Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1919)
TIIE MORNING OltEGOXIAX, TUESDAY, 31 AY 13, 1919. PROPAGANDISTS AS ACTIVE AS EVER Home Opposition to Treaty of Peace Held Aim. FRANCE IGNORES PROTEST Xatioa Is Xot In. Mood to Ivisten to German Complaints Just Xow, Says Paris Xewspaper. BERNE, Switzerland, May 11. (French Wireless Service.) Press com ment and other news concerning the peace treaty as sent here by the Ger man semi-official news agrency, suggest that a campaign has been started to incite German public opinion against acceptance of the treaty, or perhaps to give Count von Brockdorff - Rantzau manufactured popular support in de mands he may make for alleviation of the peace terms. The closing of the etock exchanges in Berlin. Frankfort and elsewhere and the government appeal for a "week of mourning" are taken here to indicate that there is a well co-ordinated move ment. PARIS, May 11. (French Wireless Service.) France is not in a mood, to listen to Germany just now, the .Jour nal Xes Debats tays in an article on German manifestations against the peace treaty. "The president of Germany, the edi torial says, "protests against the peace terms and declares them impossible of acceptance. This attitude will be lost on us. The Germans, as usual, will yield only to force. "It is comical, indeed, to see at a time like this the Germans esrlously proponing to us a version of the league of nations, and plans for the re-construction of Europe. They should put them all back in the cabinets at Wil-helmstrasse." of judicial psychology. He played the baby act in municipal court yesterday and his tactics drew a 10-day jail sen tence, plus a $50 fine. Eric and Axel Scott are roommates, living at 54 North Fifth street. Axel got hold of some wine, which was really regulation bootleg whisky, and gave Eric a bottle. Two women en tered as participants in ensuing fes tivities, and the quartet, after imbib ing generously, unwisely took to the streets. They were arrested by the police and the men were lodged in jail. When brought before Judge Rossman, charged with violating the prohibition law, Eric attempted to place all blame on his pal. Net results: $50 and 10 days for Eric; $50 for Axel. CANAL PLAN TO GET BOOST PEXIXSCIiA COMMERCIAL BOD IES MEET AT OtYMFIA. ENTENTE BLUNDER. CHARGED Outlook tor Germany Hopeless, Says Hun Professor. BERt.TN', May 1. (Correspondence ol the Associated Press.) "The entente powers unquestionably committed an irreparable mistake when they set out to subject the German people to a sys tematic process of soul-crushing," said Professor Emil Abderhalden, the noted psychologist of Halle university and a democratic leader -of the Prussian diet, in a statement to the Associated Press, peace, including the raising of the blockade, had immediately followed the armistice it would have stimulated Ger many's energies. "For a long time after the depress ing days of the military collapse," he declared, "that iron will of determina tion prevailed to mobilize all the econ omic potentialities for the purpose of getting the nation back on its feet. Nothing, one would imagine, could have been more welcome to the entente pow ers than an orderly( co-ordinated Ger many. Now it is convulsed to its very foundations. The inclination to work is lacking in the widest circles. "No one dares think of the morrow. A new revolution is creeping through the country. Ample food shipments will be necessary to etave off the worst. What is arriving now is just about suf ficient to maintain the present condi tions of hunger and to postpone starva tion and satastrophe. Only an amply nourished people is capable of return ing to a regular working schedule. "For five months one staggering psychic insult from abroad has fol lowed another. Night after night this great people goes to sleep without any hope for the future and wakes up be reft of all hope. It seems there is only destruction ahead. Why work? Why plan?" Professor Abderhalden believes that the existing chaos, with its accompany ing phenomena of social excesses, such as dancing and gambling, which, he says, recall the hunger catastrophes which followed the epidemics of the middle ages, is the worst conceivable eoil for the propagation of a pure de mocracy which primarily demands con sciousness of duty and on exalted spirit of sacrifice on the part of the individ ual for the common good. KNIGHTS RAP RADICALS VA STHXV GTOX CATHOLICS PASS RESOIOTIONS AT OLY3IPIA. JToqniam Selected: for Next Annual Gathering All State Officers Are Re-elected. OLTMPIA. Wash,, May 12. (Special.) Resolutions vigorously condemning bolshevism, I. W. W. propaganda, an archy and socialism were passed by the state council of the Knights of Colum bus in annual session here today. Delegates from 23 local councils of the state were in attendance. The con vention closed its session this after noon in order to permit delegates and state officers to meet William G. Mc Ginley, of New Haven, Conn., supreme secretary of the Knights of Columbus, at Tacoma tomorrow. Hoquiam was selected as the meeting place for next year's convention. Su preme delegates and officers were elect cd today as follows: Delegates to the supreme council at Buffalo. N. Y ., in August: Edward J. Walsh and Dr. James A. LaGara, Ta coma; B. C Horngan, Pasco; W. W. Conner, Seattle. Washington state council officers all re-elected: Edward J. Walsh, Tacoma. state deputy; Robert Cline. Bellingham, treasurer; A. G. Schott. Walla Walla, secretary; John I. Ophelan, Raymond, advocate. CENTRAL1A BONDS UPHELD Judge Reynolds Gives Decision In IajwIs County Superior Court. CHEHAUSrf Wash, May 12. (Spe cial.) Judge W. A. Reynolds of the Lewis county superior court, in the suit of E. D. Cuddy vs. City of Cen tralis, attacking the validity of water bonds issued by the city to Carstens & Earls of Seattle, decided today for the defendants for the principal of the bonds, less the discount taken by pur chasers, with pro rata interest at 6 per cent; also less twice the interest paid on the bonds and all accrued and unpaid interest. The bonds were sold preliminary to installation of Centralia's new gravity water system. ERIC ER1CKS0N IS PUNISHED When He Blaxne9 Partner Judge Adda Ten Days to $50 Fine. Washington Project Also Will In clude Inside Route to Co lumbia River. OLTMPIA, Wash., May 12. (Special.) Plans for pushing construction of the proposed canal from Olympia to Grays Harbor to afford a shorter route from Puget sound to the ocean will be outlined here tomorrow at a meet ing of southwest Washington com mercial delegates called by the Olym pia chamber of commerce. An appro priation for surveying: the ' canal was inserted in the last rivers and harbors bill by Senator Wesley L.. Jones, sub ject to approval of Colonel C. L, Stur devant of the U. S. engineering head quarters at Seattle. Tomorrow's meeting is designed to organize a. comprehensive showing of the commercial value of the proposed canal, much of which has already been assembled by the Olympia chamber of commerce. It i3 expected that repre sentatives from Tacoma, Elma, Monte sano, Aberdeen and Hoquiam will participate. Included in the main canal proposi tion is another project to connect Wil lapa harbor and the Columbia byan inside waterway. 33 STUDENTS SUSPENDED Spokane Boys Anger Teachers by At tending: Pullman Field Meet. SPOKANE, Wash., May 12. (Spe cial.) Thirty-three boy students of the Lewis and Clark high school were not permitted to attend classes today on orders issued by Principal Hart. The action was taken because they went to P.ullman last Friday to attend the interscholastic track meet without permission of Principal Hart, or failed to register after arrival at Pullman, two rules required of all students at tending the meet. It was announced today by Superin tendent Pratt that the boys will not be reinstated in school until & satisfac tory understanding has been had with the parents and the boys. Lewis County Far Over Quota. CHEHALIS. Wash.. May 12. Lewis county has subscribed from $120,000 to $150,000 more than its victory loan quota, according to County Chairman N. B. Coffman. The county went over the top the first day as in previous liberty loans. NUMBERLESS LITTLE NAT DNS CLAMOROUS Near-East Sends Vociferous Claims to Paris. TRIBES WOULD BE STATES Grays Harbor Passes Quota. ABERDEEN. Wash., May 12. (Spe cial.) Grays Harbor county passed its victory loan quota, an official state ment today says, by $166,400. Every district in the county went over its allotment. Total subscriptions amount ed to ?1,398,900.. "Read The Oregonian classified adp. Holdings Xow Ancient History Are Cited in Defense of Demands. Common Sense Required. BT WTLLIAM T. ELLIS. (Copyright. 1019. hy New York Herald. Pub lished by Arrangement.) CONSTANTINOPLE. May 10. North American Indians should be given back Manhattan Island, Chicago, Philadel phia, Boston, San Francisco, New Or leans and the territory which lies be tween. I can prove it from near east ern analogy. The most vociferous claims that are going to Paris from this part of the world are stressing historical rights as a primary argument. That Is why Armenia says the heart of Turkey should come to her, even though she represents but a tenth of the popula tion. Kor the same reason Greece. de mands Thrace and Western Anatolia. The Jews want Palestine. Georgians claim independence and a big slice of the Black Sea coast, which in some far distant day belonged to their ancestors. In all these cases and others to be named, the claimants represent a sheer minority of the present population. They have not a leg to stand on, by the principle of majority rule. Their "historical rights," however, are put forward as paramount. Just as logical ly, the Indians from the reservations could demand a hearing at Paris and the return of all the lands over which once their forefathers roamed. Ancient Claims Revived. In the case of most of the instances raised out here, the territory has been held at one time or another by every great world conqueror. On the ground of previous possession, Persia, Mace donia, Egypt and Rome could claim nearly all of Turkey, but would they be left to fight it out? Genoa and Venice might come in for vast terri torial acquisitions hereabouts. In this many-layered civilization, there simply is no disentangling the conflicting claims. For all we know the descendants of the Jebusites and Ilivites and Amorites and Amelekites and Hittltes and Philis tines may arise to claim Palestine as the original settlers of the land which the Jews invaded. To be strictly logical and theoretical in this matter is to be driven into a madhouse. So. also with "self-determination." Here in Constantinople new self-deter-minators appear almost daily. They are almost as numerous as rumors of revolution. Peoples of whom the world never knew before suddenly appear, in the persons of more or less well ac credited delegates, and claim the right to be heard at Paris in behalf of inde pendence. I know nobody who has the hardihood to claim to be able to keep touch of all the ambitious little self -determiners. Bosnian Moslems Ambitions. Bosnian Moslems, for instance, are now saying that they number nearly a million and do not want to play with the Jugo-Slavs, but seek a national playground of their own. Azerbaijan insists that it is already a republic and entitled to recognition, with Baku FOR DELIGHTFUL HUMOR, QUAINT RURAL TYPES, HAPPY GOOD FEELING AND THRILLS THERE HASN'T BEEN A BETTER PICTURE IN MANY MOONS Stops Tomorrow Midnight mi a n i - .sw"ys L ' - - (Rube) RAY in "Greased Lightning" Murtagh The Giant Organ and Sennett's Newest Comedy for its capital. Of course the posses sion of the oil fields has in no wise influenced the creation of this nation; not at all.) Persia, however, bids the upstart begone, for the real Azerbaijan, which may be found on the maps something that cannot be said for most of the seekers after autonomy is in Persia, and it denies this made-in-Ger-many Tartar republic any right to the name it has chosen. Then there are the republics of the Don, the Kuban and North Caucasia, all demanding recognition as their right. If all these and kindred claims are granted by Paris, one feels sorry for the boys and girls of the next gener ation, who have to study world geog raphy. For we have yet to hear from the Kurds, the Nestorians, the Kizi bashes. the Ansariyeh. the Yezidis, the Yurkuks, the Aoshars, the Druzes, the Sabeans and other ancient people who live in and about the Caucasus moun tains. No line of reasoning can be pushed too far. Any principle, overextended, may become an absurdity. Unless com mon sense intervenes, to consider the greatest good of the greatest number, this part of the world will be chopped up into a mess of discordant and con tentious and vainglorious groups, each more intent upon exalting than upon serving the common welfare of man kind. Common Sense XtfMiary. We cannot split New York city Into several self-governing nationalities: though numerically and racially such a procedure would be clearly more logical than some of the projects seri ously proposed out here. Nor can we turn all of New York as a mass over to the red Indians from the un-state reservations. Common sense, common interest, common purposes alone can dominate the world and make it a decent place to live in. New Diking District Sought. SOUTH BEND. Wash.. May 12. (Spe cial.) Property owners in township 11 north, ranges 9 and 10 west, on both sides of the Nasel river near its mouth, have petitioned the Pacific county com missioners for the organization of an immense diking district. It is proposed to reclaim all of the lands in this dis trict now subject to overflow during the spring freshets and extreme high tides, and to develop them as agricul tural lands. The petition was signed by the owners of more than SOO acres of the lands within the district. Winlock to Vote on New School. CENTRAL! A, Wash.. May IS. (Spe cial.) The erection of a new school house in Winlock will be voted on at a special school election to be held next Saturday It is proposed to au thorize the Winlock school board to issue bonds to the amount of $24,000 for the erection of the new building. fsGORRtCT LUBRICATION Sri Goodrich Price Decline We are pleased to announce a very substantial revision down ward in the prices of Silvertown Cord Casings, Goodrich Fabric Cas ings, Goodrich Motorcycle Casings, Goodrich Inner Tubes, Goodrich Pneumatic Cord Truck Tires, Goodrich Solid Motor Truck Tires, Automobile Tire Accessories, Ef fective May 12. Goodrich Tires sold through dealers. Inquire of.your dealer for new price list. B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co. . . Broadway at Burnside Portland Phone Broadway 3130 Last Times TODAY V x -1 Here's Your Last r 2 upporiunitv ot :ee- ing a Really Rattlin Good Show I : 'VC' V'" 13 it t Dorothy Dalion "The Home Breaker Starts Wednesday BURGLAR With PRISCILLA DEAN I J 1 r-iTnunn 1 1 1 ii Mil nnrnii gi -tt '- " Under One Roof .4 oAdds years to the life of your car. Correct lubrication with Zerolene means better per formance and longer life for your car. By exhaustive study and actual tests the Standard Oil Company Board of Lubrication Engineers has de termined the correct consistency of Zerolene for your make of automobile. Their recommendations are available for you in the Zerolene Correct Lubrication Charts. There is a chart for each make of car. Zerolene is correctly refined from selected Califor nia crude oil. It keeps its lubricating body at cylinder heat, holds compression, gives perfect protection to the moving parts and deposits least carbon. It is the product of the combined resources, experience and equipment of the Standard Oil Company. Get a Correct Lubrication Chart for your :ar. your dealer's or our nearest station. STANDARD OIL "COMPANY (California) At qA grade for each type of engine iP in I'vi I'll:! THE First National Bank has assembled under one roof the facilities for taking care of its customers' financial problems, whether of credit, exchange, collection, investment, safe deposit or trust, etc. The advantages of being able to transact all your banking business in one institution are obvi ous. We urge you to avail yourself of the services of all our different departments. Your inquiries are solicited. Your financial wants will be care fully and conservatively satisfied. First National Bank Fifth and Stark Streets Portland, Oregon $100 REWARD $100 "V " ' ' ' ' ' ' ' THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPH OP KOVVIN II. WlLM.t, AI.LCUED PHOTO COUPON FORGER row peratiTiR- In nd about Portland. His right name Is Wilma, but signs his name . . Morrison. Morton L. Cook, R. La. Davis and other names. The Bushnell Studios at Portland. Seattle and Tacoma will pay ?IOO REWARD for Information leadinfr to his nrrest and conviction. If feen wire the sheriff's office at Portland or any of the Bushnell's studios. BUSHNELL'S STUDIO PHOXE MAIN" 1835. COLl'MBIA BCILDIXG. It ', Eric Erickson is not a deep student
