THE 3IORNIXG OREGONIAX,. THURSDAY. APRIIi 2G, 1917.
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PUBLISHERS OPPOSE
CENSORSHIP CLAUSE
Measure Feared as "Full
Peril to Free Institu
tions" of America.
of
FREE PRESS IS ESSENTIAL
Newspaper Men Urge Continuation
of Present Voluntary Censor
ship, With Treason Penalties
for AVilful Violators.
KEW YORK, April 25. Resolutions
requesting: Congress to eliminate the
press censorship clause In the espion
age bill because it "strikes at the
fundamental rights of the people" and
la "full of peril to free Institutions"
were unanimously adopted by the
American. Newspaper Publishers' Asso
ciation at their annual convention here
today.
"The proposed legislation." the resolu
tion said, "strikes at the fundamental
rights of the people, not only assailing
their freedom of speech, but also seek
ing to deprive them of the means of
forming intelligent opinion. Its pos
sible consequences are full of peril to
free Institutions.
"The censorship proposed Is believed
to bo a violation of the Constitution
about the advancing column like fire
flies in a Summer thicket. The on
coming -waves trembled for a time and
then broke, completely routed. Their
path was strewn with the dead and
wounded.
ARRAS BATTLE GAINS IN FTJRT
British Fire Sweeps Germans in
Waves and Bodies Piled High.
LONDON, April 26. The fierce strug
gle on the Arras front, with the terri
ble toll of lives on both sides, shows
no signs of abating, according to the
reports from British correspondents at
the front dispatched Wednesday night.
The Germans evidently have not
abandoned hope of retaking the lost
ground, and to that end are bringing up
fresh, battalions. Some of the best
troops, from other parts of the German
lines In the west are being unloaded
between Douai and Cambrai. m Among
these are the Wurttembergers'and the
fourth division of the Prussian Guards.
The enemy, say the correspondents,
shows a determination to keep the Brit
ish back from a nearer approach to the
Hindenburg line, whatever the cost.
Eight counter attacks have already
been made against TSavrelle, all of
which have been broken or dispersed
without reaching the British lines.
The correspondents give no estimate
of the British losses, but relate isolated
incidents showing, in the words of one
writer, that the British "are enduring
dreadful things in the fierce fighting
and under the intense fire."
Nevertheless the correspondents say
there is no question that the German
losses are immensely greater than the
British, which "are, indeed, small
compared with those of the enemy."
One reason for this is said to be that
the British advance columns are al
ways thin compared with the masses
of the German counter-attacking
forces."
It is recalled that the German gen
eral Von Arnim, said that German
counters "cost much blood" and this,
it is added, was never more complete
ly verified than in the attempts to
capture Gavrelle. In some of these
counter-attacks as many as 6000 or
6000 men were employed, with the re-
- Kk nn;tAr1 Cataa n'hl.h nrnhlhftfi
Congress from 'abridging the freedom lt that the slaughter was so terri
- - - tiln that 1. n n m, n.4 a 1 m n a T m a 3
of speech or of the press. An eirort
to suspend this constitutional guaran
tee, whether ultimately sustained or
not, is sure to be followed by grave In
Jury to the rights of the people whose
one great safeguard in time of war is
an untrammeled press.
Voluntary Censorship Observed.
"A voluntary censorship, suggested
by the Government, is being carefully
observed by the newspapers of . the
United States and no loyal newspaper
will knowingly print that which would
give aid to the enemy. Any newspaper
that wifully published information of
military value to the enemy can and
should be prosecuted under the law
of treason.
"In war, especially, the press should
fee free, vigilant and unfettered. The
American people are entitled to a full
and frank statement of all that oc
curs, whether it be good or bad. There
can be no justification for a restriction
that abridges the liberty of the press,
for the people must have confidence
that they are getting the truth.
- "The defeat of this objectionable leg
islation, therefore, is most earnestly
urped upon Congress."
The section relating to newspapers
follows:
"During any National emergency re
sulting from a war to which the United
States Is a party, or from threat of
such a war, the President may, by
proclamation, declare the existence of
such emergency, and, by proclamation,
prohibit the publishing of, communicat
ing of, or the attempting to publish or
communicate any information relating
to the National defense which, in his
Judgment, is of such character that it
is or might be useful to the enemy.
Comment Not Dak-red.
"Whoever violates any such prohlbi-;
tlon shall be punished by a fine of not
more than J20.000 or by -imprisonment
for not more than 10 years or both,
provided that nothing In this section
shall be construed to limit or restrict
any discussion, comment or criticism of
the acts or policies of the Government
or its representatives, or the publica
tion of the same."
Confidence is expressed in the report
on the bill that the President will not
abuse his authority to prevent publica
tion of news regarding the National de
fense and that the newspapers will co
operate with him.
Newspapers also could be affected by
a section which would provide a fine
of $10,000 or 20 years' imprisonment or
both for "whoever in time of war
makes or conveys false statements
with intent to interfere with the opera
tion or success of the military or naval
forces of the United States, or whoever
in time of war wilfully causes or at
tempts to cause insubordination, dis
loyalty or refusal of duty in the mili
tary or naval forces of the United
States."
In the original bill this section pro
vided a punishment of persons who
would cause "disaffection in the United
States forces. Free speech and free
press advocates from many parts of
the country successfully opposed it.
THOUSANDS OF DEAD LEFT
(Continued From First Page.)
ble that It amounted almost to a mas
sacre. One correspondent writes:
"The phrase "the dead lie in heaps
before our position' has doubtless been
used more often than it was Justified,
but in this case it is true In a literal
and natural sense. Body lies upon
body where our fire caught the succes
sive waves."
ATORIMiS
STRONG
FOR ROAD BONDS
Mass Meeting Shows Enthu
siasm Toward Proposed
Improvement.
SPEAKERS EXPLAIN NEED
I
PUBLICITY BILL IS VALID
ASSISTANT ATTORNEY - GEXEB.VI,
SAYS MONEY CAN BE USED.
Mark Woodruff Gets Answer to Ques
tion Raised Because of Action
by Other Legislature.
SALEM, Or.. April 25. (Special.)
Mark Woodruff, director of the North
west Tourist Association, today was ad
vised by the Attorney-General's office
that the bill of the last Legislature ap
propriating $45,000 for the promotion
of tourist publicity throughout the
Northwest, in conjunction with Wash
ington and Brltisn Columbia, is valid
in its terms and that the appropriation
may be used.
Under the terms of the bill the ap
propriation by the Oregon Legislature
of 122,500 a year Is contingent upon
the Legislature of Washington appro
priating $25,000 a year and the Legis
lature of British Columbia J12.500 a
year.
The Oregon Legislature originally
was asked to appropriate :o,uuu a
year, or $50,000 for the two years.- The
Legislature shaved this amount by
$5000, and as a result the Legislatures
of Washington and British Columbia
shaved their appropriations by . a cor
responding amount. But the bill as
passed by the Oregon Legislature reads
as originally Introduced, as far as the
contingent appropriations are son-
cerned.
Whether the shaving of the bills in
the Washington and British Columbia
Legislatures would have any effect on
the validity of the Oregon appropria
tion was the question asked of the At-
torney-Generals office by Mr. Wood
ruff. Assistant Attorney-General Van
Winkle today expressed the opinion to
Mr. Woodruff that it would not.
The money for the fund will be avail
able on May 21.
wiu stand out in history as one of
the bloodiest spots of the world war.
The fighting north, east and south
of this little Artois village, perched
upon a high knoll, has exceeded in in
tensity any of the individual struggles
of the Somme. Efforts of the Ger
mans to retake the village apparently
have subsided on account of the sheer
exhaustion of their available forces
and the British advance eastward of
Monchy continues slowly, but surely.
The ground around Monchy. as far
as the eye can reach, is covered with
the dead, the Germans at times having
employed their old tactics of attacking
in mass tormation. Letters taken in
the last two days from German pris
oners, written in front of Monchy, say
they regard the situation as worse
than it was on the Somme, while the
casualties are mounting up as at Ver
dun.
Lion Are Not Fixed.
In one of the letters the opinion Is
expressed that what has made the
fighting difficult has been the fact that
the opposing forces have not occupied
fixed lines, but are scattered in half
built trenches on this part of the front.
During one German counter attack
Monday a force of 700 Germans took
one bit of trench from a British out
post. The Germans continued to press
forward, not noticing that they were
passing an isolated trench section on
their right. When they were well be
yond It, several hundred British sol
diers poured out of this trench section
and the Germans, trapped between two
khaki lines, were absolutely wiped out
in the fighting which followed. It was
a general melee, in which the cries
of the men engaged hand to hand could
be heard plainly.
Bis Gou Rout Germans.
The number of prisoners taken dur
lng the various operations this week
amounts to more than 3000. There is
absolutely no Index of the casualties in
flicted on the enemy. The fighting Is
too thick for the most part to permit
of individual surrenders.
Finding Monchy too difficult, the
Germans late yesterday directed a counter-attack
on Gavrelle, where the last
defensive line before the Drocourt
switch position had been pierced. Four
thousand men were seen forming for
an attack at a distance of 4000 yards
liritish field guns massed in a great
number were trained on the Germans,
but their fire was held until the ad
vancing enemy was about 2000 yards
away. Then a perfect hurricane of fire
was opened and shrapnel shells played
32,120-TON SHIP ARRIVES
German Bint of Sinking Big Vessel
Troves Groundless.
NEW YORK. April 25. The 32,120
ton passenger steamship built for the
Holland-American Line in England un
der the name of "Statendam" and taken
over by the British government in 1914
for war purposes, reached an American
port today under a W hite Star line
name.
The arrival refutes reports from Ber
Hn in March indicating she had been
torpedoed and sunk. The vessel is be
ing used as a freighter.
Salmon Club Forbids Fish Sale.
Ray C. Winter, secretary of the Sal
mon Club of Oregon, has warned all
members that anyone caught selling
rish, will be expelled from the club
upon satisfactory evidence being pro-
aucea to tne directors. This resolu
tion was adopted at the anual meeting
in January. To be sure of how every
member, felt on the subject, a mail
vote was taken and the rule carried
3 to 1.
Postoffice Clerks Named.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, April 25. W. W. Welch, F. B.
Kelley and B. R Teeter have been ap
pointed clerks in the Portland post
otrice.
E. J. Adams, State Highway Com
missioner, and Conrad P. Olson,
of Portland, Point Out Bene
fits to Be Obtained.
ASTORIA, Or., April 25 (Special.)
Clatsop County will poll a big vote June
4 in support of the $6,000,000 road bond
Issue if the enthusiasm expressed at the
good roads mass meeting tonight may
be taken as a criterion of how the bal
lots will be cast on election day. While,
owing to the Inclement weather, the
crowd was not as large as it otherwise
would have been, it included automo
mile owners, farmers and persons from
all walks of life, and each was an
ardent supporter of permanent high
ways and a bond issue to insure get
ting them.
The speakers were E. J. Adams, of
the State Highway Commission, and
Conrad P. Olson, of Multnomah County,
chairman of the State Senate highway
committee. Each explained the details
of the bond bill, what is planned under
it and what the results will be.
Seven Road Laws Cited.
Senator Olson spoke of the seven road
measures that were enacted by the
Legislature at its recent session, each
one supporting and strengthening the
others. They are the one creating a
new Highway Commission, accepting
Government aid in road building under
the Shackelford act, doubling the license
on motor vehicles, providing for com
petitive bidding on difterent kinds of
pavements, instituting a new account
lng system In the highway department
and the bonding bill, the one, that is to
be submitted to a vote of the people.
Under the latter bill, he said, "the
state is to go ahead and finish the grad
ing on the main highways in Clatsop,
Columbia, Hood River and Jackson
counties because these counties have
bonded themselves and exhausted their
own resources In grading and draining
goodly portion of these roads. This
will be done in addition to laying the
paving.
Road No. 1 In the highway plan is
the one leading from the Multnomah
County line through Columbia and Clat
sop counties via Astoria and the
beaches to Garibaldi in Tillamook
County. The expense will be borne by
the automobile owners. These bonds
are not a mortgage on your property.
You are but lending the credit of the
state. The automobile owners will pay
the bill. The road work to be done
here will entail an expenditure of $700,-
000 In your county Last year you re
ceived $2500 from the auto licenses. If
you wait to build your roads from that.
it will require 200 years to complete
the work. By the bond issue you get
the improvement now.
Maintenance Bond Favored.
Commissioner Adams said the Com
mission favored a 10-year maintenance
bond on paving contracts. -Where the
ground is soft, the Commission will re
quire a six-Inch concrete base, as it is
building for the future and for heavy
traffic, Mr. Adams said. He added that
all bids would be opened in the -pres
ence of the County Court where the
work is to be done, and said that the
State Engineer would prepare the spec!
ncations for the pavements, so that
anyone could bid on them. Concerning
the bond issue he said In part:
Eighty per cent of the traffic of the
state is now carried on 20 roads. If
this bonding bill passes, these roads
will be paved. And the expense will
be paid by the auto owners, who In
turn will save more than this amount
in tires, upkeep and wear and tear on
their machines.
"The auto license fees have doubled
every three years since 1911 and have
increased 50 per cent the first two
months of this year over the same two
months of last year. Estimating an in
crease of 20 per cent each year for
three years, then 10 per cent each year
for three years will produce sufficient
money to pay the principal and the in
terest on bonds and surplus of more
than $S,900,000."
Hard Surface Is Best.
"The macadamized and gravel roads
for vehicle traffic are very little better
than dirt road, all of which become bad
rapidly because every pneumatic tire is
a vacuum cleaner, pulling the binder
out of the road and transferring it to
the ditches and fields alongside.
"For this motor traffic hard-surfaced
roads are a necessity and it is fair and
Just to place the burden of cost of these
roads on the automobiles which this
bonding bill very cleverly does. The
law imposing this burden is already In
force
"It is only fair that we lend the credit
of the state- in this way to the automo
bile owners so they can have the use
of these roads while they are paying
the cost. We have already lent the
credit of the state to the farmers to
the amount of $18,000 to enable them
to improve their farms and increase
their production.
"It is equally of direct benefit to the
farmers .o improve the roads, so the
cost of moving their farm produce to
market may also be reduced, and this
is done without any cost to them."
Radish, spinach, lettuce, peas, beans
(dwarf), parsley, turnips, kohl-rabi.
Rtp ASP
"Trie Bayer Cross Your
Guarantee of Parity"
B aye rTab lets
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Accept only Genuine
Aspirin sold as follows:
Bayer Tablet of Aspirin sold in
pocket boxes of 12 bottles of 24 and
bottles of 100.
OR
Bayer-Capsules of Anuria sold! In
sealed packages of one and two dozen.
Every package and every tablet
bears the Bayer Cross.
The tndMmrk "Anirin" (Rea.U.S.PWt.O&xTh
antes that the nmiKactodaKf or aabcracaod m thcaa
tablets mad tspeuin a at (be teuiieBjcr m.nnUrtipr.
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Pictorial
Review
Patterns
ALL CHARGE PURCHASES MADE ON AND AFTER THURSDAY
WILL APPEAR ON JUNE FIRST STATEMENT
For today only!
The famous "RICHELIEU"
UNION SUITS
Specially priced
79
These splendid union suits are of white lisle
thread, made in low necks, sleeveless style, with
tight-fitting knees and reinforced seats.
No phone orders accepted and not more than three to a
customer. Alain floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
Announcing an
Unprecedented SALE of
Genuine Milan
HAT SHAPES
$1.75
These hats are among the most exceptional
values we have ever announced 1 Think of real
Milan hat shapes, in black and natural color,
at $1.75!
The shapes are all the newest and most popular ones for
Spring. Second floor Lipman, W olfe & Co.
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Honor Girls!
There will be a meeting of
all Honor Guard Girls in the
Lipman-Wolfe auditorium, eighth
floor, Saturday at 1 o'clock.
A corset
specially designed
for YOU!
You do not have to spend a lot of
money to get it, and it is of the very
best material and workmanship I
That corset is the
C. B. a la spirite
It ' was made for you, for the de
signer had you in mind when she orig
inated that style.
New C. B. a la Spirite corsets
have just come in.
Priced at from $1.00 to $5.00.
Come and see them in the corset
department.
Fourth floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
. Featuring specially priced
Globe union suits
for men!
See the Washington-street windows!
Globe union suits are just a little bit better than any
others we have ever seen that is why we became their
exclusive Portland agents.
Men who have worn them will want to come in on
this big sale!
Fine ribbed cotton suits, $1.15
All sizes, made in three-quarter or ankle length and
with short or long sleeves. Patent closed crotch.
Egyptian cotton suits, $1.35
All sizes, in three-quarter length, with short sleeves,
or athletic style, without sleeves.
Lisle thread suits, $1.95
All sizes, made full length and three-quarter length,
and with short or long sleeves.
Alain floor, Washington-sir eel entrance.
200 dozen huck and
BATH TOWELS
For today only
22c
Bath towels, "Athletic" weave, big.
roomy ones, good for hundreds of
brisk rubs! Size 20x40 inches. Only v
six to each customer.
Huck towels, hemmed or hem
stitched, warranted linen weft; size
1 8x36 inches. Only six to each cus
tomer. Second floor Lipman, W olfe & Co.
Soldiers
sewing kits
When Johnnie
$1.00
marching
goes
he'll needa kit to mend his clothes.
Here's scissors, needles, thread and
what not all that a soldier needs,
packed in a neat khaki case bound
with braid.
Fifth floor Lipman, Wolfe Sr Co.
Watch cleaning 75c
For the rest of the week! And if
your watch has a broken main spring
we will replace it this week with one
that is guaranteed for a whole year
for just 75c.
Alain floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
Red, White and Blue SONGS
15c
The kind that all the bands are playing, and
everybody's whistling and singing! Songs that
make your heart beat faster in these days when
patriotic music means so much!
Here they are:
I f I Had a Son for Every Star in Old Glory.
Uncle Sammy's Army.
You're a Grand Old Flag.
Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You.
Book of Famous American Songs, including
"America." "The Star-Spangled Banner,"
etc.
Afezzanine floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
Basement saje of
Brassieres at 25c
Hook-in-front style, made of
good muslin reinforced under arm;
all trimmed with lace and insertion.
Brassieres, 49c
Hook-in-front style, of fine mus
lin, with embroidery and trimming
of broad, heavy lace.
Economy Basement
Lipman, Wolfe Sr Coi
'Boulevard"
$4.98
A saving on
Lawn mowers
We have yet to see as fine a lawn mower as this at
anywhere near $4.98! .
Here' are some of the reasons why:
Four crucible steel cutting blades.
A heavy 5-inch cutter shaft and an all but un
breakable revolving cutter.
Ball bearings.
. Altogether as light running and easily adjustable
machine as you can find ; width 1 4 inches.
Basement Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
White boots
9-inch lace boot, $9.00
8-inch lace boot, $8.00
You won't believe they are as fine
as they are until you see them! White
boots like these are few, and. at such
prices, very rare, indeed!
They are new, gracefully cut Spring
models, with the trimmest of lines, in
styles that the most particular taste
will approve of.
Second floor Lipman, Wolfe Sr Co.
Cut glass
flower baskets
25.
Violet and pansy baskets, they are
called more particularly, because
they are made to hold the short
stemmed flowers. Made of colonial
crystal cut glass, with heavy handles.
Just 300 of them; real beauties, too.
Sixth floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
For today only!
Night gowns
and
Envelope
chemise
Special at
98c
The gowns are of pink plisse crepe,
in striped, flowered and figured de
signs, with dainty feather-stitched
trimmings !
The envelope chemise are of dainty
pink batiste, with hand embroidering,
smocking or laces for trimmings! All
sizes to 44s.
Fourth floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
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GABLESTO 8E CENSORED
AlXi WIRE LIKES TO MEXICO TO BE
INCLUDED, IS ORDER.
Stations at New York, Key West, San
Francisco and Galveston Will
Keep Tab ' on Messages.
"WASHINGTON, April 25. Censorship
on all cables touching the United States
and on telegraph and telephone lines
Into Mexico will be established shortly
by executive order. Regulations for
mulated Jointly by the State. War.
Navy and Justice departments and the
new committee on public information
were approved by the various tele
graph companies today.
The cable censorship offices will be
at New Tork. Key West. Galveston
and San Francisco. The Navy will di
rect the cable work, probably with
civilian censors, while the Army will
control the communication lines Into
Mexico.
There Is no plan for extending- the
censorship to lines of Internal com
munication. The chief object of the
order will be to prevent the transmis
sion to Mexico, South or Central Ameri
ca of Information of value to Germany.
AUSTRIANS RETAKE POST
Artillery Activity on Trentlno' and
Julian . Fronts Announced.
ROME, via London. April 25. (Brit
ish Admiralty, per Wireless Press.)
Austro-Hungarlan troops delivered a
strong- attack last night after a heavy
bombardment on the Italian lines south
of Gorizia. - The attack failed except
that an advance post which the Italians
recently occupied was retaken, the War
Office announced today.
Notable artillery activity along- the
Trentlno front and on the Julian front
is announced.
Pennsylvanlans Favor Draft. .
HARRISBUKG, Pa., April 25. The
House of Representatives last night
passed a resolution urging Congress
to pass the selective conscription
irieasure.
$5,000,000 of Smuggled Drugs Seized.
NEW TORK, April 24. Narcotic
TOO LATE TO CI.ASSIFT.
PERSON who picked up silver purse at Sun
set Theater, between 0:15 and 9:30
Wednesday night, return to Sunset Thea
ter and avoid trouble.
drugs said to be valued at $500,000
smuggled Into the United States from
England and Canada have been aieS
here, police headquarters annoHitced
tonight Two young Russians were
arrested.
Napoleon Once Said :
"A Footsore Army Is An
Army Half Defeated."
In every community men are drilling
for National Preparedness. For all these
men the frequent use of ALLKX'
FOOT - EASE, the antiseptic powder
shaken Into the Shoes and sprinkled In
the Foot-bath, increases their efficiency
and Insures needed physical comfort It
takes the friction from the okoe
rests the feet. The troops on the Mexi
can Border use Allen's Foot-Ease, and
over 100,000 Packages have been used
by the British and French troops in
Europe. We will mail FKEE packages
to any soldier's sdrli-ess upon request.
Address, Allen S. Olmsted. L.e Roy, N. Y.