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tAGE TWO GRAM PASS DAILY COCKIER. WEDNESDAY, JAM AKY IB, !l)IO. ..IE J Published Dally Except Sunday JL K. VOORHIES, Pub. and Propr. Bntered at postofflce. Grants Pass, Ore., as second class mall matter. ADVERTISING RATES Display apace, per inch 15c Local-personal column, per line.. 10c Readers, per line 6 c DAILT COURIER By mall or carrier, per year..$8.00 By mall or carrier, per month .50 WEEKLY COURIER By mail, per year 12-00 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use tor republication of all news dispatches credited to it or all otherwise credited la this paper and also the local news pub-' Ushed herein. All rights of republication or spe cial dispatches herein are also reeorved. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 191t. -f OREGON WEATHER ' Rain; fresh westerly winds. COMMUNITY SALVAGE PLANT The salvage work done by allied armies in the war zone has served to open many eyes to the value of saving small things on a large scale. In the army camps at home and broad, "nothing was considered too little or too worn to be examined in the salvage plants. Akron. Ohio, has now started what is believed to be the first big cooperative city salvage plant in the country. The large manufacturing concerns in that city have always maintained salvage departments of their own where the big quantities of waste material were handled. Dut even these large plants were obliged to let a great deal of small waste go because it was too slight in amount to pay them to handle It individually. And the small stores and shops could do nothing with their waste material for the same reason. Under the cooperative arrange ment about 100 stores and factories, big and little, are turning their waste material over to a mutual sal vage establishment. In this way scraps of metal and waste paper, all the things that are simply small rub bish and usually burned or dumped into an ash heap, are collected. They soon amount to large quantities well worth conserving. Government officials are watching the Okron experiment with Interest If it works as well as it is expected to, it will probably serve as the model for a national salvage system FIGHTING HOOZE IN THE AIR Airplanes are Indeed useful in peace as in war. Would-be "dry Florida has been having difficulties with airplanes that bring liquor into the state from "wet" localities along the Gulf. And now comes dispatch from Jackson, Miss., stat ing that the government is using mil itary planeB to locate moonshine dis tilleries. One moonshine outfit was located recently by a scouting plane, Very shortly afterward the illicit distillery was raided by officers of the law. The entire equipment and 250 gallons of mash were destroyed It Is not stated in the dispatch whether the airplane observer used the wireless telephone to notify the officers or whether the official raid was conductd by. airplane. There are many fascinating possibilities And when "dry" pursuit planes go out after liquor-carrying flying ma chines, the rest of us mortals down on the ground may see some air bat tles almost as thrilling as those of the western front, as well as live' to eee the 'time come when it will rain whiskey. ' ' For You Coffee VXIFOKM GRADES ' AT ltl(iir PHICKS ALWAYS TRY OVR NVMRER IS KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY QUALITY FIRST BREAKING QUARANTINE Chief of Police C. E. McLane made his first arrest yesterday in connec tion with the breaking of Influenza quarantine, although the party breaking it was Innocent in the mat ter and did so through a misunder standing. The officers predict, how ever that there will be a few arrests made for the rea son that many people do not take the quarantine seriously. But the quarantine means exactly what Mayor Demaray says a quarantine in the full menlng of the word. That means that as long as you are under quarantine you must not leave the house, under penalty of arrest and a fine. Don't forget the "fine," be cause Chief McLane says he will see to It that the fine is imposed. If you have a dear friend who is under quarantine and go to make him or her a short call, be prepared to be quarantined yourself. It you are caught, that Is what will happen to you. Don't buck the quarantine it you do you will get the worst of it but stick by the rules and . help Btamp out the epidemic. MIXE SWEEPERS Throughout the war a notable work has been going on, accorded little notice and yet involving a bravery which makes it one of the romances of the sea. This is the sweeping of mines from the waters in order that the big battleships and transports may approach their har bors in safety. All srt' nf small ctaft htve beo i eguippe I ani prcssc . Into .".is dan gerous but necessary service. Seven hundred vessels have been constantly employed around the British Isles alone. Each month the mine sweepers operating in various parts of the seas have swept up the mines from 46,000 square miles of water. It was lately estimated that in all they had traveled some 1,132,000 miles. and every mile was fraught with danger. Of Walter D. Hlnes, his successor as director general of the railroads, Mr. McAdoo says: "Mr. Hlnes Is in full sympathy with the policies which have guided the railroad administra tion, and with the views of the pres ident on the railroad question." It will interest the American people to hear Mr. McAdoo's Interpretation of the president's views, particularly for the Teason that President Wilson informed congress that he had no Judgment of his own in regard to the railroad solution. Portland Telegram. 8uiplolous Creature. "A hard woman to please." "How so?" "When her husband telephones that he will be detained at the office she wants to know whose office and the nature of the detention." Birmingham Age-Herald. - Beecher's Poetic Fancy. I ilke best a forest of mingled trees, ash, maple, oak, beech, hickory and evergreens with birches growiDg along the edges of the brook .that carries Itself through the roots and stones to ward the willows that grow In yonder meadow. It should be deep and som ber, In some directions running off Into shadowy recesses and coverta beyond all footsteps. In such a wood there Is endless variety. . It will breathe as many voices to your fancy as might be brought from any organ beneath the pressure of Handel's hands. Handel and Beethoven always remind me of forests, Henry Ward Beecher. Users DR. EMMA WHEAT GILLMORE Shortly after the death of Capt. Rob art T. Glllmore of the United 8tatea nedical reserve corps, his wife, Dr. ' Emma Wheat Glllmore, entered the United States publle health ssrvlce. Her first position was as active a ilitant surgeon In the extra-cantonment zone of Fort Oglethorpe. Now he Is chairman of women physicians . . in. ut.iii.rai medical board, council :f npt rnal defentc. She also repre wnts the interests of the medical wom en of America en the central grfvnr.i Ing board of the volunteer medical lervice corps. YOU ARE THE JURY Hear the Testimony of Grants Pass People and Decide the lose Doan's Kidney Pills are on trial are being tried every day for weak kidneys for exhausting kidney backaches. What is the verdict? Read Grants Pass testimony person al experiences of Grants Pass wit nesses. There can be only one ver dict a chorus of approval. Mrs. J. R. Gunning, 406 S. Fourth St., says: "My back caused me a great deal of misery at times and there were dull, bearing-down pains across my kidneys. During these at tacks, my kidneys have acted too freely and then again, have been congested. Doan's Kidney Pills al ways regulate my kidneys and stop that misery in my back after I have taken a box or two." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that Mrs. Gunning had. FosteMHiburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. England's First Typewriter. 80 long ago ss 1714 a patent for a typewriter was taken out in England by Henry Mill; It was called a "ma chine for Impressing letters singly and progressively as In writing, whereby all writings may be engrossed In paper so exact as not to be distinguished from print" His machine was very clumsy, and It was not until more than a century later (1829) that anything further was attempted. Then the first American typewriter, "called a typo grapher," was patented by W. A. Burt "Safety First" Tea Kettle. A new tea kettle Is supplied with an extra opening in the top through which It may be filled without the Inconven ience and danger of being scalded by the steam generated when cold water Is poured Into the hot kettle. The sec ond opening Is a small one In front of (he ball and Is protected by a hinged swing cover, which may be op erated by the thumb while the kettle is being held by the bail under the faucet All Called On to Shew Courage. Whatever your sex or position, life Is a battle In which you are to show your pluck ; and woe be to the coward I Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field. It Is ever the-same fair play and admits no foolish distinc tion. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat Men were bora to succeed, not to fail. Tboreau. ftp . 7y 71 STEADIER HUG MARKETS BY THE AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT In ncooi-dnnee with the pi. II 17 of the Food Administration since It founds tlon to consult representative men In the agricultural Industry on occasions of Importance to special brunches of the Induxtry, oil October 21 there was convened .lu Washington a meeting of the Live Stock Subcommittee of, (lie AgrlcuTkurut Advisory Board mid the special members representing the swine Industry to consider the situation Inh hog' market. The conference lasted for three days, and during this time met with the executive committee of the fifty packing firms participating In foreign orders for pork products and with the members of the Food Administration directing foreign pork purchases. ' The conclusions of the conference wero as follows : The entire marketing situation has . se changed since the September Joint conference as to necessitate an entire alteration In the plan of price stabi lisation. The current peace talk has alarmed the holders of corn, and there ha been a price decline of from 28 cents to 40 cents per bushel. The fact that the accumulations of low priced corn In the Argeutlne and Bouth Afri ca would, upon the advent of peace and liberated shipping, become avail able to the European market has cre ated a great deal of apprebeuston on the part of corn holders. This decline has spread fear among swine growers that a similar reduction In the prices of hogs woufli naturally follow. More over, the lower range of corn price would. If Incorporated In a 18-to-l ra tio, obviously result In a continuously falling price for live hogs. In view of these clumped conditions many swine producer anticipated lower prices and ns a result rushed their hogs to mnrket In large numbers, and this overshlpmenl has added to and aggravated the decline. The Information of the Department of Agriculture Indicates that the sup ply of hogs has lucrvnxed about 8 per cent., while the hlchest unofllolul esti mate does not exceed IB per cent. In crease! production over Inst year. On the oilier hand, the arrival of hogs during the lust three weeks In the seven great market tins been 27 per cent, mure thun last year, during the corresiMindlng period, demonstrating the umimiully heavy marketing of the available supply. In the face of the excessive receipts some packers have not maintained the price iigroed last mouth. On the other blind, iniiny of the pnekers have paid over the price offered to them In an endeavor to mntiituln the agreed price. The re sult in any event has been a failure to inalntnln the Octolier price basis determined upou at the September con ference and undertoken by the pack ers. Another factor contributing to the break In prices during the month has been the Influenza epidemic; it has sharply curtailed consumption of pork products and temporarily do- I creased the labor staff of the puckers ' about 25 per cent The exports of 1.30,000,000 pounds of pork product for October com' pared with about 62,000.000 pounds In October a year ago, and the export orders plocenble by the Food Administration for November, amount to 170,000,000 pounds a contrast' ed with the lesser export of 98,000,000 for November, 1017. The Increased demands of the allies -are continuing, and are In themselves proof of the necessity for the large production for which the Food Admin Istratlon asked. The Increase In ex port demand appear to be amply sufficient to take up the Increase In ' beg production, but unfavorable mar ket condition existing In October af ford no fair Index of the aggregate supply and demand. It must be evident that the enor mous shortage In fats In the Central Empires and neutral countries would Immediately upon peace result In ad dltlonal demands for pork products which, on top of the heavy shipments to the Allies, would tend materially to increase the American exports, in asmnch as no considerable, reservoir of supplies exists outside of the United States. It seem probable that the present prospective supplies would be Inadequate to meet this world demand with the return to peace. So far as It .Is possible to Interpret this fact, It ap pear that there should be even stronger demand for pork products after the war, and therefore any alarm of hog producers a to the effect of peace Is unwarranted by the outlook, In the light of these circumstance It I the conclusion of the conference that attempts to hold the price of hogs to the price of corn may work out to the disadvantage of pork producers. It is the conclusion that any Interpre tation of the formula should be a broad gauged policy applied over long period.- It la the opinion of the conference that In substitution of the previous plan of stabilization the Live 8tock Subcommittee or tne Agri cultural Advisory Board, together with the specially invited swine represents fives, should accept the Invitation of the Food Administration to Join with , he Administration and the pnekers In determining the prices at which con trolled export orders are to be placed This will be regularly done. The In fluence of these order will be directed . to the maintenance of the common oh- ' ; Ject namely, the Btablllzfttlon-of the price of live hogs so as to secure as far as It is possible fair returns to the producer and the Insurance of an ade- quale future supply. ihesc forelKii order are tiluced upon tne Dual or cost of hog to the packers. A the result of loan ncKotintlnn De-ween . tills body and the Packers' Committee, representing the 45 to flu packers pnrtlclpntlnit In forelmi or ders, together with Hie Allied buyers, till under the Chiilriiiiinshl 11 tit 1 hi Food Administration! the followlns un dertaking hus been given by the pack ers In view of the undertakings ou the part of th Food Administration with egard to the co-ordinated Purchases 01 pori products, covered In the at tached. It Is agreed that the puckers participating in these orders will un dertske not to purchase hoiri for liu tnan tne following agreed mlnlraums 1 ror the month of November, that Is a dally minimum of $17.60 per hnudred pounds on sveruge of packer' droves. excluding throw-outs. "Throw-outs" to be defined as pig under 130 pounds, stags, boars, thin sows and skip. Further, that no hoes of any kind shall be bought, except throw- outs, at less thun 610.50 per hundred pound. Hie average of, puckers' droves to be construed as the averuire of the total sules In the market of all hogs for a given day. All the above to be based on Chicago. We agree that a committee shall be appointed by the Food Administration to check the dully operations In the various murkets with a view to super vision and demonstration of the carry ing out of the ulwvc. The ability of the.packers to carry out this arrangement will depend on tnere being a normal marketing of hogs based upon the proportionate In crease over the receipts of last year. The Incresso In production appcurs to be a minimum of about 19 cr rent and we can handle such an Increase. If the producers of hog should, as they have In the past few weeks, pre maturely market hoxs In such Increas ing numbers over the above It Is en tirely beyond the ability of the pack ers to maintain these mliiliniinm, and therefore we must have the co-opera tion of the producer himself to main tain these results. It Is a physical Impossibility for the capacity of the packing houses to handle n similar over-flood of hogs and to find a mnrket for the output. The' packers are anx ious to co-operate with the producers In maintaining a stabilization of price and U see that pniiluurs receive a fair price for their products. (Signed) TIIOS. E. WILSON, Chairman Puckers' Committee. The plan embodied above was adopt ed by the conference. - The Food Administrator ha appoint ed a committee, comprising Mr. Thomas E. Wilson, chnlrmun ojr the Pack ers' Committee; Mr. Everett Brown, president of the Chicago Livestock Ex change; Mujor Roy of the Food Ad ministration, Mr. Loul D. Hall of the Bureau of Markets, to undertake the supervision of the execution of the plan In the various markets. Commis sion men are asked to co-operate In carrying out the plan embodied In the packers' agreement. It must be evi dent that offers by commission men to sell hogs below the minimum estab lished above I not fair, either to the producer or the participating packers. Mr. Brown bas, undertaken on behalf of the commission men In the United States that they will loyally support the plan. It I believed by the conference that thl new plan, based as It Is npon a positive minimum basis, will bring bet ter results to the nrndtu-er than aver age prices for the month. It does not limit top prices and should 'narrow the margins necessary to country buy ers In more variable markets. It Is believed that the plan should work out close to $18 average. Swine producers of the country will contribute to their- own interest by not flooding the market for It must he evident that if an excessive over per centage, of hogs I mnrketed In any one month price stabilization and con trol cannot succeed, and If I certain that producer themselves can contri bute materially to the efforts of tho conferences If they will do their, mark eting In as normal a Way a possible. The whole situation as existing at present demands a frank and explicit assurance from, the conferees repre sentednamely, that every possible effort will be made to maintain a live hog price commensurate with swine production costs and, reasonable se, Ing values In execution of the declar policy of the Food Admlnlstratl . to use every agency In Its control secure Juetlce to the farmer. ' The stabilization methods adop for- November represent the best forts of the conference, .concurre by the Food Administration an ' '"' Livestock Subcommittee of the Agrl cultural Advisory Board, together with special swine member and the representative of the packers, to Im prove Ih present unsatisfactory situ ation, which has unfortuustiily result ed because of the Injection of uucoo trollnhle factor. W ask the producer to co-operate with us lu h most difficult task. The members of the Conference were; Producers-It. O. Stuart Elk Oar den, Vs., Chairman Agricultural Ad visory Hoard; W. M. McKaddeu, Chi cago, 111.; A. Sykiw, Ida Grove, la.; John M. Evvurd, Ames, lu. J J. II. Mer cer, Live Stock Commission fur Kan sas; J, (1. Hrown, Monon, Ind. ; R. O. Itrowp, President Chicago Livestock Exchange; N. II. Gentry, Sedulla,.Mo. ; John (Irattan, Hroomfleld, Colo.; Eu gene Funk, itlnomliigton, III. ; Issue Lincoln, Aberdeen, S. D.; C. W. Hunt Uigan, In.; C. K. Vancey. W. It. Dod son, Food Administration Herbert Hoo ver, F. S. Hnyder. Major E. L, Itoy, O. 1L Powell. Depuriment of Agriculture Louis D Hall, F. It. Marshall. The pnekers present and others sharing In foreign orders were repre sented by the elected packers' commit tee. Those represented were ; Puckers Armour A ('41., Chicago, III.; Cuduhy Clicking Co., Ctilcaicn, 111. ; Morris A Co., Chlcauo, III.; Swift at Co., Chlcauo, III.; Wilson & Co., Chica go, III.; John Amir Co.. Chlcii'iin, III.; Armstrong Piickliiu Co.. Dalliis, Tex.; lloyd Diiiihinii A Co,, Chlcaifo, III.; Ilrennun Packing Co., CIiIciikh, III.; Cincinnati Abattoir Co., Cincinnati, t. ; Cleveland Provisions Co., Cleve land, .; Cuduhy Urns. Co., Cudahy, Wis.; .1. Hold PiickliiK Co. IIiiITmIii, N. Y. ; Duulevy I'ucMiik Co., I'lllsbtirg, I'll.; J. i:. Decker ft Hons. Mason City, lu.; Evnnsvllle PiH'kliiK Co., Kvsns vllle, Ind.; Kasl Hide I'uckliiit Co., East St. IjiuIs. III.: Hammond HlainllMi A Co., Detroit, Mich.; !. A. Ilonin-I it Co., , Aust In, Minn.; Home I'ackltii; A lee Co., Terrn Haute, Ind.; Independ ent Packing Co., Ctilcau". III. ; Imllan ti polls Abattoir Co., Indianapolis. Ind.; International provision Co., Hrooklyn, N. y.j Interstate I'ncklng Co., Wlniuin, Minn.; Iowa I'ncklng Co,. Ties Moines. In.; Powers lleug Co., Jacksonville, 111.; Klnguii A Co.. Indianapolis, Ind.; Krey Packing Co., St. IjiiiIs, Mo. : Ijiko, Erie Provision Co.. Cleveland, O. ; Ijiy ton Co., Milwaukee, Wis.; Oscnr Mayer & llro., Sedgwick and Beethoven streets. CIiIciikii, III.; J. T. McMillan Co.; St. Paul, Minn.; Miller A Hurt. Chicago, III.; J. Morrell A Co,, onmn wa, In.; Nuckolls I'ncklng Co., Pueblo, Colo.; Oplcn I'ncklng und Provision Co., Ogden, Utah; Ohio Provision Co., Cleveland, .; Parker Webb A Co., De troit, Mich.: Pittsburg Packing and Provision Co., Pittsburg, Pa.; Italh PiickliiK Co., Waterloo, tit. ; Huberts A Ouke, ChiciiKo, III.: Kobe A Itros., New York City; W, C. Itoiitb A Co., 1 .01; im port, Ind.; St. l-oiil Ind. Piicklinr Co.. St !.ouls, Mo.; Sinclair A Co., T. M. Cedar Itnplds, la.: Sullivan A Co., De troit, Mich. ; Theiirer-Nortiui provision Co., Cleveland, O. ; Wilson Provision Co., Peoria, HI.; Western Packing and Provision Co., Chtcnco. III.: Charles Wolff Pucklng Co., ToH-ka, Kmm. ' BEAT AMERICAN PRISONER Germans Alse Kept Him for. Day Without Food, Hs Says. The Stars and Stripes, the official newspaper of tho American expedition ary force, Identifies tho first Americas private soldier to escape from prison in Oermuny as Frank Snvlckl, and de vote a three-column article to his ex periences. Savtckl, whose home was In Shenandoah, Pu Is a Itusslun Pol by birth and has taken out his first naturalization papers. While a prisoner In the hands of the Germans SaVlcki spent ten weeks be helnd the German lines, where be worked 14 hours dally on mllltury work. He then wu sent to a farm. He often went days without food and water, and was, clubbed by his guards for picking grass along a roadsldo to eat Flnully be was sent to the prison camp at Itastatt, where be received American Red Cross parcels from Switzerland. After several week In the prison camp Suvlcki escaped and got through the mountains Into western Alsace, where he hus rejoined his regiment Need for Discipline. The price we must piiy for contin ually proving and possessing the good I eternal vigilance. Often a sort of plg-hendednea In self-assertion, la elf-mnnugement, set up Its owner ship. That Is one reason why , die . clpllne submitting ourselves In some way to the will of others I good for us all, big and little, young and old. It I the best and often tho only means of breaking down the willfulness that Is likely to enter any one of us at any moment. Youth' Companion, ' r Object Lessen. Staid' and serious Mary felt keenly responsible for the deportment of her younger sister, Murgaret, who was en tirely lacking In a sense of decorum. At a children' party one afternoon Mary was horrified to see her sister chewing gum with all the vigor and abandon of her nature. Hastily sweep ing the offender Into a corner,' Mary pointed out a third little guest who was managing her stick of gum with commendable moderation and restraint "Margaret," she snld severely, "I want you to notice how a lady , chews gum."