1 111 Jil00Jp lii VOL. XXVIII HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1917 .a- No. 51 KOBERG Non Pareil Vegetables and Plants. rpHE high coet of living does not exist even in these times if you take advantage of the market and reason ami buy in quantity. Next week we will clean a plot of Spinach for other crops and will deliver: 35 pounds of Spinach for $1.00 to any address in the city. If you think it is too mucb-Xor yon to can. try to divide np with yonr neighbor. Orders filled in rotation. First come first served. Phone 2871. Asparagus prices are somewhat off in other mar kets on account of the California grass being dumped there, and we will make a special price for canning for a few days: 30 pounds in a crate. Ask your grocer about it. Our radishes are on the market now delivered fresh every morning. We take back the stale stock. Field grown Cabbage, Cauliflower, and Broccoli plants will be on the market Saturday. The Twentieth Century Truck Farm J. H. KOBERG, Owner. Do the right thing At the right time ! Are you still leaving undone the things you ought to do? Are some of your papers around the house and some of them some place else ? Are you still putting off the making of your will just because you haven't gotten 'round to it ? Let us help you to put your house in order not because you may die suddenly, but because it is the right way to live. Like begets like; good habits beget good habits, and the better ordered your life is the better it will continue to be. Butler Banking Company We serve the Famous Bulk and Brick Ice Cream of Assorted Flavors KRESSE DRUG CO. Come in and hear the latest May records. Eastman Kodaks and Supplies. Victor Victrolas and records, $15 to $400. Condensed Report of Condition OF THE First National Bank Hood River, Oregon at Close of Business May 1, 1917. Resources! Loans and Discounts Banking House, Furniture and Fixtures ... U. S. Bonds Other Bonds and Warrants Real Estate .. Due from U. S. Treasurer Due from Banks : $132,541.69 Cash on Hand ........ 32,226.27 $272,961.51 51,275.00 100,000.00 69,510.74 3,475.00 5,000.00 164,767.96 $666,990.21 Liabilities: Capital Stock $100,000.00 Surplus Fund ;. 12,500.00 Undivided Profits 3,250.47 Circulation 100,000.00 Deposits . 451,239,74 , - $666,990.21 MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM. Personal Service Dentistry ViJE cannot deport our money and have home prosperity. Thousands of dol lars are spent in Portland for dental work when the same could be secured' at home for the same price you pay a hired man dentist whose only interest is in making the cash register ring so he will hold down his job. Have your work done at home and keep your money circulating where it will do some good. WM. M. POST Dentist Rooms 1 and 2, Hall Building HOOD RIVER, OREGON Office Phone 2401 ; Residence 1374 Groceries of Quality Prompt service and satisfaciion for our patrons. These are some of the things that we incorporate in the principles of our business. We invite your better acquaintance during the year, 1917. ARNOLD GROCERY CO. Spring Suits ... rE have a LARGE ASSORTMENT of the NEWEST FABRICS on the Market. Place your order now for Early Delivery. MEYER, The Tailor HOTEL OREGON. SECOND STREET (Room formerly occupied by R. E. Scott) HOOD RIVER, OREGON LMaxarell A World Champion Mechanical perfection of a one model chassis has made the Maxwell world endurance champion; a Maxwell built just like yours went 22,022 miles without the motor stop ping. The cheapest car ' to run ever made; costs only $6 to $8 a month. -The one practical car for town or country use. v Touring Car $665 Roadster - - 650 All price f. o. b. Detroit. As the Maxwell is good for many seasons, these prices make it "the car for every man." ANDERSON & KEIR Meats and Groceries Delivered at any residence in Hood River Prompt service and courteous treatment E. M. HOLMAN, Telephone 2134 CALKINS HEADS ! DEFENSE COUNCIL LABOR PROBLEMS TO BE HANDLED i : Brewer Tells of Plans For Huge Mobile Army Community Leaders Make Survey "It is my earnest belief." was the encouraging message to local fruit growers from J. W. Brewer, of The Dalles, who has charge of the organiz ation of food production and labor campaigns in Hood River, Morrow. Gilliam and Sherman counties and who was here Friday night to organize a local branch of the National Defense Council, "that the labor situation for you fruit growers the coming harvest season is going to be handled with greater ease than during normal times. Mr. Brewer, who was accompanied by H. G. Miller, of the Dalles, the latter urging local people to can a maximum amount of fruits and staple food prod ucts the comWier summer, told his audi' ence, composed for the most part of ranchers who were in charge of com munitywide meetings held Saturday and Sunday, 'of the plans now under way lor the enlistment or a mobile army of laborers, mostly young men, who will brought here in large numbers to assist In picking strawber ries, the cultivation and picking of ap pies. According to the plan as an nounced by Mr. Brewer, experienced young men enlisting in the labor armv. which will reach upwards of 2,000, will be guaranteed a minimum wage of $27.50 per month. Inexperienced men will begin on a minimum of $17.50 per month, the wage to increase by certain gradations, as the workers become pro licient. Where piece work is done, the workman's army will receive the going wage. T. D. Calkins, a Frankton truck gardener, was elected president of the local National Defense council. K. E, Scott was named secretary. Commun- ity committeemen werejnamed as fol lows: Willow Flat, Chas. Fuller; Barrett, J. is. Lister; East Barrett, W. W. Rodwell; Oak Grove, D. L. Pierson; Odell, 0. L. Walter; Pine Grove. N. E. Fertig; Dee. W. F Shannon ; Parkdale, Kev. W. H. Bod dy ; Valley Crest, C. P. Johannsen ; Mount Hood, H. C. Wyatt; Viento, S, W. Curran; Wyeth, James Gorton; Cascade Locks, A. U. Adams; J. (J. McLaughlin, city schools ; Mrs. W. L. Ulark, representing theWoman's club, and C. D. Nickelsen, Hood River. committeemen at large were ap pointed as follows: Leroy Childs, L, B. Gibson, and J. H. Koberg. The committeemen, acting as can- tains Saturday and Sunday attended various valley meetings and took a comprehensive survey of the plantings of food products and the labor needs for the next two years. D. L. Pierson, of Oak Grove, stated that many of the ranchers of his dis trict were ready and willing to plant large acreages of staple food products if they would be assured that the prod- ucts.would not be manipulated.by spec ulators. "A large number of my neighbors," said Mr. Pierson, "if they know the food is going to be used by the gov ernment, are willing to plant heavily, even though they get nothing for it, but if the speculators are going to get control of it, they say they will not plant a seed." T. D. Calkins proposed that the strawberry harvest might be facilitat ed by the establishment of central la bor camps, the men to be moved from point to point under semi-military dis cipline. W. F. Shannon, of Dee, how ever, opposed such a plan, stating that it would be far better for each man to secure the labor needed for his tract and to keep the men constantly em ployed at one point. L. B. Gibson stated that in a 40 mile ride over the valley he had seen more women and children engaged in neid work than ever in any former year. "The women and children are busy in the fields." said Prof. Gibson, "hoe ing crops and assisting with the plant ing. The women and children, not only of the valley, but of the city as well, will do much toward saving the crops of the community." Prof, (Jibson told of the plan of a local canning company to enlist Boy Scouts in the food production cam paign. The canners furnish the boys with seed beans, and contract to pur chase all the product grown at four cents per pound. BIG RED CROST WAR FUND NEEDED Emphasizing 'the need of the nation for immediate Red Cross war funds, C N. Ravlin, secretary of the local Red Cross Chapter, received the fol lowing telegram last Friday : Secretary Hood River Red Cross Chapter : The President has today ap pointed a Red Cross War Council con sisting of Henry P. Davidson, of J. P. Morgan & Co., chairman ; cnaries u. Morton, G. P. Murphy, Cornelius N. Bliss. Jr.. and Edward N. Hurley, with William H. Taft, chairman, and Eliot Wadsworth, vice chairman, of the executive committee, ex-officio members. The President today issued the following statement : I have today created within the Red Cross a War Council to which will be entrusted the duty of responding to the extraordinary demands which the present war will make upon the ser vices of the Red Cross, both in the field and in civilian life. The best way in which to impart the greatest efficiency and energy to the relief work which this war will entail, will be to concentrate it in the hands of a single experienced oganization which nas Deen recogizeu uy iaw mm inter national convention as the public in strumentality for such purposes. In deed such a concentration of adminis trative action in this matter seems to me absolutely necessary and I hereby earnestly call upon all those who can contribute either great sums or small to the alleviation of the suffering and distress which must inevitably arise out of this fight for humanity and democracy to contribute to the Red Cross. It will be one of the first and most necessary tasks of the new War Council of the Red Cross to raise great sums of money for the support .of tb work to be done and done upon a great scaie. i nope mat the response to their efforts will be a demonstration of tcuciuoii; vi America ana me power of genuine practical sympathy among our people. They will command tne admiration of the whole world. In view of the above it is necessary to modify the plan outlined in circular A-2 for the use of the War Council, The National Finance committee ap pointed by President Wilson, headed by Cleveland Dodge and Seward Pros- ser, of New York, will raise a great Red Cross war fund through our Chan ters. Not a moment mut be lost in preparing ourselves to meet the press- ; 1 1 m w ... ing cans irom curope tana me emerg- encies which are soon to confront us here. Every Chapter should at once mobilize and reinforce its finance com mittee for this work, which is of the utmost importance and urgency. Call immediately a meeting of your execu tive committee to make far reaching plans for finance campaign, as we look to you confidently for large results, Please telegraph the names of mem bers of your finance committe to Sew ard Prosser, American Red Cross, Washington. You will be promptly and fully advised by Mr. Frosser re garding his plans and methods. The War Council is organizing today. The increasing need among our allies for supplies that can be furnished quickly only by purchase, as reported by Her bert Hoover, and the inevitable devel opments of some needs'as we approach mobilization of vast numbers of Amer ican troops make it clear that to meet the unprecedented situation the War Council must ask that each Chanter re tain from the proceeds of . the Red Cross war fund campaign an amount for local needsjnot in excess of 25 per cent oi tne total raised by it. Many of our Chapters appreciating me situ ation will turn over the total amount so raised to the Red Cross war fund. The War Council, whenever possible with advantage, wiuzauthorize expend itures for specified supplies by the Chapters in their own communities and particularly for the purchase of mater ials to be made by the Chapters into these needed articles. The funds as raised are to be deposited by each Chapter in its local bank in a special account to be known as the Red Cross War Fund, to be remitted to National headquarters as required. Later the War Council will take full account of the needs by Chapters forlocal civilian lelief, which will become greater as our own troops are mobilized. Please at once call together your ex ecutive committee and telegraph me of their cooperation in President Wilson s far sighted plans for our Red Cross. Give this message full publicity. Eliot Wadsworth. The telegram, the longest ever re ceived at the local Western Union office, resulted in immediate action by the local chapter to follow as closely as possible its instructions. SWEEPING Y. M. C. A. CAMPAIGN PLANNED According to plans outlined Monday morning by the committee in charge, the Hood Kiver valley will raise $1,000 next week to apply to the Army Y. M. C. A. fund. Next Monday and Tuesday will be Army Y. M. C. A. days and committees will make a house to house canvass in all sections. Banks, railway companies and fratern al associations will be asked to make contributions. Statistics that have been gathered by the Oregon Social Hygiene society and data furnished by Dr. Matson, of Portland, who has been in service as a surgeon in European hospitals, will be prepared in pamphlet form and dis tributed among the business men of the city. The message will be carried to the people by special speakers who will appear at the picture shows. The local I. M. c. A. committee is composed of Leslie Butler, Rev. Elijah Hull Longbrake, V. U. Cruikshank, John Baker and A. Canfield for the city ; and Rev. J. B. Lister, pastor of the Valley Christian crhurch, and Kev. W. H. Boddy, pastor of the Upper Val ley Union church, for the valley. At the Monday meeting it was shown how President Wilson had com mended the work of the Y. M. C. A. and had appealed for its support. It was shown how the European countries had realized the organization s work and how 150 secretaries were there now engaged in aiding the soldiers of the great armies. The United .states will require a to tal of $3,000,000 in establishing the Y. M. C. A. buildings. Already in Ore gon and Idaho a total of more than 30,000 has been contributed. NAVY HONOR CARDS FOR WINDOWS That everybody may know from which homes men have gone forth to serve their country in the navy, and as an inspiration to others to follow, there has just been issued from the press of the U. S. Navy Publicity Bu reau, a card with the following in scription : "A man from this house is now serv ing his country at the front in the United States Navy." In the upper corner of the card ap pears the impressive seal of the Navy, while below is a space for the signa ture of the Commanding officer. The cards are now being mailed, first to all of the apprentice seamen at the naval training stations and they will eventually ' reach every man in the service. After being signed and dis tributed they are to be mailed home and placed in the window of the house as a mark of honor as well as a con stant reminders of duty to the young man who still bestitates in the face of the country's call for men. Firemen Issue Warnings Fire Chief Morgan and Fire Marshal Snyder have issued a warning to Hood River people that they are liable to penalty under city ordinance if they fail to secure proper permits to keep gasoline in quantities over a one quart at their residences. The fire officials also warn against the storing of blast ing powder or dynamite at any place wihtin the city limits. The warden and marshal aslo declare that hereafter no fne but firemen will be allowed in buildings when a fire prevails, unless bystanders are called on to volunteer helpers. MRS. FERGUSON AGAINELECTED SUNDAO SCHOOL MEETING SUCCESS Closing Session of Parkdale Convention is Marked by a Rally Held in this City Mrs. J. E. Fenruson. formerly nrpsi. dent of the Clatsop countv Sunday School Association and for many veara prominent in such work throughout the state, at the annual convention of the Hood River County Association, was elected president of the local organiza tion for the sitxh concsecutive time Saturday afternoon. Other officers were elected as fol lows : Mrs. J. R. Mclsaac and Rev. Ashley Cash, vice presidents: I. R. Acheson, secretary-treasurer. The convention held at Parkdale, at tended by 60 delegates and a large number of Upper and Lower Valley people, is said to have been one of the most successful in the organization's history. An address was delivered Saturday by J. G. Kilpack, financial secretary of the Portland Boys' and Uirls' Aid Society. Prof. Norman F. Coleman, of Reed College, was the principal speaker at Sunday's sessions. The convention adjourned to this city Sunday night, when a Sunday school rally, attended by all denominations, was held at the Riverside Congrega tional church. The following resolutions were adopted : Resolved, That we express our ap preciation of the cordial welcome and splendid entertainment afforded by the church and community of Parkdale to the visiting members of the conven tion ; also to Rev. W. H. Boddy for his kindness as pastoral host. Also that we express our gratitude to the Mount Hood Railroad Co. for the considera tion shown us in granting special ser vice to the traveling delegates. Resolved, That we irreatlv value the splendid work of the State Sundav School Association and nledtre our hearty support to this institution. Al so that we tender our thanks to those concerned for the excellent services of our esteemed State Secretary, Dr. C. a. t'nipps, who for 11 years has ser ved so admirably to increase the effici ency of Sunday school work in this part of the country. Resolved, That our gratitude be ex pressed to Mrs. J. E. Ferguson for the able manner in which Bhe has presided at this delightful convention. Resolved, That our thanks be ren dered to the speakers who have made such worthy contributions to our pro gram, also to those who have added musical enrichment to this splendid feast. Resolved. That we express our ap preciation of the faithful work of our secretary-treasurer, I. R. Acheson. Resolved, That we heartily recom mend the adoption of the Parent de partment of the National Sundav School Association. Resolved, That we give our endorse ment to the present ell'orts for the res toration of a good Sabbath law in Ore gon. Resolved, That we deeply deplore the lack of religious instruction and of parental interest and control so preva lent in tnis generation and we earnest ly urge all Sunday school workers to lend their untiring efforts to the renP"" edying of this evil and to the estab lishment of filial regard and reverence for all in authority. Finally, be it .Resolved. That we cordially thank all those who in any way have helped to make this conven tion so successful in every way. Mrs. Wm. Munroe, Miss Ruth Smith, E. C. Newham. Max Linder at the Electrie today. RED CROSS CALLS HOOD RIVER WOMEN The ladies of the city of Hood River have apparently not given very serious thought to the Ked Cross work now in progress here. The insistant. urgent call from Washington headquarters is for surgical dressings and hospital sup plies. Hood River has been called upon to furnish a specified number of boxes of-v these, as has every Ked Cross Chapter in the United States. It is not possible to go out into the market and buy the vast quantities of these supplies that will be required, so the government has called upon the Red Cross to do this work throuerh its organized forces. It will devolve upon the women of America to do this, and the women of Hood River will be called upon to do their share. This is serious business, and it is going to become more and more serious as the weeks go by. ihis Ked Cross work is in its infancy so far as Amer ica is concerned. When we have two million American soldiers on the battle line in Europe and other millions pre paring, we are going to be called upon for Red Cross support that we little dream of now. In this connection we quote herewith from a statement just issued by the Oakland Bank of Savings, one of the biggest financial institutions on the Pacific coast : The American people can make no greatr error today than to underesti mate the seriousness of the entry of the United Mates into the war. lhere ap pears to be no justification for the hope that the struggle will not be long and bitter." Every Wednesday and Saturday af- ternon the Red Cross Chapter, through its educational committee, invites the ladies of the city of Hood River and vicinity to meet in the Commercial club auditorium for the purpose of making the surgical dressings and hos pital supplies. Last Saturday mere were 40 in attendance, ur these, 33 came from various parts of the valley, and only seven from me city. From 35 to 60 women attend the Ked Cross sewing at Pine Grove every week. Twenty-five at Dee. The White Salmon branch promise to have over 150 women busily engaged in the Red Cross work. We make a most urgent appeal to the women of Hood River to more gen erously respond with their assistance in this work, it is greatly needed now and its need is to be far greater in the future. Most of us cannot go to the front but we can "do our bit" by help ing the Red Cross. By order of the Executive Commit tee, Hood River Red Cross Chapter,