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THE 3IORXING OltEGOXIAX. THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1919. . a t s t rr. JDHI BULL URGED TO SEEK OUT IDE Zeal Equal to America's Regarded as Necessary. Is FALL IN PRESTIGE FEARED Lord Weir. After Viit to Cnlted Stairs. Says Man, Woman and Child In England Mnt Work. Copr1rtit v the New fork World. Pub LONDON". July . Special Cable.) Only by acquiring an American hustle on John Bull hope to reclaim bis former world markets and to obtain his share of the new In competition with America. That is the gospel be in preached to the British public, not ..nlv by itnt of the foremost men nere, hut by practically every British offi cial or business man who recently has t..n In the United Stales. Lord Weir, who has Just returned here from the United Slates, bluntly ....id: "Kverv man. woman and child in this country must work and work hard. It Is the only way out of our diffl eulty. That Is what they are doing in the United States and a rich harvest is coming to them. Meanwhile the Amer ican representative of a big American coal concern, after surveying the sit uation In Kngland. has reported, so It was learned, that it would be profitable at prenent to import American coal into fclngland." Although organised labor here fre quently has been charged by big busi ness with restricting its output so as to absorb . thousands who have been without work, many economists and men of affairs realize there has been a errous relaxation on the part of un orcaniied workers. The action of the government in pay ing millions of pounds monthly for do nations to those out of work is consid ered responsible for their laxity, after more than four years of war and high tension. This lavish expenditure of money has followed in the wake of a wave of Indolence. HUNS SLAIN T HANOVER r ICiHT OCCVKS WHEX MOB HE l.i;.KS PRISONERS IX CASTLE. Her 1 ill Citizens' League A-W for .' I u n I errs to Provide Military Protection on Trains. BKHLIN". July 9. Several persons were killed or wounded in the fight ma Monday at Hanover when a mob n-lrasrd the prisoner in the castle. .M.irtial law has been proclaimed there. Ctistave N'oske, German minister of defense, was asked today by the citi zens' league to call for volunteers to man the surface and subway lines in Berlin and to provide military protec tion on the trains. Strikers and employers still are dead locked In the question of arbitration, liermany is quickly to return to peace-time financial system, said Mathias Krsberger. vice-chancelor and administer of finance, speaking at Wei mar before the Uerman national as sembly today. "The empire's needs must be divided henceforth between home needs and indemnities," he said. "The year's expenditures confronting us will amount to about 17.500,000.000 marks. I am firmly resolved to tread the hard path of economy and therefore have given out the watchword that from October 1, 1919, there shall ba no more items not detailed and there shall be no more war funds. The war finance system shall cesse and a regular budget nyntrm must be re-established." ''There still remains a sum of over 1 billion marks to he covered. "The ministry of finance has almost rompleted the drafting of two import ant bills levying new taxes which I Intend to submit to the house before the parliament recess. These call for a large single levy on property and a large tax on business turnover, but even if these Mils are passed, the money for the payment of indemnities must be obtained in some other wny. In the autumn new bills will be intro duced in the national assembly with the final object of covering this de ficit. "The burdens of taxation will reach an absolutely terrible heigiit. A float ing debt of 72 billion marks Is a con stant danger snd the removal of this debt Is one of our most urgent tasks." say that if any American citizens come to our country I hope I can repay the hospitality they have so lavishly be stowed upon me. "The climatic conditions over the Atlantic are very bad or flying in. ships like the R-34. Although the R-34 has more than justified our hopes. trans-Atlantic flying in the future must be done in larger and faster ships' Officers of the United Ststes army and navy aviation sections were per mitted to Inspect the ship and Captain Samuel T. Moore of the balloon section of the srmy today gave to the Asso ciated Press representative -si descrip tion of the first lighter-than-air ship to cross the Atlantic. Over all the R-J4 is C40 feet In length with fohr cars or gonjolas suspended from the cigar-shaped envelope. The forward gondola Is occupied by the nav igator and pilots and from it all parts of the ship are controlled by means of speaking tubes and bell signals. In the rear of the forward gondola is the wireless room, which also holds one of the ship's engines. Tne two side gondolas each contain an engine and are large enough only for two men to work. The rear car holds two engines. Ship's Secrets Guarded. While the gondolas can be seen by visitors to the field, little or nothing has been allowed to filter out concern Ing the inside of the big bag. Inside the bag is the deck of the ship. It runs the greater part of the length of the bag and is only nine inches wide ex cept at its middle, where It widens out into m compartment eight by 20 feet used by the officers and crew as dining saloon. The hydrogen gas. the lifting power or the ship. Is carried In Is compart' ments inside the envelope. These com partments are at the top of the ship and are of the linings of intestines of calves. When ready to start on a flight the final Inflation of these gas containers is made. This operation takes place usually at the minimum temperature of the air when the greatest quantity of gas can be taken into the bags. The expansion of gas in the bags is relieved by releasing water ballast at the rate of 10 per cent of water In 20 degrees ot rising temperature. Also 10 per cent of water ballast is released in each 2300 feet of altitude. Water Ballast Is I" Bed. When the R-34 leaves the ground it s permitted to rise to its equilibrium, or about as high as it can go. On reach. ng its equilibrium the engines are started and the flight begins. The fuel. gasoline and oil is carried in II tanks. Sixteen of these tanks are fixed to the ramework of the bag structure and he others are known as sliding tanks and tan be discarded as ballast should the occasion arise. The water ballast is carried in canvas bags of two types. There are eight mergency bags, four forward and four aft, which may be emptied in emer gency when they cannot be controlled. Six other water bags are controlled by levers and their contents can be re eased as desired. The water ballast contains alcohol in sufficient amount to prevent freezing in high altitudes. The dining saloon contains three ables capable of being raised to the upper framework when not in use. The saloon is large enough to permit half of the crew to eat at a time. The food ia cooked .by appliances at tached . to the exhaust pipes of the engines. The diners stand at a cup board, there being no chairs aboard the shin. The crew sleep in light ' hammocks along the sides of the deck suspended out over the bag proper, and in case a aleeper falls from his net there nothing to prevent his falling through the bag to death. - All members of the crew wear rubber- soled shoes to prevent the possibility ot striking a spark which would mean damage and possible disaster to the bag. RfOHTHCLIFFE OPPOSES GIBES AT AMERICA the Attempt Made to Counteract British Criticism of U. S. PRESS SHOWS JEALOUSY Mr, L C, BARBER IS APPOINTED COVERXOR XA.MES DEPL'TV AS INSURANCE COMMISSIONER. I BIG AIR CRUISER IS READY ( Crn 1 1 n urd Fro m Flrit Pas.) aboard, including two gold medals of the Aero club of America, awarded to t'aptatn Alem-lc and Lieutenant Brown, who .flew the Vick-ers-Vimy biplane overseas from Newfoundland in the non-stop trans-Atlantic "hop." In a statement to the Associate Trcfa toniicht Major O. 11. icott. com mander of the dirigible, declared he would fly over Nf v York, and if favor able winds on the other aide offered, over London on hi homeward Journey to KaM Fortune. Scotland. "I am point to follow the line of the southern steamship course." he said, "passinff over New York before Martin oversess. If the present weat her condition continue I expert to make the homeward trip In f 0 hotrrs. "The only thin I am sorry about ta thfit I have to leave here soon. Un fortunately I had only one nipht in New Yof k, and would have ltked to hue many more. I hope to come again. Id k trt tnke t onporfinif v to DANCING GUARANTEED In eight lessons. Ladles, 92. 5o: gentlemen. 5t m le Honeys Beautiful Academy. 23d snd Wash ington. New summer classes start Monday, Tuesday snd Thursday evening; s, I to llsfd. I'lentv of desirable partners and practice. No embarrassment. Pri vate lessons all hours. Learn from professional (I a n o e ra. i nout Jlain New Official Native of Indiana and With State Insurance De partment Since 1912. SALEM, Or.. July 9. (Special.) A. C. Barber, for more than seven years chief deputy in the insurance department. will be the new insurance commissioner to succeed Harvey Wells, resigned. Gov ernor Olcott announced today. The ap pointment will become cfective Au gust 1. Mr. Hhrber is a native of Indiana and has been engaged in the insurance business since a young- man. He first served with an uncle who had a local agency In Indiana. After a number of years experience In the capacity of a local agent he became a traveling acent and later was connected with thk home office of one of (he larger eastern Insurance companies. He came to Portland in 1S0C to join the Pacific coast general agency and was engaged in the insurance agency until the be ginning of 1912, when he became dep uty Insurance commissioner, and has served continuously in that capacity ever since. Mr. . Barber received the indorsement of Insurance Commissioner Wells for appointment as insurance commissioner. The resignation of Mr. Wells came as a surprise to me," said Mr. Olcott in announcing the appointment of hts successor this afternoon. "Our relations have always been the most pleasant and not long ago I had told him I hoped he would see his way clear to remain in office to complete his term.' DEPUTIES GUARD PUNT EFFORT IS MADE TO PREVENT NEW TROUBLE AT ARGO. . Wilson, as Author of 14 Place Points. Bears Brnnt or Preju-. dice; War Record Discredited. BY JAMES M. TUOHT. (Copyright by the New Tork World. Pub lished by arrangement.) LONDON, July 8. (Special Cable.) A noteworthy effort to promote stable good relations between Great Britain and the United States is made by Lord. Northcliffe in an American supplement of the Times publishes on Independence day. The unique power of Northcliffe as a publicist could not be applied to' a worcnier object or one mora urgent. Every sensible man must recocrnize that the labors of the peace conference will have been worse than wasted if rneir sequel is bad feeling- between England nad America. The fact that Lord Northcliffe. the keenest judge of public opinion in these islands, should deem it necessary to make this special effort speaks for Itself. That he should simultaneously advocate dominion rule for Ireland shows equally clearly his perception of me main source of the trouble, which is ot long standing, and which has been aggravated by the British attitude to ward Americans before and since they enter-a tne war. l?. S. Mar Record Causes Sneers. There doubtless have been faults on both sides, but when the Americans were coming over their advent in the darkest hour of the whole struggle was heralded by the sneer generally heard The lanks will now claim they have won the war." Although they did nothing of the kind, the accusation still maintained against them with many others springing out of it. Outside the Nortlcliffe press there s no conservative paper here that does not show an anti-American bias, more or less openly. Sometimes it finds ex. pression in such childish assertions as, for example, that of the Evening Standard, which in a perfervld pane gyric on Mr. Balfour stated that not President Wilson but Mr. Balfour brought America iiy o the war. lliuoi suit or rrejuaice. Nor Is. this sort of thing confined to the conservative papers. The Star, radical evening paper, has shown much the same spirit and recently joined in the wholesale furious denials of the allegations of the Irish-American dele gation, which it has abstained from re tracting since, though practically every one of these allegations has been sua tained. As the author of the 14 points, Pres ident Wilson is the special butt of i sort of prejudice that prevails. North. cliffe. in attempting to combat these prejudices, is rendering valuable service to continued peace, in recognizing mai the first essential step is the settlement of Ireland's demand on the lines of dominion home rule, he shows the cour age which must inspire wise and sue cessful statesmanship. It is to be hoped that no feeling of partisanship or sense of being outbalanced by. Northcliffe will cause. the liberal leaders and lib ral press to maintain their strange Hence on this supremely important question. , HIGH COSTS ADD TO UNREST rrontlnued From Flrat fsse.) 6 Bell-ans' Hot water Sure Relief ELL-ANS Strikers Claim Vole on "Closed- Shop" Question Was Denied by Company Officials. CHICAGO, July 9. One hundred spe cial deputy sheriffs tonight were pa trolling the vicinity of the Corn Prod ucts Refining company's plant at Argo, a suburb, where last night two men were killed and about 50 others wound ed or injured in fights between armed guards and strike sympathisers. One of the wounded men was reported in a dying condition today. The day passed with comparative quiet. The only incident approaching violence occurred when a number of strikers chased Edward Reeves, mayor of - Arge, and superintendent of the company's machine shops. They ac cused him of attempting to stop their credit with local merchants. This he denied. Union officials asserted that com pany officials had broken an agree ment to allow the men to decide by vote whether they wanted the "closed shop." No such agreement ever was made, representatives of the company said, but union and non-union men were employed at union wages with an eight-hour day. 6. H. ,-reen stamps for cash. Holman Fuel Co, Main J5J, A SIS. Blockwood. short slabwood. Rock Springs and Utah coal; sawdust. Adv. NX-RATA TEA Is GOOD TEA. Clossat k Devcrs, Portland. Adv. tion in prices of nearly 50 per cent in the shops in which food was sola. The correspondent says Milan does not look at all like itself. Its princi pal shops are closed. Many of thero have displayed signs saying their goods rfave been consigned to the municipal ity or to the labor exchange. Very little of anything can be bought. In various towns there have been raids on the shops by the crowds, who seem to prefer the bootshops for their depredations, as though tno people naa urgent need of boots and shoes. It is no easy matter to buy a pair of boots anywhere in Milan. Anarchist and communist elements are active in disorders of this kind, which ars greatly aggravated, however, by gen eral discontent. With the view of combating the con tinually soaring high cost of living in France, an important council of French ministers was held today, ac cording to word received here. Presi dent Poincaire presided. Greatly disturbed by the prevailing high prices, which have enormously inoreased since the armistice was signed, the French government has pre pared various decrees for enactment, which provide for the reopening of frontiers for the importation of all food products of which the country has need, and 'for skins, leather and cloth materials. Costs May Be Reduced. Premier Clemenceau, now relieved of his major duties as president of the peace conference and having completed his visit to the liberated districts, will devote the greater part of his time from now on to measures for reducing the cost of living. Dire need continues among tne peo ple in northern France and strikes, lockouts and industrial unrest are still menacing factors of the general situa tion. Recent developments of the same kind In Italy also have given the authorities much concern and they have doclded that prompt and energetic action Is necessary for the general good. Figures printed by Le Petit Parisien indicate how the wave of high prices has swept Europe. At the time of the signing of the armistice the cost of liv ing in France, according to these esti mates, had increased 350 per cent, the increase in Italy had been more than 400 per cent: the Increase In England 250 per cent, and the increase in United States 200 per cent. v. For a few weeks following the sign ing of the armistice prices declined, but started to climb upward again as sfcon as price restrictions were lifted. French money Is of variable value, in the sense that one never knows from one day to another what it will buy. The high wages paid to French workers are consumed in buying clothing, foot wear and other necessities, and the working people find it very difficult to maintain themselves. Wjth strikes more menacing than ever and with the civil servants of the government threatening to join the workers and labor syndicates, the au thorities face a problem that is both delicate and urgent, and they are eager to find a solution which wll restore peace and order In the country. Though the general strike of work ers In Italy, England and France, called for July 30. is probably mainly political in its Sims, many workers -throughout the country are seizing the opportunity to register their protest against the high cost of living. Paris to Be Tied Up. It Is expected that on July 20 Paris will he completely tied up, as indeed the whole of France may be. In order to give the strike greatest effect, the French railway workers have been so licited by the strike managers to join. Already the telegraphers who for sev eral weeks have been uneasy and quer ulous, quitting work bow and then for hours at a time, signified their adher ence to the strike movement. One of the most serious problems is that of rents, in which the increase came more quickly than in food and in which the advances have been com paratively greater. In the beginning the landlords availed themselves oi their chances for increased returns until they were checked up by a mora torium which for a time proteeted the families of men called to the colors by forbidding ejectments. In recent months the landlords have pursued a policy of cancelling leases in order that they may make new ones for dwellings at a higher scale of rentals Many families are now threatened with ejectment and they have scant hope of finding other apartments or iiouses. In addition, the tremendous cost of building materials has in many cases forced cessation of work on houses partly built. There are hundreds of such half-completed houses in Paris. Many owners or builders have been forced to sell their partly-finished houses for the cost of the ground alone before the war, in order to save them selves from ruin. ROME FACES GENERAL STRIKE Government Uses Troops to Quell People Rioting for Food. ROME, July 9. The chamber of- la bor has proclaimed a general strike as from midnight Tuesday as a pro test against the police and military measures taken by the government to prevent further disorders. The entire police garrison Is held in readiness and strong contingents of troops occupy the principal points in the city, the government buildings and the banks, while armored cars and machine gun crews patrol the differ ent quarters. The chamber of labor maintains that these measures were adopted to prevent the lowering of the price of necessaries,, as demanded by the people. The proclamation of a general strike coincides with the reopening of parlia ment this afternoon. During the morning mobs attacked several shops because the shopkeepers refused to sell at low prices: other wise there were no serious complica tions. The food shops were crammed with people today buying provisions In the fear ot being caught with scanty sup plies. Popolo Romano, commenting on the situation, says that as Tarinto is still in the war zone, the maintenance of order in the city has been entrusted to soldiers, who have proclaimed a state of siege. Immediately thereafter, the newspaper declares, the riots ceased as if by magic. It asserts if the same action had been taken everywhere all the disorders would be over by now. LEAGUE CHOICE RUMORED Ambassador pavl Likely to Be In ternational Justice. WASHINGTON, July 9. John W. Davis, American ambassador to Great Britain, is .understood to have been selected as the American representa tive on the permanent court of inter national justice which is to be formu- ated by the council of the league of nations. Mr. Davis, who formerly was solicit or-general of the United States, was appointed ambassador to Great Britain last September while acting as head of the American delegation at the Berne conference between American and Ger man missions on the treatment and ex change of prisoners of war. He suc ceeded the late Walter Hines Page and assumed his duties at London last De cember. Mr. Davis is the second American representative in the league of nations to be selected. Raymond B. 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Flushed with success, the Anti-Saloon League of North America is about to transfer its enthusiasm, its huge finances and its curious methods to this country, according to the Daily Mail, in a sustained effort to maneuver Great Britain into voting itself dry. "I have just returned from the United States," Canon Masterman of the United Kingdom Alliance says in an interview, "where I have been studying the meth ods adopted successfully by the Anti Saloon league, with the view of in troducing them into our campaign here. Large numbers of the Anti-Saloon league members are coming over to help us give the people of this coun try figures and facts. "The Americans are goin? to tell our people that production increases by 10 per cent in a dry country, while it is estimated that In this country we arj losing 18 per cent of our national effort through drink. 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