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Evening star., 1919-09-20
TIMBER RESOURCES
OF THE NORTHWEST

SEATTLE, Wash, September 2o.-if
all the timber were cut into LUMBER
and loaded on freight cars it would
take 114.000.o0o cars and 77,700,ooo
cars. respectively, to haul away the
Douglas fir of Oregon and Washington
allowing the usual 10000 feet of lum-
Der to a car. Washington and oregon
contain onethird of all the standing
timber in the United States. one
fourth of all standing timber in the
country is Douglas fir and so per cent
of the Douglas fir is in these two
states.
8 The numbering industry, including
logging. sawmill operations and
manufactured wood products is the
largest single industry in Oregon and
Washington and gives employment to
nearly so per cent of the working
population in the two states.
In Montana conservative govern
ment estimate places the standing
timber at 65.000000,0o0 feet. a large
part in government forest reserves. At
the present rate of ng-300. 0oo.-
600 feet a year-it would take over
200 years to fell this enormous stand,
and as reforestation has already be-
gun and methods of fighting forest
fires are improving. there will be bill
lions of feet of timber left in Montana
at the end of the next hundred years.
Evening star., 1919-09-20
CITY CLUB FORMS TIES
WITH CLUBS ELSEWHERE
Arrangements Looking to Recipro-
cal. Relations as to Social
Amenities.

Reciprocal relations with fifteen large
clubs in various parts of the country
have been established by the recently
organized City Club. This means that
when any of the 1900 members of the
City Club are visiting in a city where
one Of the clubs is located they may
stop at the club and make use of it's
facilities. Members of the clubs ex-
tending these courtesies likewise will be
welcomed at the City Club here
The Clubs with which reciprocal rela-
tiCns have been established are the Eli
colt Club of Buffalo, n. Y; the Marine
Insure nee Club. fo1 merly the Underwrit-
ers' Club, of New York City; the Ark
wright Club of New York city, the City
Club Of Hartford, Conn: the Boston
City Club, the Business Mems Club of
Richmond. Va: the Davenport tiowa)
Commercial Club, the Dubuque Gowa)
Commercial Club. the Weber Club Of
Ogden, Utah; the Commercial Club of
Seattle, the San Francisco Commercial
Club. the Hamilton Club of Chicago the
Commercial Club Of Joliet, ILL.,; the Los
Angeles Athletic Club and the Seaside
Club of Bridgeport. Conn.
Evening star., 1919-09-20
MEXICAN SOCIALISTS
ALLIED WITH CARRANZA
National Party Deplores American
Intervention and Wall
Street influence.

MEXICO CITY. September 5 (Corre-
spondence of the Associated Press).-
The Mexican national socialist party,
in a resolution which Ell Heraldo de
Mexico asserts was adopted "at a con-
ference" of party leaders. denounces
intervention by the United States and
allies itself with the efforts of Presi-
dent CarranEa.
The resolution as printed is a TRADE
against capitalism and asserts the ex-
ercise of armed force against Mexico
to overthrow the CarranZa govern
ment would be only to secure one
more obedient to Wall street"
It issues a call to Mexican work ers
to unite against intervention and to
prevent this 'hideous rape of young,
aspiring and democracy-1oving ma
tion."
Evening star., 1919-09-20
TRUxTON APARTMENT
BRINGS 1900 AT SALE

The Truxton apartment house, at
2031 street. was sold this week to
Louis F. Ludlow for a price in the
neighborhood of $4,000 by an out-of-
town owner through the Woman's
Realty Exchange.
The building is three stories in
height and is of tapestry brick. It
contains seven apartments.
Evening star., 1919-09-20
Can You Tell the Soft Woods?
BY ADELIA BELLE BEARD.

BY ADELIA BELLE BEARD.
Author, Artist; Secretary Girl PfO-
neers of America.
If you want to be up in Woodcraft,
study the skeleton of the trees as well
branch like Fig. 1, Fig. or Fig. 3;
whether the trunk forks into two or
more divisions like Fig. 4, or extends
up to the tip without break like Fig.
5. When you know these things, and
the average size of the tree and what
its bark is like, it is as easy to identi-
fy it in winter as in summer.
Most of the evergreens are soft
wood. Your Christmas tree, the sweet
smelling balsam fir, is soft wood. 1t
has straight. flag staff stem like Fig.
with branches dropping like Fig. 3.
It's gray bark is smooth with gummy
blisters on the trunk The branches
are fat, SO are the short needles which
are blunt at the end and colored dark
green on top, silvery gray underneath
Usually the cones are about two inch
es in length. The wood is easy to
whittle or chop and the needles make
fragrant pillows.
White pine wood Is soft and kin
dles quickly. AS a rule the tree has
an unbroken steln-not always very
straight-and it's branches grow at
young trees the bark is smooth, but
1T becomes dark and rough with age.
Pine needles are grouped in clusters
and each species of pine has d certain
number of needles to the cluster. The
white pine has five, exactly as many
as you have fingers on one hand. 1t
takes many clusters to form the tas-
sci. The needles are generally three
inches long and the cones sometimes
measure six inches.
Ting or for kindlng outdoor fires, is
Eastwood (American Enden). The
trunk usually forks like Fig. 4.
though occasionally it is straight to
the top. The branches grow slanting-
ly upward like Fig. 2. but the lower
ones droop at the ends and there are
many small branchlets. The bark is
dark with deep ridges.
Gray birch, white poplar, soft ma
pie, and alder are soft woods also.
Evening star., 1919-09-20
MINISTER OF THE SERBS
LEASES A HOME HERE

The Collins house. 214s Wyoming
avenue. now occupied by Secretary off
Commerce Redtield has been leased
to Slavko Y. Groutch. minister of
the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, for
three years. The lease was made
through the office of Moore & Hill.
Evening star., 1919-09-20
This Delightful Home Completely Furnished
Overlooking
Beautiful
Rock Creek
Valley

In That Fashionable and Con-
uenient Neighborhood Just South
of the "Million-Dollar" Con-
necticut Aue. Bridge.
This charming home is ready for
your immediate occupancy. 1t con-
tains 10 rooms and 3 baths, and it is
very tastily and artistically furnish
ed throughout, including china,
beautiful draperies, etc.
1t is exceptionally we'll built and
planned. and contains every modern
convenience The interior finish is
mahogany and white, and the dec
orations harmonic beautifully.
This house has five porches and
has awnings and screens, and is
weather-stripped throughout.
Can Be Purchased at a Price
That Will Interest You
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-30
HIGH TRIBUTE IS PAID
TO DEAD BANDMASTER
Lieut.. Europe Of 18th New York
Called Patriot and GAL
liant Soldier.

The envisble record. not only as 4
triot and a competent and gallant
soldier. made by the late lieut..
James Reese Europe, bandma5ter OF
the 18th Infantry. New York states
most celebrated colored regiment. is
emphasized in q eulogistic memorial
adopted at a recent meeting Of the
Washington Concert Orchestra, A.
Russell Wooding director.
Although widely and favorably
known as a composer and leader Of
the lighter forms of music, which,
with the participation Of the United
States in the war, and especially
since the armistice, have gained such
widespread favor, not only in this
country but also abroad, Lieut.. Eu-
ropes musical training and tastes
really were founded along lines quite
different from and superior to those
usually summed up under the term
"jazz." fellow artists point out.
That he could subordinate his incli-
nations to those of the Army and of
the public, they say, was one OF his
soldierly qualities, further evidenced
by the fact that he also saw trench
service as commander or machine
gun company in action.
His untimely death, occurring in this
country at the hands of a subordinate
actuated by personal grievance. is
dealt with at length by the memorial
drawn up by friends and associates
in this city, which document further
notes the following interesting facts:
Lieut.. Europe was born in Alabama
in 1882 and came to the National Cap
ital when seven years old. leaving to
reside in New York at the time he
was a student in the local high
schools. He early showed a faculty for
organising musicians and systematic
ing their activities. as evidenced by
the work of the Clef Club and Negro
Symphony Orchestra Of New York.
Enlisting as private, he helped
organize the 18th New York Infantry,
was later commissioned and empow-
cred to organize its now famous band
Once abroad, he is said to have been
the first colored officer to command a
machine gun company. his unit hav-
ing seen service in some Of the hard
est fighting of the war. His regiment
was the first to reach the Rhine, it has
been stated. and after it's return was
the first to march under the victory
arch on 9Th avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-30
MAI. ABBOTT COMMANDS
CAPITOL. POLICE FORCE

Maj. James A. Abbott has been ap-
pointed captain of the Capitol police
by Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate
David S. Barry. Mai. Abbott is
veteran of the civil war, and for
many years has been employed at the
Capitol, where he has many friends
He was the youngest man enlisted
under Lincoln's call for the first $4,000
volunteers. He enlisted April II. 1851.
when he was fifteen years old, asld
was In active service in the Sd Rhode
serving with distinguished gallantry.
After the war he was employed IN
the post office at Providence, r. I.
For nine years he was superintendent
of letter carriers there. In 1896 Maj.
Abbott came to Washington and to
the Senate under appointment by the
late Senator Aldrich.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-30
WILL BE PROSECUTED.
Ship Owners Must Get Insurance
on Men Before June 9.

No new insurance will be accepted
by the marine and seamen's division
of the War Risk Bureau after June Q,
according to an order issued by Sec
rotary Glass of the Treasury Depart
ment, and ship owners and charter
ers who have failed to file provision
al or hnal application insuring mas
tiers, officers and crews on that date
will be prosecuted.
rule promptly complied with the pro-
visions Of the war risk insurance
act, but few, either through igno-
rance of the law or apparent inten-
ton to evade 1t, put to sea without
applying for insurance against per-
sonal injury or detention by an en-
envy. Failure to comply with the law
may be punished by a fine of $1,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-30
ESCAPES DEATH PENALTY.
Luther Brooks, Soldier, Convicted
of Second Degree Murder.

Luther Brooks, a colored soldier,
was convicted Of murder in the
second degree by jury in Criminal
Division Q before Chief Justice Nc
Coy Brooks was indicted for first
degree murder. but the jury declined
to lnf1ict the death penalty. The mini
mum punishment Is twenty years in
the penitentiary.
Brooks 10 alleged to have killed
Frank Jones. known e. q bad negro"
in front Of 2o09 Georgia avenue
northwest, october as last. Brooks
claimed that Jones had struck him
over the head With . CHAIR IN . pool.
room, and altar Jones had le1t and
started up tho atFee< Brooks followed
and smptied his esvelvse e -.
causing his death
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-30
H. M. WEBSTER TO QUIT
HOUSING CORPORATION

Henry. NJ. Webster, controller of
the United States Housing Corpora
ton, will resign early in June, it was
stated at the headquarters Of the de-
partment today.
President Sherman of the corpora
ton stated that the resignation had
no connection with the introduction
Of a resolution in the House calling
for an investigation into tho conduct
Of affairs Of the corporation and q
checking-up OF expenditures.
Mr.. Webster will not leave for q
week or moro, 1t was stated, since
some time is needed to complete de-
tails Of the work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-30
Marine CORPS Orders,

Lieut.. Col. ]. NJ salladay. from ma
rine headquarters here to Paris Is
land, 8. c.: Maj. James T. Reid. from
Quantico, Va. to st. Julians creek.
Va: Maj. c. b. Vogel. from Quantico
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-30

to C4Idweii n. J.: MAJ. d. II. Morse.
from Quantico to once Of Judge advo-
cate general. Navy Department: Capt.
J. b. Moriarty, from marine headquar-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-30

tiers to the Philippine Islands.
The following named oddcers are or
dered to ouantico. Va: Majs. L. NJ.
WhAley, c. H. Wells and A. W. Jacob
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-30

sen. Capts. h r. Reilly. ". H Price.
b. J. MillneP, @. W. Spots. J d. Nc
Lean. w. J. Clement, ]. Reardon. A. d.
LIE Blanc. A. W. Dursll and B Dubel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-30

Capt. b. W. Gally and First Lteuss
T. 3. Hewitt and p. r. Hockenbergsr
OF the I'd Brigade In Santo Domingo
are ordered to the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-30
Relief Of Soldiers Dependents.

court cancelled checks showing that the
company had actually paid relief funds
to dependents of employees who went
with the national guard to the Mexican
border in June, 1916. The evidence was
put in through Edwin F. Clemett, who
was employed in the sociological de-
partment Of the company from 1914 un-
til after June %. 1916, when the Tribune
editorial, which was headed Ford is an
anarchist" was published.
Court adjourned until Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-30
SHARING Of
PROFITS OUTLINED
Welfare Plan Of Company Is
Explained Before Jury
and Judge.
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
MOUNT CLEMENS. Mich, May So
When the Henry Ford Chicago Tri-
bune libel suit hearing was resumed
yesterday the subject Of mythical profit
sharing" was plunged into without
delay.
e. F. Clemett, who was in the socio-
logical department Of the Ford Motor
Company at the time Of the alleged
libel, in 1915. was questioned by At
torney Alfred ]. Murphy of the Ford
legal forces.
Mythical profit sharing was the
phrase used Wednesday by Elliott G.
Stevenson of counsel for the Tribune.
He asserted that the wages paid by
Ford did not depend on the profits Of
the company. but were regulated by a
! straight scale.
Who pays this mythical % cents
an hour?" asked Mr.. Murphy.
The Ford Motor COMPANY" re-
! piled the witness.
And what does this mythical sum
average a year,"
Fifteen million dollars
And what was the greatest sum
| this myth ever attained in one year?"
TWENTY-FIVE millions"
Tells of Jump in Wages.
Mr.. Clemett denied that dependents
ranged from $40 a day to $6.40. or
six months probation the 34-cent
men were advanced % cents, which
netted them $500 day
witness said that the sociological
or educational department was form
ed In January, 1914, to look after the
lilies. At that time. he said, the com
pany employed 1920 persons in De-
troit.
The department, witness continued,
as the end of new employees proba-
tionary period approached. reported
as to his fitness in ability and charac-
ter to be given the ascent share in
the profits which would advance him
to the $500 class.
Denies Ignoring Soldiers Folks.
Mr.: Clamett denied that dependents
of soldiers were ignored by the COM
pany at any time. When the guards
men went away. he said, a survey
which required month and was COM
charity committee confirmed IL and
relief was sent as recommended. wit
ness said he had the cancelled checks
in proof.
The welfare plan of the company
was published to employees in eleven
different languages Mr.. Murphy read
1t In English to the jury. Employees
were urged to improve their living
conditions. to save their money and
were told that if they needed legal
advice or expert service in the pur-
chase of property, the educational
department would provide it free.
DO not impair the comfort of your
home life by taking in borders, "the
circular read. THE company wants
you to be happy and comfortable in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-30
Wanted to. Help Workmen.

Another circular said that the IDEA
OF the prof1t-sharing was to enable
the conscientious and Industrious
workman to attain a position Of So
curfty and moderate financial indie
pendence In a few years.
Five months from date Of your en-
ployment our agent will cali on you
to Judge your fitness to participate in
the profit" the circular continued.
This company does not intend to
share its profits when the profits
prove detrimental"
The circular devoted some space to
fnstructfng employees how to get out
OF debt, and once out to stay out.
and to use their share Of the profits
wisely In promoting the family happi-
ness.
Counsel for the Tribune objected to
this line of testimony all along the
line as irrelevant, to which Mr.. Muir
ply replied:
THE alleged libel charges that Mr..
Ford absolutely deserted the depend
ents Of employees who went to the
Mexican border in 1916. It is proper,
therefore, that we should show that
this policy was continuing policy.
| which was in no wise changed in
1916"
Mr.. Stevenson, in a hot rejoinder,
charged that this plan became largely
! imperative when the guard was call
ed out in June. 1915, until, he said,
Mr.: Ford was shamed into granting
relief by the Tribune editorial.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-03-28

Our Boys seem to be finding a
whale of a lot of blowholes in the
armorplate on that League of Nations
ship. Some of them, however, are
outlying them up, while others are
using the X-ray machine on the en-
tire fabric of it.. There is, possibly,
two sides to the thing and all that,
but on the face of it, it looks good to
US. Let us try anything that looks
as if it might end war or reduce it
to negligible minimum. The League
Of Nations has this laudable idea be-
hind it and let US not condemn it on
the instant without at least giving it
a workout. Let us cut out politics
and look at the thing squarely as it is
and be fair about it. Men will never
cease to fight, but if there is some
plan whereby this can be reduced to
an up-the-alley affair, why let's push
it. Never again must the whole
world be embroiled as in the immedi-
ate past. What, with nine million
men killed in the past four years;
with al, expense bill of 1877 billions
Of dollars, it is a wonder we would
not stop and think trifle before we
declare war. We hold human life
too cheaply. The League of Nations
may have its faults, but it is looking
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-03-28

county school tax bill through the
house some time ago. It is now in
the senate. An amendment has been
proposed requiring a referendum to
the people of the county. A similar
bill applying to st. Louis county was
introduced for Proctor's benefit, but
was killed by the St. Louis county
delegation, whose action may also re-
suit in killing the Itasca county
measure.
Winona to the Front.
Winona county has been the first
to score on the paved road program.
Winona county already has a good
many miles of cement road. It's
county board has now voted to bond
for $250,O0O and to pave all the Wi
mona county estate highway trunk"
roads that this amount will pave.
So, once more
Let's pave st. Louis county NOW.
r. w. HITCHCOCK.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-03-28

Looks as if it might be good plan
to save some of that "pizen gas" we
did not get to use in the late unpleas-
antness, and let some of our boys
drop some of it from the clouds on
to the resident headquarters of that
one-legged unhung, Villa, and thus
keep him from getting his name in
the papers on the front page in box
car type quite so often and regularly.
Every few days for years now he
makes raid on some American out
post and his ransom notices are post
ed up in plain view too often. An
honest-to-goodness raid after Villa
and his capture would help to settle
forever lot of this Mexican trouble
and would make of Mexico a place
for our boys to go to and safely
spend their money in making of it a
land of milk and honey instead Of
as now a cactus-Gila monster Villa
ridden place. Keep that gas for a
few days and it may come in handy.
A few more raids with ransom notices
attached may bring this tester to a
focus.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-03-28

Beer or near beer-which? The
brewers seem to be getting hostile
over the question of one half of one
per cent or two and three-quarters
per cent. The president says one thing
and the brewers another. It is a
safe bet that the president will talk
last. However, what's the use of
near beer? One could just as well
go out to the. town pump as to call
for a glass of that stuff. Why man.
ufacture it at all wehn there are so
many excellent soft drinks? Beer
with the snake eliminated will never
fill the bill demanded of it. It is a
delusion and a snare and it wastes
the materials put into it. Either
make pure, wholesome beer or else
prevent all substitutes from getting
on the market. Tens of thousands
of real men like their beer and use it
decently, are these to be deprived of
it because a small majority of drink
ers misuse their privileges? These
latter have discredited the social
glass of beer, they have destroyed
their own pleasures. Use the club
on them but for the love of Mike
never make near beer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-03-28

county is concerned.
Representative DeLury of Cass
County has road measure which will
give great impetus to lateral road
building in all parts of the state if
it passes. There is some danger that
it may not get through owing to the
fact that it is modelled after the re-
pealed Elwell law against which
there is violent prejudice in Southern
Minnesota. The DeLury bill author
ICES county road construction upon
petition of the owners Of lands along
the route of the proposed road, at
least % per cent of the cost to be
assessed against abutting property
and the balnce to be paid by the state
and county. The prejudice against
this form of road building exists in
those portions of the state where it
has not been tried. Farmers in Wi
mona and Cass counties where it has
been tried are enthusiastic in their
support of it. The highest cost to
any abutting forty acres has been less
than SO. The DeLury plan is sup
Elemental to the state trunk highway
system and if both are adopted Min
nesota in few years viii have the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-03-28

That "Speak English" clause at
the head of our first page has lost
us several subscribers since it has ap.
peared there. While those who dis
continued to take the paper did not
come out fiat footedly and say so,
we have since discovered that this
was the case. One fellow even got
so worked up over the fact that we
advocated the use of the English Ian
guage as the official language of the
country that he forgot the fact that
he owed us three years subscription
when he stopped his paper. How
ever we intend to remind him fire.
quently in plain English of his short
comings. In fact, we have several
more on our list who are short and in
consequence we are short ourselves
This is no hint. This is the truth