Morning Oregonian., July 27, 1917, Page 5, Image 5

THE MORNING OREGONIAN. FRIDAY, JULY 37. 1917.
IS
BY T.l
Colonel Declines Breakfast
With Thompson or to
See Him at Hotel.
NATION INEFFICIENT NOW
Months of Preparation Xct Little
l'rom Country of 100,000,000,
"Willi Vast Resources, Asserts
Ex-President la Speech.
PITTSECTtO. Pa., July 26. (Special.)
William Hale Thompson, Burgomas
ter ot the "sixth largest German city
In the world," had a rough time in
I'ittsburff today.
He came here to attend the world
convention of the Loyal Order of
Moose, bringing with him a delegation
of children from the Moose Home at
Mooseheart.
Theodore Roosevelt also -was a gruest,
and the presence of the ex-President
was the thorn in the chaplet that Big
Bill expected to place on his own brow.
Colonel Says .e" to Request.
In the first place, the Burgomaster
wanted to eat breakfast with the Colo
nel at the William I'enn Hotel. The
Colonel said "no" and didn't stop at
tiiat. Ho served notice on the conven
tion managers that if Thompson was
allowed to talk at the big open-air
meeting in front of the Allegheny
Courthouse they would have to get
along without him.
The Colonel .spoke. Big Bill didn't.
The declination to break bread with
him did not apparently have any effect
on the Burgomaster. He made a call
at Mr. Roosevelt's hotel, but found T.
K. "out." He declared he would make
another effort to see Teddy, but didn't
succeed, much to the deep regret of a
number of persons who were seeking
"listening posts" in the hall, just under
the opened transom of the Colonel's
apartments.
Officers Worry Over Thompson.
The officers of the convention had
a hard- time explaining Thompson's
presence to the delegates. The ex
planation given was that the Invitation
to him was extended three months ago,
before Big Bill's pro-German tendencies
became known.
The Burgomaster attended the con
vention. He may not know it, but a
"committee of safety" was on the job,
prepared to stop him instantaneously
if he should give utterance to any ex
pression that might be regarded as un
patriotic. He didn't offend. He sim
ply read a semi-historical essay, bring
ing in George HI, John Hancock, and
other celebrities.
The Scriptures also received, favorable
mention, as did the lowly Nazarene, at
whose birth the angels and the morning-
stars sang together "Peace on
Earth. Good Will to Men."
JTIME TO PREPARE, SAYS T. R.
Nation Now Miracle of Inefficiency
In War.
FITTSBTjrtG. July 26. Prepare for
the next National emergency by intro
ducing the principle of obligatory, uni
versal military training for young men
In time of peace and universal service
in time of war for every man and
woman in the country, was the admon
ition delivered by Theodore Roosevelt
' In an address here tonight before the
Loyal Order of Moose.
As compared to the other great na
tions of the world, he declared, Ameri
cans had in this war exhibited them
selves a miracle of inefficiency.
Asserting that the United States
Government announces that the pre
paredness now in progress is tempor
ary and will be stopped as soon as the
emergency is over. Colonel lioosevelt
characterized this as a "criminal re
fusal to provide for the future."
He summed up what America had
accomplished since the declaration of
war with Germany by saying that the
United States did not have a single
nirplane fit to send across the German
lines, and that months must pass be
fore one could be manufactured, that
America had- no heavy artillery and
that Pershing and his soldiers would
have to trust to French and English
Kuns. American submarine chasers
operating with the British fleet, he
eaid. constituted only a tiny fraction
of the English force. It would be a
year after the declaration of war be
fore America would have a fair num
ber of big cargo ships.
"We have not enough rifles for our
men." said Colonel Roosevelt. "We are
, painfully short in equipment. We have
not yet begun to assemble the draft
rmy. the first elementary officers'
training camps have not been finished,
the National Guard has only just be
gun to mobilize.
"This is the sum total of the activi
ties of a Nation of 100,000.000 people
and in possession of incalculable
wealth and boundless resources, during
Ihe six months following Its entry
after two and one-half years' warn
ing) into the greatest war in history.
"The simple truth is that we shall
always bo inefficient during the first
vital months of any war until we
learn to prepare in advance. We have
been caught utterly unprepared in a
terrible emergency because we did
nothing until the emergency actually
arose, and now cur Government an
nounces that what we are doing we
shall stop doing as soon as the emer
Kency is over and will then remain
equally unprepared for the next emer
gency. "It is this blind refusal from the
Nations standpoint I can only call
It the criminal refusal to provide for
the future that forces every honest
nd far-sighted lover of America to
tpeak.
The raising of a Jl.000.000 fund for
war relief work was proposed at the
convention of the Loyal Order of Moose
PEACE PLAN VOTED DOWN
Continued from First Page.)
International conference would bear
still more fruit. Such a conference
would find out that the time had come
for an active effort for peace, and it
would find a peace that would not be
disturbed by preparations for war
Charles I. Trevelyan, who seconded
the resolution, agreed in condemning
the uncertainty in the speech of the
German Chancellor. Iir. Michaelis, and
Bald that they were all agreed that
peace awaited the restoration of Bel
gium and France without any economic
or other conditions. He also doubted
whether there could be peace until all
the governments clearly and expressly
repudiated the ideal of conquest or an
4 vexations. It was the duty of the House
of Commons to reply to the Reichstag
resolution. Or. Michaelis' speech was
made on that resolution, and the fact
that he did not speak against that or
try to persuado the Reichstag from
CHICAGO
MAYOR
SCORED
passing that ought not to be over
looked. Former Premier Asquith thought that
the previous speakers attached more
importance to the Reichstag resolution
than it really deserved.
Peace, said Mr. Asquith. should be
come the supreme interest of man
kind, but subject to an all-important
condition, namely, that it is a peace
which does not defeat the purpose for
which the great natons entered upon
and have continued the war, and that
it does not turn to waste the immeas
urable loss and suffering which they
had shared and are sharing in common.
Asquith Favors Restatement.
He welcomed the news that a con
ference would be held early in Autumn
on the invitation of the Russian gov
ernment. Nothing- but good could
come of a plain restatement of the
allies' aims in a good cause. Two new
facts of the preser' year, first, that
Russia had ceased forever to be auto
cratic, and, second, the appearance,
with all her moral and material forces,
of the United States in the struggle
had a direct and practical bearing upon
the opinion of the world as to the
sincerity of the allies' aims.
"They mean," continued the former
Premier, "that the allied nations now
include an overwhelming majority of
the peoples of the world. The allies
are fighting for nothing but freedom
and nothing short of freedom. That is
the policy of this great and unprece
dented aggregation of free peoples.
"Earnestly as we desire peace, no
peace is worth having by which is re
stored, under some thin disguise, the
precarious status quo ante-bellum and
leaving countries like Belgium, Serbia
and Greece at the mercy of dynastic
intrigue or under the menace of mili
tary coercion.
"The principle clearly agreed to by
every one of the allies is that in any
rearrangement made the governing
principle ought to be the interests and
the wishes of the populations affected.
"How About Belgium P
"But is that principle acceptable to
the central powers? Is Germany pre
pared not only to evacuate Belgium,
but to make reparation for the colossal
mischief and damage which accom
panied her devastating occupation and
the practical enslavement of a large
portion of the Belgian people? Is she
prepared not only to do that but to
restore to Belgium, not a pretence of,
but absolute independence?
"I should like to know the German
answer to these questions. I find no
answer in the vague, indeterminate
formulae of the Reichstag. I have no
desire to say that peace is impossible,
but I cannot see, from what has re
cently occurred in Berlin, anv real ap
proximation of a practical kind to the
aims and objects of the allies."
Mr. Asquith thought that the Ger
man people was the greatest obstacle
to peace, but said that was a matter
for the German people themselves. So
far as the allies were concerned, the
best hope of peace, he said, was a
frank and open statement, both by way
of avowal and disavowal of the objects
for which they were fighting and as a
means to that end he welcomed the
fullest use of all opportunities for an
interchange of views between repre
sentatives of the great democracies.
It could not be too clearly stated that
this was a matter for the peoples,
rather than the governments.
Wardle Agrees 'With Asquith.
"Once that is realized by the demo
cracies of the world," 'continued the
former Premier, "we shall be within
measurable sight of an honorable and
lasting peace. Meanwhile we shall not
bo helping the advent of peace if we
give the impression that there is any
faltering in our determination or doubt
in our ability to carry on the burden.
We look up with clear conscience un
til our ends are achieved."
Georee James Wardle, chairman of
the Labor party In the House, speaking
in behalf of his party, frankly agreed
with Mr. Asqulth's remarks and said
that he was unable to support the reso
lution. Andrew Bonar Law. the eovernmont
leader, contended that it was useless to
base anything on the resolution passed
by the Reichstag, which did not have
ine smallest power. Germany never
had stated her aims because she knew
she would be found out directly she
put her peace terms down in black and
white.
BILL IS WELL BALANCED
ACTS AT HIPPODROME SPARKLE
WITH tLEVEKXESS.
Billy Curtis' Comedy Does Captivate
Audience Programme Replete With.
Uumoroua and Tuneful Skits.
The new bill which opened at the
Hippodrome yesterday is as symmetri
cal in perfection as a Florida water
melon, and just as full of pleasant
ness. The comedy dogs of Billy Curtis
transcend all notions of what a dog
might do were he a comedian and
faro forth into stunts that not only
prove their right to the appelation but
take the audience captive to the last
grouch. They art "Buster" and "Bilii
Ken," and those who have not seen
them dance are strangers to delight.
Naio and Naio, as "The Two Sere
naders." have an Italian nightingale
act that is different, and is as tuneful
as a canal lane iu a Venetian June,
while Alice Nelson and company, pre
senting the comedy skit, "Troubles in
an Old Depot." are an inimitable troupe
of mirth-provokers.
Just as she is billed, "the somewhat
different comedienne." Bessie LeCount
sparkles in quips and songs, alike new
and novel. Emily Darrell and Billy
Jackson afford a peek into the vaude
ville dressing-room in their clever
sketch. "Late for Rehearsal."
There have been entire cycles of
equilibrists, but the three Willie broth
ers seem to have mastered more deli
cately difficult feats than the entire
combination. Their encores are tumult
uous. The well-rounded bill is opened by
a splendid photoplay, featuring Molly
King, in "Blind Man's Luck."
PROTECTION IS SOUGHT
I. AV. W. Interfere With Shipping
Men From Portland to Mills.
That the I. W: W. pre beginning to
show their hand in Portland is evi
denced by the fact that the Clark Coun
ty Timber Compa..y, operating its own
employment agency at 13 North Sixth
street, has appealed to the police to
keep inem from interfering with ship
ping men to their own lumber camps.
Harry . Clair, in charge of the Portland
office, in making his complaint, gave
the police a series of poster stamps
which have been pasted all over tho of
fice windows.
Sample of them follow:
"Beware! -od Pay or Bum Work!
I. W. W. We Never Forget. Sabot
age!" "Slow Down! The hours are long,
the pay is small; co take your time and
buck them all."
Ex-Portlander Is Promoted.
Harry T. Duffy, formerly general
agent for the Soo Line passenger de
partment in Portlanl, has just been ap
pointed general agent for the same road
with headquarters at Toronto, Ont.
Since leaving Portland three years ago,
Mr. Duffy has been district passenger
agent for the Soo Line at Moose Jaw,
Sask.
ALBANY COLLEGE
BOARD
HANDS
One Year Given to Trustees
to Clear Up Endowment
Fund and Pay Debts.
OREGON SYNOD WILL WAIT
Failure to Raise Funds Will Oper
ate" to Close College or Force
Appeal to Courts to
Go Elsewhere.
EUGENE, Or.. July 2G. Special.)
The future of Albany College was
placed squarely In the hands of the
board of trustees of that Institution to
day by the Oregon Presbyterian synod.
The trustees must within one year se
cure sufficient funds to release endow
ment securities endangered by use as
collateral for loans, or by failure to
collect endowment pledges, and to meet
pressing Indebtedness to teachers and
others. If the trustees are successful
in this effort the synod is pledged to
dismiss all consideration of the removal
of the college from Albany. If the
trustees fail to meet the obligation im
posed they are instructed to appeal to
the courts for permission to administer
their trust elsewhere, according to the
wisdom and decision of the synod.
The only other alternative, in the
event that the trustees' campaign for
funds shall fail is an instruction di
recting them to close the college and
to pay all claims and settle all debts
in the most legal, honorable and equit
able way possible.
College Debt Is Large.
The institution has a debt of $73.
913.35. Its endowment, including
pledges, totals $250,000. and has been
impaired by failure to collect $41,836
of subscriptions and by the use of
$16,000 in endowment securities for
loans obtained.
The consolidation of the college with
the Pacific University at Forest Grove
was favored by the college board of
the General Assembly of the Presby
terian Church and by the merger com
mittee of the synod. The trustees of
the institution. 14 of the 22 members
being residents of Linn County, an
nounced that as a last resort, to pre
vent the removal oZ the college from
Albany, they would carry the issue to
the courts. The resolutions adopted
by the synod today admit that a con
solidation of the schools would be Im
possible in th face of such opposition.
Dr. French Slakes Statement.
Dr. Calvin H. French, secretary of
the college board of the Presbyterian
General Assembly, who came from New
York to take part in the consideration
of the college problem, stated tonight
that the college board would take no
action toward recovering $35,000 e-iven
to Albany College on conditions which
ne states nave been violated, until the
trustees had been given a chance to
demonstrate their ability to correct
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the situation. The money given by
the college board and the Hill and
Ladd gifts, he said.- occupied identi
cally the tame status.
"The college board will not precipi
tate matters so long as the college and
the synod seem to have a way out."
he said. "We will wait and see -if Al
bany makes good."
ESCAPE -PLOTTERS FREE
Xo Law Found Covering Girls' In
dustrial School.
SALEM, Or.. July 26. (Special.)
Promised arrests did not develop today
in connection with recent escapes from
the Girls' Industrial School of three
girls. District Attorney Gehlhar is
searching the law to see If he can
discover some statute covering the
cases with the evidence as it lies be
fore him. The law seems to cover any
one assisting an Inmate from any other
state Institutions to get away, but
does not apply to the Girls' Industrial
School, as far as now found, and it is
possible, unless some other charge can
b.e laid at the door of the suspects,
that they may go free.
The names of the girls who escaped
last Sunday, which were carefully
guarded by the superintendent of the
institution, have been learned. They
are: Ossa Roberts, Josephine Mary
Oliver and Margaret Brennan.
TOWN PROUD OF CROSSING
Umatilla's Counellwomen and Mayor
Invite State Inspection.
SALES!, Or., July 26. (Special.)
Some time ago the Public Service Com
mission notified all cities and towns
of the new warning sign law and of the
duty of municipalities to keep railroad
-varning signs in condition on cross
ing of city streets. The Council
women and Mayor of Umatilla have
Just responded through Bertha Cherry,
City Recorder, and invite the Commis
sion to visit Umatilla and give the
crossing at that place the "once over."
They have been informed by the
Commission that the members have
not sufficient time to make a personal
inspection.
FALL GRAIN YIELD GOOD
Some of Spring-Sown Crop Near
Carlton Being Cut for Hay.
CARLTON. Or.. July 26. (Special.)
Some bpring-sown grain is being cut
for hay on account of the long contin
ued dry weather. Fall-sown grain is
now being harvested and promises the
usual good yield. The weather has been
ideal for haying and all the hay, both
clover and grain, is in excellent con
dition. The seed clover crop is looking well
and looks now as though it will fill
good and make a large crop, although
a good rain would be beneficial.
North Bend Jitneys to Pay Tax.
NORTH BEND. Or., July 26. (Spe
cial.) The jitney ordinance has been
changed. It provided that lines must
have a certain number of cars. Only
one firm had such a number and the
ordinance was looked upon as special
legislation. The tax of 2 per cent of
srross receipts is reduced to 1 per cent.
The ordinance will probably be passed
at the next Council meeting.
.
iir Former G
James W.
(CYT
JAMES W. GERARD
Late United Stat Ambassador to tha
German Empire
.. ..wiluik,!! xia.o iuuiiu uicir idccst out wmcn nas
promised them as a result of the war not only security, but riches untold and the dominion of the
world; a people which, as from a high mountain, has looked upon the cities of the world and the
glories of them and has been promised these cities and their glories by the devils of autocracy and
of war. . m , We stand in great peril, and only the exercise of ruthless realism can win this
War i ? lUS " If we hat stayed out and the war had been drawn or won by Germany wd
would have been attacked, and that while Europe stood grinning by. ... I TELL SOME
THING OF THE REAL GERMANY not only that my readers may understand the events of the last
three years, but that they may judge what is likely to happen in our future relations with that
country.
From Foreword to "My Four Years in Germany," by former Ambassador James W.
erard, which will be published as a serial by The Morning Oregonian, beginning with
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TREES NEED
mVtJTGTOX CLtB PLANS CIVIC IM
PROVEMENT COMPAIGN.
Overhanging Limb Alone Streets Fre
quented by Autolsta Cause Incon
venience and Sometimes Injury.
"Cut the overhanging trees" is the
new slogan of the I-vington Club.
Another campaign further to improve
their beautiful Last Side residential
district has been mapped out by the of
ficers and committee in charge and the
names of precinct captains soon will
be made known and those captains will
name lieutenants in every block cov
ering the so-called Irvlngton section
of the city.
It will be the dnty of these lieuten
ants to call on the citizens, whether
members of the club or not, to trim
their trees, particularly those over
hanging the streets used by the mot
orists, many of whom take their visit
ing friends through this particular sec
tion as one of the residential sights
of the city of roses.
In many places overhanging trees
strike the passing autoists in the face,
causing inconvenience and sometimes
injury.
Another feature of the work of civic
betterment is that undertaken by the
committee of which Mrs. H. M. Ilender
shott is chairmaji, with Charles K.
Cochran at the head, to effect a common-user
telephone pole throughout
the district, thus eliminating many un
necessary uprights, which are anv-
"
erman
Gerard,
AM writing" what
chapter as the foreword of this series of
articles, because I want to bring home to our
people the gravity of the situation: because I
want to tell them that the military and naval power
of the German Empire is unbroken. Americans
do not grasp either the magnitude or the importance
of this war. . . There is far greater danger
of the starvation of our allies than of the starvation
of the Germans. . . . We are engaged in a
war against the greatest military power the world has ever seen;
against a people whose country was for so many centuries a theatre;
of devastating wars that fear is bred into the very marrow of theirj
souls, making them ready to submit their lives and fortunes to an
PORTLAND, OREGON
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)l you pay
for an article. My $15 clothes for
men are worth more than the ordinary, simply
because I p a y the maker
more for them, and thereby
I am able to secure better fabrics,
newer styles and more
thorough workman
ship. You can't buy
any better $15 clothes
than these they are
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thing but a beauty to a home section 1 Sether street to the Coos River chan
of a city. I nel, giving access to the town of
John T. Dougall will take charge of Cooston from two waterways. Streets
the work to eradicate weeds on vacant . will be constructed over trestles for
lots.
SPIES ACTIVE IN SWEDEN
Americans Said to Be in Employ of
German Secret Service.
COPENHAGEN. July 26. More ef
fective measures than are now in force
for supervision of Scandinavian liners
plying to the United States must be
put into effect if the passage of num
bers of German agents and couriers
and the transmission of Intelligence by
German spies in America are to be
checked.
The Scandinavian police could tell a
tale of unmasked Americans who are
employed in the German secret serv
ice. They are working against the in
terests of their own country and of
neutral states whose hospitality they
enjoy, as well as against the European
entente.
Threat to Burn Store Made.
GRANTS PASS. Or.. July 26. (SDe
cial.) A note, read ins: "We are going
to burn your store I. w. W." was
found this morning by Amos Bucker,
proprietor of a general store on the
South Umpqua River when he came to
the front door of his store this morn
ing.
Cooston Improvements Ordered.
HARSHFIELD, Or., July 26. The
city of Eastside. of which Cooston is
a part, will expend $5300 for opening
Eleventh avenue to willanch Inlet and
Ambassador
ays :
should Iiavp Kppn
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some distance and planked the remain
der of the way. The Eleventh avenue
improvement is 400 feet in length and
the Sether street 1500 feet.
Quiet Is Restored in Spain.
MADRID. July 26. Quite Is gradual
ly being restored throughout Spain.
which has recently been in a state of
unrest due to strikes and other causes.
An official dispatch from Valencia says
martial law has been lifted and that the
situation is absolutely normal in the en
tire region.
CASTORS
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears
the
Signature of
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increases strength
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article soon to ap-
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