, butcher, has just had an experience assistant secretary of the department that gave him some idea of what it of Agriculture, in addresses here Wed means to be entombed with little or nesday. Mr. Vrooman also urged con no prospect of being rescued. servation of the food supply. The U- He entered his shop, locking the boat has been defeated, he declared, door after him, and then entered the basing his assertion upon the fact that big refrigerator. The door closed and food is being transported in quantity the snap lock shut him up in a tem and with regularity. The fuel prob perature of about 32 degrees. The big lem of Italy is also being met, he said. ice box is straight and sound-proof, so that it was impossible to make enough noise to attract persons passing on the street. A large hook was used to make a hole in the door, but without success, Portland—Wheat—Bluestem, $2:16 and it was only when Sullivan dis covered a cleaver in one corner of the per bushel; fortyfold, $2.12; club, refrigerator that hope was renewed. A $2.12; red Russian, $2.12. Millfeed—Spot prices: Bran, $33.00 hole was cut in the door near the lock and the butcher secured release after per ton; shorts, $36.00; middlings, $43.00; rolled barley, $49.00; rolled an hour’s work. oats, $52. Hay—Producers’ prices: Timothy, FINDS CURE FOR GANGRENE Eastern Oregon, $26.00 per ton; alfal fa, $18.00; valley grain hay, $15.00. New York Doctor Announces Discov Vegetables — Artichokes, 80c per ery That Will Probably Save Lives dozen; tomatoes, $1.50 @1.75 per of Many Soldiers. crate; cabbage, 1@2c per pound; New York.—Dr. Carroll G. Bull of | lettuce, 35c per dozen; cucumbers, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical 40@85c per dozen; peppers, 30@40c Research has announced a discovery per pound; peas, 5c; spinach, 6)c; which will probably save the lives of beans, 7@8c. thousands of soldiers during the war. | Green Fruits—Cherries, 7@9c per It is a discovery of an antitoxin that pound; apricots, $1.25@1.60 per crate; neutralizes the work of germs In cantaloupes, $1.2503.50; peaches, 90c wounds where gangrene usually devel @$1.15 per box; watermelons, 22c per pound; apples, $202.75; plums, ops. Doctor Bull has tried the experiment $1.502; currants, $1.2501.50; rasp out on guinea pigs with splendid re berries, $1.9002. Butter — Cubes, extras, 40c per sults. He Is the first American doctor pound; prime firsts, 39c. Jobbing to make such a discovery. prices: Prints, extras, 42c. Eggs—Ranch, current receipts, 35c per dozen ; ranch, candled, 38c. Poultry—Hens, 16@17c per pound; J GIRLS FORM CLUB TO 2 broilers, 19@21c; turkeys, 20c; ducks, : CHEER SOLDIER BOYS : old, 15c; young, 18@20c; geese, 10@ 12c. • Cleveland. O. — The Young • | —Fancy, 150152c per pound. * Women’s Liberty club has been • I Veal Pork—Fancy, 191020c per pound. • organized here. Its object is to 2 Cattle—Steers, prime, $8.0009.00; * cheer lonesome soldiers In camp « good, $7.5008.00; medium, $6.750 • or at the front. Each member • | 7.2 5; cows, choice, $6.2506.50; me • writes to some soldier boy who • 1 dium to good, $5.5006.00; ordinary to • hasn't any relatives or sweet- • fair, $4.5005.50; heifers, $4.006.75; • hearts. The membership Is • | bulls, $5.0007.00. • growing rapidly. 8 | Hogs — Light and heavy packing, $15.40015.60; pigs and skips, $12.50 @13.50; stock hogs, $12.00013.00; There is a reaction tn Norway rough heavies, $14.00014.50. Sheep—Lambs, $6.00011.50; year against encouraging the Investment of lings, $6.5009.00; wethers, $7.00@ foreign capital in that country. 8.00; t wee, $3.0007.50. NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT c HARRIS & Ewing Washington.—This city with consid erable timidity has licensed its first woman elevator operator. She con ducts an old-fashioned outfit worked by a rope and located In the building occupied by the Y. W. C. A. She is a buxom Irish lass, well able to take care of any persiflage from male pas sengers. Her name is Margaret E. Thompson. CARTOON CAUSE OF TROUBLE Nothing Funny About Charges Against Scion of Celebrated Elephas Family. New York.—Formal charges against a scion of the celebrated Elephas fam ily of Africa have been preferred by Dr. William T. Hornaday. The defend ant wasn't In court when the charge was brought, being detained in the Bronx. The defendant's name was Cartoon, but the complaints against him were anything but funny. He was charged with being nasty and not letting bls keepers enter his cage and acting In a perfectly ungentlemanly fashion. Con- sequently Doctor Hornaday, boot at %..... *...................... % !••••••••••••••••••••••••{ State Fair Rules Out. Salem—Secretary Lea, of the State Fair board, has announced rules which will govern the entries of all exhibits for premiums at the fair and declared that these rules, which are as follows, shall be rigidly enforced: “The fairgrounds will be open for the reception of all articles six days before the commencement of the fair, and all entries for premiums must be made in person or by letter with the secretary, as follows: “In the horse, cattle, sheep and swine departments on or before Sep tember 15; in the poultry and indus trial department, on or before Septem ber 20, and in all other department be fore 6 o’clock in the afternoon of Sep tember 23. The board reserves the right to accept entries in the livestock department after the expiration of September 15, but if this is done a penalty of 25 per cent of the premiums earned by the entry will be exacted. “All goods, articles and animals must be in place on exhibition by 10 o’clock on the forenoon of the opening day of the fair, and all horses entered for speed contests must be in stalls and entered in accordance with the rules governing the racing program.” Fifteen hundred pounds of cherries from one Bing tree on the L. B. Hab- erly place, northeast of Salem, with a value of $90 for the product from the one tree, is a record just reported. The cherries sold for 6 cents a pound. Eighteen were injured when the O.- W. R. & N. crack Overland Limited passenger and mail train No. 17 crashed head-on into a 2200-ton freight at Hindman, 16 miles east of Baker at 6:20 o’clock Monday morning. One man may die from the effects of his injuries. Fridays will be meatless days at the Arlington Club, Portland, in future in order to help along the cause of food conservation. Members of the club unanimously approved the plan by bal lot. Judge C. H. Carey, president of the club, suggested the idea as a patri otic step. Logging operations on the California Barrel company’s tract of timber in the Klatskanie river district are to be commenced in the immediate future. Carl L. Koster, president of the Hum boldt Cooperage company, will be in Astoria in about a month to establish the camps. All three of the girls who escaped from the State Industrial school for girls Sunday night, and who were chased through the brush and woods near the school by bloodhounds at the orders of Mrs. Minnie Darst, superin tendent of the school, were back at the institution Wednesday. In the Two-Mile school district, in Coos county, where two buildings have burned down within the past year, the directors, at a recent meeting called an election for the purpose of voting on the construction of another building to replace the new one which was de stroyed three weeks ago. De Witt Van Ostrand, owner of extensive timber interests in Douglas county, arrived in Roseburg recently from Grants Pass, where he is devel oping the Waldo copper mine. Mr. Van Ostrand says he has enlarged the stamp mill at the mine and its capac ity is now six times greater than the original plant. Grant county is again threatened with a grasshopper plague. In the Beech Creek district the insects are reported to have started to damage the crops. Reports from other parts of the county indicate that the grasshop pers will work great damage and efforts are being made to stop the plague, but so far without result. Acting on a report of an expert ac countant, the stockholders of the Ump qua Valley Fruit union have decided to reorganize the affairs of the associa tion by the elimination of F. H. Davies as bookkeeper and the election of A. L. Kitchin as secretary. Mr. Kitchin has been manager for the union. The stockholders also decided to employ a field representative. Sheridan’s cannery, built by the fruit growers to handle the fruit, vegetable and berry market of that district, began this week on its first regular run for the canning season, and marks the initial venture of any cannery in that district. The first two or three weeks will be spent canning the berries and the last of the season will be devoted to making juice. School Superintendent Churchill has issued a ruling affecting male teachers of the state who have enlisted, in which he holds that any person who has enlisted either in the army or navy, and who is properly qualified, may have his certificate within one year from the date of expiration of his term of service with the Federal gov ernment. Many teachers who have enlisted are entitled to teachers’ cer tificates, either through examination or from having completed a teachers’ training course. The Marion county court has finally signed up the contract for the con struction of a new steel bridge across the Willamette river between Marion and Polk counties at Salem. The bridge will cost $237,901. Sheriff Needham and Constable Varne returned to Salem from the San- tiam country late Wednesday night with Ray Graves and Mrs. Ruth Ab bott, charged with threatening the life of ex-Sheriff Tom Word, of Portland, along with other persons who went with Word to claim ownership to the Black Eagle mine near Breitenbush. WANT METRIC SYSTEM Uncle Sam’s Commercial At taches Urge New Standards. Action Made Necessary, It Is Declared, Because of Changing Character of American Exports. There is a growing demand among Uncle Sam's consular officers and com mercial attaches that the United States abandon its standards of measure in favor of the metric system. In the last decade or two the character of Ameri can exports has changed. Formerly <>ur exports were of raw materials. But where formerly we sold lumber, now we are selling chairs, tables and desks. Where we used to sell pig iron, we are selling knives, plows and machinery. “Our changing foreign trade de mands a change in our customary measures," says W. C. Wells, chief statistician of the Pan-American union. “So long as we cling to our Inches, yards, pounds and gallons, we carry a weight, a useless weight. “The importance of the metric scale in foreign commerce even now presses hard upon us. We must adopt the met ric scale, because nearly all the rest of the world, save England and Russia, have adopted it. "Furthermore, we should adopt it because of its inherent merits. Its vast superiority, even for domestic use, over our present system. While any intel ligent child can learn the metric sys tem In three lessons, and any adult master it in one hour or less of serious study, no man ever has, and probably no man ever will, master the United States system of weightsand mensures. “Take the case of bushels and bar rels, measures on which millions on millions In values of products are bought and sold ; there are scores and scores of different barrels, customary, standard and legal, In use In the Unit ed States. “The metric system is simplicity it self. It has many merits In nomencla ture. In the Interchangeability from lengths to weights and to volumes, but the chief merit is that It has the same base ratio throughout. Measures should have the same base ratio. That they have not is one of the principal inherent weaknesses of our English system as compared with the metric system. , : “We cannot help ourselves in the foreign trade, for there we must come to the metric system. It Is, of course, quite possible to have two systems, such as in fact exist in England today, and even in this country to a lesser de gree. The United States, Great Britain and Russia are now almost the only countries outside the fold of the met ric system.” PASSING THE FOOT TEST "7237% :s " Pros 03 wie " Ayse w y ai Uncle Sam’s army surgeons examina applicante for enlistment carefully to detect flatfoot or other foot troubles which would unfit the would-be soldier for active duty In the field. The pic ture shows an applicant undergoing this test, which Is very severe. PARKS ARE OPENED TO STOCK National Playgrounds to Be Used for Grazing Purposes to Increase Country’s Food Supply. Yosemite National park has been thrown open to cattle grazing by an or der of the National Park service. Sequoia and Lassen parks were pre viously opened to the same purpose. About 100,000 acres of land are avail able for grazing In Yosemite. This ac tion was taken in line with Secretary Lane's policies to Increase the national food supplies. Officials of the national park serv ice say that grazing will not be al lowed to interfere with or annoy tour ists In the parks. The grazing possibilities of the for est reservations are to be taxed to the utmost to increase meat production during the war, and sections hereto fore reserved for campers are to be used as pastures. More than 20.000 head of cattle and 50,000 head of sheep were added to the herds on the reser- vations In two weeks.
