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The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-11-16
new REGULATIONS
FOR DRAFT MADE

Washington. President Wilson has
ordered the complete reorganization Of
the draft machinery on lines making
every man subject to war duty II mot
in France. at least in the fields ana
factories.
In foreword tc the new regulations
under which the reclassification Of the
100000 men not called In the first
draft will be made. the president
makes stirring appeal to all citizens.
especially lawyers and physicians. to
aid in the work.
The las questions for the remaining
nine million draft registrants to am
swer beginning December is. constf-
tute searching inquiry into each
mans life and fitness, and detefmiRe,
through the action Of local drpfe
boards. the order of his call to mitt.
tary service,
This QUESTIONABLE automatically r.
yokes all exemptions and discharges
under the first draft. Failure to re.
turn his answers in seven days after
he receives the questions makes tbs
registrant liable to year in prison.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-11-16
SIZE Of LOAvES TO
Be STANDARDIZED

Washington, --- Definite steps to
standardiEe bread and lower It's price
was taken when President Wilson is
sued proclamation placing all baker.
les under government license Decem-
Der 10 and subjecting them TO food
administration rules prescribing In
gradients and weights OF loaves.
Prices will not be fixed. but with the
Standardization 1t is expected that
competition and simplification of dis
trihution will force down prices for
pound loaves to 7 or s cents.
Fancy breads win be eliminated. and
the multitude OF sizes now produced
will be reduced 10 four with standard
ingredients.
The weights will be one pound, one
and one.halt. two and four pounds.
The loaves will have crease In
the middle to permit their sale In
halves, In baking only three pounds
OF sugar will be allowed for barrel
Of flour instead OF an average of six
pounds now used. and two pounds OF
vegetable oil shortening must be used
instead OF six pounds OF lard or oil.
The food administration expects to
save loo,QoO,OOO pounds Of sugar aud
the same amount OF lard In this way.
Bakers may use only skinned milk
for bread, and rolls will be permitted
only II made In standard sizes, and
Of regulation bread dough,
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-11-16
BRITISH LOSSES J 70 100
Americas Casualties Likely to 10 Lssp
In France.

Washington. The ratio of losses
sustained by all OF the British exps6l
tionary forces sent into battle in
France is less than seven to every
100 men. 1t is not expected thAt
American losses in the war against
Germany will exceed this percentaGe.
despite the fact that German props
gsndists in this country are eirculst.
ing unwarranted reports In an effert
to make the American people bsiissA
that the American army is going ts
meet with Wholesale losses when u
reaches the battlefront.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-11-16
Allen workmen Barred.

Buffalo, N, with the plan Of
precluding the possibility of labor asi-
tators becoming dangerous force in
organized labor, and from starting agi.
tations such as those fostered by the
l. W. w, the building trades depart.
ment of the American Federation OF
Labor, In convention here, adopted a
resolution barring from the ranks OF
bona fide labor workmcn of foreign
birth or parentage who are not Amer
lean or Canadian citizens or who have
failed to declare their intention Of be-
coming such.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-11-16

United States senator McNary tele
Krhphed 10 Food Administrator Hoov
er declaring that the farmers of ore
Eon are suffering n material lons from
the present situation concerning
wheat aud asking for relief
After The installation Of hundreds OF
thousands of dollars worth OF modern
apparatus. an additional boat and nu
metous other improvements, Port
lands bureau Of fire. according TO q
repor, just issued by the national
board of fire underwriters. IL less cf
ficlont than II was In 1910.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-11-16
NOTICE or SCHOOL METTINo.

NOTICE ~ HEREBY GIVEN. To
the legal voters % School District No.
10 of Umatllla County. State Of ore.
son, that a SCHOOL MEETING Of
said District viii be- held al school
House on the 9Th day of November.
1919. az ..5g O'Clock IN the afternoon
10 vote on the proposition ~ Ieyying
a special district tax.
Tho total amount IT money needed
hy the district during the fiscal year
beginning on June 20. 1911. and end
Ing on juno 80. 1918. IL estimated Ih
the following budget and Includes the
amounts t1 be received from the
county school fund. state school fund,
special district tax. and all other
moneys Of the district:
Hndgct-f1stimntcd Expenditures.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-11-16
FLEET CORPORATION
IS REORGANIzED
Big Business Men Are Put
In Charge Of Construct
ing Vessels.

Washington.-Because the business
Of building ships for the United States
emergency fleet has not produced yes-
sells speedily enough. . practical re-
organization OF the emergency fiset
corporation has taken place.
Big business men have been put IN
charge. And from now on the entire
work will be conducted as any one %
Americas great corporations would be
by big organizers. The following
men have been named TO push the
work with all haste:
Charles Piez OF Chicago, president
OF the Link Belt company; James Hey
worth OF Chicago. contractor: A. J.
Mason OF Chicago. engineer; Charles
Day OF Philadelphia. contractor:
Frank Kirby OF New York. architect;
John Burton Payne Of Chicago. law.
yer
To Mr.. Pier will be given the isb Of
turning out Americas ships with
speed. He becomes really the aetivs
head OF the emergency fleet corpora,
ton, because as vice president no 10
next to Edward N. Hurley, presidens
Of the corporation and chairman Of
the United States shipping board. The
other men will all work in close CO.
operation with Mr.. Piez.
The fleet corporation 10 now about
30 per cent behind In its supply Of
lumber. hence delay In the carYyias
out Of its program. There are new
$40 wooden ships in process Of coz.
struction and contracted for. Psobe,
bly, no more will be wanted. There
are 220 fabricated ships to be built.
The steel program has not been de-
layed TO such an extent because they
are longer in the making and their
construction did not call for such
speed as the wooden and fahricstsA
vrsscirs
The program calls for 100000 tons
of vessels by the end of 1918. II was
said that with the proper applicaties
the reorganized corporation viii be
able to meet them and. moreover.
keep to the schedule that wifi prsvide
10000. 900 tons of shipping by thsssna
of 1919.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-11-16
Labor Responds to WIlson.s PIea.

Buffalo. N. Y.-President Wilson's
plea to labor to maintain unhindered
all the processes Of labor until Ger.
many has been beaten received. its
first answer when the building trades
department of the American Fedsva.
ton of Labor ordered the diseontinu-
ance of all strikes on government
work under its jurisdiction.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-11-16
THE MARKETS.
Portland.

Portland.
Oats-No. 2 white feed. $40 a ton.
Barley-Standard feed, s50.50 ton.
Corn-s5450 per ton.
Hay-Timothy. s27 per ton; alfalfa,
$24.
Butter--Creamery 4Sc per ID.
Eggs-Ranch, sic per doz,
Potatoes-Sl.5092.OO hundred.
Poultry - Hens, large. 19c; small,
17dlsc; geese, 1OG12c: ducks, $50
zoe; turkeys. live, 23c.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-11-16
Er.oueen LIlluokaIanI DEAD.

Honolulu. T. H.-Queen Liliuokala-
nj, OF Hawaii. whose death had been
expected for several days. is dead.
with the death of Queen Liliuokalani
has passed the last yestige OF royalty
in the Hawaiian islands.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-11-16
Seattle.

Butter-Creamery, 4Sc per lb.
Eggs-Ranch, 60c per doz.
Potatoes-s40G50 per ton.
Poultry - Hens. 19@24c; dressed.
90 @26c; broilers, soc.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-04-27

At a meeting of the citizens OF
Brownsville in the chapel of the Hay
wood county High School last Friday
night a community club was organ
lied.
The meeting was addressed by Miss
Bessie Murphy, who represents the
Home Economics department of the
Memphis Business Mems Club. She
came to Brownsville upon special in
vitation.
Miss Murphy's address was intense
ly interesting and practical, dealing
especially with the practical side OF
home and community life, which locks
to the social, educational, sanitary and
religious uplift of all. The practical
side of home life was dwelt upon. Our
people were urged to raise more of the
necessaries of life and community can
ming clubs were recommended for the
preservation of fruits and vegetables
which, in the past, have been allowed
to go to waste.
At the conclusion of Miss Murphy s
address the organization of a cornmu-
ity club was discussed and received
with much enthusiasm. Organization
was effected by the election Of the
following officers: Mrs. Jonas Stern.
~ efi.lss,s, 7sls l.ssssiis iNiliz'
xitp nrasident. Miss Annebel Moore
secretary and Mr.. J. r Ellsworth
treasurer.
The membership of the club is to
include every citizen who wishes to en-
list for the general uplift Of the COM
munity interests. There are no mem
bership dues and no assessments on
members. When any special work is
undertaken, every member will be ex-
pected to give hearty cooperation and
assistance in its accomplishment.
1t is expected that this work will
extend to the rural communities OF the
county and the cooperation OF our ru-
raj neighbors is invited and expected.
, movement was placed on foot to en-
ploy a county demonstrator for the
purpose of instructing the people thru
out the county in the utilization and
preservation of their food products,
such as fruits, vegetables, etc. If
this work is taken up by our rural
communities, the $4,000 that has been
spent in the past for canned goods
shipped into Haywood each year, can
in large measure, be kept at home,
The citizens of Haywood county can
and should produce enough canned
goods to supply the home consumption
Miss Murphy stated that Shelby
county not only supplied her own
wants in this respect last year, but
produced a surplus for other markets
AS their part of the community club
work, the merchants are to provide
ready sale for supplies of goods rails
ed by our people throughout the
county.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-04-27

Dr. H. A. Morgan, head of the Agricultural
Extension department of the University of Ten
nessee, delivered telling address here Wednesday
night on the necessity Of organizing the forces of
our county and state for increased production Of
food products this year.
Those who heard DR. Morgan we're aroused to
the absolute necessity of quick and organized ac-
tion in Haywood county. He made us see, as we
have never before realized, the responsibility of
work on fh@ 1trX individual making it
cIeaf That our own safSs a s.ess tll the success
of the war in which we are now engaged is abso-
lutely dependent upon food produced in the United
States. He urged the immediate organization Of
the forces Of Haywood county for the purpose of
furnishing seed and labor to the end that every
available acre of land be made to produce food pro-
ducts this year. DR.. Morgan won the applause of
his hearers when he declared that if he was mayor
of this city he would close the pool room before
another day had passed and use every means to
have every man and boy available go to the furrow
as patriotic duty to his. country.
At the close of his address and in response to
the clearly urgent need of speedy and systematic
organization, S. F. Thomas, chairman of the county
central committee, issued call for meeting of all
community committees to meet in Brownsville Sat-
urday, April 28 at o'clock with the central COM
mittee for closer organization of the forces of
the county and systematic arrangement for sup
plying seeds and all essentials for the great food
production campaign now on.
Haywood county in what we have already ac-
complished easily ranks the entire state but if we
are not slackers, neither must we be sprnters
alone. We have thus far made splendid begin
ming, but only beginning.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-04-27
FOOD CONTROL
PLANS OUTLINED
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE
Step Taken by Trade Commission Pre-
paratory to Investigation Of High
Food Prices: No Crop Short
age is Indicated, He Says.

Washington, April 2S-Congress
took up the food problem today in pub
lie hearings by the senate agriculture
eommittee,a at which Secretary Houston
set forth the Administrators food
control program.
At the same time the federal trade
commission, directed by President Will
son to investigate with the agricultu-
raj department the causes of high
food prices, asked all state governors
to send representatives to Washington
April 80 for a conference on state
cooperation in the inquiry.
Before appearing at the committee
hearing, Secretary Houston put his
plans before the heads of five of the
country-s big farmers organizations
and received assurances of support for
any measure the government contem-
plates for getting a firmer grip on food
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-04-27

De exercised and he did not think the
government should go into the whole
sale business.
The secretary said he had no accu-
ate estimate of the grain going into
alcohol, except that its value last year
was $145,000,000.
The department Of labor's boy mo-
,ilization plan contemplates the es-
tablishment of enrolling stations in
every city in the country. Boys from
Is to 10 would be organized into
squads under proper supervision, and
with adequate equipment would camp
on farms wherever their services were
needed during the season.
1T is planned to enroll boys who can
be used to advantage wherever there
may be a shortage of labor, respectfully
in agriculture" said labor depart
ment announcement. There is now a
great demand for help in the prepara-
tion of fruit and vegetables for can
ming and also for planting operations
in several northern states, including
the whole of New England. It is ex-
peeted that Director Halls first work
will be to care for enlisting the efforts
of boys to help the Gamers and the
New England farmers.
Boys under age for enlistment, but
able to be OF service, will be welcomed
to join the reserves. 1t is intended
that nothing shall be done that will in
any manner tend to break down the
accepted standards of child Legislation
and child life"
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-04-27

A new kind of material is now being
used to some extent by shoe manufac-
turers in place of leather for making
boots and shoes. Shoes made from it
look so much like calf skin that that
few people can tell the difference.
The vamps and tips are made of rub
berized substance and the soles and
heels are made of a fibrous material
the exact composition of which is not
generally known. These near skin
shoes, as they are called, sell for
about $4 pair.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-04-27
PUBLIC SPEAKING.

Chaplain ]. B. Frazier, U. S. N,
who served as chaplain to Admiral
Dewey at the battle of Manila Bay
will address the people of Brownsville
and Haywood county at the court
house in this city this, Friday night,
April 27, at 8 o'clock. His subject will
be Advantages and Needs of the Ma
Wy" Everybody invited to attend. Ad-
mission free.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-04-27

most wholly by city people; and the re-
suit is that not one farm boy in hun
dred knows anything about the great
men who have enriched farming and
farm life. We read and study, for ex-
ample about many English kings and
queens who were really nobodys, and
are left in utter ignorance concerning
the great names inEnglish agriculture.
Every farm boy ought to know about
Jethro Tull with his crusades for bet
ter methods of cultivation; "Turnip
Townshend" and his idea of crop rota-
tion; Robert Blackwell and the Col
ling brothers, whose work in live stock
breeding should make them immortal,
and so on. Just as lawyers honor
Blackstone, so farmers should honor
Liebig, the great chemist whose re-
searches revolutionized our thinking
in matters Of soil fertility Then
there is a noble line Of inventors of ag-
ricultural machines. We southerners
should not forget that it was a south
erner, Cyrus Mccormick, who invent
ed the reaper, Several years ago, in
Wisconsin, | met Prof. Babcock, whose
invention of the Babeock test has en-
abled dairymen. to tell which cows are
paying and which are not. | now fre-
quently see son of the man who
gave his name to the Mangum terrace
The story Of Eli Whitney's cotton gin
should be familiar to every farm boy.
Nor do / think he should forget D.
Ward King, whose invention of the
simple road drag has been of incalcu-
liable benefit to our people and would
be of infinitely greater benefit if the
drag were as widely used as it ought
to be.
We now come squarely to the main
point. What | want is to see each Of
my farm readers pick up a hero, and
set out to follow in his hero's footsteps
or set out to study and emulate more
than one such hero.
Why should you not be the Seaman
A. Knapp of your county or commune
ty and do for it such work in popu-
larizing agricultural knowledge as Or.
Knapp did for the whole south.
Or why don't you be the Raiffen-
sen of your county and do for it such
work as he did for Germany in freeing
the poor farmers and tenants from us
ury and helping them to independence
and home ownership?
Or why not be the Sir Horace Plum
kett of your county by working un-
ceasingly to establish general business
cooperation among farmers?
Or why not be the Grundtvig of your
section, vitalizing the country schools
and enriching the social and intellect
ual life of the people as he did in Den
mark?
Some such ambition every such farm
boy should have-to be the Knapp,
Raiffeisen, Grundtvig, or Plunkett of
his county or community; or to link
his name with some other advanced
step in agricultural progress. No man
will have lived in vain, or will have
found life lacking in richness and col
or, if he has done this-if he is remen-
bered as local apostle of cowpeas, al
falfa, soy beans, or as the man who
made a speciality of this or that inn
proved agricultural practice, as Priest
ly Mangum made a speciality of terra
cling or Ward King of road-dragging,
or as Johnny Appleseed" populariz-
ed apple growing in the territory of
his travels.-Progressive Farmer.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-04-27
HEROES EVERY FARM
BOY SHOULD KNOW

Our farming people need to recog-
nize and honor our agricultural heroes
of the past and present Our Htera-
ture has been too exclusively city-bred
Our text books have been written al
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-04-27
CARD OF THANKS

We take this means of thanking
our neighbors and friends, and espe-
cially those around Aliens Station, for
their nice donations to us following
our recent misfortune.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. H. BELL.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-04-27
Closer Organization and Cooperation Sought in Food Production
Perfected for
Methods Discussed
for Raising Army

CONGRESS DEBATES WAR PLAN WITH PROSPECTS FOR VOTE
SOON: SPEAKER CLARK OPPOSES ADMINISTRATIONS CON.
sCRIPTION BILL: MORE THAN MEMBERS WAITING TO
SPEAK: OUTCOME DOUBTFUL.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-04-27

Elsewhere in this issue of the
States-Graphic appears the announce
ment of F. L. Cuthbert as a candidate
for the Office of sheriff of this county.
Mr. Cuthbert was reared in Haywood
county. He has been life long DEM
ocrat, is man of good moral charac-
ter, honorable and upright in his deal
ings with his fellows, big hearted and
true as friend and possessed of those
natural qualifications which fit him
for the duties of the office which he
seeks. He has the backing Of many
friends and will undoubtedly prove a
strong candidate for this important
Office.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-04-27
Community Club
Organized at Meeting

SPLENDID ADDRESS BY MISS BESSIE MURPHY MEMPHIS FOL-
LOWED BY ORGANIZATION FOR IMPROVEMENT IN HOME AND
COMMUNITY LIFE: COOPERATION OF ALL GOOD CITIZENS
SOUGHT NO MEMBERSHIP OTHER FEES REQUIRED
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-04-27
Haywood County
Hear Again!

CALL FOR JOINT MEETING OF ALL LOCAL
COMMUNITY COMMITTEES WITH CEN
TRIAL COMMITTEE SATURDAY AFTER
NOON AT 2 o. CLOCK AT COURT HOUSE.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-04-27

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Canton Police Chief
Praises N. Y. Force
Chang Wei Declares Depart
ment Best in Country
After Visit

Chang Wei, Chief Of Police OF Gan
ton, inspected the New York Police De-
partment yesterday. 1t was the end OF
a transcontinental trip, during which
he looked over the police departments
of many cities.
"The New York Police Department"
he said, beyond doubt is the best in
the whole country"
The school Of instruction, the finger
print bureau. the traffic squad and, best
of all in Chang's estimation, the lineup
in the Detective Bureau, came in for
nraise. He fingered behind his guides
10 watch the masked detectives peer at
the mornings harvest Of crooks, and
exnressed the most lively interest in
the spectacle.
throughout his tour Of Headquar-
ters the Chinese chief kept sheaf OF
notes constantly in one hand and a
mcneil in the other, with which he in
dicated hieroglyphics with miraculous
speed.
II was all most interesting and most
valuable, he said, in an interval be-
tween notes. Although Inspector
Faurot modestly admitted that the
CeIestials had a good start on the finger
prjpt method Of Identification before
Oecidentals stumbled upon it, Chang
courteously insisted that there was
much to learn here also, and diligently
inscribed his observations in his note
hook in proof Of his statement.
ON his return 20 emma, the police
chief said. he would introduce many IN
,'oyations in the Canton Police Depart
mert. and would visit other Chlnesee
cities and tell of the police methods OF
the United States.
Chang Wei had long talk, through
an interpreter, with Acting Commits
eioner Cooley. Before he left the
bniIding a photographer asked him TO
nose and the smiling Chinese, who is
I feet 2 inches in height, p!ched OUT
Patrolman Taylor, who is o feet g. 10
hare the plate with him. =,
"Tbat will be the best photograph,
ba said. "to have me taken with one OF
,,or,r fine. big New York policemen"
The visitor had letters Of introduc-
,ion from the American Consul at Can
Ton. Ebert Y. Chung, medical stu
dent, acted as interpreter.