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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-09
FARMERS CONVENTION TO BE
HELD IN SPOKANE JUNE II
Speakers of National Reputation
-. Have Been Engaged-Big At e.
tendance looked For

Spokane, Wash, May 8.-How con-
ditions in farming have been chang
ing in the last few years is illustrat-
ed in some of the side-lights thrown
on the big northwest farmers con-
vention to be held in Spokane June
11-13.
A few years ago if such conven-
ton were called not one farmer in a
hundred would have contemplated at
tending except via railway lines.
This year it is believed that over a
third of the visitors will come by
auto, an illustration of the progress
sive spirit of the times.
Another noticeable fact is that not
single complaint has been received
because the convention is to require
three days in June. Farmers appar-
emily are willing to sacrifice time
during most busy period in order
to profit by the instructions they will
receive from men of national repu-
tation.
Farmers are asking for rates at
the best hotels in the city. They ex-
pect to enjoy their stay and the lux
ury of first class hotel is not new.
A few years ago it would have been
undreamed of by the majority.
No special doctrine or favored
propaganda is to be advocated at the
convention. The principal purpose is
to impress upon producers from the
soil the value of organization and the
greater value of having national
board, congress or chamber in which
all such organizations would have
representation. Something along the
line of the American Federation of
labor or the Manufacturers Associa-
ton of the United States, is hoped
for.
Another speaker of prominence has
been secured. He is Maurice Nc
Auliffe, state president of the Far
mers' Union of Kansas.
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MANAGER BARCLAY SECURES
'THE PRUSSIAN CUR"

A photo drama of unusual interest
inasmuch as the principal character
was one of the leading figures in the
German Spy system has been booked
for next Monday and Tuesday even
ings at the Scenic Theater. "The
Prussian Cur" is a powerful drama of
the Hun struggle for world domain
and the triumph of democracy. AS
Won Der Goltz the leading man says
81 expose the intricate workings Of
the whole dastardly' secret system Of
which was formerly part. l know
the German spy system from the in
side. In this production tell all.
1! is a VIM. Fox photo play and one of
Intense interest
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-09
THE WAR TROPHY TRAIN AND
VETERANS VISIT LFAvENWORTH
Big Crowd Assembled Monday Morn
ing to View Implements of War
Victory Loan Grows

The much heralded trophy train ar
rived Monday morning on schedule
time, 7:30 and was greeted by an un-
usually large crowd considering the
early hour and it is safe to say that
no one regretted getting up for the
marched in body to the depot where
they were permitted to pass thru the
different cars and view the display of
instruments of modern warfare as
we'll as other curios fom the battle
fields. It was in all very interest.
ing collection but owing to the fact
that only an hour was set aside for
Leavenworth few people had an OPP
portunity of viewing the display.
Several speakers including officers
and privates who went thru the big
fight and are now travelling with the
train addressed the crowd and after
briefly explaining the workings of
several of the guns they had on the
train told some Of their experiences
at the front. The Bolshevists, Reds,
I. w. WIS and others of like breed
were hit hard by the speakers. who
stated that the A. E. F. forces almost
to a man were against the trouble
makers. ri
Major E. P. Lowry was he ranking
officer on the train. He witnessed
some of the hardest fighting on the
Western front and has number Of
medals for distinguished service.
A whiffet or baby tank was to
have been with the train to be dem.
onstrated on the streets, but like the
airplane it failed to show up. How
ever the tank did arrive in Wenatchee
where it was kept for sveral days.
Thre was quite an increase in the
sales of bonds following the depart
ure of the train and it is now gen.
orally believed that Leavenworth will
exceed her quota.
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WRECKED BY WOODROW

Henry Waterson, the veteran demo
cratic editor, is right in saying that
nothing remains of the democratic
party except the tattered label" It
has become the Wilson party, unable
to think until Wilson speaks, unable
to retain any principle after Wilson
changes his mind, unable to contem-
plate its own future separate and dis
tinct from the future of Woodrow
Wilson.
President Wilson tells the colored
people of the Philippines that he
deems them ready for citizenship, but
he doesn't send any such message to
the colored people of the United
States. Why?
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-09
WENATCHFE VALLEY CROP
WILL BE NEARLY NORMAL
Frost Damage Not As Great As At
First RepOrted-Many Orchards
Escaped All Damage

The heavy frosts of week ago
coming on the 2, 8, A, is not believed
to have caused the damage that was
at first suspected. While it is as yet
little early to ascertain the amount
of damage, at no place is it belivec
that the yield will run less than &C
per cent. The more optomistic fruit
men however are inclined to view the
situation in more cheerful light ano
say that the apple crop will be fully
rs per cent of normal.
From all accounts the frost did moi
sweep the upper valley as a whole
but struck only in certain localities
The lower ground seemed to have suf-
fered the most. Many of the or
chards in the district around Peshas-
tin escaped all damage.
Pears and other soft fruits seem to
be the hardest hit and with the ap-
pies the Staymans and Delicious suf-
fered the most. But the reports that
were at first circulated and are still
being heard that the Wenatchee Val
ley apple crop was ruined are enron
eous. This years crop is expected
to exceed last years by quite a mar
gin. 1t was quite a scare tho to ev-
eryone including the orchardists as
the thermometer as several places
in the valley got down to "a degrees
Horticultural Inspector Darlington
has gone thru the valley quite thor
oily making examinations and states
that while some damage was done ii
will not be serious. No further eX-
treme cold weather is looked for but
even if it should come the apples arc
believed to be far enough advanced to
stand the shock.
At Yakima the first reports were
that considerable damage had been
done but later advices were to the
contrary.
Yakima, Wash, May mo dam
age was done by frost to the fruit
here according to experts who exam
ined the orchards. The unusual
amount of moisture in the atmos-
phere is said to have saved the trees
from injury. In the lower valley of
the Wenas and Selah, the temperature
perature where the temperature
dropped to % degrees the danger was
greatest, and it looked like Flanders
field after a gas attack in the morn
ings, so dense were the clouds of low
rolling smoge smudges which werc
used during the night and which
banked against the hills. The tenn
perature in the neighborhood of Yak
ina was not lower than 81.
Smudges were not used in the We
natchee valley as near as we car
learn, but probably could have beer
used to good advantage.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-09
COMMENCEMENT MAY II

The fifth annual commencement
exercises of the Leavenworth High
School will be held in the Scenic
Theater, Saturday evening May II,
at $3.50 o'clock instead of Friday eve
ming May 16 as was at first adver-
tised. The change was made nee
essary because of the impossibility
to obtain a speaker for Friday eve
ming. Prof. E. j. Klemme of Bel
lingham has now been engaged for
Saturday evening and has chosen for
his address the subject "The Hope of
the World"
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WHEREABOUTS OF THE GOV.
ERNMENT OF THE U. S. A.
AhraoI
Abroad

Hon. Woodrow Wilson, president
Paris, France.
Hon. Robert Lansing, Secretary of
State-Paris, France.
Hon Josephus Daniels, Secretary
of the Navy-Somewhere in Eng
land.
Hon. Newton D. Baker, Secretary
of War-Somewher in France.
At Home
Hon. Albert Sidney Burleson, Post
master General.
Now we call that particularly un-
kind The New York Tribune, from
which the above was taken, has very
strangely omitted to mention the fact
that Hon. William Cox Redfield, Sec
retary of Commerce, is also AT
Home" Not only that, but he is "on
the job" Possibly he would admit,
if asked why he is not abroad with
the rest of the government, that,
causes beyond my control have in
tervened."
The state of affairs to which the
Tribune calls attention is certainly
worthy of thot. With CO many Of the
executive officers of the government
"abroad" and the rest of them "up
in the air" it would seem that it
might be worth the while of congress
to define the "official station" of the
president and his cabinet officers.
Many constitutional lawyers hold to
the view that the absence of the
president abroad is wholly unwarant-
ed, if not illegal. 1t is quite within
the possibilities that a test of the le-
gality of his actions as president
while he has been on foreign soil
may yet be made. However that may
be, it would seem that the congress
might well, by legal enactment, de-
fine his privileges in that respect.
One thing is certain, when the peo-
pie of the United States elected him
to the presidency, no one had in
mind his departure from the terri
tory of the United States as self
appointed peace delegate abroad. We
believe that majority of the peo-
pie of this country hold to the opin-
ion that he had no right to leave the
soil of the United States while yet
he was president. The congress
should take such action as shall set
tie the question for all time to come.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-09
PRESIDENT IS ASSAILtD
FOR FOREIGN ALLIANCE
Secret Agreement to Go to the Aid
of France in Any Future War
Received with Alarm

Washington, March 8.-Much criti-
cism has been directed against Pres
ident Wilson by members of Congress
because of his reported willingness at
Versailles to pledge the United States
to an alliance with Great Britain and
France to go to the aid of the latter
in any future war, in direct violation
of the long established and tradi-
tional policy of Washington.
Not only is this further departure
in the direction of participation by
this country in the affairs of Europe
considered unwise, but it is regarded
as an indication of lack of faith by
the president himself in the efficiency
of the proposed league of nations in
preventing future conflicts. 1t is also
thot to be confession that, as amend
ed, the authority of the league over
those nations which have fought side
by side against Germany and might
now subscribe to it would be so gen.
eral as to make imperative a more
binding agreement between those
states especially desiring to stand to-
gether. While this construction of
the league as amended is not surpris-
ing to the senate, it is quite certain
that it will make more determined the
intention of the opponents of the
covenant to at all hazards protect
American sovereignty and rights,
rather than barter them away for
any idealistic conception which would
not be able to withstand the contin-
ued competitive struggle of history.
The ambitions of Japan to DOM
mate the Pacific and control the
trade of eastern Asia in direct anti
thesis to the aims of the United
States, is taken as an evidence OF
this, as is also Ergland's control of
fourth of the territory and popula-
I1On VI Illc SlODt anu liSl uCoiAS w
dominate the commerce of the entire
world in conflict with the purpose of
the United States to excel all nations
in commercial development; not be-
cause the aims of this country are
selfish, but because it means to be
second to none.
The American, British and French
promise at Versailles is the basis of
desire on the part of many demo-
cratic senators to conduct the treaty
debate in secret, in spite of the presi-
dents oft repeated declaration in IA
vor of "open covenants openly ar,
rived at" Republican senators are
as certain that the sessions shall be
be conducted in the open, so that all
the people may know and understand
what is going on. They are deter
mined and they have the votes to en-
force it that this principle shall not
go the way of freedom of the seas
and the self-determination of small
peoples.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-09
DEMOCRACY OF LABOR
IS FAVORED BY MR.. TAFT
Speaks Out for Collective Bargain
ing Between Employer and
Employee

Washington, May 6-Former Pres
ident William H. Taft's pronounce
ment in favor of the needs of the
democracy of labor and his appeal to
employers to heed its just wants has
met with general approval on the
part of republican members of con-
gress, and by some of them is placed
in Importance beside the achievement
of Senator Albert B. Cummins, of
Iowa, in Incorporating in the Clay
ton antitrust law the declaration
that labor is not a commodity OF ar
ticle of commerce.
Taft's statement is in line with his
praise of President Samuel Gompers,
of the American Federation of La
Dor, for holding labor in the right
line during the war with Germany.
Gompers said upon his return from
Europe that Gin theory Bolshevism
is an impossibility; in fact, if it were
put into operation it would mean the
decadence or perversion of the civili-
zation of our time" He reported
the fact that the first of the demands
of labor put forward at the Versailles
conference was the idea, now law, of
Senator Cummins, who is to be the
republican chairman of the senate
committee on interstate commerce in
the next congress.
In his plea for labor democracy
Taft says: "What does the term in
dustrial democracy, as we hear it
used in labor, mean? 1t is an ex-
preston that gives to many employ
ers who do not understand it, a
shiver. 1t makes them think of the
Rolshevik and their hopeless .exper-
iments in taking over without COM
pensation, the private industrial es-
Establishments in Russia and running
them by decree of the workmen en-
gagged in them, with the former pro-
prietor as expert and fellow servant.
This is an entire misunderstanding of
the word as it has been used in con-
servative labor circles in this coun-
try. Industrial democracy means an
organization of industrial plants in
which the working men have full lib
erty to belong to trades unions, and
full liberty, whether union or non
union men, to select in their own way
their own representative committees
to deal with their employer in re-
spect to wages, and in every order
of the employer in respect to wages,
hours OF other terms and conditions
shall not be made until representa-
tive committees of the workmen to
be affected shall have an opportunity
to be heard and express their opinion
on the proposed order. 1t does not
mean that the workmen are to be
vested with power to determine for
the employer, without his agreement,
what the terms of employment shall
be. 1t still leaves it open to both
sides to differ, with the consequence
of strike or lockout"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-09
WE WILL "GO OVER THE TOP

The largest single subscription in
the local Victory Loan campaign came
Monday when a check was received
from the New York office of the
Royal Development Co. for $1,000 in
bends. The stimulus from the Trophy
train exhibit brought the total sub
scriptions for the day well over $10,-
900. Subscriptions have been coming
in very satisfactorily says DR.. Nc
Keown the local chairman who be-
lieves when the subscriptions have
been checked that it will be found that
Leavenworth is well over the top.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-09
AUTO COLLIDES WITH SPEEDER

Nick Kinscherf on his way home
last Sunday evening collided with a
speeder on the Great Northern cross
ing west of the city. One wheel of
his Ford broken and tire punctured
was the extent of his damage. Mr..
Daniels a lineman was thrown from
the speeder and sustained severe
bruises but no bad injuries. At this
point the sidings are nearly always
filled with cars, hiding the main line
and unless some means of warning
against approaching trains are adop-
ted a serious accident is likely to oc-
cur at this point.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-09
LEAvENwoRTH MIGHT DO THIS

Standpoint has rest room for out of
town women. 1t is located on the
first floor of the city hall, with free
rent. 1t is provided with the usual
conveniences desired by women Wis
itors. The furniture is comfortable,
appropriate pictures adorn the walls,
draperies hang at the windows. In
dividual lockers are provided at a
charge of 10 cents a day for their
use. Women have the use of the
room free of charge and may do their
shopping, using the lockers in which
to place articles until ready to leave.
The room was provided thru the
Standpoint Civic Club, the members of
which found no difficulty in securing
funds among the business men.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-09
GOOD ROADS MEETING HELD
AT WENATCHEF YESTERDAY
Outlined Plan to Spend 100000 on
Feeder Roads and 100000 on
Main Highways


met in the Commercial Club rooms at
Wenatchee Thursday morning at 10
o'clock and perfected permanent
Scounty organization, adopting bylaws
and electing permanent officers. John
A. Gellatly was elected president, E.
M. Gillette vice president, Harry
Shotwell Secretary, and r. B. Field
treasurer. An executive committee
of nine, three from each of the COM
missioners' precincts. Precinct 3, in
which Leavenworth is located, is rep
resented on the executive committee
by ]. C. Biles, A. H. Bohlke and Matt
Hickey.
The plan of road improvement as
adopted after some time spent in con-
sidering the road question from every
angle, is as follows: Thru the execu-
tive committee the county commits
sioners will be asked to call an cleo
tion to be held at an early date to
authorize the issuance of 100000
twenty year bonds, to be spent in the
next three years in improving the
roads of Chelan county. $500,000 of
this amount is to be issued and the
bonds sold as soon as practicable and
the money used in improving the
feeder roads of the county, that is all
roads other than state highways. The
roads to be put on permanent To-
cation on the most direct line practi-
cable and graded and graveled. The
$500,00O is to be divided equally be-
tween the three commissioners pre-
cincts and appropriated to the several
roads in the district in the most equit-
able manner possible under the direc-
ton of the committee of ten already
selected in the second district, one
from Monitor and two each from
Cashmere, Dryden, Peshastin and
Leavenworth, and one from the Lake
Wenatchee section. The other two
commissioner precincts to proceed in
like manner.
The additional $30O,O00 bond issue
is to be employed in taking advant-
age of certain moneys appropriated
and to be appropriated under the
Carlyon referendum measure, if the
same shall receive the approval of the
voters at the next general election, to
be spent on state highways, and fed
eral funds appropriated for post
roads, both of which become available
on condition that the county put up
a like amount. Certain forestry
funds also become available for the
Improvement of roads on the same
condition.
It was not believed that a less
amount than a half million dollars
would be sufficient to improve county
or feeder roads, for which reason it
was decided to ask for 100000 to
improve the great highways, which
includes the Sunset highway and the
proposed Scenic highway, because the
additional amount, or 100000, would
thus become available for the great
state highways. 1t is believed this
amount would hard surface these
roads and give Chelan county pub
lie road system equal to any in the
state.
BY omitting the levying OF certain
road road tax il, the--fHtaire- it was. stated
that the taxes to take care of the in
terest on the bond issue will not ma
terially increase the present tax rate.
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TEACHERS GET MORE PAY

Thruout Chelan county the school
teaching staffs are being employed
for next year with general increases
in salaries averaging from 10 to 20
per cent. Where the salaries are
less than 500 an increase of from
$40 to $12 per month is being added
In most cases the same teachers are
being employed
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-09
SENIOR PLAY POSTPONED

Owing to the illness of Deryl Mot
teller one of the principal characters
in the Senior Glass play, at Pays to
Advertise which was scheduled to be
presented at the Scenic theater to-
night, it has been postponed until
next Friday night May Is. Remem-
ber the date
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-09
INSANE BY WOOD ALCOHOL.

A year of insanity, his condition
constantly becoming worse, followed
the drinking of wood alcohol and
brought the arrest of Charles Stem
ius of Ilwaco, Wash, according to
Doctors Geo. A. Tripp and j. M.
Bammert. Stenius was arrested af-
ter he had refused for forty days to
eat any kind of food. He was com
mitted to the Steilacoom asylum.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-09

City Marshall Pratt says it is vi
olation of law for chickens to run at
large and that he means to enforce
the law. Wherefore owners OF
chickens should take heed and keep
their chickens up.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-09

Mr.. Carr fruitgrower of Dryden
with his son, visited over Sunday with
his brother-in-law, Thos. Nolan.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-09

Plans are being prepared for a new
residence for the governor at Olympia
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-09

A new law gives counties 5000 a
mile to maintain permanent highways.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-09

Yakima 1918 fruit shipments up to
March first were 10,S51 cars.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-09

Olympia is boosting a canal from
Puget Sound to Grays Harbor
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-09

Echo want ads. bring results.
Evening star., 1919-09-29
LAWRENCE GIVES
RESUME OF RESULT
or TRIP FOR PACT
CONTINUED from First page.)

foremost in asking other nations to
subscribe to the same principle OF
action through the league of nations
Any nation agreeing by signature to
the peace treaty to submit disputes
to nine months arbitration or dis
cussion and then refusing to do so
will be subjected to an economic boy
cott-that is, it will be permitted no
food or goods of any kind, no business
intercourse of any sort and will be
isolated and thus compelled to lay
its case before the nations of the
world.
Should something stronger than eco
nomfc force be necessary, the council
of the league of nations on which sits
an American representative, shall ad-
wise what other steps shall be needed
to compel obedience and the preser-
walton of peace.