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TITE MORNING OREGONIAN. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1917.
JAPANESE MISSION
REACHES PORTLAND
Prominent Members to Be
Guests of City Today on
Jour of Sightseeing.
CONSUL AKAMATU IS HOST
DISTINGUISHED JAPANESE BRING TO PORTLAND ASSURANCES OF WARMEST INTERNATIONAL TIES
At Arlington Club Dinner Will Be
Given Tonight "We of Japan Are
Witli You to the End" Is Way
Mikado's Subjects I'eel.
"We of Japan are with you to the
nd."
This was the succinct message of K.
Mochizuki, who with Dr. M. Yamane,
also of Tokio, reached the city last
night as representatives of the royal
parliamentary party just concluding Its
tour of the United States.
The two are accompanied by Giichi
Yamada, journalist of the Kokumin
fchimbun. Tokio, and Secretary Mikami
to Mr. Mochizuki. Two other members
of the parliamentary party are in San
Krancisco, the party or five members
having been split at Salt Lake City
and another is already in Seattle,
whence they will sail on November 25
tor Japan on the Canada llaru.
Countries Mut Stand Together.
Mr. Mochizuki, in giving his assur
ance of close friendship, was speaking
of the world war. He said this was
one of the reasons that decided the
parliamentary party to visit the United
fetates. Doth countries are in the war,
and they must stand as closely as pos
sible together, is his idea of the whole
situation.
"We came to convey the good will
of our people to your people," he said.
"This is the object of our visit. For
the past 65 years the two countries
have been in most friendly relations,
yet never before has the parliament of
our country voted to send a delegation
to the United States to pay official re
spects. We are here as the "result of
that action.
"We came to convey our good will,
but we came at the time when the
two countries are at war with a com
mon enemy. And so, with the war
raging in which we are allies. I say
we of Japan are determined to go
With you to the end.
"We not only want to express our
good will, but also to see for our
eelves the progress you are making
and to study what is going on. We
have been pleased by the most kindly
hospitality that has welcomed us
everywhere. We arrived at San Fran
cisco October 5 and traveled through
the Southern states en route to the
Kast.
Tjtmoat Hospitality Shown.
"At Washington we were received by
the President and we held a confer
ence with Secretary of State Lansing.
Congressional delegations welcomed us
and in New York financiers and others
greeted us with he utmost courtesy
and hospitality.
"Chicago received us cordially and
we went on to Salt Lalfe City, where
we wanted to see what the Mormons
are like, and there our party divided.
It was necessary for some to go to San
T"rancisco and another went directly
to Seattle. We must sail on November
25 in order to return to Tokio in time
for the opening session of our Parlia
ment." Upon arrival at the Union Depot on
the O.-W. R. & N. train from the East
shortly after 7 o'clock last night, the
visiting Japanese were whisked away
by Consul Akamatu to dinner. Nothing
else of an arranged programme was
scheduled for last night as it was real
ized the visitors would want to rest.
This morning they will be taken In
hand by a Chamber of Commerce com
mittee, consisting of W. D. Wheel
wright, chairman; H. L.. Corbett, O. M.
Clark, W. D. B. Dodson, Judge C. H.
Carey, H. B. Miller, IX A. Pattullo,
Frank W. Robinson, Nathan Strauss
and S. Akamatu.
Tour of Shipyards Planned.
It is the plan to begin a tour of the
shipyards and other industries in and
about the city at 8:30 and the round
of sight-seeing will end at noon at
the livestock show in North Portland,
Svhere lunch will be enjoyed.
Tonight the visiting party will be
Eruests of honor at a dinner to be given
at the Arlington Club by Consul
Akamatu. They plan to leave the city
tonight at 11 o'clock for Seattle, where
they will be feted, and after their of
ficial welcome they will sail for the
Orient.
The parliamentary party of five
members includes one from ' each of
Japan's political parties. Mr. Mochi
zuki is a member of parliament for
Yamanashi prefecture and is a member
of the Kensel-kai party. He has been
elected for six terms in all and is a
distinguished author and editor.
He holds high Japanese honors, con
ferred upon him by Japan's Emperor.
Upon him have been bestowed the third
class of the Order of Sacred Treasure
and the fourth class of the Order of
the Rising Sun.
Visitor Xoted Author.
He speaks and writes English with
facility, being a graduate of Keio Uni
versity and studied law at Middle Tem
pie and became barrister at law and
studied economy and history at London
University College, London, England.
He is the author of "Japan Today,
English; "Japan and America," "A Link
Between Japan and America," "Ger
many as She Is," "The Emperor Meiji
as a World Monarch," and other works
He is the proprietor of the Liberal
Is'ews Agency, English, and the Finan
cial and Economic Monthly, English,
Tokio.
Mr. Mochizuki traveled in Europe and
America in 1910, being . charged with
the investigation of financial and eco
nomic conditions abroad by the depart
ment of agriculture and commerce.
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Left to Right Gilchl Yamada. Editor of the Kokumin Shlmbnn. Tokloi Dr. M. Yamane. Member of Parliament,
Tuklo Iv. Mochizuki, Member of Parliament. Tokio, and HI a Secretary, Y. MlkamL
LAWYERS TO ELECT
Judge Tucker, of Multnomah,
and Oscar Hayter, of Dallas,
Are Leaders in Race.
MEETING TO CLOSE TODAY
Banquet at Benson Tonight, With
Frank Branch Riley as Toast
master, Will Conclude An.
ynual Deliberations.
One of three men prominent In the
councils of the Oregon Bar Associa
tion will be elected today to succeed
Samuel White as president. These men
are Circuit Judge Tucker, Oscar Hay
ter, a prominent attorney of Dallas.
and Circuit Judge Littlefield, who re
tires the first of the month to make
way for Circuit Judge Gantenbeih, who
has announced his intention to resume
the bench.
Judge Littlefield, it Is understood.
is in no way a candidate for the honor,
although his ' brother attorneys are
urging his consideration by the nom
ination committee, which will be named
this morning. In view of Judge Little
field's position, it is said the race lies
between Circuit Judge Tucker and Mr
Hayter.
Proposed Bill Discussed.
The atternoon meeting yesterday was
given over to interesting addresses by
H. S. McCutchan and Judge Tucker. Mr.
McCutchan, who was last year appoint
ed chairman of a committee named to
prepare a proposed legislative bill de
fining what constitutes the practice of
law, gave an interesting discussion of
what his investigations to date had revealed.
Mr. McCutchan laid special emphasis
upon the fact that the bill, which is
now being prepared, would safeguard
the public and was not intended to
have any bearing on legal fees. The
proposed legislation is designed to pro
hibit corporations or any persons, other
than lawyers, to engage In the practice
of law.
- Boot'i Speech Reviewed.
A rough draft of the bill which he
has . prepared was distributed among
the members following the afternoon
session and a thorough discussion as to
its merits will be held this morning.
The association will be asked to go on
record either for or against the
measure.
Judge Tucker gave a comprehensive
resume of Elihu Root s address oeiore
the National Bar Association recently.
He also urged the lawyers of Oregon to
prepare for the post-bellum days. He
declared It was the duty of every law
yer to look, ahead to the day of re
construction in order that "our liberties
so dearly bought may not get away
from their constitutional moorings."
Banquet Will Close Meeting.
Associate Justice Harris of the State
Supreme Court will be the principal
speaker at the session this afternoon.
The election of officers for the ensuing
year will also be held. President White
is presiding.
The convention will be brought to a
close' with the annual banquet tonight
at the Benson Hotel. Frank Branch
Riley will preside as toastmaster and
Attorney-General Brown will be among
the speakers. . Lawyers and jurists
from all parts of the state are in at
tendance.
CHILD PRODIGY IS DEAD
BEAUTIFUL SIXGER OF BLIND
SCHOOL, ILL, TWO WEEKS.
Oregon when Rose was 5 years of age,
purposely to allow her to enter the
blind school. The child was particur
larl-y beautiful, with peculiarly lus
trous and large brown eyes, which,
however, had never opened to see. The
funeral will be held tomorrow after
noon. . . .
GIRL AND MAN INJURED
Autolsts Knock Down and Bruise
Two Pedestrians.
Miss Olga David, 17, of 771 East Main
street, sustained severe bruises last
night when she was knocked down at
Second and Alder streets by a taxicab
driven by E. B. Redfield, of the Oregon
Taxicab Company. She was attended
at the Emergency Hospital, and later
went home.
O. B. Riddle. 589 East Thirty-ninth
etreet North, and his small son, Robert,
were knocked down and bruised at
East Thirty-ninth street and Sandy
boulevard by an automobile driven by
A. T. Caswell, 3S5 East Forty-eighth
street North. Their injuries were not
serious. Mr. Riddle was running for a
streetcar and "carrying his son in his
arms. He was treated at the Emer
gency Hospital.
STERN MEASURES LIKELY
U. S. Slay Be Severe on Pacifists to
Stop Trouble Later.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. The " sum
mary punishment inflicted upon Her
bert Bigelow, the Cincinnati pacifist
who was kidnaped by Xu K.lux, taken
into a lonely woods in Kentucky and
horsehides, is turning the attention of
the authorities at Washington to the
necessity of adopting a more drastic
course in dealing with pacifists whose
conduct, although well meaning, tends
to give aid and comfort to the enemy.
As a result of the whipping bee In
the Kentucky woods there probably
will be a trace of the mailed fist here
after in the Government's dealings with
men of Mr. Bigelow's type and others
whose conduct would tend to Inflame
and Irritate the patriotic element of
the country.
If this changed policy is carried out,
as now seems likely, it will be largely
for the purpose of heading off greater
lawlessness than was exhibited when
Dr. Bigelow was taken out and thrashed.
The Government is alive to the prob
ability that when the casualty reports
giving lists of dead and wounded come
back from France, bearing the names
of soldiers from many localities, the
people will become embittered toward
the pacifists and others whose actions
hamper the Government In prosecuting
the war. When that time comeB, ac
cording to the view of Administration
advisers, the people are likely to take
the law into their hands and commit
crimes to vent their outraged feelings
compared with which the whipping of
Mr. Bigelow would seem a mild dose
of punishment.
"It would be better for the Govern
ment to deal vigorously with pacifists
now than for the people to deal with
them lawlessly later on, said a Gov
ernment official.
It is believed here that the whipping
of Bigelow will have a marked effect
on the Senatorial investigation of Sen
ator La Follette, of Wisconsin, that is
now going on. The lesson which Sena
tors now in Washington seem to take
to heart is that it Is necessary that
Government, and that includes the law
making branch as well as the execu
tive, shall take a firmer course and put
its foot down with more vigor on
pacifists and critics of the war programme.
CHINESE ARE URGED
Fruit Grower Says Labor Prob
lem Could Be Solved.
PRESENT- NEED IS CITED
Phone your want ads to The Ore
gonian. Main 7070. A 6095.
Little Rose Fonnot, Known All Over
Oregon for Her Exceptional Tal
ents, to Be Burled Today.
SALEM. Or.. Nov. 20. (Special.)
Little Rose Fosnot, kn.own all over the
state as the beautiful child singer of
the Oregon State School forthe Blind,
died at the home of her parents near
here today after lingering in an un
conscious state for two weeks. For
the past six years little Rose sang at
the Oregon State Fair. Thousands of
visitors to the State School for the
Blind have heard her sing.
Rose was a prodigy and hadi a won
derful voice. Although blind from her
birth she possessed a powerfully de
veloped intellect for a child. She
evinced a passion for music from earli
est childhood and displayed ability as
a childi pianiste, but her most remark
able demonstration of musical talent,
aside from her singing, was her impro
visation and composition of musical
numbers, which talented musicians say
are fraught with real merit. The child
also could operate a typewriter with
facility at 10 years of age. She was 11
Fosnot, who live on a farm near Salem,
moved to this section from, Eastern
AUTOMOBILE PRICES SOAR
American Army, Ked Cross and Y.
M. Hampered by Shortage In Paris..
PARIS. Nov. 12. Automobiles are
among the scarcest commodities today.
so far as the American Army and Its
affiliated services are concerned. Offi
cers of the Quartermaster's Corps and
men engaged inthe Red Cross and Y.
M. C. A. work told the same story to
the Sun correspondent. The demand
for automobiles has far exceeded the
supply received from America and the
French manufacturers are working to
their utmost capacity to meet the ne
cessities of their own Government.
An interesting light was shed upon
the condition of the automobile market
by an advertisement offering to sell a
second-hand Rolls-Royce machine for
$17,000. The price asked seemed un
justifiably high, but a few inquiries
made in automobile circles revealed the
fact that first-clana cars are becoming
rare and that prices depend only on
how badly a car is needed and the size
of the intending purchaser's check
book. The Rolls-Royce," the Renault, the
Panhard-Levassor, the Delaunay-Belle-
ville and other makers of high-class
cars have diverted their plants entirely
to war work and are turning out no
new cars for private use. For this rea
eon persons who own cars of these
makes of recent models can ask any
price they see fit and stand a good
chance of getting It. These cars are
worth on the average at least twice
what they cost before the war and
their value Is Increasing every month
the war continues. Even when peace
Is concluded It will be some time be
fore anything like the before-the-war
prices are touched again, owing to the
high cost of labor and materials.
The prices of a few econd-hand
high-class cars for sale by dealers in
some instances exceed the $17,000
named In the advertisement. Two be
longing to Americans are held at $18,
000 and $27,000, respectively, the latter
being a mtst luxuriously fitted car. A
modern Panhard of 20 to 30 horsepower
is valued at $7500 and Renaults are
even more expensive.
Dr. G. Liowther, of Xorth" Yakima, at
Conference In Spokane Points
Out That Orientals Should
Get "White" Wage Scale.
SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 20. (Special.)
Fruitgrowers and farmers of Wash
ington need the help of 60,000 China
men, according to Dr. G. Lowther, of
North Yakima, a prominent fruit
grower. The suggestion that the state Import
this class of labor was made by him
today before the Northwestern Fruit
Growers' conference, attended by BO
representative growers of the North
west and presided over by Major E. A.
Smith, editor of the Farm Trio.
Labor Problem Topic.
Discussions centered largely on the
difficulty of obtaining labor at the time
It was most needed' and the necessity of
greater production of fruit next year,
due to the need of the war. The meet
ing Is held in connection with the Na
tional Apple Show.
One thousand Chinamen should be
brought to the North Yakima district
and 50.000 Chinamen could be used In
the state to good advantage. Dr. Low
ther asserted. Wages for the China
men, he thought, should nearly con
form to the present scale for white
men, to prevent any reduction of the
present wage BcalS
'It Is not that I would reduce the
amount of wages paid," said Dr. Low
ther, "but rather that we would meet
the crying need of the hour by import
ing these Chinamen."
Paper by Professor Lewis Read.
Methods of stock, crop and poultry
raising In orchards a a means- of in
creasing theNation's food supply were
outlined In a paper by Professor C. I.
Lewis, chief of the division of horti
culture. OreKon Agricultural College.
Professor Lewis was not present, but
the paper was read by the secretary.
Professor Lewis said that such activi
ties could be pursued profitably if the
orchardlsts followed certain conditions
which he outlined.
"The question of lnter-cropping and
other revenue practices In connection
with orchards is very largely a local
problem for each district to solve."
wrote Mr. Lewis. "In order to study
the question, of advantage -we should
divide the trees of the orchard into
three natural groups.
The first group includes those trees
which are from one to five years of
age: namely, the trees which are pass
ing through the formativeerlod. The
second group is made up ofXhose trees
from five to eight years of age: the
period when the trees are passing from
their formative development or body
building into the fruiting period. The
tnira group consists of trees more than
eight years old. trees which have
reached heavy fruiting."
Boy's Neck Broken.
Charles Whitesldes, the 15-year-old
youth who was injured in a scuffle
Saturday night and who was taken to
Good Samaritan Hospital, was found
to have suffered a broken neck, fol
lowing an X-ray examination yester
day. His neck was placed in a cast
and he was reported resting easy last
nif-ht. Some hope is expressed for his
recovery.
Phone your want ads to The Ore-
goniao. Main 7070. A. 609a.
'AGENT" DUPES HOUSEWIFE
"Food Collector" Gets Eight Jars of
Fruit From Unsuspecting Woman.
Some miscreant, announcing himself
as a Government food collector, has
appeared in a Portland suburb and
"collected" eight Jars of fruit from one
housewife, according to a report that
was made to W. K. Newell, acting food
administrator.
Mr. Newell emphasizes the warning.
already given, that the Government
Will never send out an officer for tak
ing food from the people, and anyone
knowing of cases where such persons
have appeared, claiming authority of
the Government, city or state, should
be reported forthwith to the police.
SCARLET FEVER ALARMS
Marshfield Board of Health to Take
Measures to Arrest Disease.
MARSHFIELD, Or.. Nov. 20. (Spe
cial.) Because of scarlet fever among
children of the city the Marshfield
Board of Health held a meeting and
announced that firm action would be
taken to protect the city from spread
of the disease and that violations of
regulations would result in arrests.
About 10 cases have been reported to
the health officer and most of them
are of a mild form.
The public schools may be closed
though it is hoped to avoid such
action.
Seventy-eight per cent of the more
than $6,000,000,000 worth of American
goods exported in the fiscal year 1917
consisted of wholly or partly manufac
tared goods. In 1914, the last normal
year before the war, the percentage of
auch goods exported was only 59.
and only a few of
them, too!
A New Studebaker Car
5-passenger SPECIAL
"Swinging lines rakish but lovely" thaf s what one man
said when he saw the new Studebaker Special. This car is, in
deed, a happy coupling of smart style and real, more-than-skin-deep
beauty. ,
The stylish lines of the car are set off by the rich colors (your choice
of the two latest colors Peruvian Blue or Canyon Red) and by the slight
tilt of the windshield, the low-set seats, the leatherette Gypsy top with its
plate glass windows in the rear.
Come in and see these new features
Leatherette Gypsy Top, with plate glass windows.
Adjustable Steering Wheel, folding up for convenience of driver.
Low Luxurious Seats.
Genuine Buffed Leather Upholstery, parallel plaited.
Improved Deflecting Headlight Lenses.
Blackmore Door Curtain Openers.
The mechanics of the car? That may be quickly answered by telling
you that it is built on the famous Series 18 chassis. It's a light car but
full size and roomy for five passengers balanced like a watch and well,
call it aristocratic, in the right sense of the word, and you have it. And
the price is surprisingly low.
We have but a very limited number of these cars and urge that you
come in and make your selection at once.
Oregon Motor Car Co.
Park at Davis
Phone Broadway 616
WEAK LAWS BLAMED
Influx of Aliens Held Respon
sible for Present Strife.
SPY SYSTEM IS MENACE
Representative Hawley Tells Salem
Club That Stringent Laws Will
Be Needed to Safeguard Na
tion at End of War.
SALEM. Or, Nov. 20. (Special.)-
Representative Hawley told members
of the Six o'clock Club of the Metho
dist Church tonight that he favors a
more string-ent policy in the future of
admitting aliens to citizenship in this
country. As a reason for this stand, he
declared that for years before the war
Oermany sent intothis country a horde
of her own citizens, had them nat
uralized and, through the civil serv
ice, public offices and other walks of
life, they worked themselves into po
sitions where they could be of influ
ence in stirring: up strife or become
a portion of a vast secret web of
spies.
"The main reason for the slowness
of this country in getting into the war
is found in this very fact," said Mr.
Hawley. "For that reason negotia
tions were not witten for a long time,
but were carried on from month to
year, because the Government did not
know who it could trust, and in some
instances It was not known where the
Government could be trusted."
He declared . that the proposed
Japanese-Mexican alliance and the
$50,000 slush fund of Count Bern
storff were offshoots of this spy sys
tem. Representative Hawley gave a lucid
and comprehensive explanation of the
causes which led up to this country
entering- the war.
"And we are not in the war." he
said, "as a knight errant for democ
racy throughout the world, but we
are fighting for our own liberty, and
that we will not have to yield to the
doctrine of superman or supernation."
Wealthy Man to Serve Time.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.. Nov. 14. Rush
Strong, member of one of East Ten
nessee's wealthiest and most aristo
cratic families, who was convicted of
shooting and killing Sam B. Luttrell
prominent clubman, on the night of
June S, 1916, must serve from two to
ten years In the penitentiary, the Su
preme Court here confirming a deci
slon of "voluntary manslaughter" In
Criminal Court last April. The case Is
In some respects a parallel. to the Thaw
case.
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KING PIP X
BIDS YOU TO
The Tenth Annual
National Apple Show
Spokane Nov. igtb to 24th
Round-trip fare $14.95 via
Union Pacific System
THE SHORT LINE TO SPOKANE
Tickets on sale Nov. 18, 19, ao, ai, aa, 33
Return limit, Nov. a6, 1917
CITY TICKET OFFICE
Wmkliiftoa at Third Street. Broadway 4SOO, A 6121.
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