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THE .MORNING OREGONTAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 7, 1920 GERMANY SLOWLY GAINS DEMOCRACY New Constitution Being Stud ied Assiduously. SCHOOL HOLDS REACTION Books Ordered Rewritten and Ex- Purgations Made to Purge Minds of Imperialism. 'Continued From First PaffO aren't worrying about Hindenburg's candidacy. They admit he would have a grood chance of winning, hut ay. it would prove purely a platonic. victory for the parties of the right, - as President Hindenburg under the new constitution would have ' no chance of starting anything rough in the way of reaction and restoration of kaiserism. The fact that Germans are begin ning to talk practical politics and presidential possibilities is a hopefuU happy sign. After Germany's first presidential election you'll get a bet ter line on whether the republic has come to stay, or whether the German people will want to relapse into a democratic constitutional monarchy. with a ficrurehead king, after the British model. Kaiserism (old style) has gone for good. Baring a very few Incurable cranks, nobody is rooting for a re turn of the kaiser. Old Sentiment Persists. There's a whole lot of sentimental monarch ial feeling left in the Ger man people. But even the most loyal royalists, the hardest shelled Prus sian junkers, are talking merely of! some day setting up a social monar- j chy, more or less Implying equal rights and opportunities for all. Even extreme reactionaries wouia De giaa to compromise on a democratic mon archy. The nationalists would ba satisfied with a "symbolic" monarch shorn of all real power. A large pro portion of the clericals (Germany's Catholics) would welcome the parlia mentary system plus pomp of impo tent royalty. But there is no serious suggestion that kaiserism could ot should come back. The responsible men of the young republic are not worrying about the reaction of restoring a kaiser or anj other kind of a monarch, however. In the first place, because there is no suitable candidate in sight. The crown prince still has a small follow. lng of loyal press agents, but he makes no serious appeal to any large body of monarchist sentiment. - Any serious attempt to pull off a counter revolution and restore the I the monarchy would be countered and sprked by a general strike. And most Germans want quiet and order now. nd prefer heated press polemics to I civil war. Catholics Are Involved. mission to keep the standing army at e minimum strength of 200,000. Picked Youths Trained. Backing up this national army of defense is a large and growing re serve of so-called "zellfreiwilllge or time volunteers." The pick of the nationalistic youth of the country ap pears to be enrolled among the time volunteers. The high schools and universities of Germany are feeders or tne system. The government of the republic seems to Justify the existence and en couragement of this system of trained reserves by the argument that it is necessary to have the- possibility of further reliable forces on call in case the existing army should prove too weak to put down a Spartacist upris ing. . A third potential German army consists of the so-called Sicherheits wehr, sometimes spoken of as the green police. They are a fine body of picked fighting men garrisoned in the principal cities and doing duty aa militarized police. Equipment Sufficient. A fourth potential German army, although not to be taken' so seriously as the foregoing, consists or tne so called Einwohnerwehren. These are MEXICI coin HELD 'INTOLERABLE' General R. E. Howze Testi fies Before Committee. FUTURE HOLDS NO HOPE I'ERSITV IVSTBPCTOR AP PEARS l. HK.MSPIT TO NIGHT. ' 'V-7 Fergus Reddle. Fergus Reddie, head of the University of Oregon guild the ater and of the university pub lic speaking department, will have charge of the production of three one-act war plays for the benefit pf the Canadian Vet erans' association at Lincoln' high school auditorium tonight. "O'Flaberty, V. C." the Bernard Shaw gem of the late war; "The Straggler" and "The Prussian Way" are the three playlets that have been chosen, and Mr. Reddie will have the capable assistance of a selected cast of local talent. Society 'matrons have charge of the til Ret sale and have es tablished booth headquarters at Meier & Frank's and in the lob by of the Multnomah hotel. Tickets can also be obtained at the Canadian Veterans' associa tion clubrooms in the Manches ter building, telephone Broad way 4239, or at the door to night. The present coalition government is I i - ... ; tTin HtrAnASt .nmkin.tlin ..an h 1 engineered under the circumstances. f Commander of El Paso District Traces Record of. Southern Government for 1 0 Years. Politics never made stranger bedfel lows than this coalition of clericals, democrats and socialists. The coali tion is divided against Itself on many ' vital issues. Germany's democrats, as staunch defenders of capital, clash sharply with the socialists as Cham pions of organised labor, on such questions as confiscatory tax meas ures, finance reform, socialism and the introduction of a mild form of the soviet system. The Catholics here play a mediatory role. The clericals again are at log gerheads with the socialists and dem ocrats over the dangerous question of school reform, involving a religious issue.--But stronger than all these in . ternal differences' is the common bond -' that unites the coalition against the " twin foes of red radicalism and re- ,.. action. The present government should . weather all inner political storms un ' til the first general elections to be . held under the new constitution. The coalition is probably still sup -ported' br a scant majority of the - tjerrtian people, but this slender mar. rin to being whittled down day after -- nay,- The inner political drift is "ST strongly toward the right. Recent 5"? lor-aj-elections confirm this. JJ Imperial Souvenirs Removed. J - Thcr aro many vivid little in ;.. stances or how- the new Germany is JL trying to intrench-itself more strong- ly by removing souvenirs of the old imperial order. Symbolic of the change that is coming over Germany is tne change surtered by the German eagle. The government decreed the democratization of the once proud and cocky imperial bird, and adopted a newly draughted heraldic eagle. The .democratized German eagle has a naked, plucked and hangdog look. Not many specimens of this new offi cial bird have as yet appeared in cir culation. .- Rather belatedly, the republic Is . getting after the old mailed Germania i- on German postage stamps. The pos tal authorities have launched a prize competition for the best designs for i! a new series of democratic postage ; stamps worthy of the new Germany, i. The first new coin of the German i,,' republis has just been issued. It is j- a SO pfennig piece of aluminum and bears the simple democratic legend: ' "Hard work brings blessings." Artists t are at work on designs for further republican coins. German paper mon ey, too. is being democratized as fast as it wears out and new printings are run off the overworked presses. , Bank notes of the imperial era are as rarely seen nowadays as the dodo g bird. .' ' The schools and universities are ' etill the strongest bulwark of reaction and monarchy. Pictures Are Destroyed. ; The Hohenzollern pictures, kaiser ;i and crown prince, have been ordered " removed from school class rooms. The C. history books are to be rewritten and everything expurgated tending to ; glorify monarchy, imperialism and militarism. New democratic school . books are to be made available to the :!, youth of the country as soon as pos--;' sible. School libraries are to be V. cleansed of a chauvinistic, imperlalls ;t. tic. militaristic, nationalistic, mon . archistic or anti-Semitic character. Old style militarism is moribund. ' The old system was smashed by de ' feat beyond repair. But the military .' spirit of the German people is not ' dead or dying out. nor even dying 7 down. A new democratic form of f militarism appears to be in process of evolution, J' Germany has all the makings of a t great nc-w war machine, including its millions of trained veterans. The new Germany's ostensible sole army, the so-called Reichswehr. or army of na tional defense, was, according to the last available figures, approximately 400.000 strong and said to consist of 41 bridges. The Reichswehr must, under the Versailles treaty, be re duced ultimately to 100.000. but the resent government will fight hard for a revision of the military terms and plead earnestly for allied per- formations of citizens' guards or civic militias. They are springing up all over Germany. They have depots of arms, and ammunition, but.no uniforms., Lastly, there are the so-called Bal tic troops, including the Iron division, the corps Bermondt, Wagner, Plehwe and other formations. Before being pulled out of the Baltic they num bered approximately 60,000. There is talk of ' secret depots of arms and ammunition in various parts of Germany, persistent reports that Germany has thousands of guns left, including many of large caliber, and enough miscellaneous war material for 2,000.000 men. Up to qnite re cently certain factories were under stood to be still turning out war ma terials, including such specialties as armored cars and trench excavators. There is no shortage of airplanes for commercial, police, and postal avia tion. - NAVY TENDERS ASKED Daniels Urges Use of Fabricated feieei Aircaay on nana. v -ti- . r. t i t x - rr, i x- T. v. e l ... tion of three aviation carriers and four ' destroyer tenders was recom mended to congress today by Secre tary Daniels, who proposed that fab ricated steel on hand at . the Hog island shipyard be used, thus reduc- REGISTER!" WHO? All citizens who' failed to vote during 1918 or 1919, or who have moved out of the precincts in which they voted during those years. WHY? You cannot vote at the spring . primaries .if you .do not. Nearly 400 registrants a day must be taken care of be fore April 21 if Multnomah county is to have a normal - registration-of 100,000. If you put it off, the last-minute . crowds may make It impossi ble for you to register. WHERE? West end, first floor, county courthouse. Fifth and . Salmon streets. Open Satur day afternoons. ' Registrations to Date. Male, Female. Total. Republicans. 31,243 20.264 61,497 Democrats 9.961 7.124 17,075 Other parties. 2,253 .1,762 4.015 Grand total. . . .-. . . 72,687 Increase over day preced ing ..... ... 128 Registration quarters- open Saturday afternoon.-' irrg the cost of the vessels from $23, 000.000 to.'Jll, 000,000. The navy now has. seven destroyer tenders and two others will be com pleted within the next two years. The destroyer forr?e, by the end of 1920 will include 298 large destroyers. Secretary Daniels said. - . U S. GOODS UNDER BAN Canadian Wholesale Grocers Balk at Low Exchange Rate. TORONTO, Ont., Febv6. As the re sult of telegrams sent broadcast to members of the association, the sec retary of the Canadian Wholesale Grocers' association has received over 100 replies, unanimously In favor of discontinuing the purchase of United States -manufactured- goods unless payment is accepted in Cana dian money. Several Unitsi States manufac turers have notified their representa tives here that payment in Canadian money would be accepted, prices be in? the same as in the United States. I EL PASO, Tex., Feb. 6. Conditions in Mexico were described as "intoler able" by General Robert Lee Howze, commander of the El Paso district, when he testified today before the senate sub-committee investigating the Mexican situation. . Briefly and without palliation he expressed the opinion that affairs in that country had grown steadily worse in the past ten years arm that, "left solely in the control of the Mexicans," thw future of that country was hopeless. The appearance of General Howze was with the approval of the war de partment. His publicly-made statement was supplemented by one made in execu- ve session, not made public. The conclusions of General Howze were contained in a short statement tie read, but its presentation was pre ceded by a summary of the reports he had gathered of American casual ties on the American side attributable to Mexicans since 1917. It accounted for 11 killed and 17 wounded. Four-Year Period Reviewed. Following is General Howze's state ment: "Off and on during the last four years I have had peculiar advantages of being able to see and to know the things, so far as concerns American and foreign owned property, which have happened on this side of the Rio Grande and in Mexico. I will not undertake to describe them they are too numerous, and already well known. My conclusions 'ought to be sufficient. The intolerable conditions which have covered a period of nearly en years have continually grown worse and I am convinced the apex of shamefulness and horror as viewed from the American conception of jus ice and decency was reported last fall, a condition which still exists. The Mexican government during this ten years of critical time has never, as far as I can determine, done one genuinely friendly thing toward our government. On the other hand the Mexican government, or its peo- Dle. has done no end of discourteous, contemptuous and offensive things of large importance toward our govern ment and our people. Hatred Is Result. "The result has been an increased estrangement and increased hatred against the people of the United States. There ar no end of reports showing that Americans are being murdered or captured and released on payment - of ransoms. Foreign owned properties are being confis cated or practically destroyed. Mexi can bands are committing horrible crimes and in isolated places continue to make raids upon the persons and property of American citizens located on our side of the border. ' "Everywhere i in -Mexico, as far as can be obserVedjf here is lack of prog ress. Murder, rapine and destruction Drevasl. From, our point of view there is no evidence of constructive states-J manship. "We, who closely observe, believe the future of Mexico, so far as it affects usj, is utterly hopeless if left solely in the control of Mexicans." Echoes of CarrlW.1 Heard. - Colonel Francis Glover, General Howze's chief of staff, also was a witness. He described the fighting in Juarez on June 15-18,- 1919, when Villa's men captured the city and the situation that resulted in American troops crossing the international boundary. Echoes of the Carrizal fight were heard from General Howze andi from George Turner, one of the negro troopers who participated in the fight and who' carried Captain Boyd, fatally wounded, out of the firing line. The negro told of the brutal treatment accorded -. him and the others taken prisoner by the Mexi cans, iney were su-ippea oi every shred of clothing, half starved and subjected to both mental and physical forms of third degree methods lor nine days, when they were delivered to the Americans at the international bridge between Juarez and n.1 -aso. An interesting feature of his testi mony was his statement that a num ber of women accompanying the Mex ican force actually took part in the fighting, by. one of rhom he was wounded. '. Mrs. Henrietta W. Galvin, former dean of the school of home economics at the college, will give a series of lectures at the summer session of the college next July. Mrs. Calvin is home economics specialist with the department of education at Washing ton, D. C Miss Ruth Smith, special .writer of home economics subjects for the Woman's Home Companion and the Delineator, will have charge of the practice bouse and the classes in in stitutional management. Miss Smith was graduated from Oregon Agricul tural college and has since taken spe cial work at Columbia university. She had charge of the practice house at the Iowa state college during 1916 and 1917. She has also taken public health work at Harvard. Dean Ell wood Smith of the service depart ment is in charge of the summer school. MEXICO HOLDS AVIATORS No Indications Given as to When Americans' 'Will Be Released. DOUGLAS, Ariz., Feb. 6. No word had been received at Nacozari tonight Indicating when Lieutenants L. M. Wolf and G. M. Usher, American aviators, held prisoner since Monday, would be released by Mexican author ities. It was announced today that the Americans 'will be held pending negotiations between the Mexican government and Washington regard ing repeated landing? of American aviators on Mexican soil. The Americans are .' held under technical arrest, though being given the freedom of the city. CAR ORDER IS PROTESTED Illinois Manufacturers Ask Hines to Rescind Recent Ruling. CHICAGO, Feb. 6. A protest against the order of the railroad administra tion in placing an embargo on box cars from February 8 to 18 to facilitate the movement of grain and other priority list commodities, was made today in a telegram to Director General Hines by the Illinois Manu facturers' association. Mr. Hines was urged to withdraw the order and "to resume normal and non-discriminatory methods of car, distribution." MINISTER OUSTED, RUMOR Argentine Paper Says Spain Has Recalled Ambassador. Madrid, Feb. 6. The newspaper Libertad today publishes a rumor that the Spanish ambassador to Argentina has been recalled by cable - owing to alleged mismanagement of the gov ernment's scheme for the purchase of wheat. The newspaper says that when ships arrived in Argentine ports they found no wheat, and as a matter of fact their contrasts were worthless. WOMAN CHOSEN DELEGATE Mrs. Esther Butler to Represent Missouri District at Convention. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 6. Missouri women scored a political point today when Mrs. Esther Butler was chosen as a delegate to represent the 11th Mis souri congressional district at the re publican national convention next June. She is the first Missouri woman to gain this honor. Naval Squadron to Orient. . VALLEJO, Cal., Feb. 6. The Mare Island navy yard was notified today that squadron 13, consisting of the destroyers Buchanan,- Phillips, Upshur, Greer, Elliott and Aaron. Ward, had been ordered to the Asiatic station. They were originally ordered here from the Atlantic coast. The new order sends them to Puget sound be fore sailing for the far east. Veterans Invite Their Women Folk. ABERDEEN, Wash., Feb. 6. (Spe cial.) Mothers, daughters, wives and isters of American Legion members have been invited by the local post of the Legion to meet at the new Legion clubroom and form an auxiliary to the Legion. The post has offered to do nate the use of their new clubroom tothe auxiliary for their meetings. "1 MATINEE FOR LADIES ONLY Every Morning Beginning 10 A. M. Mi Ktrr -i - ' ' " ' " r-i -boss Tin PRESENTS NO CHILDREN ADMITTED to Anr Performance "THE A Miss Mardiganian will start her talk for the ladies' mati nee at 11:30 following the picture, which starts at 10 a. m. She will appear regularly all week at this matinee, aa well as before mixed audi ences during the afternoon and evening. ' At the ladies' rriati nee Miss Mardiganian will tell her own experi ences in the slave mar ket and later in the . harem. Who appears in conjunction with the screen drama of which she is the STAR, mum of. e Telling tht story of rav ished Armenia and the treat-, ment of women and girls by the Kurds after the massacre, of which she Is a survivor, after spending two years In brutal slavery In Turkish harems. Everything shown hap pened to Miss Mardiganian or her country-women, th'e facts being substantiated by Brit ish official reports and Ameri can Ambassador Morgenthau. Aurora Mardiganian will tell her own story and the picture will bring it home to you in a way you will never forget. 0S1LS Thl Is the picture for which $10 per seat was charged when Miss Mardi ganian appeared with It In all Eastern cities, and the first appearance of both girl and picture under $1.00. Our price Is 35f. Young Armenian girls who fell under the lash of the Turk are shown nearly nud in the slave market, being sold into the harems. STARTS-TODA Y! OF. E WEE mm SUGAR PLANTERS OF HAWAII SHIP IX 20.0 LABORERS. EFFORTS AT DEATH FUTILE Despondent Woman Lives .After Triple Atempt on Life. BURLINGTON. N. J., Feb. 6. (Spe cial.) Death failing to come after she had gashed her throat and wrists with a razor and turned on the gas. Mrs. Ada Cook, a widow leaped from a second story window of her home on Conover street this morning. A snow bank broke the force of her fall and physicians who rushed her to a hospital expressed hope for her recovery The woman's little daugh ter was rescued by Patrolman lie Cormick from the gasvfilled room into which- the frantic mother had locked herself, and the child was revived. Mrs. Cook confessed she was tired of the financial struggle to support herself and the two small children since the death of her husband, Ed ward Cook, two years ago. Even on the way to the hospital she expressed a desire that she might die. THREE KILLED IN FIGHT Negro Shoots Two . Officers Before Fire Drives Him to Death. PINE BLUFF, Ark., Feb. 6. Three dead and at least six injured, one seriously, was the toll taken in a shooting affray last night between possemen and George Vlcks, a negro who barricaded himself in a house after he had killed City Detective Lynn late in the afternoon. Three houses were burned at the order of officials in an effort to drive Vicks from his stronghold. Vicks was killed by a fusillade as he stepped from the basement of the third house burned. Previously he had shot and seri ously wounded Deputy Constable Ed Mann and a spectator. Four other spectators were hurt by stray bullets. MRS. GALVIN TO LECTURE Home Economics Specialist to Give Series at Corvallis. OREGON AGRICULTURAL - COL LEGE, Corvallis, Feb. 6. (Special.) Former Yukon Agent Dies. DAWSON, T. T., Feb. 6. Frank J. Nolan, for many years manager of the North American Trading & Trans portation company here, died recently t Rock Island, 111., according to a wire received here today. Ncjlan was known in almost every section of the Yukon. Adriatic Settlement Hope Held. PARIS, Feb, 6. Hope is entertained in peace conference circles that if the Jugo-Slavs would accept Italy's proposition for the settlement of the Adriatic question the Italians will consent to any modifications that are not considered vital. Corean Leader Says 4000 Men Are Available for Plantations of Island of Oahu. HONOLULU, Feb. 6. (By the Asso- iated Press.) The first move by the sugar planters to break the strike of Filipino and Japanese plantation laborers was made today in the ship ment of 200 strikebreakers, 125 of them Coreans and the rest Chinese and Hawaiians, to the Honolulu plan tations. No attempt to interfere with them was made by the strikers. . Four hundred more Coreans are ready to work,- according to Y. W. Seung, a Corean labor leader, while planters said 4000 strikebreakers would be distributed to all the plan tations affected. This number they considered would keep all of the plantations on the island of Oahu working, and if the strike should spread to other islands more strike breakers would be called into service. The sugar planters association in formed the Associated Press today that the strike would be confined to the island of Oahu and that sugar shipments from the -other islands would continue uninterrupted. of 5S8 new cases of influenza and nine deaths today outside the city and county of Denver. The Denver bureau of health reported 80 new cases of influenza and 23 deaths from pneumonia and influenza, an increase in both. ence on joining the league of nations, the advices said, hinged about pro visions of the league covenant bear ing on neutrals, and on that point there will' be a further exchange of views. EXCHANGE FALL WORRIES Scandinavian Countries to Call Meeting of Experts. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. Premiers and foreign ministers of Sweden, Den mark and Norway at their conference at Christiania, which adjourned Wednesday, decided to call a meeting of financial experts of thlr countries for the study of methods of remedy ing the fall in Scandinavian exchange, the state department was advised to day. The Scandinavian officials ap proved the proposal for an interna tional financial congress at Amster dam. Debate in the Christiania ennfer- Exchange Council Organised. PARIS.- Feb. 6. The supreme eco nomic; council which is to consider the exchange question and the gen eral European situation and also hear reports on proposed trading with the Russian co-operative societies and consider the problem of raw materials and other commodities, met this afternoon and organized. M. Isaac, French minister olM-td prcHldont. of rommeren, wai STARVING While the World Looks On .Influenza Kills Nine. DENVER, Feb. 6. 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Herbert's Orvh. 53092 Sounds of the Forct, Tart I Charles Kellogg Sounds of the Forest, Tart IK Charles KelluVg G.FJohnsonPunoC6. 149 6th St, IM. Morrihon and Alder Chickering, Mchlin, Packard, Boml, Lindcman &. Son Piano. Martin Saxophone, Guitars, Ukuk'tcs Coming Next Saturday: Douglas MacLean and Doris May! y? n TTV 'i Pjj'