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SAMUEL eoNPERs SPEAKING lRHgSN LLOYD GEORGE IS ~ HIS
Admits Underlying Dangers Which Must Be Combated
by Everybody Not Infected but Can't Cope
Alone With Such Disease Urges Price and Profit
Readjustment Opportunity for World Leadership
is AT HIS
OVSss.wsss . 0rsss~vss.

trines. It 10 only the unemployed, the
underpaid, the overworked men and
women who are susceptible to the
disease germs Of such contagion. The
moral of these facts is obvious.
DO not misunderstood me. I have
not said that I do not believe in the ex-
istence Of many just causes for COM
plant against the conditions under
which modern American workers are
compelled to live. But while ready and
anxious to proclaim this, 1 still find
myself out of sympathy with the rem
edy which Bolshevism offers.
Il believe employers from the small
ones to the big interests must assume
their full responsibility for that recon-
struction work which is absolutely
necessary in the theory Of American
industry. They must not deny the
existence OF the problem. They must
take serious thought, remembering
that no spirit OF unrest arises without
some excuse. I would be the last to
say there are no oppressive conditions
In American industry.
And there is more reason now why
those in power should heed every little
warning than ever there was before.
for there is contagion which is spread
ing in certain parts Of Europe and
which is absolutely certain to come
across the sea IL any soil here fertile
for it shall be found. The necessary
reconstruction work to be done con-
sists of more than getting jobs for
discharged soldiers. Personally 1 am
certain that we need and that we shall
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The World Needs balancing.

opened in Brooklyn in 1895. The next
big cities were Washington, Philadel-
phia, Boston and New York. The first
New York store opened its doors in
October, 1896. In 1901 came the West
ern campaign. A year later the +. w.
Woolworth Company was incorporated
with s10,000,000 capital. In 1912 the
3lS Woolworth stores were combined
| with the 27S Of S. II. Knox & Co, f.
NJ. Kirby Co., f. z. Charlton 4 Co, c. $.
Woolworth and w. NJ. Moore. The capt.
taliZation was increased to S6o, 000, 900.
The combined sales of the 500 stores
, amalgamated in 1912 were in the year
1911 s52.600000. There are now l,o3S
stores, and the sales in the year 1918
were s107, 100000.
All of which. remarked the scrub
woman quoted in THE Sun on Wednes-
day. came from your tin cints ana my
tin cints.'
Profit Sharing the Rule.
Woolworth was proud of the fact,
with very few exceptions. most of
the men in the central organization
worked their way up from the bottom
literally the bottom, for they started
| by unpacking merchandise in base
ments. Only the president and three
vice presidents of the company are
! salaried. All the others, from store
managers up, get their compensation
in sharing the profits. The men in the
! executive Office receive a percentage
of the entire earnings, the district office
men a percentage OF the district earn
| ings and the store managers a per-
centaGe Of the store earnings.
| This was Woolworth's final word:
"Obstacles, dscouragemcnts-I have
| had plenty of them all my life. Few
business men have started with less
| assistance or encouragement than |
had, and | struggled along for many
years before my business was ON the
right foundation. But I knew / was
on the right track; that the five and
ten cent specially would make a won
derful business II handled right. ana |
never took my eyes off that goal.
while made successes i'll this line
thousands of men have made successes
in other lines, and again I say TO
young men that there is just as good a
chance as there was when ] started
in business"
John Il. HeEeman had the advan-
tage demonstrated in bOyhood, of be-
ing what the boys call a shark a.
mathematics" In the Brooklyn public
schools and the Brooklyn Polytechnic
Institute his mastery OF plain ard
fancy figures made his path smooth
IT naturally was easy for him to get
into a bank without having to cast
about and suffer such disappointments
as those which almost sent the young
Wooworth back to the farm. At the
age OF 22 Hegcman was an accountant
for the Manhattan Life Insurance
Company and had found his life work
lie moved ahead as serenely as do tho
hands of the clock on the metropolitan
Tower. At 26 lie was vice president Of
the company. As vicc-president Inc
went to the Metropolitan Life lnsur
ance Company, and for the last TWEEN
weight years OF his life was its presi
: dent. He and the late Joseph T.
Knapp. then president, organized III,
companys industrial department
Which Is now the distinctive feature
with more than 100000 policy hold
J lers.
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have reconstruction of the whole
country in line with that great world
victory which has been won and in
which we played a creditable part.
Il shall 60 further now than ever
have gone before and say that whether
or not that victory depended on the
strength which we threw into tho
balance in the war of arms which has
just ended Eve all hope), it will depend
to a very great extent upon the in
telligence which we shall throw into
the scale in the days OF general re-
construction.
The World Needs Balancing.
The world needs balancing and
America must furnish her share and
perhaps the largest of the influence in
that direction; we must be the safe
and sane conservatives. 1t is neces-
sary that the leaders of this country
should realize that the high tension
which is now upon the people. despite
the end of the great war, must he
relieved. It is intensely necessary, not
only for our own sakes. but for the
sakes of all the peoples of the world,
that as soon as may be possible we
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ftegeTndl : Zcst Was LOT IOpuldTlzllls
life insurance among the great body OF
laboring people; he flung an army of
agents among them and broke down
the defences of prejudice. He believed
that the company should have impress
sive, substantial quarters, SO that any
visitor from afar could say 1T looks
solid and sound"
He conceived and put into effect a
project new in the history of insurance
companies, the establishment of a sani-
tlrium for the treatment of Consump-
tive employees. The sanitarium is on
the s.ope of Mount McGregor, near
Saratoga Lake. The patients pay moth
ing for attendance. Mr.. Hegeman's
idea was that the company was not
philanthropic or charitable in erecting
this institutioni 1t was simply good
business for theAcompany to take care
Of its servants. Another good bust
ness proposition" heartily approved by
Mr.. Hegeman was the giving to each
policy holder free membership in the
Life Extension institute, whereby they
might keep themselves in better health
ana thus reduce the company's risk.
He was pioneer in the establishment
of welfare department and free
lunches for employees, of the mini
mum wage and Of the bonus system.
II was under his direction that the
whole block now occupied by the Met
ropoitan Life Building was acquired
and that the tower a snowy pillar by
day, II far flashing beacon at night,
was erected. His love OF the beautiful
also is evidenced by the estate at
Orienta Point. Mamaroneck, upon the
handspring OF which he worked for
thirty years and his collection of
Oriental art He established a founda-
ton for the Salem Baptist Church
at New Rochelle and in other ways
! used his wealth we'll.
Sang Fortunes Gate Open.
Unlike HeGeman and unlike Wool
worth. Frederick G.. Bourne. the
! Singer president. had the early en-
! enlargement. guidance and assistance
of wealthy patron. This friend was
! Alfred Corning Clark who inherited
a S20,000,000 estate that included con-
( troll of the Singer Sewing Machine
/ Company. Bourne was working for
Siltdn wages III lHt blH MeGcdntlIe
| Library and singing in Trinity Church
| Clark had "A passion for music; his
/ interests outside business were the
/ Mendelssohn Glce Club and the Trinity
choir.
/ one day Clark suggested that as
/ Trinity was pretty far downtown, even
/ for those days, the members OF the
choir might like 10 go TO his home on
the West Side for rehearsas They
accepted eagerly and for years the
Clark home was a sort of clubhouse
| for the choristers. One Of them was
young Bourne. Not only his splendid
voice, hut his alertness, good sense and
general likeability attracted the mil
lionaire. As prospects were only fair
ish in the Mercantile Library, Clark
placed Bourne with the Singer COM
pany. On tho day he took the job
! IIourne's rise began. lie was more
/ capable than any Of the young men
around him. He was advanced rapidly
/ but did not abandon his music. For
eighteen years while gaining ground
in the business forld he sang in the
Church of the Incarnation. and years
later. when he acquired the Ludlow
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Continued from First PAGE.

was to get my start? | made sew
eral unsuccessful attempts to borrow
money from relatives and told Mr..
Moore about 1t. Finally he offered to
let me have $3.50 worth of goods if my
father would indorse a three months
note for that amount. This was done
and ! picked out my stock. Although
my friends told me it was a mistake
l believed this was my opportunity
and the only one l would ever have
to become a merchant. Nevertheless
the world looked very chilly to me as
/ set out one cold day in early Febru-
AIRY, 1879 to find a location for a 8
cent store"
The first Woolworth store was on a
side street in Utica The merchandise
was waiting in WATERFOWL, but Wool
worth had another At. of pessimism
and had to walk past n telegraph
office several times before he could
muster courage to go in and telegraph
for IT, The goods cost him s521. The
first sale was cent fire shovel, the
buyer a woman. The store was fail
ure. In three months Woolworth was
back clerking for Moore G. Smith in
he had fast friends in his employers
They backed him in a new venture
He opened his second store in Lancas-
ter, Pa, in June, 1879.
About 80 per cent. of the stock was
sold the first day" the Woodwork
narrative continues, and success has
continued for forty years. Ten cent
goods were added later on, and this
store is now known as the oldest
and 10 cent store in the world"
He began to think that Mother
| Woolworth was not. so far wrong after
ALL BY the middle OF 1880 he was
worth $4,000. and upon revisiting Wa
| tertown was hailed with pride, His
brother, C. S. Woolworth. Joined him
They extended the cent business &c
| Harrisburg, where it failed. Three
out OF Ave stores established in the
first FIVE years were failures. Wool
worth hit upon the plan of having
a partner in each store, a principle
he enlarged upon until all his store
managers were virtually partners
His cousin, Seymour II. Knox, JOINED
| him in 1884. They invaded Newark
and lost. Then in Erie they struck 8
| vein winch mace NIlOh d lnllllOIdlIS
They returned to Harrisburg and this
time stuck. In 1889 Woolworth sole
! his interest In the business Of Wool
worth & Knox TO Knox. In 1912, wher
| In the great absorption process which
placed the Woolworth company on to
days footing, S. II. Knox & Co. came
into the fold, the Knox stores mum
bered liz.
Began Buying In Europe.
Woolworth was making money OF
the whole, but five of his first ter
stores did not pay. He got valuabl,
acquisition in Carson c. Peck of Wa
tertown, and a. the field OF Utica
scene OF the first defeat, they ha,
the satisfaction of establishing a sue
cessful business. Peck came to New
York to take charge of the buying an,
be general manager of the Woodwork
stores Woolworth began MAXIM
buying trips to Europe.
Woolworth tackled New York IL
1885, not with store, but with n 50
> a month office at 104 Chambers street
The first larga Wooluor store u,ai
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-06-25
D|ETz REAL indian
IS MOTHERS CLAIM
Lone Star Substituted For
Still Born Babe States
Foster Parent.

Spokane, Wash, juno 25.-.Detailing
the remarkable story of the substitu.
tiOn of the illegitimate child of her hus-
band for still born child, Mrs. Lean.
ma Lewis Of Rice Lake, Wis, alleged
foster mother Of "Lone Starr Dietz,
told her story on the stand in federal
court here yesterday afternoon. Dietz
is on trial for falsifying draft papers.
Mrs. Lewis testified that she is not the
real mother of the Famous coach, who
claims to be a non-citizen Indian and
therefore exempt from military service.
He is, she declared, the offspring Of
her husband and half breed Sioux
woman. The prosecution contends that
Mrs. Lewis is the real mother and dur.
ing the trial called attention TO the
resemblance between her and Lone Star
Major c. G.. Riner Of the marine corps
at Mare Island, where Dietz worked as
a football coach, testified that he be.
lieved Dietz to be an Indian.
Dietz himself testified that he was
the son Of William Wallace Dietz, shss-
iff of Barron county, Wisconsin, and
that until he was Is he was under the
impression that Mrs. LOWS was his real
mother.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-06-25
Rickard May Himself Referee
Big Battle For Championship

son, has ben mentioned with consider
able frequency but his appointment is
now considered very remote possibil-
ity. Packey Mcfarland, who has Of.
fieiated in some important houts in
New York most satisfactory, also has
been brought into the argument, but
most talk drifts as matter Of course
back to the man who has been official
Of the local boxing club for some time.
Two weeks ago the referee question
first reared its head and began looking
around for an argument. Tex Rickaro
at that time expressed preference for
Pecord.
Since then his candidacy has gained
impetus. Today it seemed logical 10
guess that Peeord would be the referee,
with Riekard one Of two judges.
Work of the two boxers was muen
slower yesterday than it has been. Will
ard merely played in the ring after a
layoff the day previous He boxed per.
funetOrily with Hempel, Chip, Mona
CHAN and Scott. Monaghan succeeded
in rocking Jess with right and iefts on
one occasion when Jess elected TO mix
il with his sparring partners, but the
damage was not noticeable.
Dempsey worked slowly under order.
He was taking rather than delivering
punches, although at times he went at
high speed. He landed hard on Bill
Tate several times and hit Jamaeia Kid
practically when he pleased. Jack had
been told to cut down the steam and
did so to the best Of his ability.
He hit jock Malone, middlewcight,
once with left hook that almost sant
jock to his launches, but eased up at q
eautioning word from Trainer DeFor
est.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-06-25
SCHOOL BOARD NAMES
Three new TEACHERS
High School Gets One New In
structor And Grades Two
Additional.

Among other matters of business com
lug before the regular meeting Of the
school board last night was the selec
ton Of three teachers for the coming
year. These were Miss Mabel Daven
port, for the high school, at a salary
of $llO; Miss Nora Kelly was employed
for a position in the elementary schools
at 800, and Miss Ruth Cushing for q
similar position at $s5.
The clerk reported the receipt of a
check for $4,000 from Superintendent
Churchill, being the amount Of the fed
eral appropriation for vocational work
under the Smith Hughes act. This wa,
$500 more than had been expected foI
this branch.
II was agreed by the board that Miss
Theresa Fowle should be allowed the
use of a room in the Washington for
summer school work, it being provided
that she meet all necessary expenses
It was also arranged that Prof. Berg.
man should have the use Of the machine
shop during the summer for any work
he might wish to do, he agreeing, as a
return courtesy, to make all necessary
repairs and adjustments in the equip
ment in preparation for the next year 4
work, II being understood that he pay
for all power and material used.
Among minor items, It was decided to
dispense with the services Of man to
care for the athletic field, fof which
the board has been paying s5 a month
The matter Of painting the roofs Of the
various school buildings was discussed
and finally left to the building commit
tee with authority to act. The bond OF
the school clerk was accepted and the
premium, amounting to $50 was ordered
paid.
At this meeting George Halvorsen
recently elected for the three-year term
was duly sworn in, and reorganization
of the board effected by placing W. G
/, WinsloW in the chair, with E. 7. Barnes
as vice-ehairman. This action closed
the services Of Chairman H. 1. clarl
with the body. During the three year
he has spent on the board he has made
a record probably equalled by no othci
member. as he has not missed a meeting
in that period. And throughout that
period he has maintained a fixed policy
Of economy and conservatism, contend
ing that the essentials Of education
should be made paramount and the
scope Of the schools broadened only RI
the funds and the demands warranted
His leaning toward economy IN school
expenditures may be better appreciated
when It Is noted that in the three yearI
he has been on the board the sehool
budget has risen from about $4,000
! to an estimate Of s177,000 for the pres
ent year. The salary schedule alone
has risen 10 about $4,000. where lasl
year II was t1140on, and three year.
isgo was less than 100000.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-06-25
Former Capital journal
|. Man. Veteran Of Chateau
Thieny, Here For Visit

Sergeant Evans Houston, formeuy
with the city staff of The Capital Jour
nal, arrived in Salem this morning for
visit with pre-war friends in the Cap
ital city. Sergeant Houston was with
the Seth company, Fifth regiment, U.
s. marine, and left the Pacific coast
for France in 1917 He took part in
the famous Belleau Woods scrap in the
Chateau Thierry sector and was wound
ed at Scissors when the great offensive
against the Germans was started in
July, 1918. Sergeant Houston was a
member of Company M when that or
ganization went into action in the near
campaign on the Mexica border. He
arrived at Newport News in February
but was retained in charge of his COM
pauy at Camp Quantico until the pres
ent time.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-06-25
MORE OREGON BOYS
BACK FROM France
Men From ALI Parts Of State
Reach New York Aboard
Transports.

New York, June 25.-Two score and
more of Oregon boys who have seen
service in France were aboard the
transports arriving here yesterday. On
the La Touraino were:
Sergeant Harry Miller Independence;
Sergeant Robert H. Hobbs, Portland;
Helmutt B. DEWITT Salem; William B.
Sherburne, DEMO; SexteF w. Smothers;
Portland; Earl O. Courtney, La Grande;
James v. Williams, Winl0ck; Jay l..
Combs, Scio James N. Miller, Coquille;
Fred M. Schuerman, Ashland Samuel
T. Meyers, Benzer; Everett NJ. Penland
Portland; William +. Brand Portland;
Ralph s. Ivcy, Milwaukee; Walter S.
Berry WallOwa.
Staignon casual company 5956, spec
ial discharge; Sergeant Archie c. Flee
ner, Salem. This company goes to Camp
Mills.
On the United States steamship NAL
lory was the 366th Brest convaleseent
detail, not yet assigned here, in which
we're Joseph Owen, Portland; August
Yauchey, Banks; Ben Fwombley, Bay
View; Simon O. Sleton Silverton.
There was also the 33Sth company,
with Captain George $. Clark Port.
land: Ernest George s. Clark, Portland
Ernest G. Aandt, Portland; John Il,
Payne, Aurora; Vane ii. Seely, Port
land. In Brest special casual com
pany was Sergeant Forest Wilson, Port
land. ar
United States steamship Mexican
brought company ID, 513th engineers,
in which was Ralph Hedges Portland.
On the United States steamship va
quina was Staignon casual company
1898, coast artillery corps including
Washington Il. Harbaugh, Portland, now
at Camp Merritt.
On the Patria was the 9th aero
squadron, with Clarence Bowes, Salem;
S75th aero squadron, William A. Arm
strong, Corvallis, Manley Frobishon
Junction City. Page W. Conrad Ruth
land; I'd balloon company, Claude R.
Snyder, Bend. These units are a. Camp
Mills.
Base hospital o3, with the following
Oregonians in it, went 10 Camp Merritt,
sergeants JOhn r. Gilmore, Portland;
Phillip NJ Elias, Baker; George W.
Riggs Portland; Glenn $. Macy, Nc
Minnville and Privates Leander P. Tol-
lefson Corvallis; Walter II. Leismann,
Willamette; Thomas I. Hoyt, Portland;
John H. Brother, I.cOna; Frank II. Boo
her, I.eons; Frank u. Engdahl, Helix;
John W. Davis, Portland.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-06-25
HUN NEWSPAPERS ARE
DEFIANT over PACT
Berlin VOrwaerts Declares
Treaty Can Be Nothing
But Scrap Of Paper

UNITED Press Staff Correspopdens.)
Berlin, June 24.-The Berlin Vor.
waerts, majority socialist organ, today
described the peace treaty as "a scrap
Of paper"
Extortionate pressure renders sig.
nature Of the peace treaty worthless,
said the Vorwaerts. 1--WE must never
forget it is only scrap of paper. Trea.
ties based on violence can keep their
validity only 50 long as force exists. Do
not lose hope. The resurrection day
comes"
The Preussisehe Kreuse Zeitung, in
an editorial headed ssPinis Germaniae -
declared that cit IS our duty not 10 per
nit the PrHssian spirit to be crushed. -
The Taglische Rundschau blamed
Seheidemann and ErzbeTger for the
''disaster. "
The national Yolks party ass an
nOuReed the shaEpest opposition to the
new Bauer government.
General Won T.utwitz has appealed 10
officers and soldiers 10 continue on
duty.
Several minor food riots occurred in
Berlin yesterday and last night and il
was feared they might grow in scope
and violence today. A strike invoiv-
ing postal, telegraph and telephone en-.
ployes seemed certain.
The governor Of West Prussia has an
nouneed his resignation.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-06-25
ByH G. Hamilton


United Press Staff Correspondent
Teledo, Ohio, June 25.-Tex Rekard
or Ollie Peeord win referee the bout be.
tween Jack Dempsey and jess Willard,
according to the best information OBJ
tainable here today. Willard has prae.
tieallY refused to accept any referee
other than Rickard, but Tex is holding
back. Il was believed he might be
able 70 convince the champion that Pc
cord is competent and acceptable. Jess,
Il has been indicated by things tran
spring before this, probably would be
willing to accept Richards word for it.
Riekard has had practically no exper-
iencs 80 . referee. He is a fight far
and knows boxing, but his refereeing is
practically limited to his session in the
ring with Jack johnson and Jim jet
fries when they met nine years ago in
Reno. Tex was forced into the ring at
that time whom the principals refused
to agree on any man. As referee he
is mere amateur, but Willard places
great reliance in his honesty. He also
would be acceptable to Jack Kearns,
manager Of Dempsey.
Peeord's candidacy has received a
great boost by the tactics of Willard,
for the Toledo boxing commission has
entered the argument with strong
hand. 1t has sent word in quiet fash
ion that II viii brook no wrangles Of
any kind that are likely to east a shad-
ow on the boxing game, and Willard
will have to do something soon. He is
throwing up the only barrier to an ap-
pointment Of ring official.
The name of Jack Welsh, who was
the third man inside the ropes when
Willard won his title from Jack John.