Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, February 18, 1921, Page 4

ao serene ean pai ae metas ota { et ws af Stationery GAS ENGINES Must be repaired From time to time to get best results from them. We are prepared to repair gas engine of any kind or make any size of piston rings from 2 to 12 inches in diameter. Let us repair your engine, gum your saws or sharpen barley rolls and show you how promptly and correctly we can do it on short notice. 3< SOUTH & FRICK Praised Everywhere +e What other manufacturers are striving for we give in UNION FLOUR, made from the best wheat raised on CAMAS PRAIRIE. You farmers should trade with yourselves through your Company to save the middleman’s profits. We give Unexcelled Service, First, Last, and All the Time. ae Farmers’ Union Warehouse Co. Ltd. C. H. GREVE, MANAGER Painless Parker The Famous Dentist EOPLE living twenty-eight offices, P and all my associ- ates in these offices have been taught how to practice painless dentistry as well as I can do it myself. We have fixed up the teeth of over a million people, and call our way of practicing “the E. R. Parker System.” If your teeth are bothering you, and you want them put in good shape without hurt- ing and without pay- ing a fancy price, come to our nearest office, a hundred miles or more away come to my offices to have their teeth fixed up. I make it a rule that those from a distance shall be waited upon immediately and their work be completed first, so they can go back home as soon as possible. Years ago I discovered how to extract and fix teeth with- out hurting, and was so successful that people called me “Painless” Parker. My practice has which you will find grown until I now have located at 521 Main Street, Lewiston “Just Between You and Me” says the Good Judge Here’s genuine chewing satisfaction for you, hook- ed up with real economy. A small chew of this class of tobacco lasts much long- er than a big chew of the ordinary kind—that’s be- cause the| full, rich, real tobacco taste lasts so long. Any man who uses the Real Tobacco Chew will tell you that. Put up in two styles W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco MARRS & EWING A new photograph of Frank R. Good- ing, former governor of Idaho, who re- cently took his seat in the United States senate. HINKLE REFUSES PETITION TO REFER Olympia.—Secretary of State J. Grant Hinkle refused to accept for fil- ing a petition to refer the emergency clause attached to the civil adminis- tration code, recently proposed by the legislature, to a vote of the people, Attorneys Preston M. Troy of Olym- pia and George H. Rummens of Seat- tle, representing William Short, presi- dent of the Washington State Federa- tion of Labor, made the formal de- mand on the secretary of state. Secretary of State Hinkle’s refusal to accept the petition for filing was based on the provision of the state constitution, which expressly declares that the referendum shall not be or- dered on laws carrying the emergency clause. A hearing on an application which they will file immediately for a writ of mandamus to compel the secretary of state to file the petition and issue a serial number for the referred bill, was set for Friday, February 25, by Chief Justice Emmett Parker of the state supreme court. FARMERS HOPE TO SAVE National Association Will Adopt Co- Operative Selling Plan. Chicago.—The National Association of Wheat Growers at a meeting here decided to adopt a co-operative plan | of selling their product in an effort to save approximately 65 cents a bushel through the elimination of the | middleman’s profit. The growers plan to establish cen- | tral receiving stations in each state where the farmers may send their | wheat. Stations for receiving wheat | also will be established at all large | seaports to handle export trade, it was said. Members of the board voted to start work on the plan immediately so that quick results may be obtained. New American Cardinal To be Named. Rome.—The vatican announced that the most Rev. Dennis J. Doughtery, archbishop of Philadelphia, will be created a cardfmnal. THE MARKETS Portland. Wheat—Hard white, $1.56; soft white, $1.64; white club, $1.55; hard winter, $1.45; northern spring, $1.45; red Walla, $1.42. Oats—No. 2 white feed, $33.50. Corn—Whole, $39; cracked, $42. Hay—Willamette valley timothy, $27 @28 per ton, alfalfa, $19. Butter Fat—40@47c. Eggs—Ranch, 26c. | Cattle — Best steers, $7.50@8.25; good to choice, $6.75@7.50; medium to good, $6@6.75. Sheep — East of mountain lambs, | $9.50@10.60; Willamette valley lambs, $8@9. Hogs — Prime mixed $11@11.50; smooth heavy, $10.50@11. Seattle. Wheat—Hard white and soft white, $1.58; white club, $1.53; hard red winter, soft red winter, northern spring and eastern red Walla, $1.48; Big Bend bluestem $1.63. Hay—Eastern Washington mixed, $34 per ton, alfalfa, $27. Butter Fat—43 @48c. Bggs—Ranch, 25@27c. Poultry — Hens, dressed 30@40c; alive, 25@35c. Hogs — Prime, $11@11.50; smooth heavies, $10@11. Cattle — Prime steers, $3.50@9; medium to cheice, $6.54 G6!5¢ ET IS, LABOR RULES) BURDEN COSTS — OF R. R. SERVICE U. §. Railroad Labor Board Asked to Stop Payments for Work Not Done. WOULD SAVE $300,000,000 Lower Cost of Service Can Be Secured | Only by Cutting Expense, | Atterbury Says. Urging emergency action by the United States Railroad Labor Board | to end “gross waste and Inefficiency” | prevailing under present working rules | and conditions, General W. W. Atter- | bury, vice president of the Pennsy!- | vania railroad, in a statement to the | heard in session at Chicago said in part: Many railroads are not now earning, | and with present operating costs and | traffic have no prospect of earning, even their bare operating expenses, leaving them without any net return and unable to meet their fixed charges. | The emergency presented can be met elther by an advance in freight and passenger rates, or by a reduction in | operating expenses. | With declining prices and wages in| industry and agriculture, the country | demands that the solvency of the rail- | roads must be assured by a reduction | In operating expenses, and not by a further advance of rates. | The National Agreements, rules and | working conditions forced on the rall- | roads aS war measures cause gross | waste and inefficiency. Would Save $300,000,000 | I estimate that the elimination of this waste would reduce railway op-| erating expenses at least $300,000,000. | It would be far better to save this sum by restoring conditions of efficient and | economical operation than to reduce wages. We believe that as the wages of rail- | road employees were the last to go up | they should also be the last to come) down, but we do insist that for an am- | ple wage an honest day’s work shall | be given. The public has the right to| insist that this must be obtained The public has also the right to ex- pect that the railway executives, with the co-operation of the regulatory | bodies and the employees, will as rap- | idly as possible reduce the cost of rail-| way operation so as to insure eventual- | ly a reduction in rates, Ultimately al readjustment of basic wages will be | required. Meantime it is to the Inter- | ests of all concerned, including labor, that the rules and working conditions shall be made conducive to the highest efficiency in output per man. Losses in Income Irreparable When wages have been too low the harm done has been offset by retroac- tive increases. Losses of railway net | operating income are irreparable. You cannot make retroactive tomorrow the savings that should have been made today. | The board cannot possibly write the rules and working conditions of:every railroad in this country and adjust | them equitably to varying geograph- | ical, operating and social conditions. | It rests entirely with the board to | determine whether this whole situa- | tion shall drift into chaos, and or- | derly procedure become impossible ex- cept at the price of railroad bank- | ruptcy, financial shock and still wider | unemployment. | The Labor Board can prevent this | catastrophe by declaring that the Na- tional agreements, rules and working conditions coming over from the war period are terminated at once; that | the question of reasonable and eco- nomical rules and working conditions shall be remanded to negotiations be | tween each carrier and its own em- | ployees ;.and that as the basis for such negotiations, the agreements, rules, and working conditions in effect on each railroad as of December 31, 1917, shall be re-established. If the board will do this, the Labor | Committee of the Association of Rall- | way Executives will urge upon ev- | ery railroad company a party to De- | j elsion No. 2, that no proposal for the reduction of basic wages shall be | made within the next succeeding nine- | ty days. This will afford an oppor: | tunity to gauge the economies which | can be accomplished , through more | efficient rules and working conditions. | It also will afford additional time | in which to realize the benefits of a further decline in the cost of living. Relief Imperative and Equitable The course which we are recom- mending {s not only imperative but equitable, The War Labor Board declared that the war period was an interregnum, to be used neither by employer nor em- ployee for the purpose of bettering or impairing the position of either. To perpetuate as the normal rules and working conditions on the rail- roads, the extraordinary provisions of the war period is a distinct violation of all promises. The war has now been over more than two years. The time has cone when, if the railways are to be efficiently and economically operated, in accordance with the pro- visions of the Transportation act, nor- mal conditions of employment and of secured. A ee ee worth of Merchandise sold at Slaughtering Prices +t Leggett Mercantile Co. Hoover Sending Food to Hungry Europe Herbert C. Hoover, as chairman of the European relief council, paid @ visit to the Bush docks in Brooklyn the other day to supervise personally the shipment of foodstuffs to the council's distribution centers {n central Europe. is one of the first aids to the charming hospitality that existed in the old days. better if you have GOOD FURNITURE in the dining room and in fact all through the house. We particularly want you to see our display and ask our fair prices. When can you call. Nau’s Furniture Store Compete line of Funeral Furnishings carried Both Phones. 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