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THE MORXIKG OREGONIATf, MONDAY, AUGUST 23. 1930 3 WORLD IDEA T HELD LEAGUE EQUAL Issue May Be Put in Repub lican Campaign. HARDING CONSIDERS PLAN uation and Mr. Root was unofficially called in . World's Beat Thinkers Snr. The best thinkers of the -world have contributed to the architecture of the new idea and it is understood that of this group Elihu Root has been- a leader. The intimation coming from Marion that Senator Harding was giv ing the 'matter thought, is regarded as merely the forerunner of the formulation of ideas which -will rep resent the best thought in the repub lican party and of the nation generally. It is definitely understood here that under no circumstances will there be support of a. proposition which would contain, any surrender of American nationality, nothing that would ex periment in internationalism as ap plied to building of, a super-govern ment, nothing but the world aplica- tion of the rule of right and law. Course Considered Logical Out come of Fight Against Wil son's Pact of Nations. BUILDING COSTS MOUNT OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, "Washington, Aug. 22. Reports that - Senator Harding might accept the Ellhu Root world court idea a the basis of a world understanding and project that idea into his campaign, has not surprised republican leaders In Washington. It was recognized thu.1 such a course would be the logi cal outcome of the fight which the re publicans made In the senate against the Wilson league of nations. That fight, it was charged, lacked constructive ideas and was merely one of opposition to what bad been proposed. This was true In a degree, but In degree only. The senate republicans were not a unit in their viewpoint on . the league and it was the large task of Senator "Lodge's leadership to hold his majority In lljie in opposition un til the time would arrive when any apparent attitude of obstruction could be changed for one of construe tion. The idea of a world court, which is being suggested, in Itself it is be lieved makes clear the debt which the people of the United States owe to the senate of the United States. Defenders of the republican senators eaid that in opposing the Wilson scheme of internationalism which would have set up a super-govern ment with legislative and executive machinery, at the same time des troying all progress that had hitherto been made in the direction of settling world disputes on the basis of law and right, the senate has made world un derstanding possible. Root Leadership Natural. It was considered natural that ' Ellhu Root should be the one to work '' out this idea, for it was Mr. Root -to whom was ascribed the authorship of the league plank in the republican r-r platform. The thought of a world court was uppermost in the minds of most of the men who opposed the Wilson league " as the basis of world understanding. Such a court had been built up at The . Hague, but It was scrapped with the '.. building of the chimerical Wilson league which many of its opponents charge was merely a camouflage de signed to permit the accomplishment cf the imperialistic designs of the allied powers. No less an authority than Robert ' Lansing, ex-secretary of state, eaid In an address to. the National Bar as sociation at Atlantic City, that the league as formulated still called for the settlement of world disputes on the basis of diplomacy. Plau Considered Republican. Nothing in the league provided for the modification of international laws, nothing provided for the settlement of disputes according to laws so accepted. It Is understood here that the purpose of the court In which Mr. - Root is Interesting himself, is not only to provide the machinery for the administration of accepted laws, but to bring about their acceptance as the uiiia ior worm law by the various nations, and to write new ones. The suggestion of the Root idea is j regarded as the republican offset to the harlequin performances of Gov ernor Cox, whose acceptance of the league is regarded as largely an 1". ef'ort to distract attention from his T wet tendencies in the west and an endeavor to enlist women generally in wnat is to be paraded as the adop tion or a moral ideal. The country is to be "kept out" of all wars just as it was specifically kept out of the last one in order that the election may be won. While Mr. Cox is demonstrating his ! understanding of the league by such! amazing statements as that the "Mon roe doctrine is the very essence of Article 10." and while his running mate, Mr. Roosevelt. Is indulging in the amusing exercise of voting the Latin 'American republicans at the behest of the United States, the re publicans are planning to come for ward with a genuinely statesmanlike solution. Wilson Treaty Is Dead. The Wilson treaty is dead. That much is acknowledged even by demo crats, no matter how much thev de sire to take campaign advantage out of the denial of the fact that rigor mortis ha eet in. Courageous action by the senate of the United States, it is aeciarea. nas prevented the adon tion of a strange international phan tasy which would" have made the T United States the plaything of Euro pean politics. In its stead, if the Root wnrM r..ri Idea works out successfully, will arise 'i a structure which would subject the Z v' "nor,d to rules of law which will be oasea on right. Such a court would - oring aDout the advantages that mignt aanere to a league of the Wil son character, if it were not encum bered with its Alice-in-Wonderland natures or internationalism based on tne vain assumption that civiliza y tion Is to be suddenly raised to a com. ! mon high level instead of being de- oasea to an uncommonly low one. Calling of Root Significant. The fact that Mr. Root was called over to Europe to consult with Euro pean thinkers in the erection of this -world court is looked upon as signifi cant. The allied powers, whatever selfish motives they may have had, . ' -were in an embarassing situation in dealing with the United States. Mr. Wilson was president and it was through him it was recognized they must deal, no matter if warning had ' been given by the senate of the United States that that body would not accept the document that was in process of forming. Neither could they afford to traffic with different political leaders in this country, but when the deadlock occurred, and they were called upon to sit with hands folded in the midst of the dangers that have since burst upon them, until Mr. Wilson could have his solemn ref erendum, new leaders took up the BUNGALOW COSTS $2850 1913 AXD $6340 SOW. IN Fieurea Compiled by AVest Coast Lumbermen's Association, of Actual Case in Seattle. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 22. (Spe cial.) Building a modern home to day is quite a different proposition than during the pre-war days, ac cording to an investigation just com pleted by tne West coast liUmDer- men's- association; which shows that it now costs 146 per cent more to build a live-room bungalow than In 1913. In other words a five-room bunga low built in Seattle in 1913 cost $2850. The same bungalow today costs $8340. But this greatly increased cost can not be blamed entirely on lumber prices, for only 13 to 20 per cent of the cost of a home is the cost of the lumber. The association, in compil lnar these statistics, checked up and compared ail materials with pre-war prices included in a five-room bun galow- that was actually built in .pattlft- Mills reporting to the West Coast Lumbermen's association for the week ending August 14 accepted 68.300.356 feet of new business, - including 64,606.000 feet for delivery by rail; 12,067,979 feet for water delivery and 2,172,377 for local delivery. New- business was 8 per cent less than production, which at 74,309,520 feet was 16 per cent below normal. - Shipments totaled 59,923,748 feet, which with continued heavy water shipment is 12 per cent- below new business. With car supply still holding at ap proximately 30 per cent of require ments, the unshipped balance of or ders for rail delivery reached the highest point in months, a total of S163 cars. Unshipped domestic cargo orders total 83.085,227 feet. Un shipped export orders, 57,094,703 feet. DISORDER 0L DISORDER N MEXICO Stable Government Will Make Country Garden of Eden. GREAT WEALTH PREVAILS Peasant Clasps Willing to Resume Work When Assured of End of Revolutions. GROCER WEST TONIGHT SLAYING OF JOHN M. THOMP- SEX REMAINS MYSTERY. Xo Trace of Assailant Found; Search of Neighborhood for Weapon Proves Futile. The inquest over the body of John M. Thompsen, grocer at East Forty seventh and East Harrison streets, murdered Friday night by an uniden tified man, will be held tonight, ac cording to Coroner Smith. The body is held at the morgue pending Investigation. Efforts of the inspector s bureau to unravel the mystery were unproduc tive of results yesterday. Following the receipt of information Saturday night that Clyde Ueardon. a dairyman living near Gresham, had seen a man going toward 'the store about the same time as the shooting, an effort was made yesterday to learn more about this man who might prove to be the grover's assailant. After Interviewing everyone living in the vicinity of the store, however, the inspectors announced that apparently no one else had seen this particular man. Consequently no further trace of his movements was found. Inspectors Tichenor and Abbott went over the territory in the vicin ity of the shooting yesterday in the hope of finding the weapon which the murderer might have thrown away. They were unsuccessful. The dead grocer was in municipal court last winter on a charge of driv ing an automobile while intoxicated. That was shortly after he had lost his wife and he was said to have been drinking considerably at that time. CALIFORNIA CLOSES DEKES PARTY STAGED IN FRATERNITY HOUSE CAUSE OF ACTION. BY ROWLAND THOMA3. (First Article.) (Copyright by the New York World. Pub lished by Arrangement. ) MEXICO C1TT, Aug. 22. (Special.) When I told a friend I had in mind quite rashly to set down under the title "Mexico Today" my impressions of the city, the country and the peo ple, he counseled greater-terseuess. Leave out the 'today , he told me. "Just 'Mexico' ia plenty. Mexico never changes and never will change. Eighty years ago one saw here the same bunch of generals each going it on his own, the same bunch of pub lic officials grafting busily in office, the same apathetic cynicism toward the general welfare in the classes, the same apathetio misery among the masses that I saw between the down fall of Porfirio Diaz and the down fall of Venustiano Carranza. "And if your grandson comes down here 80 years from now, which will be the year 2000, he will find the same old business being carried on at the same old Stand. It's in the blood, and as long as Mexicans run Mexico they can only run it one way. That's a pity, too," he added, "because for its size this is the richest country in the world. It has the finest cli mate, or, rather, assortment of cli mates. It has the richest soil and the greatest variety of natural prod ucts of the soil.' Its mineral and fuel wealth are enormous, and barely tapped yet. Nation Its On Kiifmy. "The only thing against it is itself. With lust a little ordi-nary, everyday, horse-sense good government, Mex ico might be the Garden of Eden comt true. There need be no poverty here. There need be no occasions for dis order. There need be mighty little really hard work for anybody. But Mexico never has had a government, and never can have. She isn't built that way." "Then," I asked, "the only remedy you see, for the good of the Mexicans and the good of everybody else, is" .Purposely I left him to furnish the next word, and he supplied it prompt ly Intervention. "For heaven's ' sake, no!" said he. "Intervention down here by the United States is the last thing in the world I'd want to see." That one little interview might well be taken as a type of many I have had with Americans who have been in Mexico ten years' or more and have their stakes in life here. Unanimously they express themselves as opposed to intervention, and I believe they mean it. With equal unanimity they ex press their disbelief In the possibility of a government of the people down here, by the people down here, for the people down here. What has been will be fthat has become their creed. Mexico never has been governed. Mexico has been ruled by a series of better and worse dictators, from the days of Cortes down to the days of Carranza. And Mexico will be gov erned by a continuing series of dic tators. Her only hope is that on the whole they may be better instead of ' worse. But against that pet assertion of so many of my American colony friends that Mexico is a plac where nothing ever changes, I wish to enter a modest protest, well knowing how brief an experience I place along side their long ones. To me Mexico seems a place where everything is always changing, and where the chief embarrassment of an earnest and honest searcher after facts Is to coax the facts to stand still long enough to be examined. Trains Renew Schedules. For instance, the day when I began to write tnis nappenea to oe the day when the surrender of Pancho Villa was finally confirmed. The govern ment was naturally highly pleased, and among many other officials the director-general of railroada gave out an interview to one of the morning papers. In it he pointed out that as a result of the surrender railway traffic was normalized at last. For the first time in eight years trains were running once lav within her boundaries sup port a population of approximately 50 million. In area she was as large as the former German Empire, Switzer land. Belgium. Holland, and Denmark together; larger than Great Britain, Italy and Greece combined; larger than Austria-Hungary and Serbia 'n one. Within what were her bound ries there dwells a present popula tion lurerer than the combined pop ulations of Great Britain and Bel gium: larger than thos')of France. Belgium, and Holland together; and 1 matching that of the old Austria Hungary. ' "Poland was three times parti tioned, and these partitionings were re adjusted between the partitioners by the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Where the original partitions had given Rus sia 181.000 square miles, Prussia o, 000 sauare miles, and Austria. 45,000 square miles, the, reapportionment of the Vienna Congress gave Rus sia 220.600. Prussia 26.000. and Aus tria 35,000 square miles. Much of the land which Russia secured, and por ticularly Kiev, had been identified with Russia generations before. "Poland in the days of her great est area extended from a point with in 50 miles of Berlin, on the west, to the meridian of the sea of Azov on the east: on the north it reached nearly to the Gulf of Finland and on the south down to the Khanate of Crimea. "What we now know as Russian Poland is that neck of territory stretching westward between the Prussians and Galicia. This territory has an area almost exactly equal to that of New York, yet, in spite of the fact that its extreme southern boundry lies north of the latitude of Winnipeg, its population Is as -great as those of New York and New Jer- sev combined. "Russian Poland, in this limited sense, consists of a great plain, some what undulating, with an average el evation of about 400 feet, sloping up ward toward the highlands of Galicia on the south and toward the swelling ground paralleling the Baltic on the north. It loins the lowlands or west ern Germany "with the great plain of western Russia. Its rivers are slow and slucarish. with their mouths otten but a few dozen feet Deiow tneir sources "and seldom more than a few I hundred feet below. Their basins in tricately interpenetrate one another. and the frequent inundations of these basins have covered them with a very rich alluvial soil. " "Russian Poland usually has a win ter somewhat similiar to that of New England. There is an even cold, with not a arreat deal of snow, but often with razor-edged winds from the northward. The rivers of this region usually freeze over about the middle of December, and the Vistula is un der ice for approximately 80 days during the average winter. "In the eighteenth century, when the city of Warsaw, next to Paris, was the most brilliant city in Europe, this flat Dlain was unusually rich in herds and geese flocks, though al most bare of manufactures. & il f : p y . - " Ik -i li d ill ! Omit Now N - y i , H 4 m m - si.. BLOOD MAKES SOIL SACRED, HE SAYS AT. BELLEAU WOOD. Knights of Columbus "Visit Chateau- Thierry on Way to Metz; ChiI dren Present Flowers. (ConyriBht by ths New Tork "w'orld. Pub- usned Dy Arrangement. CHATEAU THIERRY. Aug. 22. (Special Cable.) With General Man- gin as guide Knights of Columbus delegates visited this town today on their way to Metz. They will visit Rheims tomorrow, where they will meet Premier Millerand; They were received at the station by Mayor Fla ment and the mayors of other nearby towns. The delegates first visited Chateau-Thierry, where they were presented with flowers by the chil dren. Headed by General Mangin the party later visited Belleau Wood, the scene of heavy fighting in the second battle of the Marne. Here Supreme Knight James Flaherty placed a wreath ,of flowers at tne loot or the flagpole in Belleau cemetery. Ex plaining the battle. General Mangin who. in 191$, commanded the French tenth army. In whicn the doughboys and marines were incorporated, paid a striking tribute to the. American soldiers. "Thanks to American help, the French army, which in June, 1918, was very weak, on the defensive, was able to push forward and drive back the Germans." As a tribute to Amer ica's dead the general remarked: "The blood of your soldiers lying here and who today feel our presence among them has made this corner of France sacred ground." Impressive to the utmost the cere mony was made even more so when a French peasant, in a few words, thanked America for what she had done for France. At the close the Rev. Father Kerwin led the party In wnm.Aw - K i 1 jf -3 i ,i m TiiucorunH la 111 ?U Tthrouh from Mexico City to ?lowera at the loot cf the flagpole. Ciudad Juarez, as well as to Piedras Leavlng Belleau Wood the party Negras and Laredo, and between Sal- drove across the battlefields. Return ing anu iuumercy. r urinermore. ne I , ChotAni.-Thierrv th del. t tin- U I i i - --. - - - T - n .. was entertained at luncn ty Mayor Chapter's Privilege of Again Livinj Together Restored on Con-di-- tion, Says Dr. Barrows. BERKELEY. Cal., Aug. 22. The University of California chapter house of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fra ternity was ordered closed yesterday Dy resident Barrows, lollowing a conference with the faculty students' affairs committee. It was announced that the action was taken because of farewell party said to have been held at the fraternity house at the close of last semester, participated in by four members of the fraternity and two women students in the university. "The chapter a privilege of again living together as a household may be restored only if and when it is clear to the unive-sity that this can be done with every promise of an orderly at d wholesome life," said Dr. Barrows in announcing the decision of the university officials. The president of the chapter stated that the action was a surprise to the chapter, which, however, is willing to abide by the decision. added, his telegraphic advices in formed him that the day before not a single shot had been fired anywhere on the soil of the republic and there had been no sign of any activity of rebel bands in part of the territories crossed by the lines of the National railways. This proof ' that revo!utlon-torn Mexico at last had settled down to the ways of internal peace and order was so concrete and impressive that it seemed worth a cable. I had just fished out-telegraph blanks and car bon when the telephone rang. Some one to tell me the government had Just cettled on the force 3000 men and three gunboats which are its west coast navy to go to Lower California and put down the rebellion of Gover nor-Colonel Cantu. No sooner oft with one rebellion than, on with an other, in some different part of the country. Flame nt. AUTO IS RUN BY COIL w (Continued From ilrst Pagr- bard merely stopped by lifting one wire up to wait until both cooled. Starting again, the machine and a string of accompanying cars headed directly north on Rucker. The wires had become so hot now that a stop was required at nearly each block. Turning on Twenty-fourth street, the procession advanced on Colby to the main street again. The hot wires continued to be bothersome through out the trip over 20 city blocks. Off the main thoroughfare the "engine less" car ambled homeward still under power of the colls in the back seat. With Hubbard in the car were Tom Hopkins at the wheel, Albert Burke and his partner, Fred Durr. 'S SAD PET RATS MOURN MASTER Alleged Still Operator 9ad Scores of Rodent Friends. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Aug! 23. (Special.) W. E. Krouzer, recently arrested here in a police raid on his grocery store, will be prosecuted for illegal manufacture or liquor under the state law, instead of in the fed eral court, authorities announce. Krouzer, unable to furnish $1500 ball, is in jail. The police confiscated a still made from an old wooden bucket, piece of copper pipe and a large quantity of "mash" and some of the alleged alcoholic brew. While Krouzer is in jait, scores of pet white rats, which scampered in droves from under the feet of the raiding policemen, are unattended. Krouzer is believed to be slightly de ranged. STOPPING ONSLAUGHTS OF BOLSHEVIKI XOW NEW ROLE. Inglis Visits Kelso. KELSO, Wash., Aug. 22. (Special.) W. M. (Colonel Bill) Inglis, candi S. & P-. green . Holman Fuel Co. Adv. stamps for cash. Main 3S3. 680-21. When at Her Greatest, Russia Alone of All European Nations Larger in Size Than Poland. WASHINGTON. D. C, Aug. 22. (Special.) Poland, whose history is I tragedy, and whose people have been called "Children of the Sun," plays no new role when she seeks to stop the onslaughts of- the Bolshevik), for it was she who once stayed the march I of the Turk across Europe. This fact is recalled in a communi cation to the National Geographic Society which sums up Poland's sad and eventful history as follows: "In size she outranked nearly every nation of the continent. Russia alone I of the European nations Is larger than Poland was at her greatest. In population she stood at the forefront of Europe: only Russia and Germany had greater populations before the war than are to be found in the lands I that once were Poland; for unpar- titioned Polandihad an area of 282 000 square miles, and the lands that I When Folks Quit Coffee because of cost to health or purse, they naturally drink POSIPM "There's a Reason NeVVictor for Au Q8 oust If you were invited to a concert every month to hear the greatest artists sing and play their newest offerings, you would quickly take advantage of it. That is exactly the opportunity the Victor presents to music-lovers everywhere. " You can hear these new numbers at any Victor dealer's; and if you have a Victrola, you can enjoy them when ever you wish in your own .home. Number Each Shining Hour Heme! (Domu!) 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Ap parently the most of the motorists were Portland folk out for recreation. Every available picnic site in the lower Hood river valley was crowded today. . . Few Greet Roosevelt. ROSEBUBG, Or., Aug. 22. (Spe cial.) Although his coming had been well announced, Franklin D. Roose velt, democratic vice - presidential nominee, was greeted by a small crowd at the depot here this morn ing shortly after 9 o'clock. Mr. Roosevelt did not touch on politics during his 15-minute talk, but spent most of hfs time mixing with the small crowd and shaking hands. Mmmmm mm fiPilllfili A Message to the Physician IF your prescriptions are not backed by the proper drugs in correct propor tions, the good effect of your work is neutralized. Quality and service ' have gained and retained the recognition of "Dependable Drugs" at Nau's. We Never Close! 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