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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1920 5 U. S. ARMY SERGEANT IS FREED BY REOS Bolsheviki Declared Eager to Reach Warsaw. WAR CONSIDERED LARK the fifth annual picnic, under the auspices of the employers club. The organization has a membership of more than 2500. The attendance was so large that if any member remained away a camouflage can be employed to cover the omission. It will be easy to explain to friends that one could not be located in the crowd. The trains left Portland at 8 A. M. and arrived on the return at 7 P. M., and the time between arrival and de parture at Bonneville was filled with sports, music and dancing in the big pavilion. The basket luncheon was the most popular entertainment of the day, dividing honors with the ban game between .he Albina and gen eral office teams. Albina won by a score of 6 to 2. A special train ot ASTORIA MAX CONFESSES HE DROWNED HIS WIFE. American Automobiles and Motor cycles Used; Plenty of Soldiers Are Well Equipped. WARSAW, Aug. 8. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Sergeant "William Cook of Fay, Okla., member of the American typhus expedition, cap tured three -weeks ago by the bol sheviki at Minsk, has arrived here, having been released. He came by way of Vilna and Riga where he joined a Red Cross courier. "Soldiers of the bolshevik army," .he said, "are all eager to reach War saw, as they believe the war will -end if the capital is taken. Some bolsheviki apparently do not care whether the war ends. Many are young fellows who look on war as a lark." The soviet army has plenty of sol diers, rifles, machine guns and am munition, Cook said, but he did not see any artillery except six captured cannon. He saw many American au tomobiles and motorcycles being used, and remarked that the bolsheviki are fairly well fed, having lived off the country they have captured. Discipline la Small. Little discipline prevails, he de clared, and although there is no sa luting, officers are respected. While on the march the bolsheviki reminded Cook of a crowd of American farmer boys going to a picnic, as they made no effort to preserve formations. Whenever they desired, groups would rest. One day he counted 11 airplanes flying toward the front. Cook, who fought in the American rank in France, was captured when he re mained with the anti-typhus train at Minsk. Cook was taken for a Polish soldier by the bolsheviki, who stripped him of everything except his underwear and then paraded him through the streets. When it became known he was an American, soldiers came for miles to see him, and he was regarded as a freak. 20 Years Swcd In Army. A bolshevik officer at first ignored Cook's plea that he was a non-combatant relief work,en Two weeks after his capture Cook was taken before a commissar, who related the good points of the soviet form of government. Cook remained in Minsk a week before he could optain papers to give him authority to travel. Dur ing that time the bolsheviki began closing stores, taking them over for the government. While there he lived on black bread and tea. Cook served 20 years In the United States army. While in Minsk Cook met Louis Jennings, an American lumber dealer. Jennings, who is still an American citizen, did not leave when the bol sheviki threatened the city, because Mrs. Jennings was visiting in a near by town. r , T OF Discontent in Washington De clared Exaggerated. - PROPAGANDA IS DELUSIVE False Impression Created by Both Proponents and Foes of Doc trines of Liberals. (This is the first of a series of four articles by the northwest editor of the Se attle Post-In teliigencer, giving the results of his observations and inquiries made In the farming communities o the state of Washington concerning the foundation for the stories of unrest amoni the farmer and the reasons for whatever discontent exists.) LIVING ISSUE HELD BIGGER THAN LEAGU Ex-Governor Hodges of Kan sas in Portland. Olaf Anderson. ASTORIA, Or., Aug. 8. (Spe cial.) -Olaf Anderson, who re cently confessed murdering his wife, Mrs. Minnie Cecil Ander son, plead temporary Insanity as his defense. Anderson has con fessed that he jumped from a fishing boat with the woman in his arms off Sunday, August 1, and then abandoned her to her fate. He claims to have kept the couple's two little chil dren from falling overboard. Anderson is a native of Swe den, about 28 years of age and had- been married six years. He says he lost his head as the re sult of a quarrel over the chil dren. The man is held in jail without bail, awaiting the ac tion of the circuit court grand jury next month. five cars brought employes from The Dalles, Hood River and intermediate points. The attendance was reported the largest that has ever been at a picnic of the railroad employes. "JAIL CHURCHILL,"- IS CRY British Labor Party Calls It Crime to Aid In "War on Russia. (Copyright by the New York 'World. Pub lished by Arrangement. ' LONDON, Aug. 8. (Special Cable.) A demand for the arrest of Winston Churchill, the secretary of war. Is In cluded in a resolution which the In dependent labor party will submit to the annual conference of the Scottish labor party in Glasgow on Septem ber 25. The resolution asserts that Churchill, as war secretary, in using British military resources to assist reaction ary elements in Europe to make war against the soviet government with out the consent or knowledge of the Kritish parliament or people, "has shown himself to beeregardless of all principles of democracy, has grossly violated the British constitution and has thereby committed'a crime against humanity. Further, the labor party in parlia ment is asked to take such action as will bring about the impeachment of Churchill as only a means to f curing a full and searching inquiry into the policy of the government with regard to Russia. 1 DIES, 4 HURT IN CRASH AUTO GOES INTO DITCH XI3AR SOXORA, CAL. at Car Reported Rounding Curve High Rate of Speed When Going Over Embankment. NAPA. Cal., Aug. 8. Mrs. Olive Grady of Montana was killed and four residents of this city were badly in jured today when the automobile in which they were riding went into tne ditch two miles below Sonoma, ine injured: C. G. Hasse, driver; cuts, bruises and internal injuries; condition seri ous; taken to Shurtle'ff hospital, Napa. Mrs. A. W. Norton, deep gashes in head and face; bruises; one eye be lieved destroyed. Mrs. Anne Inman, cuts, bruises ana shock. Mrs. Clara Hall, cuts, bruises and shock. The injured were brought to the home of Mrs. Norton here by passing motorists. Mrs. Grady's body was taken to an undertaking establish ment In Sonoma. The accident was reported to have occurred when the car took, a sharp curve at a high rate of speed and ca reened off the embankment. Mrs. Grady was a guest of Mrs. Hall, a milliner here. Mrs. Norton, the owner of the automobile, is a wealthy widow whose husband founded the Sawyer Tanning com pany here. PARK SITE CONSIDERED Klamath Falls May Purchase Tract on West Side of River. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Aug. 8. (Special.) An eight-acre tract for park site Is available on the west side of the river. It was made known at the regular montnly meeting of the city park commission. The city reefntly disposed of a site In the In dustrial district for $11,000 and the money will be applied to the purchase of a new site. The commission has been reorgan ized by the .appointment of William W. Kaldwin to the vacancy created by the recent death of his father. Senator George T. Baldwin, and of Captain O. C. Applegate in place of Frank Ira White, now of Portland. The old members are Mayor L R. Struble, "Don J. Zumwalt, city engi neer; Dr. C. V. Fisher, Rufus S. Moore and Frank Ward. POULTRY PRIZES INCREASE Commerce Chamber Gives 2 5 and Individuals Like Amount. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Aug. 8. (Spe cial.) Directors of tha chamber of commerce Friday night appropriated $25 as a special premium for the poul try department of the 1920 Southwest Washington fair, to be held the week of August 23. A. R. Bodger, presi dent of the St. Helens Incubator com pany and a member or tne uoara oi .rectors, subscribed a sinular amount, while donations will also be made by numerous Centralia firms. The Boistfort Boys and Girls' club. which last year won first place in club contests at the fair and later it-presented Lewis county at the state fair, now has a membership of 44 and is expected to outdistance this year its former efforts. FIRST SUNDAY MASS SAID Catholic Services Held at Klamath; Prololant Meeting in Evening. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. Aug. 8. tiec la I. ) cat none services were held today at Fort Klamath, 45 ml lend north of here. This is the first Sun day mass that has been said in the -lust or y ot tne town, which was founded as a t'nlted States garrison post in the middle of the last century. A.i occasional service has been held on week days by a visiting priest. Not far away another unusual re Mglous gathering took place. Rev. John Hoyt, Presbyterian missionary conducted services of tbe Protestant faith in the lodge'hall on the rim of Crater lake in the evening. This is the third annual meeting that Rev. Mr. Hoyt has held on the lake rim. 15 CARS BEAR PICNICKERS Oregon-Washington Railroad Km ployes Spend Day at Bonneville. ."What is said to have been the heav. lest special trains ever run out of Portland were the strings of 15 cars each that carried employes of the Oregon-Washington railroad and nav lgatton lines and members of their families to Bouneviile yesterday for RATE RISE HELPS POOL Baker to Rush Work on Natatorium to Accommodate "Stay-at-Honies." BAKER. Or.. Aug. 8. (Special.) The increased freight rates have at least one good effect in Baker so far as those wno. nave a nansering ior the "OT Swlmmin Hole are con cerned. because in order to avoid be ing forced to pay the increased rail road charges which become effective August 2a every effort is being made by the city commissioners of Baker to secure immediate delivery of the huge quantity of brick recently or dered from La Grande for use in the construction of a huge municipal na- tatorium. The lime and cement necessary for the work have arrived. By FRANK? M. DALLAM, JR. Much has been said and done In recent months in an effort to create the impression that the farmers of the state of Washington are fillei with a spirit of unrest and discontent that is leading them to give ready re sponse to the appeals of the non partisan league and to join hands in a political movement with forces that are considered to have nothing eco nomically in common with them. A great -deal of the persistent propaganda to this effect conies from sources interested in stirring up class conscious action and organizing the various groups of citizens by exciting their self-interest into a radical po litical alignment. "While on the other hand not a little of the gossip that contributes to tnis impression comes from those professional politicians whose easily aroused fears always magnify the menace of strength" of any new political enterprise. Facts Sought Without Bias. Consideration of the facts bearing on the general condition of farming in this state, the numerous safeguards thrown around that industry by the state and the many ways in which the state is spending money to pro mote the progress and development of agriculture and the welfare of the agriculturist should be sufficient to show that there is little to substan tiate the more or less interested effor,t to convince the public that the farmer has lost his traditional poise and good sense and is on the verge of revolt. Investigation of the facts will show that the question many are asking as to whether the farmers of this state are ready for radical action can be answered in the negative. One who is not a farmer and who has not been accredited by farmers of this state to voice the thoughts and sentiments that they entertain may not speak for them and in pre tending to do so would be assuming role that would be as misleading as many of the ill-advised and ill-considered replies to this question that are now given currency. But by ap proaching this subject without other motive than an honest desire to dis cover the facts and without the bias of previously conceived conclusions it is possible to learn something of the problems about which the farmer is chiefly concerned; what effect gen eral conditions have had upon him and his industry; how he has reacted to those . conditions and what is his present state of mind. Two Principal Problem. Inquiry made in t'ais spirit and put directly to farmers throughout the larger part of the farming communi ties of the state within the past month has elicited replies which in dicate that where discontent exists the reasons are many and various but that so far as the specific condi tions affecting his own industry are concerned the farmer in this state I; exercised about but one or two sub jects of real moment to him. The principal one of these is the problem of marketing his produce in the light of the big spread between what he receives and what the consumer pays. In some districts this problem has been fairly well solved by co-opera tive effort, but it remains generally as the one overshadowing issue with the farmers. Provisions for easier credit facili ties for the farmer, both in the mat ter of seasonal needs and of long time loans with low interest rates and easy payment terms, is another question in which he is deeply inter ested. The problem of farm financing 'is not acute in all sections of the state. In fact, there are many districts where the farmers are fully capable of carrying on their business on the strength of their own resources; sec tions where most of the banks are owned and directed by the farmers themselves. But in the less fortunate, the less developed and the less high ly productive sections, better credit arrangements are necessary to. facili tate iarm operations and insure proper agricultural progress. Farmer Enjoy Prosperity. An exhaustive report on the farm credit systems in successful ooera- tion in Europe was prepared and sub mitted to the legislature of 1915 by a special commission that studied the subject at first hand in the countries of Europe, so there is material ready for the formulation of an intelligent policy for instituting some workable ana satisfactory system in this state. Agriculture has enjoyed, a period of undoubted prosperity in the last few years here as well as throughout the country. Wherever crop production has been normal farmers have been making money, many of them, have acquired wealth 'and 'the circum stances of all have been greatly im proved. In communities of this kind occasion for discontent is relatively small, and there is little evidence of dissatisfaction with their lot among the farmers of such communities as a rule. On the other hand, where weather conditions and the elements have been unkind, where men have planted only to see the seed blown from the ground or the grain come up but to shrivel and die under a pitiless sun, where failure has fol lowed failure at a time when the world was calling for food and a sin gle successful year would mean the banishment of debts and an end to financial worries, repeated disappoint ments have culminated in distress and Imminent ruin. Naturallly discontent Is rife in such communities. It is In these sections that the non partisan league has made some prog- i ress. It offers promises of relief and assistance to men who are facing the loss of all they possess. Men in such situation do not always stop to analyze but are -often ready to grasp any plausible expedient to save themselves. Before proceeding further with this discussion it may be said for the peace of mind of those who are dis- nterestedly concerned about this question that the actual number of farmers who have allied themselves with the non-partisan league in this state is but a modest fraction of the total number engaged in the agricul tural industry. The strength of the league in Washington has been ex aggerated by the trepidation of some timid politicians and by some others P A Ml P A I f2 M! I2 1IITW.rn considerably less than disinterested. When this is said, however, it leaves the fact untouched that the non-partisan league has a numerous mem bership in this state which includes a number of the more intelligent and substantial farmers, men who are not mere dupes and whose record of serv ice to their country during the .test of war sufficiently proves their un alloyed patriotism. And it may well be interjected here that no means could be more skill fully or more effectively devised for strengthening these men in allegiance to the league or for winning sympa thetic support from others for the league than the false and asinine policy adopted in some quarters and among supposedly intelligent .inter ests of attempting to fight the league movement ny branding it as anar chistic and its members as traitors and bolshevists. Individuals and or ganizations that give money to. sup port this propaganda of abuse and appeal to prejudice ana passion are more deluded than any of those who have paid their $li to the league salesmen zor memoership in that or ganizatlon. Greater Candor Needed. As a general proposition agitators do not sow the eeeds of discontent among sober and industrious, law abiding citizens. If such people re spond to agitation it is because some condition precedent has stirred their emotions. Profound acumen is not necessary to arrive at this simple deduction. Common sense should seek tne answer elsewhere than in clamor ous invective. Society can advance only by mutual effort and hv mutual rmnoAecinna k. the preservation of the rights of an the variety that. insists on the ratifi es elements and bv th T., ' cation of the treaty without so much and the performance by its members of their duties and the acceptance of their responsibilities. The progress of society, however, does not run smoothly forward under these Ideal conditions. Men are more prone to demand their rights than to perform tneir duties or accept tneir responsi bilities. I Visitor Declares Average Voter Is Interested Most in- "Winning Breud for Family. Although the league of nations may be put forward as the big factor of tne presidential campaign, it will re ceive but little consideration from the average voter, who is too busy mak ing his daily bread to think interna tionally, in the opinion of George H. Hodges, ex-Governor of Kansas and a delegate to the recent democratic na tional convention, where he served as member of the sub-committee of nine which wrote the democratic platform. "what the average man is inter ested in today is in making a living. in providing the comforts of life for i his family, having good books in the nome, sending nis children to good schools and enjoying a reasonable amojnt of borne life himself after spending his working day at the fac tory, snop or office, said Mr. Hodges yesterday at the 'Benson ho tel. "The average man wants to know which of the candidates is go ing to do the best by him in regard to the high cost of living and tbe profiteers that infest the country. That is his real interest and that will be the factor that will swing the votes one way or the other." I am a firm believer in .the league of nations," continued the ex-Kansas executive, "although I am not one of as the crossing of a 't' or the dotting of an 'i," as the street parlance has it. I believe, however, that the moral ob ligations of this nation along the lines of world leadership are too big to be neglected. If another conflict should start between two of the world's great powers, the United States would be drawn into it in spite oi Kcvcrmeiess, It is possible to avoid I nonriont h th. rlH K o or,H t. I ",1 ?L-hC 1unecessary friction and league of nations or an association of ......... cieu energy cnereDyi ere- nations, or whatever you want to call "eu "y lne exercise or candor in the lt. ooints the onlv wav to dlsarma- L Wl UUOllC questions ana DV 1 man wrirf Ti.rm31lont nar ' a disposition to seek the facts with- But." said the democratic leader. out prejudice and then rely upon the looking reflectively at his cigar. "1 Inherent good will and clear Judg- ment of the whole people to provide Just and proper remedies for wrong conaiuons. SelftahBess Corrupts Ideals. eucn a course is becoming ever more necessary in this country to counteract the tendency toward group action in politics. Democracy cannot survive such a course once it becomes a fixed idea, and the trend 1.3 rapidly in that direction. No mat ter how worthy the primary puroose of group action may be in any given instance, once power is gained the opportunity it affords to satisfy and minister to self-interest will corrupt Its ideals and blind it to the com mon welfare. This is made plain by the developments in the economic struggle, where community of inter est leads' to group organization for the purpose of acquisition and pro tection. Each group holds fast to the power or privilege that it gains and yields as little as lt can under pres sure from other groups. So advance ment comes slowly, unequally and often inequitably . Men engaged in agricultural In dustry are not essentially different from men engaged in any other oc cupation. The farmer, by reason of the chances that he takes with the fickle elements and the time that he must devote to waiting upon the deliberate functionings of nature, should grow strong in the virtues of patience, courage and persistence. But those qualities by which the worth of men are measured, such as honesty, humanity and generosity, are individual and independent of social or economic status. For this reason men cannot truthfully be grouped into industrial classes for the purpose of segregating the good from the bad or the worthy from the unworthy. And that is why a politi cal philosophy founded' on class con sciousness that tells us that what on3 class demands is pure justice and what the other class desires is wholly unjust, is a false philosophy, opposed to the facts of life and im potent of constructive achievement. IDAHO CALLS ROAD MEET Convention Will Be Held August 25 to 27 at Everett, Wash.' L.EW1STON, Idaho. Aug. 8. (Spe cial.) A committee representing the LewiBton and Clarkston chambers of commerce has listed 45 delegates from this vicinity who will attend the state good reads convention to be held at Everett. Wash., -August to 27. The apportionment of delegates of the different towns in this section of Idaho. Washington and Oregon fol lows: Lewiston 5, Clarkston 16. Va! Iowa county 15. Anatone 3, Asotin 5, Cloverland 2, Hansens Ferry 4, Pom eroy. S. " told 'em at San Francisco that they would be talking to and not with the average citizen on that issue. The average voter is interested in the league in an abstract . way, but the domestic problems are the ones that really strike homfe. They are the problems that he wants handled and handled quick." The democratic candidate has a good fighting chance to win, the Kansan declared, although the coun try is normally republican. Governor Cox, in his campaign, has inherited both the virtues and the faults of the Wilson administration, he eaid. He denied that Governor Cox is wet, and declared that the wet issue is settled for good. Mr. Hodges is the only democrat who has held a state office in Kan sas In recent yars. and. was the sec ond democrat governor of the state in its history. He served from 1913 to 1915, being the only democrat elected on the state ticket in 1913. He is of the progressive wing and was one of the strong advocates of com mission government in the middle west, writing a number of articles on the subject for the Saturday Evening Post and other publications at the time commission government was first being tried out. In private life, Mr. Hodges is a' member of the firm of Hodges Brothers, which operates a string of 21 lumber and hardware houses in Kansas. His home is in Olathe. Mr. Hodges arrived in Portland yes terday morning, accompanied by his wife, and spent a portion of yesterday in a trip over the Columbia highway as the guest of A. W. Stypes of the Western Farmer, a former resident of Olathe. Mr. and Mrs. Hodges are on eisurely trip back to their home. and will leave this morning for Puget Sound. They plan a vieit to the Ca nadian Rockies. 1 lft ' . lftr-'" ? . h K v? Rl t vy onw vY i u n i i Fg-V-i H tPw charming romance of Arcady in II t$jjffa which a mountain lass glimpses tne worm S t mitsifl. and retolvei to &ta.v at home a lWCBaiai''?-! H I.S'SL4S3 ... - ; i jicc it fekssj;"?;! !H 1vSTjJ (tory iobi is unnjuc auu unicicui. .: .5 I$j1f3 in a high-powered laugh decoction . 1 . Bppl called "Spring." It's a gloom dispeller! if 1 TEAGUESSr ill H - ' - - ::,::'- : ' .. viy.i Municipal Picnic Successful. One of the most successful picnics ever staged by tne municipal em ployes was held at Iodge park yes- Tlirort 1 rtrt .TEN JKiTI - Von HERBERC 1 terday afternoon. More than 1500 persons were present. The after noon was spent in swimming games, foot races and ball playing. Useful presents were given as prizes in the sports contests. J. L. Hooper and Will Bower were prominent members of the arrangements committee. Josephine Picnic Held. The . annual "get-together" picnic of the former residents of Josephine county was held at I.aurelhurst park yesterday afternoon. No programme Was given, the afternoon being spent in talking over "old times" and en joying basket luncheons beneayi the trees. More than 250 persons were present. Officers for the coming year who were elected were: Presi dent, Robert Stipes; secretary, Mrs. I Louise Bush. "Booze" Feast Ends in Jail. A "booze" party at the intersection Brigadier General Suter Dies. BROOKLINE, Mass., Aug. 8. Briga dier-General Charles Russell Suter, United States-army, retired, died here today. He served under General Hooker in the civil war and during the Spanish-American war had charge of the fortifications at San Francisco. B I L L I B U R K IN my ft 4 t Away Goes Prudence 1 II W4J,- "-'"-I. Alp i - ea 1 v c t f Laughs A n d Froli cs Then- TRAILED BY- THREE is the first chapter of a red-blooded American Adven ture Story NOW PLAYING H V v. -kV a?s s...- i &&,ti Siw ;:-tei ' - fl H O B A R T B O S W OR T H -In- "BELOW THE SURFACE" A picture up to the high standard of ' -Columbia specials. The most remark able under-water scenes ever shown NOW P LAYING of Park and Ankeny streets early yes terday morning resulted in the three -participants being arrested by Motor cycle Patrolmen Nolan and Jewell. John Fisk. boxer, and L. C. Hoeffel, , shipyard workman, were both charged with violating the prohibition law. Each was said to have had a quart -bottle of hard cider. H. E. Fulcher. bell boy, was charged with being drunk." The three men will have a hearing in the municipal court today. TODAY and TUESDAY ONLY Mr. and Mrs. Henry Langdon (born Mac Lean and May) de sire your presence at a gladsome expose of their first formal in vasion of society. Mr. and Mrs. Lang don promise a joyous entertainment and re fer j just for fun, to vour happy memories "o f "2 3 Vz H o u r s' Leave," "What's Your Husband Do ing?" and "Mary's Ankle." KEA-?ES AT THE ORGAX. IKAH LKASKA, SOPRANO. OTHER PICTIBE ATTRACTIONS. Wednesday Three Days ! I ETHEL CLAYTON 3 in "The Ladder of Lies"