Morning Oregonian., January 12, 1920, Page 9, Image 9

TIIE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1920
HOTEL MEN TO HEAR
CENSUS SUPERVISOR
Plea for Co-operation to Be
Made Today.
CHAMBER AIDS IN WORK
Letters Will Be Sent Out to All
Proprietors, Not Members of
Oregon Association.
Importance of giving the census
enumerators the utmost co-operation,
to the. end that Portland may receive
its full population credits and th.e
government receive complete data
upon which to base its reports, will
be urged upon the members of the
Oregon Hotel Men's association, at its
meeting In the Hotel Benson at noon
today by W. D. Bennett, supervisor
for this district.
Up to the present time, accord
ing to Mr. Bennett , the co-operation
has not been forthcoming and
be has threatened to bring proceed
ings against delinquents unless they
immediately respond.
Publication in The Oregonian yes
terday of the fact that many hotel
proprietors have not yet complied
with the requirements of the federal
law and that in numerous instances
have made It necessary for enumera
tors to make repeated calls at their
establishments, brought about devel
opments that are expected to clear up
this situation. O. W. Mielke, chair
man of the Portland Chamber of Com
merce, took up the situation with
Tt. W. Price, president of the Oregon
Hotel Men's association, and com
pleted arrangements whereby Super
visor Bennett will make a personal
appeal to the members of that or
ganization. When Supervisor Bennett appeared
et his offices in the Fenton building
yesterday morning, he found a hotel
proprietor waiting for him. Before he
finished "his work last night, many
others put in an appearance and in
dications point to the fact that Mr.
Bennett's threat of prosecution 'will
have a quickening effect upon others.
.Enumerators working In districts
where foreign-born residents are in
the majority put in the day yesterday
calling upon families in an effort to
clear up the census there. It is In
these places that the most trouble Is
encountered, but special means to en
lighten these people' having been
taken during last week by the Cham
ber of Commerce commitee. Mr. Ben
nett said yesterday that this situa
tion is becoming less serious. Letters
are to be sent to all hotel men by the
Chamber of Commerce urging co
operation. Four of the smaller districts in
Portland have been completed. These
were in charge of three -women and
one man.
There remain but five official days
for the completion of the census, the
time alloted expiring Friday night.
Supervisor Bennett is eager to have
the work finished before that time
and Is urging enumerators to hurry
their districts -along with that object
In view.
Auditorium Organ Recital
Attended by 789.
ClajMical Proxmnme la Finely
Rendered by Lucien K. Becker.
Otto T. Weaemeyer la Assistant
Vocalist.
BY JOSEPH MACQUEEN.
T ELECTIONS from the works of
IBach, Ponchieli, Leschetlzky,
Chopin, MacFarlane, Cadman, Boccher
ini and Wagner formed the fine pro
gramme of organ music finely played
by Luclen E. Becker yesterday after
noon at the customary Sunday recital
in the public auditorium.
But it was noted, with pleasure,
that when Mr. Becker played the
Wagner "Grand March." from the
opera, "Tannhauser," that the audi
ence applauded heartily the rendi
tion of this number about as cor
dially as any other number on the
attractive pt ogramme.
Two years ago a Portland audience
-welL it might have viewed Wagner
with mixed feelings. But Wagner
never was a Prussian. He was Ijo.-ti
In Leipzig, Saxony, and was known In
early life as a radical in politics. Be
cause he was charged with complicity
in the political revolution of 1849 he
had to flee for his life to Weimar and
subsequently to Zurich, Switzerland.
Afterward when he had won musical
successes outside of Germany he was
pardoned and made his permanent
borne in Bayreuth, Bavaria,
Mr. Becker was quite successful In
all his organ presentatloins, espe
cially in the Chopin "Polonaise" and
the MacFarlane "Scotch Fantasia."
He also waa cordially received, his
erxtra number being the "Minuet" of
Boccherini.
Otto T. Wesemeyer, baritone, was
assisting vocalist, and sang with
much acceptance. He was particu
larly successful in singing the mili
tary song, "A Khaki Lad" (Aylward).
Miss Clara Myren was the piano ac
companist and played well.
The number of paid admissions waa
J89.
MERCIER ASKS VENGEANCE
FOR GERMAN DEPORTATIONS
Cardinal Calls Wrath of Heaven Upon Heads of Huns for Cruelty to
"Regions of Innocent Beings."
CARDINAL MKRCIER'S STORY
Including his correspondence
with the German authorities In
Belgium during the war, 1914 to
1918, edited by Professor Fer
nand Mayence of Louvain uni
versity and translated by the
Benedictine monks of St. Au
gustine's, Ramsgate, England.
.(Copyright by Public 'Ledger. Published
by Arrangement)
Explanatory comment by Professor Fer
nand Mayence.
The black year for the Belgian work
men was 1016. Previous to that date re
sistance to the attempted enslavement by
the Germans had proved in some degree
effective. Many industries in Flanders
were at an absolute standstill because the
laborers refused to work for their con
querors. Strikes were frequent and pro
tracted. The numbers of the unemployed
increased daily.
During the first two years of the war,
however, the German government re
frained from carrying out on a compre
hensive scale the hideous policy of de
portation. Perhaps the promises of Von
der Goltz, to which Cardinal Mercier so
often referred, exerted a slight moral in
fluence. Perhaps the alleged necessity for
ruthlesssness seemed less pressing before
the prospects of a comparative early end
ing of the war were snuffed cut
in any event a change, which can be
ascribed partly to desperation, came over
the German administration In Belgium
during the grim third year of the conflict.
In the autumn. of that year. Helfferlch.
addresssing the Reichstag, stated that the
time had arrived when the empire must
compel the men In the occupied territory
to work.
The military party, headed by Von Hin
denburg. now at the peak of his power
and transferred to the western front, was
said to have found even the brutal Von
Blsslng t'oo mild. The credentials of ter
rorism which he had acquired In the case
of Edith Cavell were Insufficient. The
governor-general and the - field marshal
actually differed as to the methods to be
pursued In, Belgium.
It was reported that Von der Laneken's
visit to Berlin had been undertaken to
Induce the war chiefs. If possible., to mod
ify their enslavement plans. Such an ef
fort, asssumlng that it was made, was
altogether unavailing. Brand Whitlock
asserts that Von Bisslng was a student
of Machiavellt's "The Prince" and had the
notion that It would profit Germany more
to play off the Flamands against the Wal
loons than to deport the working popula
tion. On . October, 1016. he Journeyed to
Ghent to open the new Flemish university.
At that very moment" the deportation
plans were being speedily pushed, and the
governor-general's flattering words had
the ring of arch hypocrisy.
(Continuation of Chapter XXX The De
portlon of the Unemployed.)
"Moreover, If the Belgian has to
complain of this state of affairs, let
him address his complaints to Eng
land. She is the great criminal. She
by her policy of isolation has brought
about this restricted measure."
Every Belgian workman sets free a
German workman who will become
an additional soldier for the German
army. It Is this fact in all its naked
nesss that dominates the situation.
The author of the letter himself feels
this glaring fact, for he writes: "The
measure has no connection whatever
with the conduct of the war properly
so called." It 1 has, therefore, a con
nection with the war improperly so
called. What does this mean except
that the, Belgian workman does not
indeed bear arms, but frees the hands
of the Germans who will take up
arms. The Belgian worker is con
strained to co-operate indirectly. This
is in palpable contradiction with
the spirit of The Hague convention.
Again the lack of work Is not the
fault of the Belgian workman, nor of
England; it is en effect of the Ger
man occupation and its regime.
The occupying power has taken
possession of considerable supplies of
raw materials destined for pur na
tional Industry, it has seized and
sent off to Germany the tools, the
machines and metals of our work
shops and factories. The very pos
sibility of national work being thus
eliminated - there remained for the
workman but one alternative: to work
for the German empire either here or
in Germany, or to remain idle. Some
tens of thousands of workmen under
he pressure of fear or famine agreed.
under constraint for the most part,
to work for the foreigner: but 400.000
workmen preferred to give themselves
over to idleness w.lth all its attend
ant privations rather than to do an
ill-service to their country. They
lived in poverty with the help of
slender assistance allowed them by
the national committee of help and
alimentation, under the control of the
protecting ministers of Spain, Amer
ica and Holland. Calm and self-respecting,
they bore without a "murmur
their painful lot. Nowhere was there
any rising or sign of rising; master
and workmen awaited with patience
the end of our protracted trial.
Nevertheless communal adminis
trations and private initiative en-,
deavored to lessen the undeniable in
convenience of unemployment. But
the occupying power paralyzed all
their efforts. The national commit
tee endeavored to organize a course
of technical instruction for the bene-
STORY PRIZES OFFERED
University Students Must Submit
Kntries by March 1.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene,
Jan. 11. (Special.) A total of $30
will be given in prizes this year for
the three best short stories written
by university students for the Edison
Marshall short story contest, accord
ing to announcements made by W. F.
G. Thacher, professor of rhetoric.
The prizes will be $15, $10 and $5 this
year. Formerly only two prizes were
given. All manuscripts must be in by
, March 1. Three Judges, not members
of the university faculty, will make
the awards.
Edison Marshall, whose short sto
ries are appearing In leading maga
lines "throughout the country, is i
former University of Oregon student.
DEBATE TEAMS CHOSEN
v Willamette University Tryouts Are
Held by Classes.
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY,
Falom. Jan. -11. (Special.) As a re
sult of the local debate tryouts held
Friday by the several classes, teams
have been chosen to meet in the in
tcrclass discussions, preliminary to
the intercollegiate debating season.
The Junior team is composed of Ina
Moore, Seaside, and Taul Day, Brem
erton, Wash. The victors In the
sophomore tryouts were Sheldon
Sackett, Sheridan, and Bernardo
Gapuz, Salem, and formerly of the
Philippine islands. The freshmen will
be represented by Bernard Ramsey,
Priiipvillo. and Howard Oeoige, We-
y j fit of - the unemployed. This scheme
- " - "--null, Liiai tii;ier;zt'U u y a, ien
- . eu iui in e woraman s sen
respect. wished ' to - take him by the
hand, to enlarge his capacity for
work and thus- prepare the way for
the country's resurrection. Who
thwarted this noble enterprise, the
plan of which had been carefully
thought out by the great captains of
Industry? Who? Why the power
in occupation. Nevertheless- the com
munes did their best to Initiate works
of practical utility to be carried -out
by the unemployed. These the governor-general
would not permit with
out his previous sanction, a sanction
which he generally refused. I am
told that the governor-general in not
a few cases graciously gave his per
mission for works of this kind with
t"he express stipulation that the unem
ployed should not be engaged on
them.
In fact, they wanted unemployment.
The German army indirectly was re
cruited from the ranks of those out
of work.
No the Belgian workman Is far
from lazy; nay, he worships labor.
In all the economic struggles of mod
ern times he has proved his worth.
When he rejected posts commanding
a big salary offered him by the-occupying
Authority, he did so from patri
otic self-respect. We shepherds of
the people. Intimately acquainted with
their sorrows and anxieties, we know
with what great cost they preferred
independence coupled with privation
to comfort and ease linked with sub
jection. The letter of October 29 boldly states
that the nation chiefly to -blame for
the unemployment of our workmen is
England, because she hinders raw ma
terial from entering Belgium.
England generously allows food
stuffs to enter Belgium under the
control of neutral states Spain, the
United States and Holland. She would
certainly under the same control per
mit the entrance of raw materials re
quired by our industries, provided
Germany would consent to our retain
ing them and did not pounce on our
manufactured goods.
' But Germany by various methods,
notably by the cunning organization
of her "Centrales," over which no
Belgian or any one outside of the
protecting ministers exercises any of
ficial control, absorbs a considerable
quantity of our agricultural produce
and of the country's manufactured
goods. The re'sult is a disquieting
rise In the cost of living, the cause
of painful privations to those who
have used up their savings or never
had any. The community of inter
ests, the advantage of which the let
ter lauds to the skies, is not the nor
mal equilibrium of commercial ex
change, but the predominance of the
strong over the weak.
As to this condition sf economic
inferiority ",to which we are reduced,
do not, I pray, represent it to us as
a privilege that Justifies forced labor
for our enemy's profit, and counter
balances the deportation of legions
of innocent beings into a land of
exile.
After the penalty of death, slavery
deportation is the heaviest pun
ishment known to the penal code.
Belgium, that has never done you
any harm, has she deserved at your
hands this treatment calling to heav
en for vengeance? ,
Sir, I recalled at the outset your
whole utterance: "I have come to
Belgium with a mission to heal the
country's wounds."
Two years ago the excuse made for
death, pillage and conflagration was
that it was war. Perhaps for one
party,, whom charity too kindly ex
cused, it was the intoxication of
opening victories. Today it is war no
longer. It is frigid calculation, de
liberate destruction, the empire of
force over right, the abasement of
human nature, a challenge to human
ity. It lies with your excellency to
stop these cries of conscience in re
volt. Receive, sir, the homage of our sin
cere esteem.
. (Signed):
D. J. CARDINAL) MERCIER,
Archbishop of Mallnes.
The preceding letter having been
returned to the archbishop's house by
the postal authorities because un
stamped, the cardinal sent it a second
time to Baron von Bissing with the
following note:
Archbishop's House, Mallnes.
November 12, 1916.
To His Excellency Baron von Bissing,
Governor-General. Brussels:
Tour Excellency The inclosed let
ter, dated November 10, will reach
your excellency late, because it has
been returned to me. It had been
posted unstamped,
(Signed):
D. J. CARDINAL, MERCIER.
Archbishop of Malines.
The governor-general shirked the
discussion. To - the cloBely-knitted
arguments of the cardinal, he merely
opposed his former considerations, as
expounded, almost word lor.wora, in
his dispatch of October 26.
(To Be Continued.)
REPUBLICANS
G ORE
mourn feud
Washington Leaders Undis
turbed by Recent Fracas..
DEMOCRATS IN BAD WAY
GAS IS USED BY SUICIDE
M-VX FILLS CRACKS IX ROOM
AJTD LEAVES NOTE. "
"Loss of Memory" Attributed to
Business Worries and 111 Health
i
of James I. Kelly , 35.
James I. Kelly, 35 years . of age,
was found dead in a room in 'the
Scott hotel, Broadway and Burnside
street, yesterday noon with the gas
turned on. The body was turned over
to Coroner Earl Smith, who pro
nounced the case clearly one of sui
cide. Kelly had closed the cracks around
the door with paper before turning on
the gas. The body was discovered
yesterday when an odor of gas was
noticed in the hall. Kelly is believed
to have been dead 18 hours at that
time.
Kelly left a note, portions of which
indicate that his mind had been affected-
He said he wished to be with
his mother in Lake Washington and
that he wished to be at rest. He said
that business worries and Ill-health
had caused him to have loss of mem
ory. Kelly ordered his property left
to "Herman "
A letter, addressed to E. W. Bundy,
attorney in the Stewart building in
Seattle, was left. Deputy Coroner
Goetsch attempted to get in touch
with Mr. Bundy last night.
Kelly is said to have been at the
hotel for the past four days, regis
tering from "city."
Alleged Forger Arrested, at Bend.
J. E. Smalline. who Is wanted In
Indianapolis, Ind., on a charge of
forgery of a check for $600, was ar
rested In Bend. Or., yesterday by
Plnkerton operatives, according to
word received by the Pinkerton office
in this city last night. Smalling. who
ie said to have "written "out the- check
on a bank In Roanoke, Va., was
traced to Bend, where he is said to
have been under surveillance. He
He is being held at Bend for the
Indianapolis authorities.
Pennsylvania Alumni to Organize,
A meeting of all former students
and alumni of the University of
Pennsylvania who are In Portland
has been called for Room 305, Medical
building. Thursday evening, January
16. for the organization of a Port
land Pennsylvania Alumni club. A
flourishing alumni club was in ex
lstence here for some years, but was
broken up during the war and has
never been reorganized. The call for
the meeting was Issued by W. G.
Oberteuffer. president of the Pennsyl
van la alumni here some years ago.
Refld The Oregonian classified ads.
Tor Regularity
JVAXJ
TheFriendly Laxative
Inlins only-Three sizes
ATNYALDRUG STOHES
EVERYWHERE
Lack of L'eaders Serious Concern
for Party In Evergreen State;
Patronage Failures Cited-
SEATTLE. Wash., Jan. 11. (Spe
cial.) The Bryan-Wilson feud is not
going to make much difference with
republican plans in this state. Re
publican politicians for more than a
year have held it a foregone con
clusion that they would win the next
campaign 'in Washington and they
only manifest enough Interest In the
democratic fracas- to say that this is
further evidence of republican good
luck.
But democratic leaders are not
troubled ' over the situation, either.
The, party Is in a bad way in this
state, for lack of leadership and a
decline in interest. Failure of the
federal administration to deliver
patronage which was either promised
directly or indirectly, coupled with
the breaking up of the state admin
istration organization, put the party
in a note.
The fact that the democratic na
tional convention is to be held in' San
Francisco is regarded by Bourbon
leaders as a hopeful sign for the
coast states. Whatever trouble may
develop because of factional diffi
culties, they claim, will be offset by
the greater good of getting a con
vention near home where the opera
tion of nominating presidential can
didates can be watched closely by
the rank and file.
While republican leaders are fore
gathering in San Francisco, the state
committee in Seattle will be host to
republican editors of Washington,
who are coming here for the annual
publishers' meeting at the University
of Washington, where the school of
Journalism will confer with visitors
of all sorts.
An Invitation has been sent out by
the republican state committee to all
editors of that party to make state
headquarters in 'the Alaska building
their downtown meeting place. " and
if possible to agree on a get-together
conference while In town. The ed
itors are to be here January 15, 16
and 17.
The departure of Governor Hart
for Washington temporarily shelved
talk of a special session, but repub
licans who went to San Francisco ex
pect National Chairman Will H. Hays
to again insist on this state's ratify
ing, the equal suffrage amendment at
once. However, he will not have a
chance to explain his position to Gov
ernor Hart, even though he should
come north. Mr. Hart's friends feel
that this state Is not vitally con
cerned over the suffrage fight.
State Senator .E. T. Coman Is ex
pected to return to his home In Spo-r
kane this week after a vacation in
California. Whether he will take any
active steps in his own gubernatorial
fight is a matter Coman's friends can
not forecast accurately.
There has been some talk during
the last week of bringing former
State Representative Robert Dwyer,
who held a captain's commission dur
ing the war," into the fight for state
Insurance commissioner. Dwyer also
has been talked of for lieutenant
governor and for speaker in the event
he decided to go back to the house.
Dwyer has not committed himself,
but he is evincing a deep interest in
politics.
State Representative P. L. Allen,
who has seriously considered the republican-
fight for lieutenant-governor,
is still undecided whether to
make the run. State Representative
W. W. Conner, a former speaker of
t-e house, who also has been dis
cussed as a possible candidate, has
had a great deal of encouragement
recently, but will not commit him
self. Captain W. J. Coyle of Seattle
and Senator H. H. Phlpps of Spokane
are avowed candidates, while there
still is a possibility that events might
make Dr. P. H. Carlyon, president pro
tern of the senate, a contender in the
race. It ie unlikely that Senator E.
L. French of Vancouver will run for
that office.
Conflicting reports of the ambition
of Captain I. M. Howell to succeed
himself as secretary of state have
given new Impetus to the movement
to make City Auditor Norman M.
Warden of King county the repub
lican nominee for that office
Boy, 15, Accused of Forgery. .
MEDFORD. Or.. Jan. 11. (Special.)
The Increase In Juyenile crime in
southern Oregon has been very
marked since the close of the war,
according to the police. Forgeries
and robberies by boys of grade school
age have been common, and gangs of
children have been apprehended sev-
DUBB Series, NU.
,jy Mir Xfiardwood rioorfszf
fhe joy of
a fire
eral times engaged in potty thefts.
The last of the week the third case
of Juvenile forgery came to the at
tention of the authorities when
Philip McGuire. 15 years old, of Ash
land was arrested for- passing a
worthless check upon a merchant of
this city.
Plane Falls; Flier Killed.
DOUGLAS, Arir... Jan. 11. Lieuten
ant Bruce Struthern was Instantly
killed and Lieutenant J. Evans se
verely Injured when an airplane In
which they were attempting to make
a forced landing crashed to the
ground east of here today.
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Deep-Seated Coughs
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Use en old and time-tried remedy that
ba given eariifartion for more than fifty yean
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