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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-22

only picture, "figment of inagin-
alton. -
That General Crozier had spent mil
lions trying out the Benet Mercier ma
chine gun, which later was discarded
was charged by Lewis.
Lewis said he once went over Gro
zier's head and offered his gun to Gen
eral Wood, then chief of staff. At the
meeting of the Notifications board, of
which Wood was chairman, Wood was
absent and Crozier, ex-officio officer,
presiding, again turned him down.
Other Inventions Turned Down.
He then cited eight different ord
nance inventions of his own which Cio-
zier had opposed.
GA range finder for coast artillery,
which invented, was opposed by Gro
zier hut finally was adopted by spec
ial board" said Lewis.
Disgusted at his failures here, Lewis
said he went to Europe to live in 1918.
~ was done with the United States
& said.
Then he recited how little group of
Belgian bankers had backed his gun,
how he had discovered two German
ammunition makers among the direct
ors of the Belgian company and how
after "merry row." these directors
had been ousted
After disposing of the Belgian rights
he said he went to England and in 48
hours he had his gun sent to the Bir-
mingham Arms company, which today
is turning out 1900 trench guns and
300 airplane guns each week for the
British army.
Surrendered Royalties.
When offering his guns to the Unit
ed States government Lewis said he Of
fered the royalties on all bought. Once
he said he sent check to Secretary
Baker, covering royalties on 3j3 guns
originally made for Great Britain, but
taken over by the United States. This
check he said, was finally accepted, but
its receipt never acknowledged.
The way 1 know it was accepted,
he said, q is that my bank told me so.
'fWhat prompted you to make this
offer to the government in the first
place and keep it alive ever since?''
asked Senator McKelIar.
That Is hard question to answer
Lewis said. 81 told friend of mine
about my latest offer before 1 made it
and he said it was a very handsome and
patriotic thing to do. 1 asked him if !
that was what he really thought and he |
said no. said he thought I was fool
and he agreed he does.
Il guess my reason is largely psy-
The government has peTse-
suted me and 1 want to pay the gov
srnment in good hard money that I've
earned"
What Borie Said.
Gun manufacturers sponsoring the
Browning gun are ffoolng the gov
A. E. Borie of the Savage
Arms company told the senate investi-
Eating committee today. Borie's com
ANY makes the Lewis gun, adopted by
he allies
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-22
Fruit
Retail Prices
PORTLAND MARKET

Portland, Or, Dec. 22.-Butter, cit.
creamery 52e
Eggs, selected local ex. 4s@52c
Hens 20@21c
BrOilers l7@l9c
Geese 15017c
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-22
Daily Live Stock Market

..-...,. Cattle
Receipts 1875
Tone of market steady
Medium to choice steers $9.35@lO
Good to medium steers $s.5O@940
Common to good steers $7@S15
Choice cows and heifers $6.75@7. 60
Gamers $3@5.50
Bulls $4.50@6.75
Calves $70950
Stocker and feeder steers $6G7.s5
Hogs
Receipts 34l
Tone of market steady
Prime light S15.35@I5.50
Prime heavy $l5.350l5.50
Pigs $I3.50@l4.50
Sheep
Receipts none
Tone of market steady
Western lambs Sl3@13.50
Valley lambs $12.50@13
Yearlings $l2612.50
Wethers $11.75612.25
Ewes SS@10
Note - Portland market on shern
heep, 21a to Sc under quotation,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-22
REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE

Washington, Dee. 22--Chairman viii
cox today called a meeting of the re-
publican national committee Febru
airy II, at the Planters hotel, st, Louis.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-22

The market situation is resting quiet
ly today. A slight decline in mill feed
is expected next week.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-22
Japanese Will Not
Intervene In Russia
BY Ralnh II. Turner.

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent)
Toxic, Dec. 22-The japanese for
eign office is not considering inter
vention in Russia, Vive Foreign Min
lister Shidehara told the United Press
today. No mobilization order is com
pleted.
This pronouneement by the japanese
foreign office was called forth by re-
ports that japan had sent or would
send troops to Siberia to restore order
there.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-22
THE MARKETS

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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-22
what Rorie Said.

Gun manufacturers sponsoring the
Browning gun are 'fooling the gov
ernment" A. Z. BOrie of the Savage
Arms company told the senate inTesti-
eating committee today. Borie's COM
pany makes the Lewis gun, adopted by
the allies.
The Browning gun looks good enough
The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-26

sia have been vainly trying to secure reforms that, II granted, would have long ago placed Russia with her enormous population and i'm mcnse mineral wealth and agricultural poss- blIucs far in the van of the remainder of tine world powers. Revolution after rcvolu- ton has been attempted in the past only to be crushed out by the iron hand of the miIi- tary forces of the old Russian government. The old regime with its rcactionary influences was too uarroW-minded to vision the possi- biIities that liberal government would trans form the country into.
 But, conditions becoming intocrabIe, again the people, this time supported by the Russian armies, rcvoltcd, and after few days struggle emerged victorious, and the new Russian government stood out as the biggest outlaw nation in the world. But her outlawry existed for only breathing space as governments measure time The Amcri- can government, realizing the immediate need for moral support, quickly recognized the new government, and its days as an outlaw were ended, and today it stand an accredited power with the other nations of the world By their moderation the Russians have shown that they are entirely capable of governing them sclycs for true greatness is measured to large extent by moderation of power. The new Russia has begun wisely and we'll
The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-26
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING.

The high of living has hit Fairbanks. That is, the people of Interior Alaska will be called upon to pay higher prices for everything than has been the case for the past several years. The an that prices had been raised and that they will again be raised when the first of the ship of goods begin to arrive here made yester day from offices of the Northern Commercial company.
 All winter we have been hearing prevail ing high prices the Outside. In the particu- larly the prices have been high and have been the cause of considerable suffering. The has also been affected to extent but philosophical it always is, ready and willing to take things they come, is also Alaska, but little of the hue and of the high of living has from cities. And it has hit Alaska and is due take another rap at Alaskas residents The cause is said to be the war and the uncertainty of the part the United States will play in international affairs in the future.
 The reason that high prices have not made them selves felt here before is the fact that the merchants of Fairbanks are compelled to purchase their least a year ahead of time. Consequently when pur- chases were made last summer large stocks laid in and while the cry against high prices being raised on the Outside in the knowledge that they would have pay any advance in price,
 But another condition confronts the mer- chants and shippers It is the possibility ending of the the prevailing high wholesale prices on the Outside paid by merchants when they ship their goods. The ending of the would sary have the effect of leaving merchants witt large stocks of high priced goods their hands nex fall with except to sell at low prices. The merchants should be blamed for the ditions they exist It is matter of sefprotecton them. They not subject to the fluctuations of the market as the merchants of the Outside, owing to the fact that they compelled to order their goods Therefore there is nothing else for them to do to protect themselves but to raise the prices to meet the which would surely result did they ship
The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-26
BEFORE AND AFTER.

Every day it becomes evident that pro hbition friends trying get out from under the school problem and leave the burden of providing for carrying educational work in incorporated up to the various municipalities. It appears to be srettable fact that prediction promises made by them worth par value until November :, since which time they have been steadily decreasing in value until the latest figure made public by them amounts to only fifty per
 This rating appears to be about to be low cred; how much cannot be estimated, but the recog nzed spokesman for the "drys" Representative Snow in recent telegram to Commercial club states that there is deplorabe lack of funds in the territorial treasury and that may enough money to go around The governor according to MT. Snow in railroad towns demanding assistance A repre- sentative will appear before the legs- lature to urge their This exponent of the art of making both ends meet then continues: We will ad just the needs of all the schools the funds available
 This, of course, is sound financial doctrine. Don't spend what you haven't got But it quite different song to the battle hymn chanted by the person in the last campaign. At that time if we remember correctly plenty funds, and easily obained' It now seems that a slight mistake was made in the gentleman CaICUIatlonS II unfortunate that ne IS poor a mathematician.
 Mr. Snow concludes his communication the Com mercial club with a sentiment that heartily subscribe to- however. He says: All the Schools All the Time As Alaskan gentlemen you can't ask more' This is exactly what are conending for. Not all of the schools PART of the time, PART of the schools ALL of the time, and certainly PART of the schools PART of the time. ALL of the schools ALL of the be agreeable all Alaskans, ing for more
The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-26
A DIRECT TAX FOR SCHOOLS.
is not right,

large part of the revenues which the govern ment has been dependent upon to meet running expenses have hitherto been derived from the taxes shipments of whiskey into prohibition states The sixtyfourtl congress, in the last days of it's session. passed bil stopping these shipments and thus cutting off thes revenues. It. however, failed to any Legislation whereby the lost could be made up from othe sources.
 The New York World has the following to sa! about it:
 Congress passes bill cutting off revenue as lightly calling for the expenditure of hundreds of millions Since the legislative de- partment has refused to consider the effect upon the treasury of the forbidding shipments of
 liquor for personal into prohibition states, perhaps the executive branch will inquire into the matter.
 Assuming that Representative Shirley Is well advised when he says that 40 per cent of Ken tucky's liquor product has been sold in prohibi- tion states 1t is reasonable to suppose that the
The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-26

ratio holds good generally and that it applies to
 brewers well distlers. Last year the
 direct tax upon the manufacture of spirits beer
 and wine amounted to about S2SS 0O000O. If the
 new law proves effective in stopping the personal
 use" traffic in prohibition territory, it will also,
 the 4O-percent basis. stop about S95,0oo0OO
 taxes which congressman and others in Wash
 ngton have found highly useful for appropriations.
 In joyous disregard of consequences, congress
 appears to have considered this subject only as
 a moral, social and political problem. with
 suggestion the side that the action taken
 excellent joke upon the prohbitionists
 whose cellars have gone dry. When the
 bill gets the President who must necessarily
 grapple with sordid finance occasionally. he may
 to know how he is to replace that 95000.-
 900 of prohibition drink money
 The prohibition bill for Alaska passed by con gross also cut off some much needed revenues. How that there is enough money to provide for the schools of the territory to keep them going on the scale they have formerly been run. There is. however. attempt being made replace lost with direct personal tax.
 With this end in view Senator Gaustad has in troduced bill in the senate levy tax of four dol
 
 for school purposes This measure should have the endorsement of everybody. for is in the right direction. The amount is small enough perhaps toe small. It is questionable whether it will produce enough money to meet the requirements.
 There should be no kick from anyone to paying such tax. If the people of Alaska have heretofore been willing to maintain schools furnish living tc army of men engaged in the liquor business, from the retailers through the middlemen back the dis tiller and the who grows the crop which the stuff is made paying hundreds of thousands dol lars in doing it, with this money diverted legiti mate trade channels remaining in the possession o the people, it should be difficult put effect small direct school We have Senator Gaustads measure, but if there is any defect f it is probably minor one for the basic principle is sound Alaska certainly needs a system that vii fall evenly every citizen furnish the necessary funds to carry her educational work.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-26
PRESIDENT WAS WELL LIGHTED
 AT INAUGURAL

The pyrotechnical display at the Washington Monument grounds on the evening of March 5, which brought the inaugural festivities to close. was probably on the most magnificent scale of anything here toforc given on one occasion. The following is a brief description of the display:
 "Spiderland" was represented by the simultaneous bursting. half niir iu jir aiT, uf fifty bombs which spread a silver web against the sky over which countless fiery insects CrawI"d. Wheels of flame skdded from the earth into space. breaking into clusters of many-Colored stars. Illuminated paraChutes dropped from bursting bombs, floating gracefully into darkness and ashes. Wilson Peace Bombs," eighteen fifteen-inch shells. broke above the heads of the throng. showering thousands of stars which turned alternately red. white and blue.
 A spectacular feature was the re- production in flame, 1000 feet in the air. of huge American flag 500 feet long, The Field of the Cloth of Cold with forty-eight rapid-fire explosions spread a yellow mantle, 1.200 feet long over the heads of the crowd. A field bombardment, represented by the simultaneous dis charge of 20O0 rockets. shot 5O000 colored stars into the sky.
 Niagara Falls, 100 feet high, was reproduced in silver fire. followed by Sunset in the Alps" a gorgeous color study against background of snow-clad peaks. The Southern Cross, the flaming glory, was project ed in huge dimensions against the heavens, a pyrotcChniCal searchlight playing it's lights upon it as it melt ed into darkness. Sixteen electrical fountains, spouting fire. were DOT trayed simultaneously, followed by a mammoth bouquet of roses, painted in changing colors.
 The entire city, at one stage of the program, was lighted by the burst ing of hundreds of large bombs. fired a mile into the air.
 One of the chief set pieces was the mammoth reproduction, Tn fire, of the faces of the President and Nice-President, framed in laurel wreath and flankvd on each side with columns, with Wilson and Mar shalr' written in white letters at the bottom. This feature covered 5000 square feet It was followed by the reproduction Of a brisk cn. gagemcnt on the firing line-the work of twelye-jnch and eighteen inch pyrotechnical shells combining the rattle of machine guns, the roar of heavy cannon and the smoke of battle.
 The inaugural bouquet followed, a mammoth reproduction of flowers, then the last of the program, the tiring of 750 nine and twelye-inch shells which, bursting into stream CTS and stars, reflected all the col ors of the rainbow. Good Night" n red, white and blue brought the program and the festivities to close
The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-26
THE, NEW RUSSIA.

The action of the United States in promptly recognizing the new Russian gov ernment IS admirable in that 1t sets the seal of approval by the largest democracy of the world on the revolutionary step taken by the Russians in their endeavor to lift themselves out of the mire. It is right and proper that a country which itself is founded on a revolu- ton, though at a much greater cost than that of the Russians, should be the first na- ton to extend the hand of welcome to a gov ernment similarly founded,
 In the history of the world there is per haps no record of another such gigantic coup being accomplished with so little disturbance, bloodshed and property losses. An internal revolt, even in small countries, IS generally accompanied by bitter strife and a horrifying loss of life and wholesale destruction of prop erty. That Russia was able to overturn a government that had been in existence, and had the backing of the predominating rei- gious influence of the country, partakes of the nature of miracle.
 For centuries the common people of Rus
The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-26
HENRY WAGNER
 IS HOME AGAIN

After having spent the greater part of the winter with his family at Long Beach, California, Henry Wagner. the well known Goldstream operator. is home again. He arrived in Fairbanks yesterday afternoon over the trail, as a passenger on one of the incom ing Sheldon automobiles. MT. Wag her states that his family, which has not been north for more than a year, will probably come in on one of the first boats in the spring,
The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-26

at present prices if the happened end.
 The raise in prices. of course, is very slight ir most lines. And at that many staple articles today selling Fairbanks for less money than they bring the Outside.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-26
A SONG OF WINTER WEATHER.

(By Robert w. Service, while serv- ing as ambulance man in France) It isn't the foe that We fear; It isn't the bullets that whine; 1t isn't the business career Of a shell, or the bust of a mine; It isn't the snipers who seek To nip our young hopes in the bud; No, it isn't the guns, And it isn't the Huns It's the mud,
 mud, It isn't the melee we mind That often is rather good fun. 1t isn't the shrapnel we find Obtrusiye when rained by the ton. It isn't the bounce of the bombs That gives us a positive pain; It's the strafing We get When the weather is wet It's the rain,
  It isn't because we lack grit We shrink from the horrors of war We don't mind the battle bit; In fact that is what we are for; It isn't the rum jars and things Make us wish we were back in the
 fold; It's the fingers that freeze In the boreal breeze It's the cold, Oh, the rain, the mud and the cold. The cold, the mud and the rain; With the weather at zero it's hard
 for the hero From language that's rude to refrain. With porridgy muck to the knees, With sky that's a-pouring flood. Sure the worst of our foes Are the pains and the woes Of the rain,
 the cold
 and the mud
The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-26

AFTER many experiments in economic diet. Chicago has discovered that may enjoy three swell meals of dried apples and water day at the very low rates of 10 cents
The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-26

TT is reported that treasury officials contem- plating modifying the design of the quarteT-dollar A careful melting all of the dies and the abandonment of the design altogether would about the right way of modifying it.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-26

THE imposition of taxes upon all business pro fits in excess per should be great stimulus to partnerships to reorganize corporations. Then the excess profits be divided salaries and thus escape the new taxation.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-06-11
WILL MEET THIS Week
Draft Board to BE Called For the Pur.
pose Of Drawing Names Of Men
Who VIII Serve Their Coun.
try - Sixty to BE Taken
From Mason County.

The work of registration under the
selective service draft bill has almost
been completed in Mason county there
remaining nothing to do except make
another set of duplicate registration
cards. The Mason County Draft
Board soon completed the compiling
the figures asked by the government
of the United States which were pub
lished during last week.
The Board will meet during this
week to select the men who will be
called upon to serve their country in
this hour of need. The day for the
meeting has not been fully decided
upon. AT this time the most impor-
tant work of the Board will be done.
The names of all of the young men
In the county who registered on last
Tuesday will be placed in jury
wheel, the required number being
drawn by the board. About 60 men
will be taken from Mason county ou,
of 1414 that registered or less than
four per cent. The fact that one
claimed exemption on last Tuesday
does not mean that their name will
not be drawn from the wheel. After
the names have been drawn the young
men will be notified and will then
have the privilege of appearing before
the Board to claim exemption. A blind
persons name may be drawn, but he
must appear before the board who vii
exempt him. If the board does not
think the person claiming exemption
deserves it he will not be excused.