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FORTJETH TEAR NO. 210
SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1917
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BERLIN IS PLEASED
OVER RIGA'S FALL
TAKES A HOLIDAY
0 Russians Blow Up Bridges
and Destroy Everything
Before Leaving
KAISER'S CHOSEN GUARD
MAULED BY CANADIANS
Kaiser Wires Prince Leopold
at Riga to Keep "Onward
with God"
(By William Phillip Slmms)
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
With The British Armies in The
Field, Sept. 4. Canadian troops early
today penetrated nioro than 200 yards
over Germau positions on a front of six
hundred yards north of Leus.
The midden drive badly mauled the
Prussian guard.
The Prussian guards are one of tho
picked German troop units, so that the
victory gave the Canadians peculiar sat
isfaction. The enemy suffered heavy
casualties.
BERLIN JUBILATES.
(By John Grandens)
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Berlin, Sept. 4. Berlin took a holi
day today to celebrate the fall of Riga.
The whole city was ablaze with flags
mottos and pictures. All schools were
closed and tho people on the street ju
bilated in the victory. The scenes were
reminiscent of earlier days of the war,
when Berlin was celebrating Hiuden
bcrg's victories against the Eussiaus.
Merchants of Hamburg and Bremen
took occasion to telegraph the kaiser
sssuring him of their loyalty and their
determination to hold out "repulsing all
foreign interference in Germany's 'in
ternal affairs."
Blew Up Everything.
Petrograd, Sept. 4. Bussian forces
did not evneuate Riga without blowing
up the fortifications at the mouth of the
Dvina river end airbridges across the
waterways today's official statement
mend declared.
The Russian retirement still contin
ued today in a northeasterly direction.
"Yesterday the Germans continued
to develop successes north and north
east," the official statement said, dis
cussing the Riga sector. "They out
flanked our Dvina position and pene
trating beyond, occupying Valeudore,
wo retiring northward."
"Enemy ships rc shelling the Riga
coast, including the villages of Kabli,
Mainashtu, Koshonld and Pidde," the
official statement asserted.
Took Many Prisoners.
Bfrlin, Via London. Sept. 4. "Thou
sands" taken prisoner in the Riga sec
tor attests to the German victory there,
today's official" report declared. OiU
hundred and fifty Bussian guns were
seized and "countless war material"
raptured, the war office announced. ,
"From Riga northeastward, dense
masses of troops are crowding the roads
day and night in marching toward
Great Jaega," the war office declared.
"The Russian resistance at Riga was
broken down. The enemy's evacuation
of the city was hurried."
13 Airships Brought Down.
Paris, Sept. 4. Thirteen German
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the defense.
NEGRO RIOTEBS SENTENCED
San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 4.
Found guilty, with intent to
murder, five members of the
Twenty Fourth United States
infantry- (negro), who rioted at
Waco on the night of July 29,
today faced five years nt hard
labor in the federal peniten
tiary at Leavenworth, Kan- A
. sixth negro soldier will serve
ten years at Leavenworth for
the same offense. This was the
finding of the general court
martial made public today by .
Major General John V. Ruck
man, commander of the South
ern department.
SsS i SOYA BEAN IS
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DELICIOUS RATION
n Maxim Inventor of
E Explosives Finds New
Food Beans
Lake Hopatcong, N. J. Sept. 4. Hud
son Maxim, inventor of high explosives
declared today he had made a food dis
covery which he believes bids fair to
revolutionize eating..
His discovery, he said, is the Chinese
ooya Dean, prepared in the manner
which ho had invented, this bean is
tho most delicious and nourishing food
on God's green earth." It is a tasty
food by itself, and mixed with other
edibles it will make any dish however
unpalatable taste exquisite.
1 intend to otter my food invention
to the American army and navy," Max
im told tho United Press today. "Con
sidering its cheapness, it will give our
fighting men the most inexpensive and
the most delicious and the most nour
ishing ration of any of the armies of
the world," m
Maxim said he had already mention
ed the valuo to Herbert Hoover, food
administrator.
To demonstrate it, he invited George
Reno, head of the Cuban agricultural
department and other food experts to
ma estate here yesterday and served
them a full dinner, consisting' of soya
beans and other dishes garnished and
flavored with the beans. Maxim donned
a white apron and did the 'cooking and
serving himself.
"This bean," asserted" Maxim, "is
the most valuable vegetable , in the
world and it has been entirely over
looked. It is only used in this country
now for feeding horses and making lin
seed oil and other paint mixtures. If
cooked like ordinary beans, it is not
edible.- But cooked as I cook it, this
bean is the tastiest food you ever saw. ' '
Maxim said he would continue con
ducting laboratory experiments with the
soya bean.
Corn Up a Fraction -
Oats Follows Corn
Chicago, sfpt. 4. Heavy buying by
big local commission houses, together
with continued cool weather over most
of the belt, sent corn up 5-8 to 3-4 over
Saturday's closing prices today.
December opened at $1.11 i-4, down
3-8, but later rallied to $1.12 1-4. May
opened up 1-8 at $1.07 7-8, later gain
ing 5-8.
Oats was generally higher, in sympa
thy with corm September opened 1-4
higer and subsequently gained 1-8 to
oo 5-8. December opened 5-8 lower at
55 7-8, but later gained 1. May opened
unchanged at 59, later losing I S.
Provisions were a shade lower on
a weak and lower hog market.
George P. Downing Re
enters Country's Service
Geo. P. Downing, son of Mr- and Mrs.
W. H . Downing, of the Waldo ' Hills,
has enlisted in the United States army
in California, and will be called to
colors September 5.
George Downing was a member of:
Co. M of Salem, but was discharged j
after their return from the Mexican
border last year. Ho visited his par
ents this week and was given a smok
er at home at which a large number of
friends and neighbors gathered to greet.
the young soldier and wish him good
luck in the serviee of his country- The
Downing home was ' beautifully deco
rated for the occasion and the entire
afternoon and evening was devoted to
pleasant social amusements.
Mr. Downing left last night for the
training camp to be mobilized in
service once more.
Trial of Frank Oxman
Will Begin Tomorrow
San Francisco, Sent. 4. The trial of
Frank C. Oxman, Oregon cattle man
charged with attempting to induce a
witness to give perjured testimony, will
not start tomorrow as scheduled.
Attorney Samuel Shortridge for Ox-
man announced todar that be will ask
for a continuance until September 13,
the case is called,
( Oxman, with his wife and child, will
' rnai-li Kan Frfltioiaon tnnitrtit &ttnrtiv
COPPER MINES AT
BUTTE MAY CLOSE
FOR LONG PERIOD
Miners Want $6 a Day, and
With Copper Prices at 20
Cents Can't Get It
PROPERTIES IN SHAPE
FOR LONG IDLE SPELL
Companies Will Make No Ef
fort to Start Work Before
spnng-
-Oiher Strikes
Butte, Mont., Sept. 4 A strike of
5000 members of tho Building Trades
Unions, the shutdown of the few in
dependent mines which so far have sur
vived the general shutdown and new
and serious complications in the labor,
situation duo to the government's pro
posed fixing of copper prices these
possibilities featured Butto's labor
troubles, which are more serious than
ever.
The threatened strike of tho building
trades unions is due to a quarrel be
tweon a contractor and the painters'
union over one man. The master paint
ers and tho unions are not only unable
to agree on questions involved in the
employment of this one man, but are
also unable to agree on a plan of me
diation. ;
The painters are prepared to strike.
and the entire building trades council
stands ucnind the painters, ready to
call a general strike. Five thousand
men will be affected by a general
strike order.
The Metal Trades Council will vote
Friday to decide whether tho general
suutaown is a lockout or a walkout. If
they decide the shutdown is a lockout
and; it is likely they will they probab
ly will strike,
The independent mines will be fore
ed to shut down in this event.
will Depopulate Butte
The fact that tho government plans
to fix the price of copper at 20 to 22
cents a pound has complicated the sit
uation. With copper at 20 cents, the miners
would get only $4-50 a day under tho
wage schedule recently announced by
tho Anaconda company. Even if the
copper price is set at 22' cents, the
men will get only $4.75. They want $6.
long shutdown is generally pre-
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Downward Market Trend
to Discount PriceFixing
New York, Sept. 1. Liquidation in
the stock market has now continued
with slight interruption for several
weeks. This downward movement was
based entirely upon disposition to dis
count price fixing: upon the injurious
effects of an excessive profits tax, and
upon the growing prospects of peace.
All three of these influences mean a
reduction, though not necessarily an
early end, of war profits which had
been the principal uasis of abnormal
advances in the war industrials. Some
idea of the volume of these orders will
be gained from the fact that during
the fiscal year our exports of war ma
terials amounted to $2,127,000,000, of
which $800,000,000 was explosives, $187
000,000 chemicals, $120,000,000 copper
and brass, $95,000,000 fire arms, $90,
000,000 automobiles, $87,000,000 horses
and mules, $84,000,000 metal working
machinery, and $27,000,000 wire. In the
fiscal year 1915-J6, our total war ex
ports were $1,329,000,000; the increase
last year being chieflv in explosives,
firearms, copper and brass. Since the
war began in 1914, our total exports
of munitions have amounted, to $3,892,
000,000, last year's shipments being
about 60 per cent of that total. The pro
fits in these, transactions, as is well
known, have been very heavy, and it is
easy to calculate in what direction their
curtailment will be first applied.
Whether the coming shrinkage of pro
fits has been fully discounted or not,
remains to be seen. For the time be
ing the market has been much disturbed
by these developments; and there is
little doubt that the high water mark of
war profits has been permanently pass
ed, and that a great deal of liquidation
has been resorted to by those who fore
saw these conditions. It will be months,
however, before any treaty of peace
can be signed, and months more before
disbandment is possible of the various
armies,, which meantime must be fed,
clothed and equipped. To the purchases
of the allies must also be added our
own heavy buying of munitions, which
combined witu those of the allies will
insure a high degree of activity in the
war industries for some time to coino J
Much uneasiness attaches to the gov
ernment policy of price fixing; also to
the extremly radical tendencies of the
excess profits tax. It is but proper to;
state that the government thus far hasj
not taken extreme measures in .price,
JOHNSON MAKES A
FULL STATEMENT
OFIIORITY'SAIM
Would Take 80 Per Cent of
Afl Profits Above Those
Normally Made
THOSE WHO GAIN BY WAR
SHOULD PAY MAIN BILL
If ,Not CdHected As Made
These Profits Bear Only
Taxes As Oiher Property
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TROUNCED TWICE.
"
Washington, Sept. 4. Senat-
ors battling to make riches pay
the- war bills were trounced
twice today. The Hollis amend-
ment to the revenue bill, which
would establish war profits as
the differences between normal
profits and the total 1917 in-
come was beaten 57 ito 12 by
those favoring the committee
plan. Senator Laroifetteu
amendment placing a sixty per
cent tax on war profits was
then beaten fifty to eighteen.
;
Washington, Sept. 4. Swollen taxes
will come to haunt the small merchant,
tradesman, farmer and manufacturer,
ii' the government does not -conscript
wealth to pay war bills.
This warning was sent out today by
Senator Johnson, California, as ho re
sumed his labors to levy more taxes on
the war profits of great industries than
are provided in -the finance committee
bill. His coat an'-d collar off and sleeves
rolled up, the big (Jalifornian was
found at his office answering correspondence-
From all parts of the coun
try have come letters and telegrams,
sympathizing with his fight" to have
blood profits pay for the war. But
many are anxious lest his plan result
in business depression. So Johnson
took time off today to explain just
what his fight means to the average
citizen and averaso business man of
the country.
"Two hostile and utterly irreconcil-
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fixing, and shows no such radicalism
as is rampant iu the house in shaping
the revenue bill. In tho matter of price
fixing, the administration has chiefly
sought to prevent undue advantage be
ing taken of war conditions by unscru
pulous speculators and profiteers. Liber
al profits have been allowed to both
producers and ' distributors. Of course
concerns which had been making ab
normal protits trom one source or an
other were disturbed. This would have
happened in any event when tho inevit
able reaction arrived from natural caus
es. Nevertheless, government price fix
ing, however considerately enforced,
can only be justified as a "strictly war
measure, and should be used as little
as possible, and abandoned as soon as
possible. As an economic proposition,
it is wholly unsound; because there can
be no such tiling as a fixed price when
the thousand and one elements which
make the price are incessantly chang
ing. Fixed price would tend to indus
trial stagnation; and if rigidly enforc
ed, would soon be evaded through ad
jjustments at some, other part of tht
transaction. No government can elimut
jr.te the bargaining spirit in human na
ture, which must always appear when
ever two individuals meet who have
commodities or services for sale. Be
sides, if the government fixes priees
for commodities, it will eventually and
logically be compelled to fix the rate
of wages for capital and labor as well.
But here again is something the gov
ernment could not possibly do without
invoking failure and disaster. Fixing
the rate for capital would inevitably
lead to its confiscation and thus crush
enterprise. Fixing the rate of wages is
unthinkable; because the American
workman would never surrender the lib
erty to work for the best wages he can
get and for whomever he pleases, as
well as when he pleases. Unfortunately,
the war has made it easy to launch a
great many socialistic experiments,
from which it may be more difficult
to escape than expected. Great Britain
has already plunged much deeper into
this realm of uncertainty than oursel
ves; and it would be the policy of wis
dom on onr part to watch results there
before following in her wake.
The radical proposals for taxing ex
cess profits as high as 70 to 80 per
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GERMANS ASKED
FOR GOVERNMENT
WE CAN DEAL WITH
Must Be One That Will Insore
Honesty In Dealing With
Other Nations
WILL NOT DEMAND THAT
HOHENZOLLERNS QUIT
Up to German People to Make
(jermanys Word Pass at
Par in World Dealings
(By Oarl D. Groat)
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington, Sept. 4. Actual elimin
ation of the Hohcnzollern dynasty haa
not been prescribed by the American
government as a peace basis, the state
department said today.
me indications are now that this
government will be content with in
ternal reformB in Germany which will
insure honesty and safety in dealing
with other nations.
While officials believe elimination of
the kaiser would be a short cut to this
result, they said today' there is no at
tempt to dictate the German form of
government. The United States will be
the judge of whether or not any at
tempted reforms are bonafido or suf
ficient and all must abolish those sin
ister elements which have come to be
known as Hohenzollernism.
The state department's expression
created wide comment. It was believed
to be a further hint to the German peo
ple that what the allies are after is
elimination of the Hohenzollern influ
ence from world politics not dictation
of the form of governmejolthaJTiuitaii
peoples shall "have. "
It is the opinion of this government
that once the German peoplo see their
ruler as tho world sees him, the kaiser's
throne will collapse of its own weight.
There can be no peace until the people
themselves can write the pledges Ger
many makes with the other nations.
There will be no relaxing of America's
grip in the war until she is absolutely
convinced- that tho influence of tho
kaiser is gone, though he himself may
remain as nominal head of the empire,
even as George of England.
Working To Make Peace.
Washington, Sept. 4. While her peo
plo at home are working to make peace
possible, Germany by her capture of
Riga is seeking to sway the wavering
or unpatriotic among Russians to sep
arate negotiations. -
Only timo will tell whether Hindoo-
burg will continue his smash to Petro
grad. That he can take the capital is
certain. Its ellect would be mainly psy
chological, for it would add practically
nothing to the military position of the
Teutons while it would involve many
men and much material.
That it would have a tremendous ef
fect on the Russians, however, ft ad
mitted here by officials, who, while far
from pessimistic, hope this added im
petus to separate peace will not mater
ialize.
War plans are so framed that the
struggle can go on whether or not Rus
sia cracks beneath the moral and psy
chological pressure, but should- the Ger
mans once get separate peaco they
would open up such a storehouse of food
and supplies as to make their position
again formidable.
Press reports of a growing unrest
among the reichstag members and a
somewhat more favorable reception of
President Wilson's peace reply in Ger
many have created hero tho hope that
internal reforms upon which peace can
rest, can be accomplished before an
other spring.
However, if Petrograd is taken, then
perhaps to militarists and pan-Ger-
manists can halt temporarily the move
ment toward democratization of the
kaiser's realm. .
The weakness of the Riga defenders
caused. a gloomy spirit in some quarters
today, though authorities who believe
in the ultimate strength of Russia in
sist that she will stay in the fight along
her vast border with sufficient force to
thwart German plans of conquest.
It Is Pake Reform.
London, Sept. 4. Germany is begin
ning to talk democratization now, as the
first Btep toward peace.
Berlin news via Holland today an
nounced that at the session of the reich
stag convening September 26 tho same
coalition of the centrists and social
democrats which precipitated the Ger
man cabinet in July would again seek
surrender by the kaiser and his minis
ters of certain of their prerogatives.
Emphasis was laid on this "revolt" as
part of a well defined plan yielding tt
peace.
London could see little in tne Keriin
reports today provocative of hope of
real German reform. It was the same
sort of a "revolt" the left parties in
tho reichstag last July which display
ed Von Bethmann-Hollwcg for the pro
fonndly junker Michaelis. The revolters
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HEAVY EARTHQUAKE
Washington, Sept. 4 Three
hundred houses were . reported
- destroyed, with an unknown
number of casualties, as the re
sult of a severe earthquake at
Bogota, Colombia, a state de
partment message stated today.
MINNESOTA HAS QUAKE
St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 4.
Citizens of northern Minnesota
were speculating today on the
origin of tho earthquake which
was felt over 750 square miles
late yesterday.
Braincrd, Crow Wing, Littlo
Falls and Long Prairie report
ed distinct shocks lasting from
eight to, 20 seconds. Houses
were shaken and dishes broken.
It was the first earthquake in
this region since the advent of
the white man, 1
lie
LINN COUNTY EVENT
THIS YEAR, ITS FAIR
Wffl Be Held at Albany, Sept.
18, 19 and 20-and Will
"Break the Record"
Albany, Ore., Sept. 4. (Special)
The big fall event in Linn County this
year will be the annual LinnCounty
Fair, which will be hold in Scio, Sept.
18, 19 and 20. The management an
nounces that arrangements are about
complete for the largest county fair
ever held in this section. A large dis
play of agricultural products, fine live
stock, domestic science and home prod
ucts, agricultural implements and other
exhibits will be presouted to thh pub
lic. The annual Linn County School
Industrial Fair will be held at the same
time, and CountT.. jklmnl mi.n
eut xoa M.X'uuinuugs states that an
exoeuent collection of school work,
agricultural products, swine, chickens
asd other live stock has been assembled
by the children of the county.
This year's show will be a typical,
old-fashioned county- fair. The direc
tors have paid particular attention to
this feature, believing that the public
still enjoys the kind of a fair that they
did in earlier days.
The racing program has been
changed, the professional horse and
driver being iliminated and the entire
card turned over Jo local talent. More
competition will bo furnished in this
manner, and tho public will take a
greater interest in the races. There
are many fast horses in the Willamette
Valley, all of whom are invited to
participate in the events.
Tho Scio fair is the official county
fair, for which the county court makes
n annual appropriation, asido ffrom
tho money furnished by the state. The
peoplo of Scio and vicinity have also
gone down deep in their pockets this
year to make this the biggest and best
fair held in the valley in yenrs.
OF HOAR EVENTS
Our Soldier s Gather, Ger
mans Celebrate Riga's Cap
tureBig Air Raid
Hohenzollern must go, but not neces
sarily tho Hohenzolleins, the state de
partment announced todav. With this
statement, tiio United States met Ger
man charges of endeavoring to dictate
its form of government, but it was
made clear that "internal refoims
which will insure honesty and safety
in dealing with other nations" are
necessary before America can make
peace.
While this edict was being Issued,
thousands of America's new national
army men were marching in civilian 's
clothes in send-off parades throughout
the country, prior to tho departure of
the first five per cent to cantonment
camps. President Wilson led the parade
in Washington and Mayor Mitchell
marched at the head of tho New York
cn.
Germany celebrated the capture of
Riga with flag bedecked cities and con
gratulatory telegrams from the kaiser.
The Russian official statement an
nounced further retreat of the disorgan
ized Slav forces.
A German air raid on Chatham and
Sheerneas, England, where naval and
army bases, were located, resulted in
108 deaths. Ninety two were injured.
The British advanced slightly north
east of St. Julien and Canadians reg
istered another gain north of Lens.
The French official statement men
tioned great aerial activity. Italian bat
tle front reports declared General Ca
dorna'a troops still advancing.
Strange, bet the preparedcr we get
the less and less we hear that once
ubiquitous word "preparedness."
WILSON MARCHES
I LEAD OF THOSE
AflSWERING CALL
Thirty Thousand In Line h
Washington Veterans
Walk m Parade
CITY GAY WITH BUNTING
AIR FILLED WITH MUSIC
Entire City Gathers Along Lias
of March to Bid the Boys
Good Bye
c -
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
TO THE MEN IN BANKS
- -
Washington, Sept. 4. Ex-
pressing the wish that he could,
go with tho American army to
the battle field, President Wil- -
son today addressed the folliw-
ing message to the citizens ae-:
ceptcd for military service. It.
was sent to Thomas Chad-
bourne, Jr., of the New York'
parado committee: . - ,
"Please say to the men on
Sontember 4 how entirely my
heart is with them and how my'
thoughts will follow them
across the sea with confidence
and also genuine envy, for I
should like to be with them on
tho field and in the trenches
whore the real and tinal battle jc
for the independence - of the 4c
United States is to be fought, -
alongside tho other pcoplos of
tho world struggling like our-
selves to make an end of those
I-
.th intra whic.h have threatened
the integrity of iheinemiory,r-
tho lives of their riooule and
the very character and inde
pendence of their- government
Bill them Godspeed r me from
a very full heart. '
Washington, Sept; 4. Men ' of the
new national army - whose feet have
known only tho paths of peaoo, trod to
day tho way to war.
Led by their commander-in-cniei,
President Wilson, the first drafted men
of tho capital marched the length of
Pennsylvania avenue the wav of the
presidents and the troops of other days
Tottering vcternnB or ootn Bides oi
the civil war; cabinet members, solons
of the senate and house; soldiers of
the war with Spain; civilians from
government departments; army anl
navy officers; cavalrymen on rearing
mounts; marincB lind other fighters
joined in this solemn procession.
in cities throughout tne country me
samo spirit, with different aetors, wus
shown in scnu oif ceieDrauons.
To do honor to the men under his
leadership who will help make the
world safo for democracy, President
Wilson was Glad to trudgo tho mite ana
a half route beneath a warm September
n.
Mothers, fathers, sisters, sweethearts
lined the streets tq pay homage, some
tearfully, some with brave smues, an
with a solemnity that marks farewell.
Thirty thousand marchers participat
ed in the demonstration hero on the
day before the men depart for camps.
Hundreds of thousands of others kept
step with the capital host in other cit
ies.
Clean, Strong xoys
The drafted men, clean, strong lads,
formed a lino with heads erect, with a
vioor that promises rapid shaping into
hmIiI ier. Perhans their lines a bit rag
ged, for most of them had never march
ed before, but the snap and power and
pride of virilo manhood was upon thorn.
Well up to tho forefront came Sena
tors Martin and Bankhead, confeder
ate nd Senators Nelson and Warren,
Union men while behind them were
Spanish-American war senators
Speaker. Champ Clark, who fought
conscription; Undo Joo Cannon, erect
and spry, despite his years headed
the house delegation. Senator Sauls
bury led the upper uranch men.
Washington streets were crowded
earlv. Great streamers of bunting, big
and' little flags, fluttered in the breeze
as symbols of a united nation sending
(Continued wi Page Two.)
THE WEATHER :
Oregon:- Tonight
and Wednesday,
gentle wind