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THE MORNING OREGON! AN, THURSDAY. JULY 3, 1913. MANY RACES AND CONDITIONS OF MEN ARE REPRESENTED AT THE WORLD'S CHRISTIAN PAL CATCHING' OH CITIZENSHIP CONFERENCE. NORTHWESTERN STATES MISSION OF THE CHURCH OF JKSl'S CHRIST OP LATTER DAY SAINTS 284 EAST TWENTY-FIFTH ST P. O. BOX 205 MELV1N J. MALLARD, President. DECLARED FAILURE Thausands Pledged to Tern ' perance Movement. Christian Conference Audience Refuses to Stand Up for ex-Convicts. PLAN' TOLD BY ORIGINATOR An Open Letter to Dr. Coyle and the World's Christian Citizenship Conference. 12 PR SON PUNISHMENT 'HONOR SYSTEM' DEFENDED Ex-Judge CIcland Says Penitentiary Hasn't Reduced Crime Governor West Gives Chamberlain Credit for Oregon's Changes. "Is there anyone here who would give employment to an ex-convlct, knowing him to be such? If there ls,x please stand up." Every seat was filled at the First Presbyterian Church yesterday morning to hear the report of the Commission on Prison Keform of the World's Chris tian Citizenship Conference, and when the question was asked men and women fidgeted uneasily but not one stood up. Ex-Judge McKenzia Cleland, of the Chicago Municipal Court, had just read that portion of the report which de clares that "society proves Its belief In the failure of the prison system by re fusing to trust the ex-convict," when he startled his audience by giving- it an opportunity to disprove the assertion. Prisons Declared Failure. That prison punishment is a failure on every count Is the dictum of the re port, which declares that the prison has not only failed In its original purpose of reforming the criminal and of deter ring others from crime, but has not re duced crime; that it has built up a pro fessional criminal class; has Increased poverty and disease; that it punishes the innocent as well as the guilty; that It permits and practices brutalities in many instances; has led to a wild de bauchery of arrests; has become a great political and commercial enterprise, "where Jobs are bartered at the counter of partisan politics and where the lives of men, women and children are coined Into dollars for the profit of con tractors." The report recommends the "honor system," and points to the results that have been obtained by Its use in Ore gon, Arizona and Colorado as argu ments In Its favor. "Honor System" Finds Defender. . "The 'honor system" has been so suc cessful that it must eventually be adopted In every state," says the re port. The report closes with the following recommendations: That religious bod ies, business and social orgenizatibns appoint commissions to study prison conditions and disseminate Information concerning them; that the spirit of re venge and retaliation in dealing with unfortunates be discouraged; that state and National probation laws be en acted; that the "honor system" be ex tended, and that prisoners be employed at outdoor work cs far as possible; that the prison contract labor system be abolished; that the practice of Im prisonment for inability to pay fines be abolished as an unjust discrimination against the poor; that the qualifications of Judges and criminal courts should Include a knowledge of social and eco nomic conditions In order that they may be properly equipped for dealing with delinquents. Other members of the commission which prepared the report, of which Judge Cleland was the author, are: Miss Kate Barnard, Commissioner of Chari ties and Corrections, Oklahoma; J. K. Codding, Warden Kansas State Prison; F. O. Helstrom, ex-Warden North Da kota State Prison; George W. P. Hunt, Governor of Arizona; Julian Leavitt, chairman special committee on prison goods. National Consumers' League, Washington, D. C. : Thomas J. Tynan, Warden Colorado State Prison; Oswald West, Governor of Oregon. Indian Chief Blames Drink. Perry Kuckup, Indian Chief of Police at Warms Springs reservation, made a short talk In which he said that "If It wasn't for whisky Indians would never be locked In prison." "We had no crimes until whisky came, and we never thought of such a thing as a jail," tie said. Governor West presided at the meet ing. In an address on "Prison Reform" the Governor outlined the growth of the movement in Oregon, the Inaugura tion of which ho ascribed to Governor Chamberlain. "A few years ago Oregon's prison was nothing more than a hell hole," he said. "Governor Chamberlain first turned on the light. The dungeon, the lash, the ,hose and other damnable inventions, together with the striped suits, were abolished. The limited indeterminate sentence was adopted, and the trail thus blazed has led to the new system of prison reform, which Is producing such excellent results." The floating prisoner, or Interstate convict, was declared to be "one of the most serious problems of prison man agement." Other speakers were Joseph P. Byers, of Trenton, N. J.; John Lamond. D.D., Kdlnburgh, and Edward A. Fredenhs gen, of Kansas City. RULES FOR PARADE ARE GIVEN Sunday School Pupils to Attend Con ference July 4. The Sunday school parade of the Fourth of July will enter Multnomah Athletic Field through the Salmon street entrance. Automobiles and floats will unload all scholars outside the gate and will immediately pass out of me way or those following. On account of difficulty In climbing the grandstand steps, all prlmarj pu pils and elderly members of the home department will occupy seats in front or me granastand facing the sneakers. Intermediate, senior, adult and younger members of the home department will occupy the grandstand and, when that is filled, will be massed beside the speaKers stand. Folders containing words of all the songs will be distributed' before the procession starts and all spectators are requested to Join In the singing. Blanks lor reports will De handed each super intendent when he reports to the mar shal of his division before the parade moves. Members of Sunday schools outside of Multnomah County wishing to Join the parade may do 'so by reporting to the marshal of the division embracing scnoois or tneir denomination. Y. M. C. A. Is Headquarters, Too. Many of the conference delegates are making their headquarters at the Young Men's Christian Association. A numier of delegates and speakers are living at the association building while in the city and others are frequent jailers. The association secretaries are having a busy week showing visitors over the building and explaining the work. The lobby is kept bright with bouquets of roses and sweet peas. while the auditorium, transformed into a recreation-room, is proving popular. I :": ' ! yxn v . K (1) , , . n i- jtii t&&"" - .-& iic-MS yS, V.J' , 5 i ! r - jf h it I "''ZZ T I - - it l . U . ( 111 S'A h . ! 1 i - , - -t - f1H ? " ' : fTyX ' j I, s v i CJ 1 ' I f -w v! Is - I - ''..1 L V- ! ,'' ; f 1 I i V4"' 'V; 7r- 1 ' i " 1 VJST' - " I tlyfiil :'l-"M EUGENICS MOVE RAPPED Cfcolr of the Japanese Methodist Miaston of Portland S, Dr. L. E. Davla on the uoitrnm 3, Br. J. s. Hitoda, of TokJo, Tells of the New Japanese Civilisation 1 4, Rev. H. C. Mlnton, of PlttsburK, President of the Conference; B. Rev. A. A. Winter, President of Dallas College. Who Was Mistaken for Governor West! O, Professor Bernt Stoylen, of Christiana, Norway 7, Percy Kncltnp, an American Indian, Who Appeared at the Prison Reform Conference Yesterday Morning-. DAY'S TOPICS GIVEN 'Immigration 'Sabbath' and 'Mormonism' Subjects. STADIUM SPEECHES VARIED 'The Press and Public Morals,' "Divorce and Social Welfare" and Other World Problems Come Vp for Discussion. to "Immigration" will be the subject dis cussed at the sectional conference of the World's Christian Citizenship Con ference at the Taylor-Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Twelfth and Taylor streets, this morning. The subject will be handled by eminent speakers from all quarters of the globe. Following the report of the special commission appointed by tho confer ence to report on the Immigration prob lem, of which Walter Laid law. Ph. D., of New York, is chairman, there will be addresses by the following: Lieu tenant Davide Bosio, Palermo, Italy; Professor Bern! Stoylen Christiania, Norway; Dr. S. Motoda, Tokio; Dr. Wil liam Hay, New Zealand; Pyong K. Yoon, Seoul, Corea. The addresses will be followed by a general discussion. The conference will open at 9:30 with the reading of the report. The Rev. F. M. Wilson, of Philadelphia, will pre side. "The Sabbath" Is Topic. At the same time a conference will be in progress at the First Presbyterian unurcn at uweiith, and Alder streets, where the subject will be "The Sab bath," with Dr. W. E. Crouser, of San Jose, Cal., presiding. There will be addresses by Dr. James R. Wylie, of Beaver Falls, Pa.; Dr. J. H. Leiper, Portland, and Dr. Crouser. "Mormonisra" will be discussed at a sectional conference at the White Tem ple, Twelfth and Taylor streets. The report of the commission appointed to investigate the subject will be read, and there will be addresses by Dr. Robert F. Coyle, Denver, who delivered an ad dress against Mormonism Tuesday night; Dr. George H. L. Beeman, Green, castle, ind., and Dr. Grant W. Sower. Bellefontalne. O. This conference, over which Dr. W. J. Wilson, of Lansing, Mich., will preside, will also begin at 9:30. Music Opens Programme. The programme at the Stadium will open with music at 2 o'clock this after noon. At 2:15 Dr. William Ray, of New Zealand, will speak on "Personal Evan gelism and Social Service." "Christion Forces in the Levant" will be an ad dress delivered at 3 o'clock by Armenag Haigazlan, of Konia, Asia Minor, Tur key. "The Press and Public Morals" will be discussed at 4 o'clock by Rob ert J. Burdette, of Pasadena, the fa mous journalist, preacher and lecturer. The evening programme will be opened by singing by the grand con ference chorus at 7:30, followed by an address on "Divorce and Social Wel fare." by Dr. Edwin H. Delk. of Phila delphia. Rossini's "Inflamatus From Stabat Mater" will be sung by Mrs. Rose Bloch-Bauer and chorus. The pro gramme will close with an address by Dr. Charles Merle d'Aublgne, of Paris, on "The Conflict Between Christianity and Infidelity In France." VANCOUVER CROWD COMING Churchmen rrom Neighboring City lo Attend Christian Conference. VANCOUVER, Wash., July 2. (Spe cial.) Tomorrow is Vancouver day at the World's Christian Citizenship Con ference In Portland, and several hun dred residents of this city and vicinity expect to attend the sessions. Every day since the conference opened, Vancouver has sent a good delegation to swell the attendance. OREGON CONGRESS OF MOTHERS AND PARENT TEACHERS TO BE THE HOSTESSES TODAY. The Oregon Congress of Mothers and Parents-Teachers' Association will give a luncheon at Hotel Oregon today at noon In honor of the following, who will be speakers: Armeng Halg azlon, Turkey; Ng Poon Chew, China; J. s. Matoda, Japan; Dr. Samuel Batten, Philadelphia; Dr. Robert F. Coyle. Denver; Robert Burdette, Pasadena; Dr. Charles Merle d'Aublgne. Paris; Monsieur Frederick De Rouge mont. Switzerland; Signor Davide Bosio, Italy; Professor Theophll Mann. Germany, and Robert J. ("Catch My Pal") Petterson. The guests of honor are delegates to tne second World's Christian Clt- lzensnip conference. and luncheon will be open to public President Reed College, will be toastmas- ter. the the of STERILIZATIOX IAW ALSO OUT. ICISED BY DIt. WHITE. Medical Examination Preceding Mat rimony Declared Advantageous by Health Board Member. The eugenics movement in the United States and the sterilization law passed by the recent Oregon Legislature were both 'rapped by Dr. Calvin S. White, of the State Health Board, In his ad dress before the sectional conference of the World's Christian Citizenship Conference at the First Methodist Church yesterday. "Some of the things suggested by the followers of the eugenic move ment," he declared, "are the most silly, the most barbarous and the most Im moral imaginable. Aside from the gen eral eugenics discussions that have been carried on In this state as well a3 in other states. Oregon has followed the foolish example of some other states and has passed a sterilization law. This law permits the steriliza tion of people found to be feeble mind ed or criminally Insane; It can so even further and can unsex them. "This Is barbarous and wicked. I question whether you or I or anyone else dare assume to ourselves the rigut to say who shall and who shall not have children." The law recently passed In Oregon requiring a medical examination for men Intending to marry he declared to be good, inasmuch as Its effect s to protect Innocent women from the dan ger of contracting the diseases Inci dent to vice, through ignorance or carelessness of men who marry them. Mrs. Ada Wallace Unruh spoke on social hygiene. - S. A. Selwert. of Seattle, presided and Mrs. Lola G. Baldwin, Dr. Emma F. A. Drake, of Denver, Colo., the Rt. Rev. W. H. Moreland. of Sacramento, Cal.. and others participated in the general discussion. SCHOOL BIBLES URGED EDVCATIOX WITHOUT RELIGION IS DEPLORED BY SPEAKERS. Dr. Robert J. Patterson, of Belfast, Ireland, Carries Citizenship Au dience to High State of En thusiasm With Address. A shower of epigrams, witty and pointed, that kept his audience tin gling with appreciation and enthusiasm. was the address delivered on the "Catch-my-pal" temperance movement. delivered at last night's session of the World's Christian Citizenship Confer ence by Dr. Robert "J. Patterson, of Belfast, Ireland, who conceived and launched the movement. Dr. Patterson began to put the "Catch-my-pal" idea into practice on July 13, 1909, by catching six of his parishioners In the street In Armagh, Ireland, and pledging them to come to his study on the following Friday and sign the pledge. He permitted them to sign the pledge only on condition that each would go out and bring, on the following week, one of the hardest drinkers In the city. These in turn signed the pledge and were sent out to "catch their pals for temperance." The movement spread from Armagh throughout Ireland, then to Scotland, Wales and England, jumped across Into the Continent and now Dr. Patterson has come to America upon invita tion to carry the "catch-my-pal" plan through this country, after, which he will launch it in Australia. Mutual Aid Held Need. The strength of the "catch-my-pal" plan, he declared, lies in the mutual support which the signer and the pal he brings in give to one another In their efforts to abide by it. "The preachers never. can bring about temperance, he said. "It is the people themselves who must do it. The drunkards are the men who make the problem and it is they who will have to solve It. "The 'catch-my-pal' move simply Is the idea of reaching down a hand to a man and helping him up. Men don't go to the devil because they want to they go because their fellow men are too mean to give them a hand when they need it. "When one Sunday I had four of the worst drunkards In the city tak ing up the collection there was what you call a 'sensation in the church. I would to God that there might be more sensations in our churches. "Our churches today have become institutions too much for preserving the preserved instead of going out to save inose wno are in need of saving. "There is far too much ecclesiastical starch in our pulpits and I have seen more starch in the pews than ever in the pulpit. "Palshlp" Declared Desire. "Men who go to the public houses you call them saloons over here go noi bo mucn ror the drinking there as for the -palshlp' they find there. When you take that away you must find a suDsitute for it elsewhere.'' When, at the close of his address Dr. Patterson called upon all in the audience who were willing to lend ineir support to the temperance move ment to raise their hands, thousands of hands were displayed throughout the stadium and thousands of voices roared after him the words of his pledge: "We will see this thing throusrh!" Dr. Mark A. Matthews, of Seattle. gave the first address of the evening session upon "Municipal Reform." The attendance at last night's meet ing was estimated to be even larger than the attendance of the preceding evening, when more than 10,000 persons were in me stadium. AFFAIRS IN JAPAN TOLD DELEGATE TO CONFERENCE DIS CUSSES CONDITIONS. Head of Willamette University Pre sides at Sectional Conference In Trinity Episcopal Church. That the Christian religion should be taught in some form in the public schools was the recommendation of the commission on public education of the World's Christian Citizenship Confer ence, read at the sectional conference at the Trinity Episcopal Church, Nine teenth and Everett streets, yesterday, at which President Homan, of Willam ette University, presided. It was contended tbat an educational system that ignores God In effect denies him. The report was read by the chairman of the commission on public education, Henry Collin Mlnton, of Trenton, N. J. "The Bible In the Public Schools" was the subject of an address delivered by Rev. W. F. McCauley, of McKeesport, Pa., who said that in 11 states and the District of Columbia the Law Is favor able to the use of the scriptures In the schools. "In ten other states," said the speaker, "either the courts or the State School Superintendents have de cided that the use is lawful. In 14 states, neither laws nor court opinions directly decide the matter." Rev. James S. Martin, of Pittsburg, delivered an address on "Religious In struction In State Educational Institutions.' ur. Joseph Blotoda Declares He Finds Boys of His Country More Studious Than Americans. Japan is always represented when ever there is a conference of interna tlonal interest. and at tvi nr.nant Christian Citizenship gathering here in Portland, Dr. Joseph Motoda. of loklo, bears the honors for his native wuniry. Dr. MntruA t an ntonnnelta- n1 gym an, having been consecrated in 1895 by the Bishop of Pennsylvania, and since his arrival h.r. t- ho... tained by Bishop Scaddlng on Portland uciguig.' jr. moioaa win preacn Bun day morning at St. David's Episcopal Church on thp t'mo riha He is principal of St. Paul's College ur jouys in 10K10, wnere its name 1 always known as Rikkyo Gakuin. The boys wear school uniforms like those wuru 111 uerman scnoois. When asked what the boys had to eat, he said the regimen principally wi nco ana nsn, Dut on special oc caslons they were allowed beef. Their nthlctt.. r r i " . . v . (CUVlUg, baseball, tennis, and more particularly "ju do" or Jiu Jltsu. and they have Just taken steps toward purchasing 15 acre for a football field. He finds that the Japanese boys are much more given to study than American boys and rather deplores that fact. Dr. Motoda said the alien land law situation naa caused the Japanese much flnriptv hut nnw tvi v 1 their countrymen here will try more una more 1.0 assimilate the Amerl cans manners and customs, so as to be allowed to become faithful and loyal citizens of this country. He said this mjug can oniy De settleo by the Gov ernmont according to the consensus of public opinion, for which the Japanese people patiently will watt. GOVERNOR'S DOUBLE FOUND President Winter, of Dallas College, Taken for Executive at Conference. A. A. Winter, president of Dallas Col lege, has been discovered to be a "dou ble" of Governor West. When he entered the Stadium yester day during the World's Christian Citi zenship Conference, Chairman Mlnton came forward and announced: "Gov ernor West has Just come into the Sta dium. Will he please come up to the platform." After this announcement had been made twice. President Winter turned to his companion in one of the boxes and remarked that he did not believe the Governor could be present or he would surely have responded to the In vitation. Faces turned In .his direction, and finally a delegation 'from the chairman to escort him to the speakers' stand Dear Sir and Gentlemen "When you make a wholesale attack upon hundreds of thousands of true loyal American citizens whom you do not know, among whom you have not lived, and are inspired entirely by base falsehoods uttered by apostates and hirelings, you prostitute your splendid talents in breaking God's commandment, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." You quoted extensively from Frank J. Cannon. We charge you with having obtained most of your address from him. It was his argument and language, and you should have given him credit for more than you did. Do you know what the non-Mormons have said of him? Goodwin's "Weekly, on March 4, 1911, had an article on him by J. T. Goodwin, a non-Mormon and son of C. C. Good win, founder and for many years editor of the greatest anti Mormon paper in America, the Salt Lake Tribune, and among other things said : "Prank J. Cannon could not be true to anything. He is an ingrate at heart, and the best that may be said of the rancid derelict is that he is probably the most brilliant dis torter of facts this country has produced in several gen erations. "I am not in love with the Mormon chiefs, but in com mon with those who love their state, and in a spirit of per fect fairness, I wish to register this protest against this peculiarly constituted 'defender of the home,' at the same time deploring the fact that outsiders have been led to believe that Frank J. Cannon is affiliated with the right thinking. non-Mormons and congratulating the Mormon Church on its good riddance." And this is the man who is the authority for most of your statements. How painful it is to see one so able as you used as the tool of such a man, to hurt the best people on earth, whose morality and high Christian ideals could tolerate him no longer and cast him out. Now he has be come the idol of thousands of Christian men and women. Did he tell you the truth when he said Senator Reed Smoot had to virtually go to-the first presidency of the "Mormon" Church to receive the Senatorship? He was untruthful, for he knew that Mr. Smoot 's entire time was given to his church as an apostle, and that he would have to obtain from it a leave of absence from church duties so that he could run for Senator, just as you would from your church if you were going to run for Mayor of Denver. Is it true that Senator Smoot and every other "Mormon" who goes through the temple takes an oath of vengeance against the United States! No, it is utterly false. A Mor mon is taught as part of his religion that the Constitution is a revelation of political freedom from God; that it shall never be destroyed, and when Christ comes to reign on earth it will be under the Stars and Stripes. "Why did you not speak of "Mormon" patriotism, as shown by their acts, which speak louder than words, of giving the flower of their flock, when expelled from the confines of the United States, when 500 of their men served under the flag in the war with Mexico, or their supplying soldiers during the Civil War to protect the Government mail, stages and express trains, relieving the regular soldiers to go to the front, or the valor of the Utah batteries in the Philippines under Major Richard Young, a prominent "Mor mon," of whom General Lawton said, "lie is from Utah, and he is a Mormon, and the best volunteer artillery officer in the Philippines." And of the men he said: "They are splendid soldiers." Speaking of the dead' members of this battery, Senator Beveridge said: "The Filipino bullets found no treason in those" Utah hearts. How better can men prove their loyalty than by their lives?" Do you know that the United States Senate, the greatest civil body on earth, spent months considering the changes you rehashed, and by more than two-thirds majority re pudiated them as false? It is not true that the Mormons are dominated politically by the church. They contend for their political belief against each other with more spirit than any other community. One year's residence in Utah would have taught you that. Polygamy is a dead issue in the "Mormon" Church, and your grand demonstration in rousing the conference to vote for a constitutional amendment to prohibit it comes months after the Mormon Church expressed itself through its presi dent, Joseph F. Smith, when he said at the general con ference, April 6, 1911 : "I am just as ready this moment as any other man in the world to consent to Congress taking the measures necessary to bring about the amendment to the Constitution and pass laws to regulate plural marriage. "We want them, while they are at it, to regulate marriage and divorce as well. "We will turn it all over to them, and we are just as ready for it today as any people on God's earth." "By their fruits ye shall know them." Mormonism shows the highest birth record, 39 per 1000 ; the lowest death rate, 8.3 per 1000, and the lowest divorce rate, 1 to 5000 population, of any people on earth. And in all things that make for good Christian citizenship, they lead the world. How can a corrupt system produce such a, good people? "We challenge you, Dr. Coyle, to meet us in public dis cussion on the charges you make; let it be one or more nights. If we can get the stadium, let the proceeds go to defray the expenses of this conference. Or we will stand one-half the expense of any hall Come out in the open arena and fight like a man. If you do not accept our offer we shall answer you in our own church at East Tenth and Sherman, the first meeting to be held next Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. All lovers of fair play and a square deal are invited. Yours truly, MELVTN J. BALLARD, President Northwestern States Mission, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. disclosed to him the fact that he was receiving the honors Intended for the Governor. "I have been mistaken for Governor West a number of times since his elec tion," he said, in disclosing -his real identity. "I don't know how it Is, but there seems to be some resemblance. Mr. Winter Is not as tall as Governor West. The resemblance is entirely In his features, especially when he is smiling. OREGON CITY BOAT. Special trips, July 4th, from Salmon street dock, 9 A. 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