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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1916)
Y 11 Twelve Prizes for Contestants at Playground Park Thursday The following is a list of the twelve award that are ottered at the water carnival to bo held Thursday evening at 7 o'clock in the Albert playgrounds park. A committee of judges has been appointed with Chamiccy Bishop as chairman. 1 Iiont race for boys under 12 (3 in crew.) Watt Shipp Co., pocket knife for each. 2 Hont race for boys over 12 (3 in crew.) Stockton & Co., necktie for each. 3 Boat race for girls (.1 in crew.) The Commercial Book store, Diamond Point fountain pen, 1'or each. 4 Swimming race for girlB under 12 (50 ft. course) with four entries. Joe. Albert, $1.00 cash. 5 Swimming race for girls over 12 (75 ft. course) with four entries. C. T. I'omeroy, set of beauty pins. 6 Swimming race for boys under 12 100 ft. course) with six entries. G. W. Johnson & Co., bathing suit. 7 Swimming race for boys over 12 and under 16 (200 ft. course) with four entries. Hnlem -Woolen Mills store, bath ing suit. 8 Dive from bank for girls under 12. Rod Cross 1'harmacy, bottle of per fume. 9 Dive from springboard for girls over 12. 17. O. Shipley Co., pair of silk hose. 10 Dive from spring board, boys un der 12.- Meyers Bros., bathing suit., Jl Dive from spring board for boys over 12 and under 18. Hawser Bros., bathiup; suit. 12 long dive under water, all ages undr 1H. Halem Klectric Co., flash light. Chaunecy Lock wood will furnish the lights for the occasion. (Continued from rage One.) continue discussion of President Wil son's proposals looking toward peace. An outstanding feature of the gather ing of railway presidents today was that there appeared no organized plan afoot to meet the situation created by the president's firm refusal to recede from his demands on them. Up to tho Railroads. Their tentative plan was to have the new group of presidents coming in to day see the president separately and hear from him the same argument they heard Saturday. They anticipated, too, that still other railway executives may be called to Wnshington by the presi dent, they said. For their part, the brotherhood rep resentatives, through A. B. Oarertson, made it known today that they do not intend to deviate from the president's plan. Answering persistent suggestions that the executive will offer a compromise solution, Onrretson told the United Tress: "The president hns announced what he regards a fair plan of settlement. If there is to be any deviation, it will not be from onr side." Upon the final decision of the rail road executives and the final action taken by the president it would appear from Ourretson's statement, deiends whether that the thousands of mills are likely to stop, cities face food and fuel shortages and the entire country be come prostrated before what it is be lieved would be the greatest struggle between capital and labor in history. Various cities have estimated they would face food und fuel shortages within a week after a general transpor tation tie-up. Loss to producers of perishable and fiemi-perishablc commodities would, be so great that approximation is simply impossible, it was said at the depart ment of agriculture today. Beyond Comprehension. "Any computation of figures, how ever conservative, would be so enormous that the average citizen could not com prehend it," -said (i. 0. White, acting chief of the office of market a of the department today. A strike within the next few weeks, even if it lasted less than a week, ac cording to White, would work an almost immeasurable havoc to the peach and Pan-Dandy's Made With Pare. Rich Milk Pan-Dandy Bread is made with milk which is tested scientifically for purity, and which must show in addition at least three and one-half per cent of butter-fat. And every other ingredient must measure up to the same standard. That means a bread not alone delicious and wholesome, but one of the most nourishing of foods. Pan-Dandy Bread V Children and grown folks alike appreciate Pan-Dandy. It combines nutriment, flavor and cheapness and they mean something in these high-cost-of-living days. At all good our label. SALEM 240 South mi Boys at Palm Beach Are WelT Cared For Comnanv M. Thin! rrn Toi f;... ;Cal., Aug 10. Dear I'oilks: ' Have been wu uusj to wnie oeiorc, getting our camp in condition. Have been digging ditches, etc. Why we have even flow ers in front of our tent and they are building wooden mess houses for us so that looks like we will be down here for a while. I am not going to school, al though several of the boys are. I came down here with Company M aud am go ing back with them. We haven't got paid yet and the boys are getting pret ty nervous about it but you don 't need to send me any, I got all I urn going to get off of you until I get home any way. I received I.eondinc's box and it sure was great. The boys in my squad thought so too, but never mind any more for a while, it's too rich for us. Three of us, Bert Davey. Kay Nado and myself, went to San Diego Saturday night and attended a military mass at the exposition. It was the biggest mass I ever hope to see. It was said at the big outdoor organ, maybe you have heard it, it is the biggest one in the world. A building is built around it. Big benches were arranged around it, and there must have been between 2,000 and 3,000 people there; and tall: about juur moving picture matinees ami cam eras, it sure was some affair. I am seeing different things all the time. We went through Coromlo Beach, a great resort for the rich., There was the big gest hotel there I ever saw. When I become a millionaire 1 am coming back and stay there. i I may not write quite so often but don't worry. I will get along all right. I With love to all.. I ERNEST E. apple growers of the northwest. This crop is just beginning to move. As it is now, with conditions normal, there is a freight car shortage that is annoy ing fruit growers and railroad men. To matoes, watermelons nnd cunteloupes by the millions would rot in the fields or at termiuals, should crop movements stop. Very few cities, according to Chief ! White, have sufficient commodities aud delicacies of this kind to lust more than a 'few weeks at most. I Pittsburg, he said, is a typical case. , The territory within 100 miles of the smokey city doesn't produce two per cent of the amount used there. Witlini two or three days such commodities would be used up. It would be out of the question, White believes, to relieve the situation with horse drawn or motor propell d vehicles. "Hundreds of cities," said White, "would be reduced to a bread and meat diet. And this diet could not Inst long in some localities." Would Stop All Industries. . . White declared industrial plants in every section of the country would tie forced to close down through absence of raw materials. Millions of workers in such vlnnts would bo forced out of work. With salaries thus cut off, they would be unable to purchase necessaries of life even were they to be had. "Movement of grain crops, which be gins in the Texas Panhandle early in June and continues through September and October until the monster vields of northwest fields are in the elevators or nt the mills, obviously would cease," said White. "At this time some 5,000.000 bushels of wheat have just started moving from the Pacific northwest Oregon, Idaho and Washington to Pacific terminals for shipment vin the canal and the horn to Europe. It is easy to see what would happen to these crops were the rail roads to stop operating. "Of course grain uow stored in ele vators would not be lost, but without the railroads these grains could not be moved to the mills, nnd elevators stor age for crops already harvested or about to be harvested would be out of the question. Complete loss of these millions of bushels of gruin therefore would be threatened." 1 ncle Sam is getting ready financial ly to move the nation's crop. I The financial board is getting re quests from its agents for currency to meet the demands for money. The threatened railroad strike is men acing wheat men who have thousands of bushels at railroad stations in the north- west states, gambling on their chances of getting their crops to market. Meeting briefly this forenoon; the employes heard approving telegrams from labor bodies, and individuals nnd then adjourned until 10:.'!0 o'clock to morrow. Call at White House. Washington. Aug. 21. The rnilwnv presidents called to the White House grocers. The genuine bears ROYAL BAKERY Commercial Street THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. OREGON. mm www IS 7fr M4 6vt;;p iirii t-aW.-Wi(r r for a 2:30 p. m. conference today c-' cepted the president's invitation un willingly. They bad other plans, one of which was to see the president tomor-, row and then hold a meeting of their I own Wednesday at the Metropolitan club. However, when the 14 new arrival among the railway executives, sent word to the president they were hero, he im mediately called for the meeting of the whole number this afternoon. The railway presidents, augmented by the new arrivals, arranged for a con ference with President Wilson at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. It is under stood the president earlier in the day bad suggested such a meeting in re sponse to intimations that the railway heads desired further development of some of the ideas expressed in his pub lic statement Saturday. They want to know what may be expected in the way of co-operation from the interests to commerce commission in case ot neces sary rate adjustments and also what the president may have in mind regarding future prevention , of crisis like the present. The conference of railway presi dents this morning was unique. Men representing millions of dollars of rail way wealth moved about the tenth floor of the new Willard in their shirt sleeves "getting down to brans tucks," on the situation confronting them. It was all informal, the executives talking, first, in one group, then in another "seeking ideas and opinions." There was no Who moked veetCaps When Follone 'Double-Quick! YOU! whenever you see one, -i I I I U. . proving uy uuiuui uurii- wvww v v www 9 SWPET CAPORAL i Tl ' rinaparroc i non you'll fall in line and .smoKe sweet via vV MM apparent effort to organize and agree upon a general plan of procedure. Rep resentatives of the managers commit tee were present at the conference. Karlv in the day the executives' as sistants were instructed to clip from all available papers, editorial comments on the president proposition. The execu tives are trying to got the trend oT public opinion, which they freely admit is an important consideration. Trying to Force Situation. Washington, Aug. 21. Big railroad men of the west hurrying into Wash ington today with the single demand of "arbitration" on their lips Yound President Wilson 'a answer awaiting them. It is that acceptance of the eight hour day now and appointment of a commission to incestigate all the arbi tration points involved in the threaten ed railway strike, in the surest means toward bringing about a permanent workable arbitration for the future. Arrival of the western railroad presi dents and receipt of hundreds of tele grams from commercial and industrial concerns all over the country were the features of the first day of the second week of the president's intervention be tween the warring railroads and rail road brotherhoods. The presidents came at President Wilson ' invitntion and the telegrams in part at least at the invitation of the railroads. Railroad executives here made no se cret of the fact that they were lining up all possible business support for their MONDAY. AUOx. 21, 1916. he 'tir i .'.--: : unfit arbitration contention. The president made his answer knowu in reply to one of thee telegrams, that jfrom Ueorge Pope, president of the Na tional Association of Manufacturers. Pope declared, 3,700 manufactuing con cerns employing 3,000,000 persona are 'utterly dependent upon uninterrupted .stoppage of railroad service nnd at th same time to maintain tho principle of arbitration. Would Stop it Permanently. Existing means have failed the presi dent replied and declared he is moving jto strengthen the principle of arbitra tion so tnat sucn a situation cannot arise again. Regarding the eight hour day be said in his telegram to Pope, "The whole economic movement of the time," seems to point to it. The opinion in Washington today is that demands on the president by the railroad heads of arbitration of the eight hour day question, therefore will not move him. The conflict would seem to be irrecon cilable, but the feeling in Washington is unmistakable that in tome manner the strike will be avoided. The representatives of the brother hoods now consider themselves more or less on the sidelines. It has become a struggle between President Wilson aud the railroads for the time being they say, and they nro waiting to see how it comes out before they again take a hand. I.ouis W. Hill, head of the Great Northern, arrived at t:-0 u. m. He was -because' eyre best , given a hearty greeting by other presi . dents and railway men in the lobby of the Willard hotel. He declined to talk about the strike until he had had time to go over the situation with other exec utives. The lutter had arrauged a meet ing for 4 o'clock at which time the man agen were also to have a meeting. Railroads May Agree. Other presidents arriving during the morning were E. P. Ripley, Hanta I; Jacob M. Dickinson, former secretary of war, now receiver for the Rock Is land; Ralph Peter, Long Island; C. R. Orey, Western Maryland; L. E. Johnson, Norfolk and Western. The men apparently are satisfied to have won the president's support of the eight hour day. On other points they may be expected to yield ithould dead lock be reached on the present negotia tions and further efforts be necessary. While there is nothing on the surface to indicate the managers or executives will do other than stand pat for arbitra tion, there are deep seuted rumblings around their headquarters today that their councils are divided on the point and that somo counter proposition may be forthcoming. "There is no intention of putting the ruilroad before the good of the coun try," one official declared. ' ' Xo one man has ever been known to break the president's conviction on a point, once bis mind is made up," an other suid. "The president hns peculiar powers, of course and he may be able to force mm mssm .f . -TV.'. . ," .-V tl Ee4st.il! Wit the railroads to kuucklo down," a third stated. All of which is taken to indicate tlmh jine position of tho railway beads is no , one from which they cannot be moved, j When all additional executives invittil nave reached Washington today, thero will be a brief session, the president will be notified they arc here and thoy will await bis pleasure for a conference. TUESDAY WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY DANIEL FR01IMAN Presents Pauline Frederick la ' A Thrilling Adaptation of E. Phillips Oppenhelm'i Celebrated Novel "The WORLD'S Great SNARE" Produced by THE FAMOUS PLAYERS FILM Company, Adolph Zukor, Pre. Salem's Only Exclusive Picture Theatre