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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1920)
THURSDAY, JANUARY IB, 112K THE EVENING HERALD.. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON At . , AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF POLICY VI fWVW PAOR RIGHT , t In Marel . s wage increase? K. K. JvtaS TORE ,sL 5 Perswal Mention George J. Stephenson, secretary cf the Valley Lumber company, return ed last evening from San Francisco, where he has been for the past lew days on business connected with the 'extensive operations he U planning In this territory! . E. H. DuFault came in last night from California points, where he has been spending the winter months. C. F. Setzer of the Chelsea Lum ber and Box company, returned last night from San Francisco. Mr. . Setzer states that while 'the box! shook market is a little quiet JustaaUgn"tei7 Henrietta, will leave Satur- now, he has hopes that it will pick up as the season advances and that the business for the coming year will te on a par with that of the past year. Those who are attending the after-1 noon services, in the Methodist church are. finding the hour very profitably spent. Dr. Dariford is an expert Bible student and very ably directs1 the Bible study of the after noons. " Mr. Van Buskirk, who moved to Klamath Falls from Weed, is build ing a residence on Wall street. Mrs. Nelson, of Pine street, left this morning for Portland, where her son, late of the army service, is to be treated in the military hospital there. . C. F. Setzer haaVpu'rchased the borne of Chas. MartiijPop"Hlgh street. Mr. and Mrs. Hartinhave taken up residence In theLorelnapartments. - ji. u. j ones Das purchased a name on West Broad ' ; 'street.!. F. W. .Ingwersea isYbuIldlng a newi .. . .. "ifUrt I &tf.i iuHn uu juuiututrr f The iiouse. or. J. AjJohnston on .Michigan avenue is Searing com pre- tion. orUi The proprietors People's i Market have added a! hdndsomo plate JliSti .i - 1 glass show case to thdurnlshings of The Loyal Bereanlfot'the Chris tian church spent arrerifoyable time their shop. , f 'fw LIBERTY THE PICK OF H .W. POOLE, Owner. The Great Emoiii MADLAINE ut "WHEN FATE i j The story of a woman whoBBfiie;sorrow of' being scorned and the.'MHWbeiiBg loved, a. And a PeerlMfpWedy "CHEYENNE HARRY&CAREY (' ? -'i "BARE Where the "Ace of ibe Saddle" plays hit ;rcie through practically all of a big new western drama .. without Ja gun in bis belt COMING SUNDAY -Mary Plckford .in, -"Pellyanna." You're read g the story you'll like, the picture t 'we placed our order for? overcoats.If July the garment workers received a substantial Wholesale prices advanced ten dollars and more per garn ment But this advance did not apply to our order. The increase became effective at once on all orders placed then and thereafter. Our stocks of suits and overcoats were bought at the old prices. .Manufacturers now charge more for the same garments and they are worth more. When our present stocks are exhausted, we shall haye. to-pay more. They, cannot be replaced at the old prices. '41 In a slnct.commercial sense we might be justified in pricing our garmests1 otf'a basis of their replacement value. Many well meaning and perfectly sincere merchants are doing it They a v ' w V tV.'Sja ""( togetaer- last evening. They bad a pot-luck.; supper and a business meeting. It was planned to' give in the near future an original little play. E. H Cox, of the Weed Lumber, company, and Lucien 3r White, man ager of that company, were register jidtatfthe.Whlte Pelican yesterday. ifrs; O. E. Dewes of Ashland, is in .Klamath Falls for a few days visits 'She Is staying at the. White Pelican. Mrs. KJpp Van Riper left this morning, for southern California, where. Qhe 'will visit her mother. Later she will go to Phoenix, Ariz., to .visit her daughters ,Dr..and Mrs. Geortre L Wrieht and day for a two months' stay In the east. The doctor goes to take' a post graduate course and Mrs. Wright and Henrietta to visit friends, and rela tives. They will visit New York, Bos- ton, Washlngtdn. Chicago, New Or- leans and many other eastern cities. Dr. Wright will take post-graduate work In Chicago and New York and at Harvard University, - specializing in surgery and obstetrics. Word has been received from J. Frank Evans, who for about two years was employed by the Star Drug company, stating that he had arrived at his new home in Globe, Arizona, and without waiting to see any more of the city he was ready to start back for Klamath county. Mrs. Lizzie Offield left this morn lng for Bakersfield, where she ex pects-lq- spend the next few months. Jfpa. Offield has had charge -Of the teleoheae office at .Merrill for sever- J'fifjrewti, and the many patrons of tBnuem win miss ner pleasant fcndtaefommodatlng service. -Her many friends hope that she will re- turnsbon andthat'her vacation .will' tlfe?to her the anticipated good healtu-'that she is seeking. - The.Rev. Father Marshall left this morning' for Baker City, to see of tlie-i-dlocese; an matters connected with -administration of affairs of the 4Aftojft THEATRE THE PICTURES" HAV&X;JOpnEL, Musical Director itress IE &" v ES" ;BbiVj vrv FISTS'! " I, fall and winter suits and A. B. Epperson and his father-in-law G. W.' Mattern, left this morning for a day's visit to the plant of the Modoc Lumber company and' to took over the country en route. Mr. Mat- tern, with' his wife, Is visiting hero from Donaldson, Iowa, and ls'mvicli Interested -in seeing the county rind its industries. NEW YORK, Jan. 15. Ninety? five percent of tlie, strikes and 7C percent of the days of Idleness in the building trades In the past have occurred through what Is known as "snowballing" or controversies be tween- wage-earners themselves as ton which trade should do the work, says Franklin T. Miller, president of the F W. Dodge company and formerly Director of the Division of Public Works and Construction of Ihe Unit ed States Department of Labor. Only 5 per cent, tie declares, have been on quesUonsibetween employer, and em ploye.. Mr.Mlller, who has been In toucli with the construction industry In this country for 25 years, cited the case 'of a' big Chicago hotel costing millions', the work on which had been delayed, lie said, more than a year, because of a disagreement between skilled 'workers as to who should handle 'certain doors because' of -the preponderance of metal over wood. This lie'-sald was an inevitable conse quence of the rapid development "of thClnfliwlryAeRlyzIng: the situation and-.the -buildng ;UtiqpkrfoT J0, Mr. "Miller said: '""" "ThOjCreation of a Board of Jurls dctloriv Award by ".tlie United States Department of Labor, a bOardjCdhi- npsed of architects, engineers, con' ractors,'materlal men and wage' earners, promises a solution of ono of the most difficult labor problems in the building Industry. As a result of .It decreased cost of construction may be expected. Tho Board of Jur Ig'dictional Award has been formulat ed w)th the' full approval of all in terests concerned, who seem to have entered Into It without reservation. . 'Tbe labor outlook In the building industry thus promises a, condition of greater stability during the coming year because of the organized deal ings between employers and.eraploy es, with full recognition pf the ferm contract and arbitration principles. "The first serious labor troubles lr. the building Industry' said Mr. Miller, in reviewing the national con struction shortage, "occurred in the Utter part of October 1918, through a strike of carpenters on government work In Brooklyn In violation of the Baker-Gbmpers agreement, a pact be tween the War Department and the American Federation of Labor. This strike was settled by a compromise early In March 1919, but In the meantime It threatened a sympath etic nation-wide strike of the build- lag trades and held up construction, not only in New York but made it uncertain throughout the land, Oth er labor tro'ubleji sprang up through pat the country, notably in Chicago, ram N LABOR RANKS T B w honestly feel that merchandise should command its full market "value at the time it is sold. We don't. We believe that clothing should be sold on a .basis of cost, regardless of subsequent developments. The price we charge is determined by the price we pay, no matter, how much higher the prevailing market values may be. We won't charge more unless we have to pay more, and we won't pay more if we can help ify But.no matter what we payor when, our selling price will represent nothing more than a legiti mate profit upon the actual cost . Our tremendous stocks of suits and overcoats were purchased and delivered at the old prices. They are being offered the same vay. You can get your suit and overcoat here now at the prices effective six months ago. XAAVVVUVUVUVVWVVWVW,VV'iir,,iifi"" where tho wholo building trade was tied .up from July to September, 1919." Since then conditions have Improved but thoro would not be complete harmony In tho building In dustry he Indicated until the Fedoral Board. of Jurisdictional Award began to. function. "From April 1919, to last July, tho War Dopartmen1. through Colonel Arthur Woods as Special Assistant to the Secretary pf War, ongagod In the active' promotion of public works In ordor to provide Jobs for return ing soldiers," concluded Mr. Miller. ''Then It appeared that thoro would (not be sufficient labor, materials and capital for the necessary now con struction of tho country. The promo tion of non-productlvo public works was abandoned. The Fedoral Reserve Board, early In December, 1919, an nounced its purposo of postponing the erection of Its contemplated banking institutions. Tneso aro among the factors In tho present sit Gatlon." SMS EX-CONVICT 4 NEW YORK, Jan. IE. Thomas Mott Osborne's nationwide campaign to "humanize" tho prisons of the Un ited States, according to a friend of Wv Osborns who served ten years In Sing Sing, has for its real object (be counteracting of anarchy for he said, ''of the iCOO.OOO convicts, men ad women, who annually emerge from American prisons, fully 90 per cent Ottliem are potential Bolshevists." ,T,hls man, a product of the New Y6"rk" slums, .who not only redeemed his own life but saved two' younger brothers from criminal careers, all as tho result, of Osborne's work at Sing Sing; declared that American ponal Institution are being surreptitiously flooded with radical literature, with leaflets of "hope to the oppressed" and that the secret movement to Bol- sbevize the nation's prisons is being combatted from the inside. ' - t , Supported by the efforts of 18,- GOOfniembers of tho Gray. Brother hood,, an organization of ex-convicts who ''made good" under the Os borne system known as the Mutual Welfare League, the former warden of Sing Sing, it was said, hopes to make prison reform a plank In the Dlatform pf one of the big political Jartles in' the 'next Presidential cam algat A leading member of the first named body a wealthy ex-convict known only to the public as the Gray Brother, was said to be financing Os borne, He is reputed to be a man of great influence in Washington and to be the Intimate of several Sena NB nn tors. He started the Jollet, Iil.,JPrJs-il on Inquiry Intended' to be the first of a national prison reform program. "If the Gray Brother should come in here now and tell me to jump out of that window," (a four story leap) "I'd. do it at once," confided the for mer ten-year Inmate of Sing Sing. !We all would trust him with our lives and, believe me, this Osborne prison Investigation backed by him is going to be a thorough Job. The peo ple outside haven't any Idea of how mmm mmmmmmm LEADING CLOTHIERS Bolshevism Is spftjudlng In tho pris ons. A tow days ago. four Reds, It wns discovered by our, men, actually had thomselvos convicted so Clioy could, work' behind tho bars, confrontodpoor Beckott during tho 7 "The Reds havo thoir lltorature In tho public libraries, somo teachors In the public schools aro 'sympathet ic' and for somo time thoy have boon distributing their doctrines in pris ons, jails' and workhouses to win over to their side the army of discon tented malefactors who havo an al leged grievance against society. Tho Gtny Brotherhood Is alivo to their propaganda, howovor, and is helping Mr. Osborne to abolish It. Ono of tho best ways to stop it Is to treat con victs liko human beings Instead of beasts and give them a chance to re deem thomsolvcs. Tho stnto Is brood ing anarchists by turning at largo men and women who havo boon brut ally treated and -who leave prison with hearts' filled wit htho deslro for retaliation and revenge "Under the old system a kind hearted warden Is engaged in making healthy burglars and 'porch climbers .pf first offenders. The prison experi ence did a man no good and be had no conception of right and wrong, no sense of responsibility to society, when he came tout ,..- .. .t WIIU ine AS-j" borno method it Is dlfforent. As nn'lt. A nation of the town of L As illustration, thoro are 1,600 former; aomptlon and a graduate of L' As-ex-convlc'ts nnd mombers of the Wel-80"Ptlon College, he bogan his car fare League, In Now York City. All of oer as a practicing lawyer In Mori them are 'making good'. Most ot( troal. Ho inaugurated the National them are young and of the 1.G00. Party movement and under Its aus- more than 400 wore In tho army or navy during tho war. They includo former burglars (box men) and simi lar so-called 'sljck' thieves. "Since. Mr. Osborne took1 chargo of) the naval prison at Portsmouth, N. H. three years ago, he was Instrumental in returning 10,000 former Inmates, men 'made ovorMn, character, to the Jnlted Sttajtes..navy(enojugh. to man three battleships. The present 'crime wave' In Chicago Is due to bad prison treatment and tho doslre of ox-con victs to 'get. ovon.'- If it had not boen for Osborne's administration in Now York prsphs Now York would bo suffering from the same evil." We WillfDo Our Part to Reduce the H.C.L Just watch the bottom half 1 this ".!- TOMORROW v ;" SADDLE HORSE IS EXTINCT. PORTLAND PORTLAND, Oro. Jan. 15. Tho I'oitlnml committco In charge of tiio arrangements tor tho Slirlno conveu" tlon to bo hold lioro Juno 22, 23 and 24, 1920, has discovered that riding homes havo been so largely super seded by automobiles in the North west that It may bu almost Impos sible to gather 250 good appearing animals at the yards In this city. It has boon tho Intention to use thorn oxtonslvoly In ntroot parades of which thoro will bo four In tho throo days of tho convention. A tanvnuH of tho city shows that thoro Is not oven ono llvory stablo existing In Portland, whoro horses and rigs muy bo rented. All of tlio good horses owned In this city aro boarded at prlvato riding sdhools and a feo of ton dollars Is exacted overytlmo ono of the. animals Is nl lowed to Icavo tho barn. "IX TUB DAY'H NKWH" Sir Louis A. Jotto, who today en ters upon life eighty-fifth year, was long a prominent figure In public af fairs in Quebec, filling high positions i na InbfMittlfnii ndmlnl.!.!-. nnj 4..m -n,if,, HuuiiifuiiBiui nuu.ty,tias pices was oloctcd to tho Dominion parliament In 1871. In later years he was called upon to servo as Chief Justice of Quebec and as Lieutenant Governor of tho Province, filling tho last-named position frqm '1898 to 1908. In 1878 he was appointed pro fessor of clval law In Laval Univer sity and subsequently he became dean of the law faculty. France made him a Commander of the Legion of Honor In 1898 and other honors have .come to him from universities and learned societies In Canada and 'Groat Britain, Best yet, Horald Want Ads. page ' it it t .; --1 t' irjB I )(