VOL. LiVIII. 0 18 452" Entered at Portland (Oregon)
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PORTLAND OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1920
PRICE FIVE CENTS
SPECIAL SESSION
TO END SATURDAY
PORTLAND SUPPLIED
WITH 13-CENT SUGAR
V. S. , OFFICIAL SAYS PEOPLE
NEEDOT PAY MORE..
FISH, GAME BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE
RUSSIAN ENCOUNTER
FATAL TO AMERICANS
HUSBAND IS BOUND
AND BRIDE KIDNAPED
WESTERNERS ARE
NOT YET DAUNTED
MATERIAL IN $75 SUIT, i
HOOVER DECLARED
ALL WOOL, COSTS $5.25
ADVAXCE IX CLOTHING HELD
NOT DUE TO WOOL PRICE.
TWO KILLED IX CAPTURE OF
ARMORED TRAIX.
YOUXG WIFE" OF KEITH BLAK
NET SPIRITED AWAY.
TO DE REPUBLICAN
V
to
VOTE STANDS, 34-TO 25
Bills Introduced as Erpergen
cy Legislation Pile Up.
GAME COMMISSION WINS
House Passes Bill for Sew Body of
Two Departments; Senate Ex- .
pects Sharp Contest.
DAY'S EVENTS IN
LEGISLA-
TIRE.
In the house:
Passed new fish
and game
commission bill.
Received new $10,000,000 bond
bill for highways.
Thirteen new bills received.
Passed bill increasing; power
of dock commission.
Agrees with senate resolution
to adjourn at noon Saturday.
Undertakes to make new state
roads.
Extends time for congress to
meet Roosevelt' highway money.
In the senate:
Unanimously votes to submit
to people restoration of death
penalty.
. Receives 17 new bills.
Refuses to sanction investi
gation of fish and game com
mission. Bill providing for non-political
Judiciary introduced.
Plan to license all motor-car
drivers received.
STATE CAPITOL. Salem, Or, Jan.
14. (Special.) Saturday is the day
and noon the hour set for the final ad
journment of the extraordinary ses
sion of the legislature. Not without
a contest, the house agreed to 'the
proposal of the senate, and now that
the house has consented it will be
virtually impossible to break the
agreement.
So far as the senate is concerned,
it adopted the resolution with speed.
but two efforts were made before
the house was willing to define a
limit. Put to a vote today, the house
stood 34 for adjournment and 25
gainst.
Home Is Divided.
Following was the way members of
the house stood on the subject of ad
journlng Saturday noon, or of ex
tending the session:
Voting to end Saturday noon
Bean, Coffey, Crawford. Cross, Ded-
man, Dodd, Edwards, Elmore, Gore
Griggs, Haines, Hare, Hosford, Hunt
er, Hurd, Idleman. Jones of Lincoln
ana -oiK. Lafferty, Lewis, Looney.
martin, Merriman, Richards, Rich
arason, Koman, Scheubel, Sheldon,
Sidler. Thorns, Thrift, Weeks, Wester-
luno, Woodson, Speaker Jones 84
Voting against the resolution Bal
lagh, Bolton, Brand, Brownell, Bur-
aicic, jjurnaugh, Childs, Dennis. Full
er, Gallagher, Gordon, Graham of
uane, Graham of Washington, Horn
.nugnes, Kubll, Lofgren, McFarland,
Moore, Smith of Baker, Smith of
.Multnomah, Stewart. Thompson,
.wneeier, Wright 25.
It is evident that, normally, the .ra
cial session cannot dispose of all the
legislation already before It by Sat
urday noon, unless greater speed Is
shown. The measures calculated to
kill the most time by debate are just
getting into action, and but two and
one-half days remain of the session.
It is apparent that a miscellaneous
assortment of measures will be sent
to the scrap heap if Saturday noon is
to find the business finished.
Emergency' Bills pile Up.
There has been a constantly grow
ing, pile of legislation, which cannot
by any stretch of the Imagination or
elasticity of the definition be con
strued as emergency matter. Meas
ures creating jobs, raising salaries
and the like are already accumulating
with a prospect of more to come. The
great bulk of these probably will be
disposed or in one-two-three order
and indefinitely postponed if they
ever succeed in escaping from the
clutches of the committees to which
they have been assigned.
Desire to linger longer in Salem Is
more apparent among house members
than in the senate, but some house
members who balked at the Saturday
adjournment now declare that they
will undertake to prevent any effort
to extend the time. Should the house
lag the senate will be ready to pack
up and go home.
The house today received a bill call
lng for 110,000,000 of road bonds, to
be issued as needed by the state high
way commission, provided the Stewart
amendment to the constitution . is
adopted at the May election. This
amendment Increases the limit of In
debtedness of the state for road pur
poses from 2 to 4 per cent.
Governor's Stand Aids,
After backing and filling since the
session opened, the friends and oppo
nents of the fish and game commls-
House Finally Agrees
Senate Plan.
(Concluded flu race 6, Column Li
SuTflclent Quantity or Beet Product
on Hand to Last City Until
February 1.
Sufficient beet sugar of the best
quality, released by shipment from
California, some of it now on the
Fortlatod market, will be available
for the normal supply of this city
and vicinity to February 1 at 13 cents
a pound retail, and there is no need
for people to pay a higher price, is
the announcement made Jointly yes
terday by Lester W. Humphreys.
United States district attorney, and
W. K, Newell, federal food adminis
trator for the state. To get -the bene
fit of the lower rate, they caution
people to demand beet sugar.
Simultaneously both officials issued
a warning to retailers not to exceed
the 13-cent quotation for beet sugar
or to supply any one patron with more
than normally will be necessary to
carry them for 30 days.
District Attorney Humphreys wishes
to caution the consuming public
against extravagant purchases of
sugar, saying that the same federal
statute which prohibits dealers from
overcharging restricts the purchase
by any person . to an amount not to
exceed the actual legitimate need for
30 days.
Announcement of the facts relating
to the. local sugar situation were
made by the two officials yesterday
afternoon for the purpose, as they
put it, "of saving to the people of
this community an enormous amount
of money, providing they wish to buy
good beet sugar."
On display In the office of United
States District Attorney Humphreys
yesterday were samples of beet and
cane sugar, and it was said that very
lew who inspected it could tell which
was beet and which was cane.
District Attorney Humphreys em
phasized the fact that should retail
ers encounter a wholesale . price
above the stipulated $11.27 per 100
pounds, or should patrons be charged
more than 13 cents retail, they should
immediately notify him and he would
take prompt action. .
SUFFRAGE IS RATIFIED
President and Speaker Sign "Reso-
lution, Which Is Filed,
STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or.. Jan.
14. (Special.) Ratification of the
national equal suffrage amendment
in Oregon was completed today when
the president of the senate and the
speaker of the house in the legisla
ture' afnxesfcethelr signatures to the
resolution adopted finally yesterday.
It was then filed with the secretary
of state.
Under, the Oregon law participation
by the governor in today's final ac
tion was not called for. Signatures
of the president of the senate and the
speaker of the house are all that are
necessary to make effective joint reso
lutions or the legislature.
Oregon is the 25th state to ratify
the national equal suffrage amend
ment.
WOMEN ADVISED TO FLY
Ruth Law Predicts Doctors Will
Put Patients in Airplanes.
CHICAGO, Jan. 14. Women should
fly as a matter of health. Miss Ruth
Law, aviatrix, said in an address at
the aeronautical show at the coli
seum today.
"Within a few years." she said,
"every physician will own a machine,
or an interest in a machine, so that
he can send his patients who have
affected lungs up to a height of a
mile Instead of sending them west.
"Daily trips to an altitude where
the air is curative will be less ex
pensive than trips to western moun
tains. Nervous women should fly.
Nothing is so refreshing as a spin in
a flying machine."
PERSHING PAYS TRIBUTE
General Lays Wreath oh Graves of
His Wife and Children.
CHEYENNE, Wyo.. Jan. 14. Gen
eral John J. Pershing today visited
the graves of his wife and three chil
dren who are buried in a local cem
etery. They were burned to death
in their home at the Presidio, San
Francisco, in 1915.
Standing under the last rays of i
fading day. General Pershing- uncov
ered his head and laid a wreath on
the graves.
I. W. W. WITHOUT COUNTRY
Dutch Won't Accept Man Who Says
He Was Born in Holland.
NEW YORK, Jan. 14. Mart Dewal,
described as "a man without a coun
try," applied for a writ of habeas cor
pus in federal court today. He has
been held for deportation since his
arrest as an I. W. W. In July, 1918, in
Seattle and and claims St. Hertagen-
losch, Holland, as his birthplace.
The Dutch government has refused
to accept him.
JEWELRY THEFT ADMITTED
Ex-Business Man Pleads Xervous
Disorder In Defense.
STOCKTON. Cal.. Jan. 14. H.
Keltel, formerly a prominent Oakland
business man, pieaded guilty here to
day to taking a $325 diamond ring
from a Jewelry store.
He will seek probation on the
ground that he was suffering from
nervous disorder and was not him
eel when the ring was taJUa,
Vote of 47 to 11 Regis
tered on Measure.
TWO DEPARTMENTS PROVIDED
Appointments by Legislature
. Opposed by Hare.
BEAN LEADER OF FIGHT
Commercial and Game Fishing In
terests of State to Have
Representation.
STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Jan.
14. (Special.) Members of the house,
after a fiery debate in the presence
of crowded galleries, this afternoon
passed by a vote of 47 to 11 the bill
providing for the creation of a state
fish and game commission composed
of nine members, as prepared at a
recent conference of a sub-committee
of the fisheries industries and game
committees of both branches of the
legislature.
ReDresentative Bean, who led the
fight on the floor for the passage of
the bill, declared that, while the pro
posed legislation was not perfect, it
had been given careful and diligent
consideration by the committee and
was the best product obtainable under
the prevailing circumstances.
Laws Are Interwoven.
I am not altogether satisfied with
the bill." said Representative ueau
but conditions confronted us which
demanded that new legislation along
this line be enacted. It was f IrBt pro
noseri to create two separate and dis-
nmrniBsions. but Because 11"
rame and fish laws are so interwoven,
we decided that such a step was im
possible. We then turned to another
plan and after many hours of serious
tudy and thought we oewrraiucu
upon the bill that la before you to-
A a V
Under the provisions oi mis un
five of the members of the commis
ion will represent the game interests
of the state, while threer memoen i
the commission will represent the
commercial fishing interests. These
n.-nhr-a nniier the oroDoaed act, will
he elected by the legislature. while the
ninth member will beselected by the
commission and will act as a chair
man and arbiter in cases of disputes.
The game and fish interests of this
state are of more value than many ot
us realize, and it was the foremost
aim of the committee in drawing this
bill that this great Industry should
ot be Impaired. I understand the
bill, as proposed here today, is ac-
niahlB to the governor and If that
is true, its passage should have
endency to satisfy those who are
clamoring for what they term a new
deal in fish and game matters in this
state.
Retention Is Predicted.
"In the event this bill Is passed, I
am satisfied that every member of
the present commission will be re
tained, thereby preventing disruption
of the fish and game interests of this
state through reorganisation. The
o-overnor has said that unless new
legislation was passed, he would dis
miss the present commission at the
conclusion of the legislature, which
to my mind means that the high
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Amur Cossacks Reported in Revolt
Against' Massacres of General
Semenoff ; Agents Repudiated.
LONDON, Thursday, Jan. 15. Two
Americans were killed and three
wounded in a clash with an armored
train of General. -Semenoff. commander-in-chief
of the all-Russian
army, between Lake Baikal and Verk
hneudinsk In the province of trana
Baikalia. according to the correspond
ent of the Daily Mail at Harbin. '
The Americans were reported to
have captured the train.
Details of the brush between the
Americans and the Semenoff forces
are unavailable.
Other clashes are reported between
the Czecho-Slovaks and General Sem
enoff s troops.
A Moscow wireless dispatch says
the majority of the Cossacks in the
Amur region and also the Burians and
the Kirghizes of the trans-Baikal re
gion have revolted against the massa
cres of General Semenoff and repu
diated his representatives.
KING CHAMPIONS SENATE
Utah Member Replies to Attack of
Mississippi Democrat.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 14.
Senator King, democrat, Utah, today
replied to the attack made on the
senate yesterday by Senator Wil
liams, democrat. Mississippi. who
charged that it was "failing to func
tion."
Declaring that the "senate still
functions." Senator King said the
services of senators might not be
measured by their attendance on the
floor, adding:
"With 20 committees meeting yes
terday, it was not possible for all
members to be here. The conferees
on the railroad bill, for Instance,
were in session with house conferees
and they would have been derelict in
their duty had they spent their time
In this chamber."
Some senators, he added, worked
from 12 to 14 hours a day.
Senator Kenyon. Iowa, told the sen
ate that Senator Wllllrms was not
recorded as voting yesterday on two
out of three rollcalls on the water
power bill.
LAW PUZZLES NEW JURY
Second Degree Murder or Man
slaughter Question Raised.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14. The jury
in the case of Harry New reported
to Judge Gavin W. Craig at 3 o'clock
this afternoon that it was unable to
reach an agreement as to whether
New was guilty of second degree
murder or manslaughter. The de
fendant is charged with the murder
of Miss Freda Lesser here last July.
The jury was sent back to deliber
ate further. It has had the case
under consideration since 4 o'clock
yesterday.
The foreman told Judge Craig he
thought it very doubtful whether an
agreement could be reached.
JOYOUS CRUSADE ASSURED
Al C. Joy Enlisted for Campaign of
Senator Johnson.
SAN IJRANCISCO. Jan. 1.4. Al C.
Joy, well-known San Francisco news
paper man, will leave this week for
Washington to undertake promotion
work of the presidential campaign of
Senator Hiram W. Johnson.
Joy's appointment was announced
today. It is expected that he will ac
company Senator Johnson on his
country-wide speechmaklng tour.
Woman Returns at Midnight and
Says', Friends Kidnaped
Her for Joke.
As Keith Blakney, a clerk at
Roberts Bros.' store, was sitting at
home with his bride of but a few
days at 604 East Stark street at 9:30
o'clock last night, two men entered,
armed with automatic revolvers and
ordered him to throw up his hands.
They then bound him with a towel,
took his bride, who is 19 years old.
and left, so Blakney told the police.
Blakney was not securely tied, he
said, and broke loose In time to rush
to the street, just as the two men
placed his bride in a waiting auto
mobile. In which was a woman con
federate. When Blakney appeared, he
was struck over the head and dazed,
but told the poltce later that he saw
the auto go south on East Eighteenth
street and turn west on Morrison.
The bride returned home about mid
night and said her friends had kid
naped her for a joke. She said she did
not know where they had taken her,
as they had driven for a considerable
distance and then had stopped at a
house. She went home on a street car
when she was released.
Prior to last Saturday, Mrs. Blakney
was Miss Frances Penney. She for
merly was employed in a local vaude
ville theater as cashier. A young
man whom Blakney suspects of being
at the bottom of the affair last night
had known the bride when she was
cashier at the theater.
MUNSEY BUYS 3 PAPERS
Xe.w York and Paris Heralds and
Evening Telegram Are Taken.
NEW YORK. Jan. 14. The New
York Herald will make the follow
ing announcement tomorrow morn
ing: "To readers of the New York
Herald:
"The New York Herald has passed
into the hands of Frank A. Munsey,
who has purchased all of the publish
ing interests of the late James Gordon
Bennett, consisting of the New York
Herald, the Evening Telegram and
the Paris edition of the New York
Herald. ,Mr. Munsey will make known
In due time his plans for these news
papers. RODMAN WANAMAKER,
"Guaranty Trust Company, execu
tors of the estate of James Gordon
Bennett."
AID - OF LEGION- ASKED
Surgeon-General Blue Wants Help
in Finding Tubercular Hospitals.
NEW YORK, Jan. 14. The Ameri
can Legion was asked today by Surgeon-General
Blue to assist the
public health service In finding In
stitutions that will give proper care
to tubercular men formerly in the
service.
Because the hospitals operated by
the public health service are inade
quate, contracts are being made with
private hospitals to care for some
patients.
SWEET ROLLS , DOOMED
Bakers Blame Sugar Distribution
for Shortage in Sweets.
CHICAGO, Jan. 14. Sweet rolls may
be a thing of the past unless there is
a change in the sugar distribution
system, according to members of the
executive committee of the American
Association of Baking Industries
which went Into session today.
John II. Hartley, a Chicago baker
in explaining the situation, said that
"contrary to popular belief bakers
do not get all the sugar they wish.'
Reclamation Drive Ham
pered, Not Halted.
FUNDS BELIEVED OBTAINABLE
Nothing Worth While Impos
sible, Says Mr. Sinnott.
MR. M'NARY DROPS HINT
Loans, Rather Than Apropriations
by Congress, Suggested as Pos
sible Solution of Problem.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Jan. 14. Representatives of
the western arid land states, headed
by a half-dozen governors. Including
Governors Hart of Washington and
Davis of Idaho, struck a few bumps
In their campaign for reclamation ap
propriations early today, but tonight
feel that they are headed straight for
success. i
Acting on a motion of Representa
tive Sinnott of Oregon, chairman of
the house public lands committee.
amended somewhat by Representative
Taylor of Colorado, a conference Is
being arranged with the house and
senate steering committees, the house
and senate appropriations commit
tees, the house ways and means com
mittee and the senate finance com
mittee. At this conference "the de
mands of the west for money with
which to start, new reclamation proj
ects on a large scale will be laid
before these committees.
Mr. Sinnott Urges Action.
Upon the steering committees par
ticularly will be Impressed the neces
sity of approving legislation for ere
atlng new homes and producing more
food as the best means of solving
the present cost of living problem
and abating the unrest caused by pop
ulation congestion In the east. When
the conference seemed to be getting
nowhere. Representative Sinnott. ask
ing to be heard, said he was not will'
lng that these delegates should go
home 'and report that their efforts
had been fruitless. He said he ap
preciated the vital necessity of econ
omy, but that to suppress develop
ment of the west was the poorest
kind of economy. Aiming at Senator
Thomas, who had previously declared
that an appropriation was impossible.
he said.
I recognize that the word "impos
sible' appears in the dictionary, but
to my mind nothing worth while is
Impossible. I am for seeing the men
who press the button in this congress
and getting action. It is for the steer
ing committee of congress to say
whether we can get this money, and I
move that they be seen."
Mr. McXiry Dropa Hint.
This action was amended bv Mr.
Taylor of Colorado to Include the
other committees mentioned. A con
ference which had been arranged In
advance of this motion will be held
tomorrow afternoon with the senate
and house committees on public lands
at Senator Smoot's office.
Before the conference this morning
had proceeded far, Senator McNary of
Oregon, presiding, dropped the hint
in gentle fashion that appropriations
for new public works are difficult to
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25 to 40 Per Cent Increase in Wear
ing Apparel Absurd, Says Secre
tary of Xational Growers.
SALT LAKE CITY. Jan. 14. The
statement of H. B, King of Seattle
in an address before the National Re
tall Clothiers' association at Chicago
yesterday that clothing prices will
advance from 25 to 40 per cent, partly
because of higher wool prices, was
characterized as "absurd" by Dr. S. v.
McClure, secretary of the National
Wool Growers association. Mr. King
said before the clothiers that Austra
lian wool had increased from 31.14 a
pound in 1914 to 34.10 a pound now.
The truth of the matter is that
wool is no higher In Boston, the wool
market of the country, today than It
was 90 days ago," Dr. McClure de
clared. "and the highest price yet
paid for clean scoured wool in Boston
is around 32.10 per pound for the very
finest grade. Ordinary three-eighths
blood wool, out of which soldiers' uni
forms were made and which is the
most useful grade for clothing pur
poses, is selling today in Boston at
from 31.30 to 31.40 per pound scoured.
This wool has not advanced in the last
90 days.
'To manufacture a suit of a man's
clothing, suitable for the average-
sized individual and made of medium
winter-weight goods, requires about
(2 ounces of wool, which wool can
be bought in Boston today at 35.25.
This is on the presumption that the
suit Is made of all wool. Such suits
as . this retail today at from 360 to
375.
'If one were to use the very finest
wool grown In this suit, not more
than 37 worth could be used.
'The price of wool has not been re
sponsible for the advance in the price
of clothing and even at present wool
values the wool required to manufac
ture a suit represents less than 10
per cent of the price at which such
suit is retailed.
'There may be some reason for ad
vancing the price of clothing," Dr.
McClure asserted, "but It cannot be
blamed on the price of wool."
COMPROMISE IS FAVORED
Referendum Shows Strong Senti
ment for Ratification.
NEW YORK. Jan. 14. Supporters of
ratification of tne peace treaty by
compromise maintained their lead to
night in returns from 375 colleges and
universities 1. the intercollegiate
treaty referendum.
Out of a total of s:,46 votes cast
by the students and faculties. 32,691
students and 3612 professors and
teachers voted In favor of compro
mise. The next highest vote was for rati
fication without amendment, which to
taled 25,869 students and 3046 teach
ers.
Only 9566 votes were cast for rejec
tion of the treaty in any form and
17.322 for ratification with the Lodge
reservations.
CHICAGO "FLU" SPREADS
Four Deaths and 137 Xew Cases
Are Reported.
CHICAGO, Jan. 14. Influenza caused
four deaths in Chicago today.
One hundred and thirty-seven new
cases were reported to the health de
partment.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Wratbe.
lESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature, S9
degree.; minimum, -t aegrees.
TODAY'S Probably rain; southeasterly
winds.
Foreign.
Encounter with Russians fatal to two
Americana Page 1.
Berlin reports 42 killed and 105 wounded in
recent noting, fag J.
National.
Reclamation drive for west at capital
hampered but not halted. Page 1.
Admirals called in navy medal probe.
Page 8.
Domestic.
Love for child not hts own Is assigned as
reason why lonely man kidnaped little
New York girl. Page 4.
Hoover jld to be "progressive republican."
Page 1.
John K. Dodge, auto manufacturer, dies
Page 6.
Assembly Is urged to seat socialists. Page 2.
Wilson opposes Hitchcock for democratic
leader. Page 3.
Head of war finance corporation advises
America to ssteguard credit. Page 2.
Material In 379 all-wool suit costs $7.
Page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
O. F. Vanderveer round guilty of Illegal
conversation with prisoners. Page 4.
Kubll's appeal for children wins aid.
Page 6.
Change in state highway map threatened.
by bill now before legislature. Pag 6.
Last-hour filings of candidates awaited In
Seattle. Page 4.
Fish and game bill Is passed by house,
47 to 11. Pag 1.
Make-up of proposed nine-member fish
commission outlined. Page 6.
Hous agrees to senate proposal to end
special session ot legislature Saturday.
Page 1.
Sports.
Coast baseball managers busy searching
for recruits. Page 12.
Pull-man blames University of Washington
for break In schedule. Page 12.
Three University of Oregon players listed
by. "Outing" as stars. Page 12.
Dempsey asks for chance to appear before
legion and explain his war record.
Page 12.
Commercial and Marine.
Oregon potatoes steady with farm supplies
reduced. - Page la.
Coarse gralna higher at Chicago, owing to
export buying. Page J 9.
Movement of stock prices almost steadily
downward. Page IS.
Portland ssa Vicinity.
Portland supplied with 13-cent sugar.
Page 1.
Oregon dairymen refuse to affiliate with
organized labor. fage is.
Phone exchanges on objectionable list.
Page 7.
Red Cross officer returns from Siberia,
where he says titer are dangers and
dirt. f. 7.
Barnes Says Friend Be
longs to Progressives.
IDEALSPUTABOYEEYERjfTHIHG
Candidacy Could Come Onfy
if Demand Is Overvvftelmirig.
PARTY TIES HELD LOOSE
Wheat Director Says Hoover Is
Eager to Servo but Does Xot
Think Office Is Xecessary.
NEW YORK, Jan. 14. Herbert
Hoover was declared tonight by
Julius Barnes, his close associate and
friend, to be a "progressive republi
can" who "will never allow himself
to be a candidate for high office nor
allow his friends to make an effort In
his behalf unless there shall come
such Indisputable evidence of such
spontaneous and universal popular
demand that it will overwhelm his
present resolution not to enter poli
tics." Mr. Barnes, who is director of the
United States wheat corporation, was
the principal speaker at the annual
dinner of the National Wholesale Dry
Goods association.
Referring to reports that Mr.
Hoover might be a democratic presi
dential candidate. Mr. Barnes said:
"As a lifelong republican, I am re
assured to believe that only one con
ceivable development could place him
on the democratic ticket. In spite of
all that has appeared In the recent
press. I believe that could come about
only if overconfldence In their own'
political prospects blind the repub
lican party to adopt a non-progres
sive, piatiorm and to nominate candi
dates of reaction.
Demand Might Be Answered.
"With his intense earnestness
of
to
purpose and his sincere destra
lumier tne social progress of
our
people by the preservation of eaual
opportunity, it is conceivable that the
lioeral minded voters of all parties
may then Insistently demand such
leadership as his for the expression of
rightful social and political ideals.
The partisanship of Herbert
Hoover extends only to the insistence
of the maintenance of equality of op
portunity in this country, and to the
support of that party exemplifying
tnat laeai. Mr. Barnes continued.
That door of opportunity must be
made to swing easily on the hinge of
efficiency. It must not be slammed In
the face of worthy aspirations by the
gusts of reaction, nor wrenched from
its hinges by reckless or impatient
hands."
In reference to the various socialist
theories which have been advanced
in the United States today as cure
for social and political ills. Mr. Barnes
read the following statement by Mr.
Hoover as to his position:
"The whole of these various sorts of
socialism are based on one primary
conception, and that is the produc
tivity of the human being can be
maintained under the Impulse of
altruism, and that the selection of
the particular human for his most
productive performance can be made
by some super-Imposed bureaucracy.
Socialism Held Bankrupt.
"My emphatic conclusion from all
those observations Is, therefore, that
socialism as a philosophy of possible
human application Is bankrupt.
"The paramount-business of every
American today is this business of
finding a solution to these Issues, but
this solution must be found by Amer
icans, in a practical American way.
based upon American ideals, on Amer
ican philosophy of life.
'Again, I wish to repeat the observa
tion of these forces in Europe ham
reinforced my Americanism during
these last ten months of intimate con
tact with them. It has revealed to
me the distance of our departure from
the political, social and economic
ideals of Europe. There has grown
In the United States a higher sense
of justice, of neighborly service, of
self-sacrifice, and. above all. a will
ingness to abide by the will of thj
majority In every section of this com
munity." ...
Mr. Barnes asserted that Herbert
Hoover was genuinely desirous "ot
placing bis ability, experience and ef
fort in the public service wltnout
thought of reward," but that he vm
sincerely convinced that "real putvJic
service can be rendered without offi
cial position or politicsl preferment-"
METHODISTS PLAN UNION
North and South Factions Endmtor
to Ileal Ancient Breach.
LOUISVILLE. Ky Jan. 14. In a
church edifice controlled by the same
religious organization which spon
sored a breach In the Methodist'
Episcopal church in 1846, thus divid
ing the church membership into
north and south factions, a Joint
commission of both churches will
meet here tomorrow In an endeavor
to unite the two wings.
Bishop W. F. McDowell. Washing
ton, will head the delegation from the
Methodist Episcopal church north,
i Slavery indirectly caused the breach.