TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, TIIUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1919. MIOO TOOTS OLD WHISTLE TO LABOR attack on Coal Operators Is to Aid Presidential Race. SCENE FULL OF THRILLS Clever Method Used by "Movie Man" to Put Attorney-General Palmer in Bad Light. OREGON-IAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington. Dec. 3. All of the in tense apathy which marked the con test for the democratic presidential nomination for so many months has ( abruptly vanished. The curtain has suddenly lifted on a scene which con tains throbs, thrills and Quivers. The public was given its first view of the impending conflict the other night when William Gibbs McAdoo sent a telegram to Washington accus ing the coal operators of making pro fits as high as 2000 per cent during recent years. This telegram was not half so important to the controversy going on between the coal operators and the miners on the one hand and the government as intervenor for the public as it was in connection with the McAdoo candidacy for the demo cratic nomination for president next year. McAdoo's Telegram Significant. The accuracy of the figures used by Mr. McAdoo was of minor impor tance. These figures pleased the miners and radical sympathizers and Dr. Garfield, fuel administrator, em barrassed as he must have been in his efforts to adjust the dispute, naturally would hesitate to express any strong opinion of the president's son-in-law. Some facetious person immediately remarked that Mr. Mc Adoo had probably confused movie profits with the coal mining business. The McAdoo telegram is of par ticular interest, however, because it is regarded as definitely placing him in the presidential contest. One can find plenty of prominent democrats in Washington who will say that this outburst of the president's son-in-law means that he is going to bat next year as the candidate of all breeds and shades of radicals. I'nlmrr Is Opponent. He is going after the nomination with the issue clear-cut, because his opponent is A. Mitchell Palmer, attorney-general, who has conducted the government's fight to save the inno cent public from freezing to death. As the head of this fight Mr. Palmer represents something. Mr. McAdoo, with the same political ambitions, im mediately saw that he must not only represent something, but that he mu.s represent something else. He started where he already had a start. With the railroad brotherhoods for a nest egg, he went out to get the coal min ers' vote and thereby enlist the sym pathies of organized labor in general. McAdoo lines Novel Method 1 It was necessary, of course, for Mr. McAdoo to find some way of letting labor know that he was not in sym pathy with the efforts of Mr. Wilson's administration to enforce the laws against the striking miners. By this method he chose an adroit way of do ing it without appearing at the same time to attack the government of which his father-in-law is the head. Incidentally he was able to put his leading rival for the democratic nom ination. Mr. Palmer, in an unfavora ble light. With Barney Baruch and a long string of movie shows behind him, Mr. McAdoo is out to win the presi dential nomination. The only ques tion now is, can he hold some of the big business interests which he lined up on his side while he was secretary of the treasury? There is much rea son . to doubt that thinking business men will care to march behind Glenn E. Plumb, of Plumb-plan fame, and other radicals to help elect Mr. Mc Adoo or anyone else. Palmer's Backing Strong. It is granted In Washington that from the standpoint of the politician, the president's son-in-law played the only card that might win. because there is no hope of his taking away from Palmer the support of that great middle class in whose interest the attorney-general has waged a fearless fight to break the coal strike and to bring down the high cost of living. Palmer is not without powerful backing. His campaign is in the hands of Francis P. Garvin, who suc ceeded him as alien property cus todian. Garvin is both brilliant and ehrewd with connections that will be an important asset to him in this stu pendous political undertaking. He is a son-in-law of Anthony J. Bradv. New York traction magnate and many times a millionaire, and besides he has other friends of unlimited means and influence' upon whom he can call at the right time. Democrats Expenses Less. Palmer will make an offensive cam paign. He will continue to resist any unreasonable demands of radical la bor and to insist on the deportation of dangerous aliens. McAdoo may be expected to keep his candidacy before the country by indirect criticism of Mr. Palmer s acts as a constant re minder to union labor and radical minds inside and nutide the labor movement that he is the same McAdoo who was so liberal in giving wage in creases to the railroad men during the war. In one respect, these two candidates have a vast advantage over any others in either the democratic or re publican party. They can campaign for less expense. Mr. Palmer is com pelled to do considerable traveling in the line or duty to transact actual and legitimate business of the gov ernment. All of his traveling is legally at the government's expense and there is nothing to prevent him from doing some political work in his own behalf along the way. Mr. McAdoo is possessed of a per fectly good annual pass for himself and three members of his family which enables him to travel at will and without cost anywhere in the United States, notwithstanding the fact that three interstate commerce commission rulings hold that passes ( issued under such circumstances are in violation of the law. SALVATIONISTS TO BUILD Community Welfare Building at Salem Is Proposed. SALEM. Or.. Dec. 3. (Special.) With the arrival here yesterday of Adjutant Edward F. Baldwin of Se attle .the Salvation army has resumed its campaign for a community wel fare building here. The proposed structure will cost in the neighbor- hood of $20,000 and the equipment f probably $5000 more. Of the total sum necessary the Salvation army 1 will appropriate $12,000, while the remaining $12,000 or $13,000 will be raised by popular subscription. The structure will be of brick, two stories high, with a full basement. In the basement will be a kitchen, heat ing plant and storage room, while on the first floor will be a large audi torium, rest room for mothers, read ing apartment and free employment office. The top floor will have a dormitory where men may obtain beds at nominal cost, or free If they have no funds. Free shower baths also will be installed. It Is proposed to start the campaign for funds here- within a few days. ORPHEUM TO BUILD HERE NEW THEATER PROMISED AS RESULT OF BIG MERGER. Union of Circuits 'Will Attract Highest Class Artists, Says Portland Manager. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3. (Special.) One or more new vaudeville thea ters will be erected in the northwest, probably next year, as a result of the new Orpheum merger, according to a statement made today by Morris Meyerfeld Jr., president of the pres ent Orpheum circuit, who is the big power behind the new theatrical mag nates, Portland is the city which probably will get the first one. All of the new theaters to be con structed by the Orpheum circuits con solidated, as the new corporation is to be called, will be modeled after the $4,000,000 State-Lake theater in Chicago and will seat from 2000 to 4000 persons, according to the size of the city in which they are placed. That the merger just consummated is the biggest thing of the kind in theatrical history, is the opinion ex pressed by local show promoters. More than 50 high-class vaudeville theathers are united under one man agement, the holdings of Orpheum Theater & Realty company, being combined with those of the following circuits, not to mention numerous in dividual theaters in all parts of the northwest, southwest, middle west and south: The Cole and Castle circuit with theaters in Chicago and other central cities; the Cella and Tate circuit of St. Louis and vicinity; the Fehr and Singer circuit of Minneapolis and elsewhere, and the Finn-Himan cor poration, with show houses in numer ous smaller cities of the middle west and central sections. Frank J. McGettigan, manager of the local Orpheum. said last night that he was unfamiliar with the de tails of the big vaudeville merger, though those in the inner circle" had known for some time that it was in prospect. "One thing is certain," said Mr. McGettigan, "the merger means that the Orpheum circuit, already one of the largest, will be the strongest amusement chain in the country under the new merger. Just what it por tends for Portland I cannot say, though it is altogether likely that the construction of a new Orpheum. theater, long discussed, will he hastened. "With 60 or more houses in the merger, an obvious advantage is present to the artists who enter into contracts with the big amusement enterprise. They will be enabled to book almost an entire year as the circuit will take from 48 to 50 weeks to cover. And the merger will also bring to the west all of the big-time vaudeville attractions of the east.',' BILL WOULD FREE RADIO Xavy Plants Would Be Allowed to Handle Press Business. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. Navy owned wireless stations on the Pacific coast and in Hawaii and the Philip pines would be opened to commercial business, including press dispatches, at rates "not less than those of pri vately owned stations," under a bill introduced today by Representative White, republican, Maine. Privately owned stations seized or closed by the government during the war, would be restored to private ownership and operation. PATROL CHANGE OPPOSED Proposed Coast Guard Extension Held Impracticable. WASHINGTON. Dec. 3. Extension of the coast guard service to patrol all coastal and inland boundaries against the entry of undesirable aliens is not practicable, Captain W. E. Reynolds, commandant, said today at a hearing before the house immi gration committee. He recommended that control of alien entry be left as it is. with the coast guard watching the coasts and the customs and immigration service guarding the land boundaries. RADICAL FLAGS UNLAWFUL Action on Senator Sterling's Bill Deferred at Borah's Objection. WASHINGTON. Dec 3. Senator Sterling's bill making it unlawful to display radical flags or emblems and barring from the mails all matter ad vocating overthrow of the govern ment or destruction of property was considered by the senate yesterday. Final action was deferred on ob jection by Senator Borah, republican, Idaho. He objected to provisions which he said would continue the war censorship of the postmaster-general over the mails. A. C. Schmitt Heads Albany Bank. ALBANY, Or., Dec. 3. Alfred C Schmitt has been elected president of the First National bank of Albany to succeed the late Samuel E. Young. He has served as vice-president for sev eral years and has been the active head of the bank. Dr. J. P. Wallace who has been a director of the bank for many years and P. A. Goodwin were elected vice-presidents. Percy A. Young was elected to the board of di rectors. The same men were chosen as officers for the Albany First Sav ings bank. Festival Millage Tax Indorsed. The directors of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday adopted a reso lution favoring the millage tax for the purpose of raising funds to finance the rose festival of 1920. The resolution recommended that the county commissioners include the levy of the amount authorized by law for this purpose. The resolution was unanimously adopted. Pastors to Boost Stamps. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., Dec 3. An appeal from the government to give war savings stamps and treasury savings certiticates as Christmas presents this year will be isued in the form of announcements and sermons next Sunday from nearly 4000 pulpits in California, the 12th federal reserve bank announced today. Select Your Christmas Goat From the Liebes Prior to Christmas Sale MO I Jr . 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That the Oregon public service com mission, in its recent order declaring illegal the so-called Burleson schedule of charges In effect on the lines of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company since July 29. 1919. and put ting into operation a new tariff show ing a slight increase in rates over those contained in the commission's order of May 1, acted almost entirely accordance with a legal opinion handed down by Attorney-oenerai Brown & few days ago, is inaicatea n a study of the formal lindings oi the body. It will appear from tne statement of facts before us," said one part of the commission's order, "that there were primarily two distinct matters under consideration namely: wnat are the legal telephone exchange rates of the Pacific Telephone & Tele graph company at the present time? What are reasonaoie icieyiwuc ex change rates for it to apply in the future T "The first question may be disposed nf hv reference to tne opinion oi Attorney-General Brown, to whom the matter was referred, and irom wnicn opinion we quote: " 'You are therefore advised (mean ing the commission), that the Burle son rates wnicn are huw oemg charged and collected, were not tne existing rates on June 6. or on July 11, 1919. "'The collection of the May l rates for May and June and the formal ap proval of those rates by the postmaster-general on June 17, 1919, after ample opportunity had been afford ed him to go into the question of the reasonableness thereof, completely took from the rates to be established in November, 1918, the last breath of life that said rates ever possessed, if In fact they ever had any vitality. 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