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The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-12-19
CROP THIS YEAR
BREAKS RECORD

Washington. - Record prices and
bountiful production sent the value Of
farm crops harvested this year to ths
unprecedented total of $1,000, Z 4O. .0oe,
exceeding the value of last years
crops by almost $500, 200, 600.
Final estimates of production wers
issued by the department of agricul.
ture and values were based on prices
paid to producers December /,
Corn easily maintained its place
as king of crops, with value Of
$5,s3i,23+000, while cotton. including
cottonseed, was second with a total
value of s2.33o .91s.0o. The hay crop
was third with S2,2S9 $4,000.
Wheat, combining the winter and
spring crops. was fourth. with s2,02s,.
$4,000. Oats, $l,OOO,OO0,OO0 crop last
year. reached total of only $685.
603,0 900 because of decreased produc.
tion.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-12-19
Dry Act Constitutional

Washington. - The war time pfp
hlbitlon net was held constitutions
by the supreme court
federal court DEGREES in New Yori
dismiHsing proceedings brought by
Dryfoos. Blum 4 Co. to compel inter
nal revenue officials to permit the
withdrawal from bond Of whisky for
beverage purposes were affirmed by
lhe court
The signing Of the armiStice did not
abrogate the war powers Of congress-,
Associate Justice 6rRndels said In
reading the decision Of the court
The constitutional prohibition
amendment 10 binding on the federal
government a. we'll as tho states and
supersedes state iawr, the court do
clAred. The Judgment OF the court
was unanimous.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-12-19
ALLIED DIPLOMATS CONFER
Activity In Washington indicates That
ALLIES May Accept Modification.

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Washington. - Frequent conferences
between entente diplomats here have
Indicated that their governments nigh;
be prepared 70 accept some Teserya.
tions 70 tho peace treaty In order TO
accomplish its ratification in the sen.
ate.
II 10 understood that only the ill.
ness Of President Wilson has prevent.
ed him from being so advised by some
OF them.
II has not been made known here 10
whst extent the entente powers might
be prepared 10 80, but II does appear
that there would be final objection to
tho preamble as proposed by the sen.
ate foreign relations committee, by
which other powers would be required
officially to record their acceptance
Of reservations as part OF the treaty
in substance.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-12-19

A conference TO investigate thorough
~ the question OF increasing rates
10 injured workmen under the work.
mems compensation act. will be held
IN Portland Monday. December 2e.
The bill restoring to the public
domain 1000 acres OF land In Jackson
county was passed In the house through
the efforts Of Representative Sinnot;.
Tho land is situated on Lower klamath
lake.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-12-19
he two ranch dogs wlth nis fangs

he two ranch dogs with his fangs.
This years state tax. as cmputed by
Frank Lowell. tax commissioner, will
,e approximately s4,3al.20s. as against
ls,02l.402 last year, The increase in
his tax. according to letter sent to
county assessors OF the state by Mr..
lowell. is due to the addition Of $751;.
.sS.44 allowed by the 6 per cent limi.
alton act. $3.50. .435.47 for market roads,
and siss,es7.os for operation OF the
Ioldiers'. sailors and marines educa-
ional aid law.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-12-19
SENATE PASSES SUGAR BILL
Purchase and Sale of Stocks Authorls.
ed by Measure.

Washington.-The McNary bill. un-
der which government control of sugar
would be continued another year, was
passed by the senate and sent to the
house
Purchase and sale by the equaliza.
ton beard both of foreign and domes.
tic grown sugar is authorized by the
bill, which would empower the presi-
dent to continue the board until Dec
ember 81, 1920, to secure fair prices
and equal distribution,
The bill specifically provides, how.
ever, that producers, refiners aud dis
tributors of sugar shall not be licensed,
as has been the practice under the
Lever food control act
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-12-19

According TO report receiyed b.
q. C. 9srttnm OF the umpqua forest
reserve. Roseburg probably will be Sc
lected as an airpIane base for forest
patrol activities next season.
David NJ. Glass. locating engineer
for the state highway commission. was
severely injured about the head when
a range In the house which the survey
crew is using near Nolin. exploded.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-12-19

piled frightened though she thought Of the In the field
through which the nhborhoo
She reaching the house
but mod them No home and she
back Her their and break
Ing window. up telephone times.
when the phone and
say Mamma Is under the car"
Running back their home Marguerite took Of coal and
breaking through erawd through Il by II window
dropped Then standing the tel
mother had told Three heard the call had
difficulty childish repeating
Mamma s
Mrs Forbes found be quite badly injured but the
Marguerite
and ability.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-12-19
100000 Ton. Of shipping construet.d

Washington. - The U. S. shipping
board has made good its pledge TO
construct 6.ooo. 900 tons OF shipping in
tie wear 1919, It is announced by John
Barton Payne. chairman. BY Decem.
ber 81 the board will have delivered
100000 deadweight tons Of shipping.
On December It had completed with.
in the current year 5,s15,5OO dead
weight tons.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-12-19
Japan Concerned over Red. Advance

Washington. - Conversations have
been begun between the Japanese am
bassador and Secretary OF State Lans-
ing on the situation in Siberia. The
advance of the soviet forces toward
Eastern Siberia and the retirement OF
the Kolchak government to Irkutsk,
on the shore of Lake Baikal, is viewed
with alarm by Japanese as bringing
the Bolshevik menace nearer to their
doors. 1t is felt that any closer ap-
proach of the Bolsheviki might inn
peril Japanese national interests.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-12-19

Linn county which now claims to
have more breeders of purebred stock
than any county in the state is plan
ming TO form breeders association
A meeting will be held In Albany for
that purpose some time this month";
probably on Saturday, December 81
A new industry is to be started in
Douglas county by James A. Will
Iams, who purchased Glen Echo farm'
tho country home OF Forest Supervisor
Bartrum. It is the Intention OF Mr.
Williams to stock ,hS place with pure.
bred Swiss milch goats aud make a
speciality OF brssding this class OF
animals.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-12-19
Presiden. Able to Walk About Room

Fresiosnt AoIe 10 walk About Room.
Washington. President Wilson is
now permitted to walk about his
room and along the adjoining hall for
Il short time each day. Rear Admiral
Cary T. Grayson. his physician. an
rounced. The president, the doctor
said. dresses himself and with the ala
of cane walks unattended.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-12-19

seeing that none of them we're seem.
ingly hurt. but that she was caught In
such manner that she could not free
herself. asked Marguerite 20 crawl out.
The little girl was free and did so.
The baby was held down. but unln.
jured. and despite all her efforts Mrs.
Forbes could not release herself.
Then the mother told Marguerite
TO 50 10 a nelghbor's nearly q half mile
distant and get help.
"Yes fuammn +" tho iIffia ofri "a
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-12-19

The flax and machine snop depart
ments OF the Oregon state peniten-
tiary were damaged to the extent OF
more than $200o, when the skylights
and a part of the roof of the eombina.
tion structure fell under heavy
weight Of snow.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-12-19
WELL. WELL. HERE THEY AREl

Having i~st been released from the
grip Of King Winter Weston tomor-
row will be In the grip Of the Dokies
"A far worse calamity II we may
Judge from the dire proclamations. Of
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-12-19

C. l.. Brill, Master Of Ceremonies
ments are; Carriages and Gowns at
1 G. NJ. Parade at If weather per-
mits."
Leading Dokics are "mugged"
herewith, so that the people may
know and steer clear Of them.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-12-19

y. NJ. Huntington. Secretary
publicity, 1t Is needless to repeat
them here, Suffice ii to say that
luckless Weston will not belong TO
itself tomorrow but 10 the Dokies.
At Z o'clock there will be "A banquet
Of at least $50 plates, served by the
Pythian Sisters. Further announce
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-12-19
Marguerite Forbes: Little Fiye.Year-OId Heroine

NENyEHMr children Marguerite Eve
her baby brother nine
When oneinf mile from upset. pnnng
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-12

they were under discipline which
for sternness can be compared only to
prison life, the discipline, just or un-
just, by which men win wars. Think
of them as tightly coiled springs, held
down by an iron bar. When such a
spring is released it shoots into the
air, quivering. These men have been
released, and arc still quivering in
body and soul. 1t will take time for
them 20 steady themselves and to
stand firm. %
This lis worth thinking about. And
i is applicable TO the people at large.
The soldiers were held down more
firmly than the civilians. But every
man, woman and child knew the grip
of the iron bar of war, and can un-
derstand that feeling o. quivering re-
lease. This explains much of the
seething turmoil Of this last year. The
discomfort and chaos were only nat
ural. But they are already settling.
Steady, normal life is getting is grip.
A little time, a little patience, lit
tie tolerance, and everything will
move onward steadily again. with
conditions better than ever before.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-12

and endless repetition, ever since the
fighting stopped. Work and produce.
There is no. other way to cure what
ails the world.
The trade congress aimed this ad-
vice primarily at Europe. Europe
seems to need it most. The very ca
tastrophe which created the disease
makes it more difficult to supply the
remedy. The war required tremen-
dous effort The victory left the ma
tions weary. Europe, having borne
most of the strain, finished most n car
ly exhausted Bodies and souls Wat
rest. It is thus harder for the Icu-
ropeans to get back to their normal
productivity than for Americans. Yet
they must do it soon, or starve. Fer
they lack not only goods, but credit,
and the United States cannot continue
supplying them at the rate of the
last few years.
The lesson, however, is almost as
applicable just now in Am erica as else
where. With baundless stores Of raw
material and with all the machinery
of production at hand, the American
people have beer slowing down pro-
auction to a lamentable and dangerous
extent Voluntary idleness and in
ciastrial strikes are playing havoc in a
world crisis, and throwing away Il
great opportunity. If American indus
tiy continues at this slow place, Amer
lca may eventually find itself as ba.;-
ly off as Europe
Americans rave been taking of
t:eir coats, bat to fight instead OF
work. 1t is time to stop fighting and
start accelerating production.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-12
Juice TO POSTAL EMPLOYEES

Emergency, legislation pending in
Congress is expected to add 500 to
$500 a year to the salaries of postal
clerks, letter carriers and other sub
ordinate employees of the department.
The new scale will be effective from
July :, last 1t is intended to help
the poytoffice workers meet the cost
of living, and is precisely what it
purports to be, an emergency" meas
ure.
The situation in the postofice de-
partmcat, is certainly serious. Post
masters everywhere report that their
best employees have been leaving.
because they can obtain better pay n
other lines of work, and it is impos-
sible to get capable men to take their
places This atsurdly low rate Of re-
Enumeration has been one of the big
factors in the deterioration of postal
service The vast and constantly
growing volume of postoffice business
cannot be carried on without large,
growing force OF competent and con-
tented employees. With crippled
force, all overworked and diSconteEt-
cd, it IS probably to be wondered 1T
that the service is 10 worse than It
is.
Congress cannot grant this raise
any too soon. IT. will be u tardy act
Of justice Though it will cost the
nation money, i: Will doubtless i'm
prove the service enough to pu; more
than its cost back into the public
pocket Starving postofficc employees
starveS business.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-12
TILE COII.ED SPRING.

The restlessncss Of the boys back
from overseas i.as given no little con-
Germ to those who have tried to place
them in jobs. II often proves that
man cannot go back to his old work,
and tries half dozen different lines
1efore he seems to settle into anything
comfortable and with any reasonable
prospect Of permanenco.
A writer in the Woman's Home
Companion quotes the principal of a
business school as follows: I'm viii
ling to DO what can. but don't know
" 20 explain it. They seem utter
irresponsible. Talk about army
discipline and what it does for man
why, there's nothing to it,
To which another member Of tho
Soldiers Welfare Committee replies:
you say that because you have
never been under the strain of fight
ing or army discipline Those men
were 1874 days under shell fire. They've
been wounded They were hungry
and thirsty when you folks were play
ing at the game you called conserva-
'tion For two years and three months
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-12
.YouR HEART AND YOUR DOLLAR


.'An you need is heart and dol
lar" It can be the same old heart
that it was last year and the year be-
fore that, but it must be another dol
lar.
The Red Cross annual membership
drive is on, and in spite Of high
prices and decreased production, it
asks no more OF any one than it did
before.
There is little need to plead the
cause OF this great society. It is
known by it's works 1t may be that
there IS lacking some Of the romantic
appeal which stirred our hearts dur
ing the war, but the. Red Cross does
no less great a work in peace. Right
now it is conducting relief operations
in seventeen European countries. and
preparing for relief and emergency
work on a tremendous scale in this
country.
Not to give the dollar would be the
difficult thing, and every subscriber as
he buys his membership will only
wish that at least he We're twins.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-12
TEE FREE PUBLICITY NUISANCE
lGreenville PIEDMONT


Every newspaper in South Carolina
now receives daily huge wad of pub-
licity matter IN behalf Of nearly
dozen causes. The newspapers are
requested to publish all of this stuff.
If they did, there would be nothing
else in an issue but this matter.
The men who prepare these articles
most of WHICH contain no news, are
well paid for their services. For hold
ing down job of publicity director of
one of these organizations for
couple of months little shrimp, who
is not even a trained writer, received
$4,000. The: newspapers which pub
Iished the articles ne sent out didn't
get q penny.
Thus it comes about that every
newspaper in the State is being asked
to devote the greater part Of its space
to publicity campaigns. This means
the outright gift Of large amount
of money representing paper, ink and
labor on the part Of the newspapers,
making an immense total expense to
each of them.
Then, TOO, the publicity is, az rule.
poorly written, padded, often just
plain bunk. The publicity man, press
agent, or public director, call him;
what you will, is frequently man
who has failed to make good in the
newspaper game.
This sort of thing cannot go on
much longer No matter how worthy
a cause is, if its organization has
enough money to hire press gents.
it ought to- pay for its publicity. The
South Carolina Press Association
ough. TO establish some mutual agree
ment that will check the ever-swelling
food of material of this sort by re-.
curing payment for. it on parity
with other advertising matter.
There are too many campaigns on
now and too much publicity material
is being showed at the newspapers.
The press has been very generous,
but the more it has given, the more is
requested of it. The time has come to
put up the bars.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-12
z THE ONLY WAY.

A correspondent writing Of the in
ternational trade congress at Atlantic
City recently gave this summary of
expert opinion about economic condi-
tons in general:
the world has got to take off its
coat, roll up its sleeves and go %
work before everybody can be happy
again and have a reasonably full
stomach"
It is merely another version Of the
fact which intelligent observers have
been repeating. with infinite variation
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-12
BISHCPVEELE NEWS.

Dishopyille. s. c., Nov. S.-The
Court ot Common Pleas has been in
session here all week with Judge
NcIvcr presiding. Most of the cases
wore decided or carried over TO an
other court
Mr.. J. Ed Suckcy is serving on the
jury in the Cnited States Court in
session in Cclu.n5ia This week.
Mr.. James Croswell, former resi-
dent OF this pace. was buried at the
Methodist cemetery yesterday.
Mrs Charley S:uckcy, who has been
very Ill with pneumonia. is much ret
tei, and we trust VIII soon be well
again.
Messrs. Brooks Stucke.-. J. II Cliff
ton and John D. Leo, Of Sumter, were
in attendance on cour- this week.
The ladies' OF our town are very ac-
tive in soliciting nen members and
renewing the membership Of former
members for the Red Cross.
The sales of cotton have fallen Off
very much for the past week.
Had the farmers needed the advice
of the Cotton association and held
their cotton off the market. they
would have rcaped (: far richer har-
vest than they Lave. Some Of our
farmers are thro~ j gathering all OF
their crops and are planting their
oats.
Cotton is selling here for So to 40
cents for short and So TO 90 cents for
long staple. Cotton seed s95 per ton.
There are three large brick build
ings about completed, one on Church
street and two or Main street. Also
a. nurlDer Of new residences are being
built.
On Saturdays our town is so crowd
ed VITA visitors Cinos1lv colored) that
it is difficult 70 walk the pavemen..5.
or to drive the streets on account OF
the automobiles parked on either side
fromNthe court house TO the depot.
The craze for buying land has some
what subsidized as the boil weevil has
made his appearance 50 near us.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Scott are sDend-
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-12
GERMANS AND COOLIES.

Matthias Erzberger. German minis
ter of finance, declares that the heav-
lest taxes viii be only drop in the
bucket OF German debts, even if Ger
mans eives like Chinese coolies.
The heaviest budget ever introduc-
cd was adopted by the assembly, de-
spite the opposition of extreme radi-
Gals and extreme conservatives
The taxes made necessary by this
budget VIII certainly tighten the belts
of the GerE1ans. But it is long way
from the German five meals a day,
from heavy meat and rich sauces, to
the Chinese coolies bowl of rice. 1t
is long way from feather coverlets
and sanded floors and gardens to the
scualid burrows in which the coolies
den
The stolid fatalisn of the coolie,
who dwens in utter absence of all
hat seems to make life comfortable;
the poverty which chains him to the
necessity of spel:ding all his hours in
hard labor for the meager indispen-
sables to sustain life; his utter lack of
leisure. Of chance to get ahead. seem
to make up the most undesirable
form of existence.
The German extreme of making the
mind and soul slaves to mere bodily
comfort, to a stupid and antisocial
naterialism, is equally bad for the
world.
Somewhere between these two ex-
tremes hes a region of plain living
and high thinking. If the heavy taxes
imposed by the Allies as part pay
mont for the wrongs they have borne
can induce the German nation to en-
ter that state OF life. the world will be
Q better place.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-12
!. LABoE's SHARE.

A student of labor conditions, him,
self a workman, recently declared
that most of the industrial discomfort
IL the United States today is based
not on actual wrongs suffered by labor
but on false ideas put into workmen's
heads BY radical agitators. 1t is
largely The result, he reported, Of a
deliberate propaganda of distorted
facts undertaken by the American /
W. VS. and Bolshevists. The most
n1ischievous notion spread among
American workers, he said, is the no.
ton, preached everywhere By these
radicals. that capital gets IS 10 80
per cent of the earnings of indus
try.' and labor" only the remaining
Ia or Upper cent.
This as the uorhman-investigator
confessed,is almost exactly reversal
of the fact.
"A good example is found SIN re
cent statement made by rubber
company which is not only one of
the biggest business concerns in the
country, but one Of the most prosper
Gus. It's sales for the current year
are estimated at s165,ooo,ooo. OF
that sum ,its net earnings are estimat-
ed at $4,000, ZOO! The other s145,-
00e, 900 go, of course, mostly to the
corporations $4,000 employees. Of
the remaining Fart paid for material,
etc, q correspondingly large part, Of
course, must be allowed for the labor
engaged II producing and handling
those materials before they come into
the rubber npany's hands.
Thus this very prosperous corpor-
e.tion is found to be getting a trif1e
over II per cent on its ouput: An
economic expert estimates that, taking
all business throughout the United
STAKES. th percentage is saaallses than
that-pepisaps 10 per centSis going to
capital end. 80 per cent to labor, using
"labor' ina broad sense.
Even this percentage may seem un-
just in some cases, when there is a
small investment and a big volume
Of production; but it is evident that
the general ideas current among
workmen on this subject need cor
recting.