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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 1917)
THH DAILY CAPITAL JOORNAE. SALEM, OREGON. WEDNESDAY.SEPT. 5, 1917. THREE IS THERE ROOM IN THE WORLD FOR THE SLACKER' TODAY? THrUling Patriotic Supreme Timely Appealing Starts Today TODAY-TOMORROW THE SHIRKE BLIGH THEATRE Uncle Sam and the Whole World Hates A Slacker . See This Great Production NO RAISE IN PRICES R ter JSC . i&5&g& ' I 'i . V " fi $4 '' ' " ' --iiMMiiiiiiii-iiriiiiiiiiii1 ill-iirir-ii-,-'"; 'The Shirker' a timely film now showing atht e Bligh theater has powerful Patriotic Appeal Tho most timely picture that has teen in Salem for some time wag seen at the Bligh theater yesterday in "The Shirker " Jt was a powerful, pa triotic and thrilling and has a tre mendous heart appeal that will stir the blood of every true American that sees it. The story is of a young man (a flacker) who is afraid to stand up and fight for his country to protect his home and loved ones. While napping in a chair he dreams of the great war, his dream being shown in different scenes depicting the cruelty of the German troops toward their enemy and prisoners, and he sees his own sweet heart taken away and shot during an invasion of the little village in which be lives. These with many other interesting scenes go to make this a most timely subject and should be of great aid to the recruiting for the United States army. This picture will be shown again at the Bligh theater today and tomor row matinee and evening. State House News . During the month of August there were 17 fatal accidents reported to the state industrial commission and 1623 non-fatal. This brings the total of fatal and non-fatal accidents reported to the commission up to 26,902. There were 13 more cases disposed of than received during the month. The total receipts from employers and workmen were $124,558.06, and the total disbursements were $102,759.92. There is now a balaneo in the segragat- cd accident fund of $1,187,565.18, ac cording to the monthly report of the industrial accident commission for Aug ust, ' i 1 5 X i Copyright Underwood & Underwood WJU, DJKKt T HAW KKORU1TINU in .southern states liieuteiiant S. M. Lailouiity, U. S. N., became navy recruiting inspector for the southern states on August 10th. He will direct the work of securing recruits in the southern states. A petition to the public service com mission from the employes of the Port land Railway, Light and Power com pany asks that the commission grant the request of the company for permis sion to increase its fares from five to six cents because they are asking the company for a 16 per cent raise and an eight hour nay anu tncy stare ine com pany cannot do this unles it has more revenue. American Consul Tells of German Witticisms Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 5. America will be told the intimate details of the eruelw submarine warfare of Germany which brought this country into the war. Wesley Frost, recently American coi mil at Qneenstowu, today began a speak ing tour of the country. Frost 's address is approved by the war government. FroHt, while at Queenstown, reported on the destruction of eighty one ships car rying American j itizens. Frost told a Cleveland audience of inhuman atrocities an(f hideous jokes committed by German U-boat crews on defenseless persons. He told of instan ces in which, after throwing all the food from lifeboats laden with survivors, the Germans filled the water casks with! Tho McAllister District Improvement company filed articles of incorporation with the corporation commissioner to day for the irrigation of 1268 acres of land in Deschutes county, the water for the irrigation is to be taken from Squaw creek and is an old water right that was granted in 1901 and adjudi cated by the water ooaiu m ivic. t is expected that great crops of alfalfa will lie srown on this land, as it is adapted for that purpose and already rich crops have been grown on it. The incorporators are Ruth F. Caldwell, Guy C. MeCallistcr and F. W. Luveranz. The Church of Boarrtinan filed artic les with a capital of $2000 to build and establish a church at Boardmau, Mnvrnw county. The incorporators are J. Richard Johnson, A. P. Ayers, and Anna Boardmau. The Htanfield Livestock company, with offices in North Portland, filed with a capital of $100,000 to deal in livestock, grain, hay and wool. The in corporators ere W. A. Willis, S. C. Spencer and H. B. Beckett. Dissolution of the Columbia Construc tion company was filed. Representatives of Suttle's Irrigation project appeared yesterday afternoon before the state securities commission for the purpose ot asking war me com mission allow a bond issue based on the prospective value of tne iana aiiei the irrieation project has been complet- The Peaceful Bossy Had Some Friends Then I . . . n : .!.. on iuyim nil days of long ago. A remonstrance wasld lus"aat ? "Z 7 T' which Tile prt-sviit uiuv - is low. It was stated that with an is sue based on the prospective value the company could complete the irrigation system. The matter was not passed on by the commission but a visit to the scene will be made when formal appli cation for certification is made. At that time the commission will investigate the proposition. Those appearing before the board were Mr. Chinowcth, presi dent of the board of directors, and Ver non A. Forbes and J. T. Hinkle. presented to the city council Dee. 1. 1886, against the passage of a bill to" prevent cows running at large. The re monstrance was signed by 293 voters. But it had no effect on the council as a committee was appointed to find out -how many of those objecting were tax payers and as very few were on tax assessor's list, the bill went through On June 1, 1886, the minutes of the city council read, "On motion the use of Marion square for June 5, 1886, was granted to the Prohibition party for a public meeting." During the summer of salt water. It was a stock joko of the submarine crews, he said. EC Red Crown's con. tinuous chain of boiling points in sures complete combustion. Every drop gives full power. Standard Oil Company' AS MOMY p2& Gasoline of Quality ECONOMIC and MILITARY, PR EPA REDNESS THE;lii?ERSiTY KoiEGON hi addltiM tm camitfot cmthi in (Htnl and scientific 4ucattrTf effort, luH mpp9iftmMm in MILITARy'dRIU.7 DOMESTIC SCIENCE ARTS AND COMMERCE . - - man far effective future service. Vaar c eon try needs it. Sana ferfree iliustrarted koefclets.Train the Brain far Peace ar War" ami "Tne Were n ana ttrm University. AdMraaa ReKistrer, UIVER3ITrlflF CREEOM, Eucene.'Oretjon 1886, it seems the cattle from the coun try around were coming into town at nights to graze and the citizens living on North Commercial Btreet asked per mission of the council to build a fence partially across the street and that it in closed at night. The request was refused. Hayor Thompson Is Almost Mobbed Chicago, Sept. 5. Sailors, soldier and civilians joined in - a acmonsiraium against Mavor .Thompson today as his parade of " fifty automobiles passed Grant Park, en route to the Kankakee county fair. . j Jeer', hisses and cries of "slacker and "take that American flag from your car" were flung at the mayor and his party. Banners were torn from several of the automobiles and the demonstration was assuming the proportions of a riot when officers arrived from the Grant Park camp, drove the soldiers and sail ors Lack anu nispersea me i-n umi.. Throughout the demonstration Thompson sat hunched in a rear seat, only the top of his hat visible. PARADES TONIGHT j WANTS WHEAT PRICES FIXED jNJJVERPOOL Only Abnormal Conditions Makes This Market De pendent On Chicago Why the farmers are dissatisfied with the established price of wheat, $2.20 a bushel at Chicago, is set forth by a prominent grain man today as follows: Before the war, the price of wheat on the I'acific coast was regu lated by the Liverpool market and not Chicago. Frequently the Portland market was as high as the Chicago quotations. After the war began and no ships were to be had, the Chicago market made prices for the northwest. Yet even with the Chicago martlet as the busis, it seems that the big Port land buyers were selling direct to Europe, shipping by rail to Tfew York and to get cash wheat, paid a price several cents higher than the Chicago market justified. Hence both before ahfl after the be ginning of the war, the Portland wheat market has been higher than tho Chi cago market with the difference of freight token into considetation. This same grain man is of the opin ion there are enough ships under con struction on the northwest coast to car ry all the wheat to Liverpool from time to time, even if the ships do not return to this coast until after the war. With these ships leaving for the Atlantic coast and Liverpool, he thinks the farmers should be entitled to the Liverpool price, less the freight charges. His idea of a primary market at Portland would be the Liverpool market, less the cost of delivery by the ships that are now being launched on this northwest coast. San Francisco, Sept. 5. Escorted by an automobile parade San Francisco s first draft quota will pass down Mar ket street at seven o'clock tonight to entrain for the American Lake can tonment. The county council of defense cnmnleted final arrangements today for the city 's farewell to its first draft ed men. Practically every district will entertain its quota at dinner previous to departure. . STAETS BRANCH BANK Washington, Sept. 3. The federal reserve board today authorized the es tablishment of a branch bank at Den ver, Colo. It will handle business of the inter-mountain district and will be under control of the federal bank it GERMANS A UNIT AS TO THEHAR AIMS Chancellor Michaelis Thinks He Has Found a Mare's Nest In Petrograd Amsterdam, Sept. !. If America had been aware of Russia's dealings, re vealed in the trial of Gencial Sukhom linoff in Petrograd for treason, her re- fily to the pope's recent peace plea "would have been quite different," ac cording to Chancellor Michaelis of Germany. Ihe quotation was attributed to him in Berlin dispatches today. He blamed Russia for starting the world war and pointed to the disclosures in Sukhom linoff's trial in support of this state ment. "These disclosures," he said, "would have forced revision of judgment ns to Germany in America, had they been known before. The judgment expressed in the reply to the pope would have been quite different, if America h:id known the kaiser desired before the war to have peace." The German chancellor practically lefied President Wilson to create any break between the German people and the kaiser. "Such a note," he said, referring to tne president s note to tne pope, "can-j not shake our determination to fitrbt. I The German people are loyally harmon-1 iou as far as fheir war aims are con-1 cemed, and these are, for freedom, for j integrity ana tor tneir tuture development."" PAY MORE FOR BREAD THAN DOJJROPEANS Congressmen Says Making Cheaper Flour But Not Bread Is Only a Farce Washington, Sept. 5. Europeans are buying war bread more cheaply than Americans. With flour milled from American wheat, bakers of Great Britain, France, Italy and Belgium are selling bread at from sixty to one hun dred per cent less than this country's nunc iuur comuianus. These figures are from Representa tive Keating, l olorado, father of tlrt- child labor bill, who, with other con gressmen, asked today: "Why not five cent bread in Amer ica t" In Great Britain thirty-two ounces ot bread sell tor 11 eents; in France S3 ounces for nine cents; in Italy 3.") ounces tor eight cents, and in Belgium 35 ounces for 11 cents. In Washington, I). C, 14 ounce's sell for ten cents. 'Keniember, " said Keating, "that the grain which goes in this bread was raised and sold by American farmers; that speculators and middle men made their regular profits; that freight was paid to the seaboard and the highest cargo rate in history expended for its shipment across the Atlantic. What reason can be assigned, then, for the fact Ihnt bread is sold cheaper five thousand miles away from the original wheat field than it is at home?" "Five cent bread is what the masses of the country need. Those abovo the ranks of workers are able to eat, even if they are over charged. But 1he mini who labor should have his table pro tected. "A food regulation which means cheaper wheat for the farm and cheap er flour for the miller and baker, but which doiis not reach down to the mass of the people, is a farce. The people who find their bread prices do not fall, despite great promises, will be more disappointed, than if no effort had been made to relieve them." Market Was Stronger and Most Stocks Gained New York, Sept ii. The Xew York Evening Sun finnucial review today said: There was better buying power in today's stock market as the direct re sult of governmental easing of the mon ey stringency by deposit of funds with the federal reserve bank. Bankers did not pretend to state how much the treasury officials had returned to the banks, but it, was a sum sufficient to cause a decline in call rates from six per cent to four per cent. Security prices tossed about a good deal in the first hour or so. Neverthe less, there was a firm undertone to the general list. Toward mid day a well de fined upward movement was in pro gress, with particularly good demand for United States Steel, Bethlehem Steel "B" and Crucible Steel. Gains rang ed from one to nearly three points in that group. Corresponding advances were recorded elsewhere. Excellent re covery among the rails was the rule. In the first hour of the afternoon trading prices eased off somewhat from the top. Capital Journal Want Ads Gets Results. For Good Dresse rs BUY NIFTY CLOTHES FROM Benjamin Brick THE HtWSE THAT GUARANTEES EVEBY PURCHASE THE HOUSE WITH A CONSCIENCE Ex-Czar's Brother in Revolution Celebration Washington, Sept. 5. Charles Ed ward Russell, socialist member of the Hoot commission to Russia, today told the following interesting experience in trograd: "I was walking along tho Xevsky Prospect with a friend, viewinit a ui- gantis demonstration of .1(10,000 people celebrating the victory of tho revolu tion when I observed coming toward us a tall, well-groomed and careless lookiuir gentleman. His derby was set roguish ly uacK upon his tiead. He was swing ing a can and smoking a ciguictte. "Do you know who that is" asked my friend. "On replying in tho netratlve. I was intormea: " 'This is' the Gram! Michael, 1 bro ther of ex-Cznl' Nicholas.' "Tho former heir apparent to the throne of all tho Russia seemed quite pleased with the demonstration. He was having a jolly good time and ap peared to care very little for the fate of his brother or the fact that he was now simply Citizen ilichal Alexandro virch Romanoff." TO STOP BOOTLEGGING Snn Francisco, Sept. 5. There'll be no more soldiers in uniform on Pacific, slreet after dark. That was the order of Sergeant Jos eph Smith, head of the Presidio pro vost guard, today, Operations of boot leggers who persisted in selling liquor to soldiers, according . to Sergeant Smith, have forced hiui to close tho street to soldiers. Practically tho en tire provost guard will be used to en force the order tonight. - Historic Flag Is Seen In Duplicate In "The Slacker," the Metro pro duction de luxe starring the brilliant actress, Emily Stevens, to be shown at the Oregon theater, tomorrow will bo seen an exact duplicate, of the l'lug that inspired Francis Scott Key t write the national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner." This was the flag that floated over Fort Henry at .Baltimore, when tho British fleet attacked the American ; fort. At that time the nutional emb lem consisted of fifteen stripes and fifteen stars, and measured -tOx.'IO feot. The duplicate of this flag, screened in "The Slacker," measures exactly tho same as tho original, which is one of the treasures of tho 1'nited States gov ernment. I'mler cover of n flag ot' truce, tho young composer had gose on board a British war vessel to see a friend who was n prisoner, ami during the night the fortress. The sight of OJd Glory, battle scarred, but still flying in tho morning breeze, inspired him to writo the i in mortal song. Get Your Money's Worth Save waste in buying as well as in eating! For net food results Grape-Nuis FIRES UNDER CONTROL Portland, Or., Sept. 5. The thirty square mile, forest firn in the Hole In The Ground dis trict near Bend, Or, is under control and the forest fire sit uation elsewhere in the north west is quiet, according to to day's reports. is an ideal cereal-practi-cally 100 nutrition In using Grape-Nuts you Save in Buying Save on Cooking Save on Serving Save on Waste Save on Spoilage Save on Health "There's a Reason" for Grape-Nuts The Food With the Snappy Flavor I Kansas City.
