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EM-TEES
RENT.
1 (Kihnuni Vance fool;'.)
Von niiiv llooveri.c the produce "irtul
may tmi ki some simple gains,
You may organize the labor and in
dustrialize dm brains.
You mnv penalize the orofits, caus
ing plutocratic, pains,
Hut the Mother of Mononolv is Iuugli
i . ing as sin- reigns.
11. 'ill! rent!
! ." WIiii is it Mivn llm ri'iil f
A dozen ilays in every month the
worker's hai'k is In-lit,
Figure it in ilollar bills or work
it by per cent,
But with his dozen days bo pnvs
jnst
rent,
rent,
rent.
You may "minimum" (lie wages; you
may let the women vote,
You may MeAiloo the railroads, ns a
war lime antidote,
You may jail some Itocliefeller or may
i 1 get some Morgan's oat,
But the Mother of Monopoly is laugh
ing in ber throat.
Kent ! rent !
Who is it pays the rent?
A hundred days in everv years a
a business profit's spent.
Figure it in overhead or
stale it by per eent,
Hut all your hundred days nr.'
gone lor
renl,
rent,
rent.
You may institute foundations, you
may edueale the dubs,
You may librurize the bread line nud
establish slnuiiuv clubs,
You may ostracize tile Demon Hum
and eiigcnizc the cubs,
Hut the .Mother of Monopoly is smil
ing at your snubs.
Kent I rent !
Who is it pays the renl T
A score of years of life you spent
to net one doeuineut.
J'Yom your eradle to vour eol'fiu
you must bow to its assent
And that's your little, old re
eeipt lor
rent,
rent,
rent.
"CRIME AGAINST OREGON."
TlIK Portland Joui'iinl tragically declares that "a prime,
lias been poniiiiitted against. Oregon" because Wall
street lias not built a railroad front Bend to Lakeview and
as a result, the trade of south central Oregon is going to
San Francisco instead of Portland. This is the character
istic Portland attitude any expenditure of outside money
that does not increase Portland's trade is a crime against
the state.
The .Journal works ih-ielf into almost as great a frenzy
over tin; waste of A Vail street coin by the Jlill and llarri
iiian systems i:t competitive railroad building up the JJes
chutes as it does over the publication of the delinquent
tax list by the country papers. The few dollars delinquent
tax payers are assessed for publicity, when they might in
stead he left to the mulcting mercies and secret manipula
tions of the Journal's silent tax-title shark partners, is of
course the greatest waste in history tlto blackest crime
that darkens the glorious" annals of fair Oregon demand
ing and securing the greatest share of the Journal's sein
tilating columns. Jn this, however, the Journal in its
spluttering slide front democracy to demagogy, is also
true to the Portland hog form it seeks to cripple the
little country. press to build up the big Portland papers
and make their monopoly the more complete to builcTup
by destroying the other fellow.
It is true that enough money was spent in building two
railroads to Bend to build one railroad to Lakeview and
that probably seven-or eight millions were wasted in need
less duplication. 15tit at about the same time, according
the New Year's issue boasts of the Journal,
some eighty millions of dollars were being spent
by Portland capitalists in building skyscrapers
half of which were also needless duplication
as shown sunce by the vacant structures. At
about this period also, enough money was spent in paving
vacant .suburban streets for town-lot boomers, to build the
needed railroad. Jf "Wall street committed a crime by
spending its money wastefully in Oregon how much
greater was Portland's crime in wasting many times the
money in needless structures and improvements, when
the money might have been used to develop Oregon and
thus increase Portland's tributary territory 'f
The Pes Chutes railroad waste cannot; be helped. It
is ancient history. The railroads cannot extend their sys
tems they are being run by Uncle Sam. But there' is
nothing to hinder Portland from spending some of her war
ship-building profit in building the railroad herself. Put
Portland will do nothing but talk and wait for others. She
hasn't the spirit, enterprise or progress of a metropolis,
but the narrow provincialism and tight-wad policy of an
overgrown village center hence has been distanced by
Seattle.
While Portland used Sampson's favorite weapon, Seat
tle grabbed the Alaskan business and t he trans-Pacific im
port nnd.export trade. Portland ought to have a line of
steamers to Alaska but she has not. She ouuht to liavn
a trans-Pacific fleet but she hasn't. She ought to have
a railroad to south-central Oregon but she hasn't. It is
her own fault and the "crime" is her own.
Some years ago, Pobert J'!. Strahorn projected a con
necting system of railroads to tie up with the present ter
minals and open central Oregon to development. Klamath
..I. 1 U 1 J-...-J1. 1 1. :l .i
i ii on niiuvti-ii on mini iiv sitiiscrioiiig ine money aim
building the first section of railroad now Hearing' com
pletion. Every encouragement; was offered by Portland
but no money. .If J'ortland had done or would do as well
proportionately as Klamath Palls, there would now be. a
railroad or one under construction. J!ut it is so much eas
ier to talk about the other fellow's "crime."
AMERICAN STEAMER
IN FIGHT WITH SUB
AN' ATLANTIC POliT, June 2.
Keporls of a running light of two
Lours between the American steamer
Nehraskan and n German suliniariui'
off the Virginia eoas( last Monday
ingnt were iiroimiit Here toitnv liv an
iuroluiug vessel, whirh roeeivi'd them
by wireless from the Ne!iraknn. Th
American vessel was undamaged, and
it is reported the observers yere an-
able to deteet whether auv of the shot
had bit the l'-hoal.
ALBERTA TOWN DESTROYED
BY FIRE: LOSS $250,000
Iielliliriik'o, Alia.. .Tune L'O. l-'ir
almost completely deslrmed llle town
of Warner near here last niht. The
loss was estimated at '(-'"iP.tUMI.
- Itliriimiitic nnil Kidney HI.
Aro you troubled with rheumatism,
kidney or bladder affections? Any
such symptoms on swollen mtmclen or
Joints, backache, headache, dizziness,
nervoimnerft, played-out feetliiK. mili
ary IrreRularlty, plfflnesn under the
oven? You need Foley Kidney Pllln
Mrs. Kronk 1'. Wood. It.. V. 1). 2, Mor
rill. Maine, writes: "I found relief as
soon an t, began, taking Foley Kidney
Pills. My husband also received much
benoflt from them, llu win to lame
bo could not ptoop over; now lie feot
Do pain. Sold everywhere. Adv. J
PRICE OF BREAD IN
AMSTI'.IIDAM, Wednesday, June
I.1-. The Iteiiin Vorwaeiis, the (!er
mau socialist orun, in announcing
the increase in the price of bread to
five pfennings per itounil, says this
I rice will lirinir the landowners one
billion marks surplus prolils and nec
essarily will be followed by in
creases In the cost of milk, butter and
bief.
VIENNA CITY COUNCIL
PROTESTS FOOD REDUCTION
AM ST tilt DAM, June HO. The
Vienna city council on Tensility, ac
cording to a dispatch received here,
passed a resolution protesting ncalasl
Uio reduction of the, bread ration.
Tho Vienna labor council, after eon
forriuK for many hours and the samo
subject, passed a resolution renewing
its demands for the "ajiccdlcat gen
eral peace, notwIlhstandliiK the groat
obnliielea at present in the way of
peace endeavors."
PLENTY OF EVIDENCE
OF SINN FEIN TREASON
LOXIhDX, Juno 20. Kdwnrfl
Shortt, chief socretary tor Ireland.
Ktated in the houso of commons today
that thero was sufficient evidence
against the Sinn l'einers recently ar
rested to enatdo their prosecution for
treason, but that It was not desirable
or necessary to Instltuto It.
s
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FOR ABLE BODIED
OliKlIA, Mohilev, liussifl, Juno fl.
(By Hit Ass.fiiil!I Press.) The ex
fljiinK of invalid prisoners between
It'ussiji uml Ihc eentrnl pciweiN whirl,
hns been noin on t'or-sevenil weeks,
is proving mlviinta:eoiis rfl (Jermnny
nnd Austriii-IIimjrnry, ns under that
ffiiise they have been nendinj home
i:ble bodied men in striking eontraet
to t lie returning Russians who, with
ftw exceptions, nil were seriously ill
or erippled.
The Bolsheviki ehairmnn of the
prisoner exchange commission ex
plained .that utile bodied prisoners
were being sent home by local Soviets
i.i order to get rid of hungry mouths.
The German $ always repatriate a
smnller number of men than they
themselves receive, bein reluctant to
let useful laborers return home.
Keturniiiy; Husians told of ill treat
ment by the Germans. Their boots
and clothes, they said, had been tak
en by the Germans when they entered
hospitals and never returned to them.
They were driven poorly clad to work
in snow storms nnd cold nnd had
been starved, being given waterv
soup after a bard day's work, or
forced to gather potato peelings in
pits where slops were thrown in or
der to appease their nppctites.
NEW EXAMPLE OF
U-BOATJARBARITY
LONDON, Juno 20 A new and
flagrant example of (lerman submar
ine barbarity is reported.
A U-boat first torpedoed without
warning and then shelled a British
steamer. The officers and crew of
the damaged vessel were ordered
aboard the submarine, the captain be
ing taken below as a prisoner. The
Uritlsh crew was then ordored to row
one of the boats back to tho steamer
with a German prize crew which
rifled the steamer eyatematically and
then sank hen The British were then
given some provisions and set adrift.
Of 28 men In ono boat only tlvo sur
vived. The occupants of another boat
were picked up in a critical condition
on the fifth day by an American
steamer.
PRAISE OF GOD
AMSTT.Iill.Ur, June 'JO. In reply
to congratulations from the president
of the reichsln on the anniversary
of bis aeeessinn, Kmperor William,
according to the Frankfurter Zcituti,
sent the following telegram:
''Our troops have piined fresh
Croat successes in tho most severe
slruuu'le. Gratitude to God for them
cannot he frreat enough. May it find
expression in the people at home by
u spirit of patriotism, confidence and
vigor, which is splendidly present and
gaining nn ever firmer shape.
"The German people which hns of
fered a bold front to the entire world
in long years of struggle is destined
by God for great things not onlv for
itself but for all bumanitv. In this
faith we will endure the last strug
gle till a victorious H'nee and a bles
ed future. God grant it.''
XF.W YORK, June 20. Men of the
American navy und naval reserve
would have been served with great
rpmntitics of decayed meat, but for
the vigilance of the inspection of
ficers who rejected it lis unfit for
hi man con umptiun, according to
evidence given here today before the
iVderal trade commission. The testi
mony was brought out during the in
quiry which the commission is eon
ducting into the charges that bad
nu at was sold to the government.
Naval officers also testified that
the packers had asked "exorbitant
prices" in bids to furnish hums to
the nuvy, with (he result Unit a com
mandeering order was issued at prices
fixed by the government.
After completion Charles Williams,
navy pay director, told 'of his refusal
tc accept 4il2,071 pounds of linms,
which lie said was "musty, mouldy,
marrow sour or just plain sour."
Thomas K. Wilson, president of the
cc.mpuny, denied that his firm hud
eer knowingly delivered tainted
meat to the arm- or navy.
The packer's testimony was sup
plemented by that of Waller J. Heesc
aid II. Ilirschfeliler, agents at Phil
adelphia and San Antonio, who de
nied having attempted at any time to
ilisuose of unsound meat to the gov
ernment. Captain Williams, who is stationed
in Brooklyn, where he directs ship
ment of food nnd clothing to the en
tire enlisted personnel of the navy,
declared that "violent protest" had
been made by officers in charge of
the Great Lukes training station,
rear Chicago, against further deliv
er1' of Wilson hams. Other hums,
supposed to be shipped from St.
l.ouis, were rejected ns ''unsound and
dangerous."
NEW FRUIT SIZING
The Cutler Manufacturing com
pany of Portland have sent to iled
ford one of the largest nnd latest
types of their fruit sizing machine
which will be exhibited and ilemon
slrated at the Cold Storage ware
house of the Kugue liivcr Fruit and
Produce association on North Central
nvontte on Friday afternoon, June Jl,
and days following.
This machine is eoneedely the last
word to date in eflicicnt and eeon-
oniienl fruit sixers, and all fruit
growers and oilier interested parties
should avnil themselves of the op
portunity of seeing it while on dem
onstration. The Cutler company have their own
agent in charge to show and explain
all features and working details. Iie
meniber the date and plan to be
there.
EXPRESS RATE INCREASE
GRANTED AND WITHDRAWN
WASHINGTON', June 20. The in
terstate commerce commission today
handed down nil order refusing to
grant the express companies' appli
cation for JO per cent increase in
rates, and a few minutes later with
drew the ordef without explanation.
NO FIRECRACKERS AT
SALEM JULY FOURTH
t
SAI.KM. Ore.. June JO -- Slate Kire
Marshal Wells today cent a letter to
nil Oregon mayors ui'Kini; Hlmu to
protiihlt the sale and uno of fire
crackers nud firework for u;e In tho
Fourth of July cnlehrathmn. Numer
ous requests lmo been vecohed ly
Iho fire muiKhut akliiK that this bo
doiio.
JOHN A. PERL
t'ltDKHTAKKIL
Ijidy .Assistant.
M 8H'TH HAItTl.KT.
Phone M. 47 and 47-J1.
Automobile Hnane 8orrlee.
Into Ambulance gerrke. Cerener.
Baby's wash
needn't be a burden
Wash the little one's clothes with
Fels-Naptha soap.
It keeps them spick and span
without boiling and with mighty
little rubbing.
You'll save a lot of time, if you
wash the "didies" every day
with Fels-Naptha. It is perfect,
too, for tiny shirts and dainty
dresses.
Solve the problem of baby wash to
morrow by buying Fels-Naptha.
At our own iWi A'p icAite coMm iAfc
NATIONAL UNITY
PARAMOUNT ISSUE
SAYS LLOYDGEORGE
LONDON, June 20. The necessity
for national unit" especiall'' at this
particular time, is emphasized. by
Premier l.lovd Georye in a letter to
Mr. Greet, tho coalition candidate for
the house ol commons in the Clapham
division, who is being imposed for the
sent.
"The only issue at the present time
is national unity," the premier's let
ter reads. "Ih n resulvc to subordin
ate everything to winning the war the
Germans are bent on undermining the
morale of the allies by promoting dis
trust behind the lines. Wo have got
to' show that until the uttcinnt of an
unscrupulous military oligarchy to
impose its despotism on the world
has 'been definitely defeated, nothing
can turn us aside from our goal.
"Only through winning the war can
we realize Hie ideas of freedom for
which we entered the war."
PEKING, .June 12. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The execution at
military lieadipinrters at Tientsin of
General liu Cliien-Chang because of
monarchist propaganda among the
troops is confirmed by a presidential
mandate issued today. General Mu
Chien-Chant was once chief ot the
genariuerie of Peking and later gov
ernor of Shenshi province.
LOYAL LEGION OF
LI
PORTLAND, June 20.. As a reply
to Insidious attacks, alleged to have
been made on the loyal legion of log
gers and lumbermen and apparently
emanating from enemy sources, Sec
retary of War Newton D. Baker has
telegraphed tho following endorse
ment of the legion. Colonel Brice P.
Disuue announced today:
"Tho Loyal Legion of Loggers and
Lumbermen, a voluntary organization
of workmen in the lumbermen Indus,
try of the northwest, Is performing a
service of incalculable value to the
nation. Thru it the employes of a
groat industry are giving the country
its emergency, co-operation and devo
tion of service.
"The Loyal Legion was formed to
give organized expression to this de
votion. It has been conducted -with
tho guidance and assistance of the
war department and is a vital and
integral part of this department's
program. Any attempt to undermine
its usefulness should be ' regarded
with most serious concern, particu
larly at a time when the maxlmui
strength of this country must be
focussed In the production ot essen
tials supplies for our fighting forces
in France. The Loyal Legion has the
approval and support of the war de-
partment."
Representatives of Loyal Legion lo
cals in the inland empire will meet
with Colonel Disque at Spokane next
Saturday to adjust their grievances.
It is alleged tho report has been
clraulatod that the organization was
not lucked by the war department.
Our Guarantee
Your grocer vill refund
the full price you paid
for MJfi d&uu if it does
not please your taste, no
matter how much you
have used out of the can
Economical
Yon canbuy
Ask your grocer
PARTICULAR WOMEN ARE CAREFUL IN THE
SELECTION OF TALCUM POWDER
It Is easy to spoil all the daintiness and "tone" of a good perfume by
using a Talcum Powder of a different or Inferior order. We call
your attention to
lioi'oi i:t jkaxick .toxtkiil violet dulce
Each ot which Is a part of a complete line of toilet preparations. In
addition to these we carry all other makes of Talcum Powder.
n &s West;Side Pharmacy
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