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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-07-31

today. They said fifty men are fight
ing the blaze along mile and half
lie. Call for more fighters was
sounded. Brisk winds are sweeping
he fire along. No settlements are In
The line of the fire.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-07-31

Just look your neighborhoodl over;
count on your fingers your friends
who haven't car. and then call ono
on the phone before you start out
this morning. Say. fellow, the cheer
full manner in which your Invitation
is accepted will warm your heart.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-24
FALLING PRICES PUT A CRIMP
IN u. S. PROF1TEER INQUIRIES
REQUESTS Grow Fewer as Costs of Various
Necessities Fall-Less Than Fifty
Agents Working in Country.

ficial said. "Our forces on the execu-
tive lines are still intact, but dimin-
ished on account of the cessation of
activities Of the fair price commit
tees. These committees will go out of
existence entirely on November l.
Cases are still in the hands of dis
trict attorneys throughout the coun-
try. but the need for investig cation
and report on profteering has drop.
ped to such an extent that 1 doubt If
We have more than total Of fft>
executives working on this line"
It was in January of last year thai
the peak was attained in the profit
eering Investigations. During that
month hundreds of cases were brought
to the attention of the officials IN
charge of food and clothing proftee:
ing inquiries.
In the past month, however, less
than score of important cases have
been reported. On account of the de-
crease in prices Of food and clothing.
the reduction Of a margin of profit
and the need of the majority OF mer-
chants for emptying shelves on short
order. the number of complaints has
dropped of. 1t is expected that for
several months attorneys will continue
to prosecute cases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-24
NEW LEGISLATION IS NEEDED
TO KEEP DRY" LID ON u. S.
Distilleries Likely to Resume Operation
When Lever Wartime Act Goes
OFF Books With Peace.

titles, not only in the mountainous
country of the south, but in cellars
and even on rooftops in the largest
cities in the country.
This has proved a complicated prob
lem for the prohibition enforcement
army. The average Withdrawals from
the bonded warehouses in the last few
months have been at the rate of
100000 gallons a month. The
process has been for a wholesaler to
get permit in the regular way. for
any amount-fve barrels or fifty bar
rels-declaring it to be for medicinal
purposes. for manufacture of nom
beverage articles such as toilet water,
or for use in all sorts Of drugs. The
wholesaler may sell to another whole
saler and the same five or fifty bar
rels may be resold "a number of times.
Somewhere in the course of these
transactions il passed from the in
tended medicinal use" to beverage
use. and In tracing just where has
been the hardest task of the prohlbl-
ton enforcement officials
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-24
Why Postmaster Chance May Take Over Job
of Delivering for All Washington Stores

c. o. D. packages. II the c. Q. D.
packages were eliminated. the cost
of delivering a package. on the
average, would be reduced to about
6 cents, or about one-half of what
it cost under the old system. Ac-
cording to reports from st. Paul.
the merchants are finding that the
post Office is very efficient as COL
lector when they send out c. o. D.
packages.
In St Paul a depot has been es-
tablished in a central part of the
city. the business section. and If
teen substations in other sections.
The stores close at s pm. Then
the post Office trucks call for the
packages to be delivered. They are
all taken to the central depot,
where they are sorted and sent to
the various substations for de-
livery to the purchasers. These
deliveries are started about 1880
am, and by two hours later. prac-
tically all the packages have been
delivered. Quick work. Much
quicker than the stores were able
to do with their private delivery
systems. AS every one knows,
goods purchased in the afternoon
are frequently not delivered until
the following afternoon by the
stores. Most of the shopping is
done in the afternoon. This is
true particularly in Washington,
where thousands Of the citizens
are employed in the government
departments, and necessarily do
not have an opportunity to get to
the shops until after Office hours.
Statistics in the st. Paul post
Office show that the average pack
age to be delivered for the stores
weighs two pounds. Fifty per
cent weigh from one to two pounds.
and 25 per cent weigh less than a
pound. These are delivered by let
ter carrier. OF those over two
pounds, . majority weigh less than
eight pounds. and they are de-
delivered by foot carriers, who can
operate more readily and at less
expense than automobiles in con-
gested districts.
Right here it may be recalled
that the limits on parcel post pack
ages for such delivery are seventy
pounds in weight and eighty -four
inches in girth. Very few of the
packages for delivery from the
stores do not come within these
limits. 1t ID true. that furniture.
as q rule. does not come within the
prescribed limits. and some of the
stores in St. Paul have kept a truck
or several trucks for the delivery
Of very large arucleA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-24

often the phone rings. daily with
complaints on the other end of the
wire.
And then take look at what re-
suits have been attained in st.
Paul, where the delivery of the
packages from the stores by the
city post Office was begun last
spring in modest way, and where
some seven thousand packages are
delivered now daily. The story Of
what has been done IN the Mime
sofa city sounds like a fairy tale.
But it isn't.
The postmaster at ST. Paul is Of
to n. Raths. He got the idea that
he could do the delivery for the
stores and the people more eco
nomically and more efficiently than
it was done by the stores them
selves. Like Mr.. Chance. he saw
two delivery wagons from different
stores pull up at the same house,
and the idea came to him. He went
to the merchants about it,
At first Mr.. Raths met with re-
Bluffs. The merchants were afraid
that it wouldn't work and that
they might lose business to their
competitors. But that's ancient
history now. They are all doing
for them.
During the senatorial investiga-
ton of the high cost of living in
Washington a year ago, time and
again the witnesses-storeke
testified that their delivery bust
ness was a great expense and that
they had to charge higher prices
because of it. The people. they
said. simply wouldn't carry the
parcels home. Many Of their Gus
toners ordered by telephone and
expected delivery, naturally. Dur
ing the war. an effort was made by
many Of the stores to get their
customers to carry their purchases
home. 1t was very difficult to get
the necessary employees to make
the deliveries. But since the end
of the war. the demand for service
has increased and every one wants
his or her goods sent home.
Some interesting figures have
been gathered at the st. Paul post
office regarding the cost of de-
livery. Mr.. Rath figures that tho
average cost Of delivering a pack
age in the city Is cents. Under
the system of private deliveries.
the cost ran around II and II
cents, and, in some instances, as
high rs is cents. Included In the
8 cents is the Cast Of deliveEina,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-24

4 FALLING market in food,
~ clothing and household neces-
~ stiles is putting a crimp in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-24
BY q. GOULD LINCOLN.

M ELL pick good cabinet, surround
himself with able advisers" Do the
words sound familiar? Rath-e-e-r.
Some hundreds of thousands of the
supporters of Senator Harding. the republican
nominee for President. have repeated them dur
ing the last few months.
About the cabinet picking proclivities of
Gov. James NJ Cox of Ohio. the democra tic
standard bearer. not much has been said
In fact, the only thing that has been passed
around. and without any authority from the
governor, is that if Cox is elected he'll make
clean sveep"-turn out the entire Wilson
ca inet- However. since the democratic can
didates finally determined that the only thing
they could do to pin their hopes the
league of nations issue, and the administration
lined up for them, with AL nearly ALL the
csbinet officers on the stump for Cox and Roose-
Welt. it may not be considered so necessary to
ditch all the cabinet, if victory comes to the
democrats.
In less than ten days the country will know
whch-Harding Cox-iS to be the Chief
Executive. and which will select cabinet.
Prom some quarters the suggestion has come
that both candidates name the men they will
place in their cabinets before election day, so
that the country might have opportunity
to judge of their selections. But neither of
the candidates-very naturally-has undertaken
to show his hand and some of the possible
ties" for the cabinet jobs may go hoping
until the end,
X * X
For some reason or other. opinion seems to
have crystalized to a greater extent about the
probable Harding cabinet than about the selec
lions that Cox would make if he shall be elected.
Take slant at the following list for Harding
cabinet;
Secretary of State-Elihu Root. former Sec
rotary of State under Roosevelt and former
senator from New York. or Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts,, chairman of the
foreign relations committee. Senator Philan-
der Knox of Pennsylvania. Secretary of State
under Taft and member of the foreign rela-
tions committee, George Sutherland, former
senator from Utah.
Secretary of the Treasury-Frank A. Van
derlip of New York Gov. Frank o. Lowden
of Illinois
q. S. A.
Attorney General-Former Senator Suther-
land of Utah or Senator Knox. Charles Evans
Hughes of New York
Postmaster General-Will Hays of Indiana,
chairman of the republican national committee,
Gov Frank O. Lowden of Illinois.
Secretary of the Navy-Former Senator
John ". Weeks of Massachusetts,. or Rear
Admiral Sims, Z. S. n.
Secretary of the lnterior-Herbert Hoover
Of California or Clifford Pinchot or Gov. Lowden
Secretary of observation-disclosures Gronna of
North Dakota Senator Capper of Kansas.
Secretary of Commerce-Herbert Hoover, or
Gov Lowden.
Secretary of Lahor-Gov. Henry ]. Allen of
Kansas or Senator kenyon of Iowa
*
Now for Cox bnet. Men who have
been close to Gov Cox during the last few
promises to any Furthermore. they insist
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-24

EMEDIES for the high cost
~ of living are being sought
on every side. All kinds
of plans have been sug-
gested Ito bring things down"
The people not unnaturally have
turned to their government to aid
them. The prosecution of profit
GERS by the Department of Justice,
the contraction of credit through
increases in the interest rates
charged by federal reserve banks,
are helping out. The people them
selves have found one very potent
weapon-simply not to buy the
goods offered at high rates.
And now Merritt o. Chance, post
master of the city of Washington,
is going to tackle the II. c. L. from
new angle. A new angle here,
although it has already been tried
out with no little success in ST.
Paul. Mimi. and to less degree in
Pittsburgh, Pa. What Mr.. Chance
proposes is that goods purchased
at the local retail stores shall be
delivered by Uncle Sam instead of
by the high-priced delivery sys-
TENS maintained by the individual
stores. 1t is understood, Of course,
that the stores will place the nee
essary stamps for parcel post de-
livery upon their packages.
In this manner. not only will the
stores get the goods delivered at a
less expense, but the public will
not be called upon to pay for the
upkeep of the delivery systems
now maintained by practically all
of the stores, and the government
will receive the money paid the
stores for the delivery This
money will go into the Treasury to
take care of the governments ex-
pense for the delivery OF the arti-
cles. 1t may even be possible for
the government to make little
something on the transaction,
though the postal service is not
run for gain. but for the service of
the people.
\ X
LAS soon as the Christmas rush
is over said Mr.. Chance. discuss
ing the matter. II intend to take I'D
with the merchants the question of
having all their packages deliv-
cred through the parcel post
where the packages come within
the size limits set. II such a plan
were adopted there is no question
but what it could result in a ma
terial reduction Of the cost Of l1v-
ing to the people Of Warrington.
IF an OF the stores would CO.
operate. 1t 10 easy to see what saw
ing could ~ e11h. There would b
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-24

a tremendous saving through the
consolidation into a single delivery
service-the postal delivery. For in
stance. many times the delivery
trucks of two or more of the large
department stores of the city may be
found delivering articles at the same
home in Chevy Chase, or at homes in
the same block. Lost motion. Those
packages could all be delivered by
the same truck and the duplicate
of work and costs eliminated
In the opinion of Mr.. Chance.
Washington is an ideal place to make
a success of such a plan. The facili-
ties for it's operation are good. the
well paved and broad streets are an
aid. He already has 10S trucks In
operation delivering parcel post mat
ter and twenty-five side cars collect
ing it. He expects to have forty new
trucks before long. If the stores will
turn their delivery business over to
Uncle Sam, the number of trucks
naturally will have to be increased.
But the number required will be only
a small percentage of the number
now operated by the scores of BUSH
new houses.
During the war the post office
here did get the business of deliver
ing hats for the hat stores in Wash
ington," he said. II approa ched some
Of the managers of the big depart
ment stores to find out if they would
have their deliveries made through
the post Office. Several Of them look
ed with favor on the plan. But about
that time we had difficulty in getting
enough help to do the work then in
hand. did not press the matter. But
! believe that the time is now ripe
for it's undertaking.
Mr.. Chance has never yet taken up
the proposed plan with the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Associa-
ton of the District or with the
Chamber of Commerce or the Board
of Trade. But when he starts his
campaign undoubtedly he will work
through these agencies as far as
possible to win the merchants over
to the plan.
\ \
1t would be idle to attempt to dis
guise the fact that the postal serv-
ice has been under criticism by
many people for delays in deliver
ing mail matter. There have been
plenty of healthy kicks. But how
many kicks are there every day
to department stores and other
stores here because Of delays in
delivery. or the delivery to wrong
addresses. or the delivery Of goods
in bad order? Just ask one Of the
trouble clerks At the stores how
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-24

MI enforcement of prohibition
must be passed by Congress
at the earliest possible mo-
ment to meet new conditions that are
arising, the foes of liquor contend.
The Lever wartime act will be lifted
soon. and then whisky will again be
produced in quantities by the dis
tilleries. There are now only four or
FIVE distilIeries in operation in the
whole country These are operating
under the Lever act. and are thereby
restricted to manufacture of whisky
only from the sixth grade of grain.
But when the Lever act ceases to act
as check many other distilleries
are expected to reopen.
There is no way now of regulating
the amount of whisky that may be
made for medicinal purposes The ex-
perience of the last eight months has
shown that practically 100000 gal
Ions have been Withdrawn from bond
on orders for medicinal use" There
is nothing In the present law. those
endeavoring to enforce il say. to pre-
gallons OF whisky year, or even
more if the medical trade requires
it, Though there is grave doubt that
all or even large part of the liquor
withdraw from bonded warehouses
was consumed legitimately to cure
or alleviate the nations ills" the
difficulties that the enforcement au-
t..G ha hlA in n
lawful sales OF liquor will be multi
piled if wholesale manufacture is
again established.
When the prohibition law went
into force there were approximately
100000 gallons of whisky in bond
cd warehouses. With $4,000. 900 gal
ions withdrawn during the first eight
months there are about $4,000 900
remaining. The people of the coun-
try generally have been under the
opinion that no more whisky would
lie manufactured.
Besides the Withdrawals from these
bonded warehouses, the wet" devo-
tees throughout the country have
been able to get an augmented sup
ply from two other sources. Il, In
.aic1,Iably large quantities have been
suluzsIed in across the Canadian Dor
der daily by runners. night riders.
and even by submarine shipments
Much has also been brought in by
aireh,p from Canada and from Cuba.
80 Illicit noonshine whisky has been
manufactured In tremendous guam
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-24
BOTH PARTIES MAKING VIGOROUS
CAMPAIGN TO WIN ENOUGH SEATS
TO CONTROL IN THE NEXT HOUSE

time. with l. Clinton Kline of Sudbury. The
tenth and eleventh districts. which are nor
mally republican, are now held by democrats.
and doubtful The thirteenth district,
which has always been democratic, the repub-
licans hope to win. but are not likely to put
it over.
We will surely win four and perhaps a
oxen seats in New York. the republican
leaders say. and the special committee in
charge headed by Representatives A B.
Houghton of New York and John @. Tison
of Connecticut, enthusiastic.
Things are just shaping up in New Jersey.
where they have been in completely messed
up condition. Representative Isaac r. Bach
rach, the republican surveyor claims a gen.
eral sweep-al except the eleventh and twelfth
districts. The New Jersey campaign is especi-
ally interesting. because the candidates are
the best set put the ticket in many years
In Maryland the republicans will probably
hold the three seats they have. The Bal
tin,ore leaders feel absolutely certain that
William O. Atwood of Baltimore is going to
defeat Representative J. Charles Linthicum.
the democratic incumbent, in the fourth dis
trict. Albert A. Blakeney of Gainesville is
making a hard fight to defeat Representative
Carville D. Benson in the second district.
virginia's delegation will stand about ii
is, with Representative c. Bascom Slemp the
one republican member, although the democratic
campaign committee says that B. H. Handy of
Briston has excellent chance of taking
Slemp's seat. The republicans think that they
may defeat Representative James P. Woods in
the sixth district with W. NJ Doak, the legisla-
tive representative of the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Trainmen 49,. So q. BE-
The erstwhile solid SOUTH has been
veritable political battle-ground this campaign.
In Secretary Daniels home state. which he has
pledged to the democratic party will be soldier
than ever this year. the republicans max
ing vigorous contests in the third fifth, seventh.
eighth, ninth and tenth districts They say
they will win the tenth, where L. ]. jenkins
of Asheville is opposing Representative Zebuon
Weaver, and that they have a good chance to
carry two of the others.
It's about ffty-afty fight in the third Ten
nessee district between Representative John A.
Moon. who chairman of the House
mitee post Office and post roads during the
democratic control. and Joe Brown Of Chatta-
nooga, the republican aspirant Tho republi-
claim and seem to have an even better
chance in the eighth Tennessee. where Gordon
Browning won the democratic nomination away
from the veteran Representative Thetus W.
Sims but is likely to be defeated by Lon A.
Scott Of Savannah.
The only thing that can dfsplacA RSpfAsentAf1ve
NJ NJ. Nicely. the sole democrat. with B4nj21hin
L. Rosenbloon is for Harding to carry the state
by about 10000. which is not at all improbable.
In Kentucky the republicans are out to take
the third and ninth districts. in addition to the
fifth. eighth. tenth and eleventh. which they
already have. W. G. Blair Of West Liberty is
m
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-24
DECLINES SECOND SURVEY
Bureau of Standards Cannot GO
Over Potomac Plant Now.

otoAAdS A0hL 4NO"s
Although the bureau Of standards
is now completing survey Of the
plant of the Washington Gas Hght
Company, it is not in a position al
the present time to undertake a
similar investigation of the Potomac
Electric Power Company
This announcement was made yester
day by the Public Utilities Commits
sion. The commission asked the
bureau If it could undertake sur
vey of the electric situation in the
District at the request OF Federal
Employees Union. No. 2.
The survey Of the gas company is
being made by the bureau Of stand
ards at the request of Congress-. and
the results will be reported to the
national legislature when 1t meets
in December. It IL likely that Con-
Kress will use the findings OF the
bureau in determining whether the
government should pay a higher rate
than 10 cents per thousand cubic fee,
for the gas 1t uses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-24
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

~ IGHT for party control of the House
II in the new Congress is being made
part of the general republican drive for
complete overthrow OF the demo-
cratic regime The democratic campaign or
ganization is striving hard to tenn the tide
Party control of the House is particularly de-
sired because Of the many important legis-
1ative matters that are to come up-the
ganization Of a new appropriations committee
to handle the new federal budget, scores of
Investigations, prohibition enforcement meas
ures. bonus legislation for former service men.
laws covering international commerce and
commercial treaties with about thirty
nations disposal of the Shipping Board.
organization of Uncle Sans workshop,
classification of government employees. etc.
Never before has it been harder to fore
cast what the outcome of the congressional
elections may be, and the party managers,
who have for years been able to pretty well
size up the situation at this stage of the cam
paign, say that it is impossible to give
a worthwhile guess. There are so many ele-
ments injected into the elections this year
that the situation is muddled The presi-
Dental election and the league of nations is
sue have a strong influence; what the effect
Of the women's vote will be only be
guessed at, but it is generally thought that
it will favor tho republican candidates: the
soldiers VOTE the ballots of union labor, local
issues and wet" or dry" sentiment will ebb
here and there throughout the ABS congress
sional districts
The House now stands 234 republicans and
1911 democrats. with seven vacancies-a re-
publican majority las she rides of forty
three. While the members of the republican
congressional committee and the state chair
man almost unanimously predict that there
will be republican landslide the more con-
servative campaigners of both parties say:
Count on a republican majority in the House
of about sixty
The seven House vacancies are: Thirteenth
Michigan first New Jersey. tenth New York,
fourteenth New York. twenty-sixth New York,
third PENNSYLVANIA, fifth Wisconsin and eighth
Oklahoma.
1t must be remembered that there are
ahout seyenty-five members of the present
House who already have been eliminated from
the next Congresssome defeated in the
primaries others elected to the Senate; some
quitting politics. others out because they
aspired to state governorshp
The republican campaign managers claim
that they will not lose single sitting mem
h@r The democratic campaign managers
profess to be equally certain Of holding their
n~e.ent strength. Both elain that they will
pick up about dozen seats.
The hardest fight Of the entire campaign.
covering AIS districts. from the republican
home district in an effort to re-elect Repre-
sentative r. Clint Cole Fred n Guthrie of
Marion is making a whirlwind campaign
against him and coming strong.
Representative Andrew ]. Volstead Of Min
nesota chairman of the House judiciary com