THE HORNING" OREGONIAX, FRIDAY, ' 3IARCII 12, 1920
G
CIIKOIM 11
BY
HORSED
East Side Business Men View
Consolidation Proposal
CUT IN COSTS FORECAST
A. Ii. Barbur Is Principal Speaker
on Plan to Unite Two Branches
of Government.
Judging by the utterances of dif
ferent speakers and the enthusiastic
indorsement of their sentiments, the
East Side Business Merr-'a club 'is
heartily In accord with the proposed
consolidation of city and county
government.
A. L. Barbur was the principal
speaker at the monthly business
meeting of the club, held In Its rooms
at East Alder and Grand avenue, last
night. He outlined the economies
that would result from cdnsolidation
of government of city and county
and enumerated some of the advan
tages that would-accrue to the tax
payers by elimination of duplicated
effort.
In discussion of the topic follow
ing the address of Commissioner
Barbur, members of -the club ex
pressed their favor for the consoli
dation. Support by Women Urged.
Mrs. F. S. Dunning- declared that
the Interest of women in good gov
ernment and their desire to be right
ought to bring to the support of
the move for consolidation the
strength of the -women, for it was
a proposition that seemed to be
fundamentally right. Mrs. Dunning
thought that what had proved ad
vantageous to other cities ought to
be good for Portland, and said It
was her conviction that if the county
all became a part of the city it would
not be long until some of the resi
dents of Clackamas county would
want to be included in Portland.
The monthly dinner of the club was
under auspices of the women of the
Central Presbyterian church, and
more than 150 persons were served in
the assembly room. E. A. Clark, vice-
president of the club, presided.
"Rev. W. E. Nugent la Speaker.
Rv. Walter ii. Nugent, pastor of
the Central Presbyterian church, re
cently having taken up the work of
the pastorate and from Newburyport,
Mass., spoke Informally at the con
clusion of the dinner and cave his
first Impressions of Portland. He con
fessed a fondness for the charm of
Oregon hospitality and appreciation
of the broadening influence of the
western country upon the resident of
the Atlantic seaboard who takes up
residence on the Pacific coast.
The dinner hour was enlivened by
songs, the music furnished by the
Dixie quartet under the direction and
leadership of Ella Hoberg Tripp, with
Jessie H. Hammond, Gilbert H. Char
ters and Dr. Earl R. Abbett. Follow
ing the business session the young
people enjoyed dancing during the
remainder of the evening.
Renewed Activity Reported.
Wilson Benefiel, president, and L. II.
I.epper, secretary of the club reported
that the organisation is experiencing
renewed activity and is devoting its
attention to the movement for raising
of the Morrison and Burnside bridges,
widening of the approaches and the
establishment of municipal docks and
markets between the Hawthorne and
Burnside bridges, as among the most
essential municipal developments of
the immediate future.
The club has also given its support
to the movement for the city to ac
quire Industrial sites on the east side
that can be held for lease or sale to
industries that seek new locations
and in readiness for use where track
age is already provided with access
to docks for shipping movement of
products.
to get to France. Mr. Ballantine is a
Harvard man and was a music spe
cialist there. His "Prelude" Js a,
pretty, melodious, dainty offering, and
it pleased the audience mightily.
The Tschaikowsky overture "Sole
nelle, 1812," is an old friend to Port
land symphony audiences, and it re
ceived a glorious, stirring rendition
from the orchestra last night. Its
war-atmosphere was sharply and
dramatically depicted, especially
where the .Frenoh "Marseillaise" and
the Russian national hymn are in con
flict. Mr. Denton conducted with mu
slclanly ability and good judgment.
The next concert of this symphony
series is planned for March 24, when
the numbers to be played are largely
of a "request" nature, voted upon by
concert- patrons attending a recent
concert. So that the public will more
easily understand the music to be
heard at this March 24 concert, Fred
erick W. Goodrich plans to lecture in
public library hall Thursday night.
March 18, on the Tschaikowsky "Sym
phony Pathetlque, otherwise known
as No. 6.:
FREIGHT RATE RISE
IS
CERTANTY
Advance in Passenger Tariff
Also Likely.
ST. JOHNS ASKS SCHOOL
.NEED OP JTEW BTJILDIMi PRE-
SEXTED TO BOARD.
tyAN. F0UND0ll ROAD
J. Jacobson, logger,' Picked Vp in
Scml-Conseious Condition.
J. Jacobson of the Rosamund hotel
was picked up in a semi-conscious
condition on the Llnnton road last
night, and police believe that he had
been robbed and thrown from an
automobile. B. W. Gage of the
Wickersham apartments found Jacob
son lying by the road anl took him to
the emergency hospital, where he is
recovering. He says $190 is missing
from his pocket,
Jacobson came to Portland from a
logging camp a few days ago. He
says he. can remember nothing of
what happened last night.
Efforts of Dr. Sommer to Limit
Purchases by Director Thomas
Xearly Causes Clash.
In an effort to find some means of
securing the erection of a new high
school in St. John, about 25 citizens
of that district, members of the com
munity club there, appeared last night
at the school beard meeting to make
their request in person. The matter
was brought up through the request
of City Commissioner Pier that the
board co-operate in the purchase of a
playground site by selecting a build
lng eite adjoining.
A .similar consideration was a re
quest that the board pay half the cost
of the 10-acre tract behind Franklin
high school. Thla was propounded by
City Attorney W. P. La Roche in be
half of a delegation of 10 residents
of the district.
The petition from the St, Johns
community club was read by H. W.
Bonham, stating that the present
building is inadequate. The needs of
the district were further explained by
Dr. K. P. Borden, A, E. Jones, F. C,
Knanp, C. O. Johnson, Mrs. Ina L.
Shaw, S. J. Edlefsenand F. P
Drinker.
Board members unanimously voiced
a desire to aid the district., but the
present lack of funds was pointed
out as a definite obstacle.
Efforts on the part of Dr. E. A.
Sommer to prevent Director George B,
Thomas from making unlimited pur
chases of machinery for Benson Poly
technic school while on a trip east
to obtain government equipment at
reduced prices nearly precipitated a
violent personal quarrel between the
two men.
The resolution introduced by the
doctor, however, was finally adopted.
limiting purchases to tiOOO.
HEARING IS SLATED
Interstate Commerce Commission
Conference Called for Wash
ington on March 22.
SEME'S VOICE GLARiDN
XAPOLEOX OP BARITOXES
GIVES ARTISTIC PROGRAMME
American Concert Star Proves
Reputation as Authority on
Skilled Voice-Placing.
Quiet Music Appreciated
by Local Audience.
Km Outside Aid .Veenurj for Port
land Symphony Orchestra to
Please Auditors.
BT JOSEPH MACQTJEEN.
INSTRUMENTAL music without any
outside aid from a visiting solo
ist was the music treat offered last
night In the fifth concert of the ninth
season of the Portland Symphony or
chestra. In the Heilig theater, before
a large and deeply impressed audi
ence.
it wa an occasion of quiet music
without any spectacular features, and
curiously enough the applause was
reflected accordingly.
The chief offering was the stately
Beethoven "Symphony No. 7, In A
major, opus 92," in these four move
ments: Poco eostenuto vivace, alle
K-retto, presto and allegro con brio. At
first blush, the symphony seems to
besitate and flounder, and almost
srrope for a text. But it is only an
other picture of an early morning
gray iky that ushers In later glorious,
(sunny effulgence. The strings and
wood-wind lead up to this, and it Is
not until we reach the third move
ment that the gay atmosphere suc
ceeds the serious message of the In
troductory measure. It is related that
this symphony was a great favorite of
its composer, and that he spoke of It
as being "among my best works." The
symphony is good and worth hearing,
hut it does not ehow melodious
Beethoven at his best, his own recom
mendation notwithstanding.
The audience was familiar with the
next selection, Bizet's "L'Arleslenne,"
sl French love-tale that is a hot pas
sion and tragedy.. The picture an
nounces gay fun, bell-music, and be
trothal, principally, and it is inter
esting to note how cleverly Bizet has
used the various music instruments!
of the orchestra to describe what he
meant to convey.
"Prelude to The Delectable For
st.' " in manuscript '(Ballantine), is
a most welcome offering. Its com
poser practically was a Portland resi
dent during a portion of the late war,
for he was a soldier on duty at .Van
couver barracks, and very impatient
Oscar Seagle, American concert
star, is the Napoleon among bari
tones. Like many another famous
man, Mr. Slagle Is little in stature
but a giant in intellect and has a
glorious voice that is like a silver
clarion.
Last night. In the public auditor
ium, Mr. Seagle was soloist at the
concert of the Multnomah male
chorus, Charles Swenson, conductor.
Mr. Seagle is a native of Chattanooga,
Tenn., and for several years has not
only been a favorite and artistic
concert etar, but a respected author
ity upon vocal tone-placing. He is
accepted by eminent voice judges -as
an educated, cultured singer whose
singing is scientifically correct. His
voice is a big one, full of fire and
color, and with plenty of hearty
vigor in it. So artistic is Mr. Seagle's
singing that he can hush bis big
voice to a whisper. His diction is so
perfect artd so distinct that it is like
a dream of a singer's heaven where
nothing goes wrong.
Mr. seagle s most stirring song
heard last night was his magnificent
Christ In Flanders" (Stephens). It
was a real trumpet call of religious
faith in a higher power. His negro
Spirituals' were grandly and ten
derly sung, and his French songs
were a great and unexpected vocal
treat. Mr. Seagle's extra songs were:
Mattinatta (Leoncavallo), "Mem
ory" (Fairchild), and "Swing Low,
sweet Chariot." . -
. The male chorus sang with fine
spirit and cultured musical effect,
and wton out, especially! in "On the
Sea" (Buck),-"Rosebud" (Swenson),
and "Landsighting" (Grieg).
Mr. Swenson scored'' new- honors
as conductor.
The two accompanists were Edgar
E. Coursen, organist, and Charles
Lurvey pianist, and they both made
good.
Advances in freight rates are a
certainty because of the provisions
of the transportation act adopted by
congress in order to permit the re
turn of the railroads to the owners,
according to officials here. - That
passenger fares will also be ad
vanced is a strong probability.
It Is equally certain that there
will be no reductions within the six
months during which the govern
ment guarantee is pledged, for it
is a specific provision of the act that
no rates may be lowered that would
deprive the government of the pro
tection guaranteed under rates exist
ing when the roads were turned back.
The interstate commerce commis
sion is required to fix rates on a
basis that will earn for the railroads
about 6 per cent on the railroad
properties. And the rates must be
made effective within six months. In
order to arrive at a decision as to
how it shall proceed in the matter,
the commission- has called a con
ference for March 22, at Washington.
Method la to Be Decided.
The first question to be considered
is whether the rates shall be made
for the railroads as a whole or by
rate groups aud certain territorial
districts. Jt Has Deen suggested tnat
the groupings that have heretofore
existed might be used. These are
according to the official classification
territory, being that east of Chicago
and north of the Ohio river; th
southern classification territory, lying
south of the Ohio and east-of the
Mississippi, and the western classi
fication territory, which embraces
that vast region lying westward of
the two eastern districts.
The second matter to be considered
at. the conference will be the method
that should be employed in determin
ing rates of the railroads as a whole,
or in each of the groups or territories.
This is the first step toward the in
evitable increase in rates.
Increases Held Inevitable.
- No one can tell what the increase
will be, but it is certain that the rail
roads will ask for and receive In
creases running into totals of several
hundred millions of dollars, because
the transportation act has made it
compulsory upon the interstate com
merce commission to fix rates to
yield the increased revenues.
The Portland Traffic and Transpor
tation association is making a close
Etudy of conditions and will keep in
touch with each step in the progress
of the investigation in the adjustment
of rates. With the certainty that it
will extend to all classes of freight
traffic, and that it will be the most
extensive .adjustment that has. ever
come to the railroads, the matter that
becomes of tremendous interest to the
Pacific northwest s to what extent
it is going to alter shipments of prod
ucts of this section to the distributing
territory in which the largest mar
kets are established.
seeker. The four Binghams have a
capital act in unique songs and ex
ceptionally worth-while dancing, put
together as a miniature revue. Indi
vidual talent among the Binghams is
splendidly rounded out when they ap
pear collectively.
The Wells Gilbert company- scores
hugely. A girl cornet player adds an
original musical atmosphere, while,
her two men partners offer a fine
array of equilibristic adventure, new
in idea and thrilling in results.
Eccentric dancing, of a comedy or
der is offered by Barnum and Yant,
a clever pair.- Their nut humor is
refreshing and pulls plenty of laughs.
Cooper -and Vallie have an unusu
ally diverting number, specializing in
comedy and novelty singing that
brings much applause.
A slice out of a circus is the canine
turn offered by Bertino's dog smart
dogs which go- through a series of
clever stunts. Children, and grown
ups give it their hearty approval.
. Another act that goes big la that
of Violet and Lewis, who have a
keen line of comedy by way of the
Roman rings.
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RELIEF OF PAIX OR SICKXESS
DECLARED DESIRABLE.
F. D. BURROUGHS RESIGNS
General Agent at Seattle to Take
Post With Freight Bureau.
Information has been received in
Portland that Frank D.- Burroughs
has resigned as general agent of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St, Paul at Se
attle, which position he took March
1, to accept a position as a member
of the standing committee of the
transcontinental freight bureau. Mr.
Burroughs was a member of the Port
land district freight traffic commit
tee during the period of gevernment
control and is widely known as one
of the best-qualified traffic men in
the game.
It is - understood that the other
members of the committee will be
Paul P. Hastings, chief traffic as
sistant to Edward Chamber, director
of traffic of the railroad adminis
tration, and K. G. Toll, formerly with
the Southern Pacific and who also
served with the organization of the
railroad administration throughout
the period of control.
McKENNEY IS BIG ELK
Local Lodge Chooses Esteemed
Leading Knight Over XV. McGinn.
William F. McKenney was last night
elected esteemed . leading knight of
Portland lodge No. 142, B. P. O. Elks.
Because none of the three nominees
for this office secured a sufficient
majority of votes at the regular elec
tion held on March 4 a second ballot
was necessary.
M. G. McCorkle, who polled the
highest number of votes on the first
ballot, withdrew from the contest, an
nouncing his withdrawal just pre
vious to the opening of the second
ballot. This left the race Detween
Mr. McKenney and William McGinn.
The new officers elected will be In
stalled in office on Thursday night,
April 1.
Sellwood Y Is Bought.
City Commissioner Pier yesterday
announced the purchase by the city
of the building owned by the Young
Men's Christian association in Sell
wood, which has been used, in the past
few years as a community, house,
under the direction of the city. The
city paid $$000 for the building and
the 100-foot-square lot on which the
building stands en East Fifteenth and
Spokane avenue. This sum Is less
than the total debt against the build
ing, a debt which is assumed by the
directors of the Y. M. C. A. The esti
mated value of the property is $30,000.
According to Commissioner Pier
minor improvements will be made to
the building at once. The negoti
ations for the .purchase of the build
ing have been under way for months
RAILWAY OFFICE MOVES
Great Northern Is Installing -New
Quarters in Morgan Building.
W. E. Hunt, general agent of the
Great Northern at- Portland, . Is in
stalling the offices of the company
in larger quarters on the second floor
of the. Morgan building. The Great
Northern has opened off-line ' offices
at Chicago,. Pittsburg.CIeveland, New
York, Philadelphia. St. Louis, Detroit
and, Cincinnati. R. K. Pretty, for
merly with the Portland office of the
company, has been named assistant
general freight agent at Chicago.
The personnel of the Portland office
includes N.' G. Willis and Neale E.
Williams, contracting freight agents,
and Fred G. Smith, traveling freight
agent.. v .
Dr. McEIveen Thinks Teachings of
Mary Baker Eddy Are Often Mis
understood Among Followers.
"Cranky" women and "high strung"
men may be cured by ministrations of
preachers or others, either through
the laying on of hands, annointing
with oil or other methods, such as
by prescribing a larger sphere of
usefulness for them or by putting
upon them responsibility for helping
others, according to Dr. W. T. Mc
EIveen, pastor of the First Congre
gational church, speaking to a large
congregation at the weekly current
events' class last night.
Jealousy, pride and similar Impedi
ments to right thinking and full use
fulness are moral diseases which may
be dispelled through loving kindness,
by teacning tnougntiuiness lor otners
or by getting the patient interested
in some philanthropic, altruistlo
work and making .the realisation of
God's love and purpose In life-giving
more realistic, the minister pointed
out
Dr. McEIveen freely admitted the
gift of healing, saying it was given
to the disciples of old and undoubt
edly exists today. Christ and the
apostles, even Paul, who, he declared,
was "Prone to turn up his nose at
some things," effected many notable
cures.
Not every preacher. Dr. McEIveen
said possesses the gift of healing,
but all who have it, be asserted,
should exercise it He paid a high
tribute to James Moore Hickson, who,
he said, told him when in New York
that' he had always had the gift of
healing.
- Any relief of pain or. disease, Dr.
McEIveen declared, is worthy, "but
any one church, such as the Christian
Scientists, thinking to have an ex
clusive way of treating disease and
holding all else in error, is presum
ing." . . ..
Dr. McEIveen said he thinks many
followers of Mary Baker Eddy have
a misconception of her teachings, in
that "as she often told, us when I
was taking some lessons rrom ner,
she did not deny the actuality of dis
ease and pain, although she did dis
believe the reality of it. She was bo
full of the thought of God's tranB
cendant love for mankind that she
virtually forget the existence of dis
ease," 1 v
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Chickering, Packard, Bond Pianos
Martin Saxophones and t-'knleles
trances to the freight", passenger, law,
rieht of way. general manager's of
fice and others of the company headquarters.
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WOMAX, WELL KXOffS IX
PORTLAXD, STJCCTJMBS.
MURDER TALE HETRAGTED
MARIE TTCCI, SO, SATS OWN
. LIFE THREATENED.
Italian Immigrant Declares Quarrel
Arose Over Her Refusal to
Lead Immoral Life.
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At the Theater.
Bead The Oregonlan classified ads.
Hippodrome.
INTEREST divides equally between
the big feature picture on the new
bill at the Hippodrome and the vaude
ville offerings, which are stamped
with the new ideas and unique fea
tures of entertainment. The picture Is
entitled "Beckoning Roads" and is an
excellent vehicle for the display of
talent Bessie Barriscale possesses.
Mss Barriscale was the original in
Tully's "Bird of Paradise" a4id since
her advent in the pictures has had
one big success after another accred
ited to her. In this picture she appears
as a young girl of the Canadian north
west woods, who has been reared by
a foster father.' He knows his adopted
child is worthy of a future and so
disposes of his possessions and leaves
his beloved Canada to come to the
states and give the girl the education
she yearns for. His utter simplicity
and faith in human nature lead him
into the path of unscrupulous stock
gamblers and they soon accomplish
his ruin.
Then the brave-hearted girl steps
in and in a strongly dramatic scene
she is depicted avenging the death
and disgrace of her foster father.
The romance of the etory adds a hap
py touch. The play la a fine dramatic
piece of film literature and is splen
didly told. An excellent acting cast
supports Miss Barriscale.
The vaudeville Is good with variety
sufficient for any type of amusement
Illness of More Than Year Fatal to
Widow of Late E. D. Coman.
Funeral Is Tomorrow, s
Mrs. Marian W. Coman, one of Port
land's well known women, died last
night at her residence, 524 East Twen
ty-fourth street north, after an ill
nees, of more than a year. She was
the widow of the late L. D.' Coman
and was 71 years old.
With Mrs. Coman at the time of
her death was her eon, Wilber E.
Coman, formerly general manager of
the Northwestern Electric company
of Portland, but now of. Spokane. A
daughter, Mrs. F. C. Schrann of Salt
Lake, is also here, as is Mrs. Coman's
Bister, Mrs. George Phillips of Kan
sas City, Mo.
Besides Wilbur E. Coman and Mrs.
Schrann, the eurviving children are
Mrs. R. R. Yates of Berkeley, Cal.,
Mrs. C. W. Jones of Alameda, Cal., and
Miss Martha Coman of New York. .
Mrs.. Coman was born in Kenosha,
Wis., and came -to Portland in 1889.
For many years she had been active
in the affair of the First Presbyte
rian church and leaves & great many
friends throughout the city. .
The funeral services will be held
tomorrow at 2 o'clock at the Portland
crematorium.
mm OPEN OFFICES
CONSOLIDATED ECONOMIES
COME TO FINAL END.
Workmen Are Busy Remodeling
Space for. Occupancy by South
ern Pacific Company.
For more than two weeks a large
force of linemen, carpenters and
painters have been at work making
changes necessary for the return of
the general offices of the Southern
Pacific company to the seventh and
eighth floors of the Yeon building
in which the officials are now locat
ed. This is an example of results of
some of the work done in unification
of operation under the control of the
transportation lines by the govern
ment
At the time the Southern Pacific
leased the quarters, taken over under
a ten-year contract, the expense of
wire systems for the telegraph and
telephone exchange amounted to ap
proximately J6000. . When the roads
were taken over the general offices
were combined with those of the Oregon-Washington
in the Wells-Fargo
building and the wires were all re
moved. A portion of 'the rooms were
used for the Portland district freight
traffic committee and the others were
sub-let to tenants for octfupancy In
various busrhess lines. Now, with the
return, all of the work that was done
In making changes, taking out or put
ting in partitions, has been done over
again, to meet the requirements of
the departments.
Sign writers have been busy the
past two days putting the Southern
Pacific line's designation, with that
of the various departments occupy.
lng the suites, and marking the en-
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., March 11.
(Special.) The police here tonight
secured the first coherent statement
from Marie Tucci, 20-year-old Italian
girl, arrested here last night after
she had walked into police headquar
ters and announced she had mur
dered Mrs. Angela Conti, her sister,
in New York. Through an inter
preter the girl tonight said she had
not slain her sister but that the
explosion of a revolver in the latter's
hands while they were struggling at
their home at 99 West Houston street
had caused her death.
In her statement to Detective Cap
tain Ialseed here tonight before
Detective Louis J. Y. Comminessl of
the New York department, she said:
"I quarreled with my sister, Mrs.
Angelina Conti, early Monday morn
ing. She had been trying to Induce
me to lead the same kind of an im
moral life that I knew she was lead
ing. When I refused she made a
threat that she would permit the
abuse of her 8-year-old daughter,
who was present during the contro
versy. When I remonstrated, Mrs.
Conti first grabbed a large carving
knife and tried to cut me. Then she
snatched a revolver from a drawer
and pointed it at me. I leaped upon
her to save my life. She was in a
blind. rage and I knew she would kill
me if I did not protect myself. Dur
ing the struggle the revolver, etill
in her hands, exploded twice. My
sister fell to the floor. One of the
bullets had atruck her in the back of
her head. ,
"It killed her InBtantly, I guess,
for when I examined her I saw she
was dead. I was terribly frightened.
I had only been in America for eight
months and I had no friends to go to.
"So I dressed the child, threw on
my coat and hat and went to New
ark. I arrived there about 3 o'clock
In the morning. I wandered about
the city, not knowing what to do.
I know some people in Atlantic City,
and toward daytime made up my
mind to come here. It was about
o'clock Monday afternoon when I got
here. I went Immediately to the
home of friends and remained there
until I was told the police were look
ing for me here. I came to the po
lice station.
"My sister was separated from her
husband, who was a tailor, mats
all I know."
The little daughter of the dead
woman, sole witness of the tragedy
was taken back to New York tonight
by Detective Comminessl. While Miss
Tucci announced her willingness to
go back, the police insisted the law
be complied with and she waited ex.
tradition through the proper clian
nels.
- When arrested here the girl was
dressed in mourning for her Bister.
Yes! But They Did It!
Next week you can see them daring death a dozen
times just a couple of girls and a motor car in the
Devil's Punch BowL
The Most Thrilling Drive
Ever Made!
And the public is invited to come and see it for one
week, beginning Monday, March 15, from 7 to 10 P.
M. at our salesroom. Everyone welcome.
You Will Never Forget It!
C. L. Boss Automobile Co.
613-617 Washington Street
devoted to their country and willing
to defend it, our foreign relations will
speedily disappear. I venture the pre
diction that the Issue of the oncoming
political campaign, the issue which
will rhieflv determine political affil
iations, will concern the relations of
the government to labor. This is as it
ouglit to be, for it Is the attitude of
voters upon this subject which alone
can solve this supremely important
problem."
"Events like the coal strike have
borne in upon me art abiding con
viction that the day of the strike In
the agencies of transportation and in
the baRlc industries in the country
had passed and passed forever. This
is not said with any want of sympthy
in the great cause for which labor
is fighting. In my opinion, labor has
never received and Is not now re
ceiving its Just share In the division
between capital and labor, but there
must be in the very nature of things
Borne better way to determine the
division than through the strike.
"Difficult, therefore as the duty
is, it seems to me that the govern
ment must undertake with respect to
transportation and certain basic in
dustries, the task of compelling
justice to wage workers and of ad
judicating in a fair tribunal the dis
putes which arise from time to time
between employers and employes. It
must declare, when the occasion arises
what wages shall be paid and the
working conditions which shall exist.
But this is not all. In these cases
In vhirh ha nubile interest, welfare
and protection require governmental j
jurisdiction, the government must not
only adjudicate the controversy, but
it must enforce Its decision. Wheir
the government speaks in behalf of
all the people, its voice must be
heeded, and ks commands respected.
The employer must pay according to
Its judgment and the employe must
not enter into a conspiracy to nullify
its decree.
"You will understand. I am sure,
that I am not advocating this rule,
which would create a new relation
between the government and Industry
for all Industries. It ahould be ap
plied only to those activities which
by reason of our development and
the distribution of our people mud
be regular, continuous and adequate."
DRIVER SAVES OIL TRUCK
Plucky Employo Runs Biasing
Tank From Storage Veils.
A blase that enveloped a ntwly
filled oil truck of the Union Oil com
pany endangered the filling station
of the company at the Wllbrldre
plant and afforded opportunity for a
spectacular act on the part of Jtcy
Marcks, the station filler, at IS last'
night.
Marcks had just flnlKliriT filling the
truck and began cranking the machine
when it backfired and scl ahliitn a hi-.
ollne and oil on (lie exterior of the
truck tank. Despite the dHtiiirr 0
himself, Marcks tllmhrrt aboard the
truck and ran It swsy frnin the na
tion, where it threatened to commu
nicate the flames to the Hock of oils.
Assistants at the Matlnn came lif Die
rescue and quenched the f lami n
with chemical rxtincuinhers s
Xanln was driving (he truck out.
City firemen reached (be m-cne Juet
after the excitement ended. Marcka
neaped with no burns of cnnni'iuence
and practically no monetary damns
was done by the fire.
Mt Iiifklp I Afire.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 11 Tb
American steamer Wel Innklp put
luto Honolulu today with a fire In
hold No. t, according to a wlrle
niepxage received here tnnltibt. The
vessel left Han Francisco March 2 for
Hongkong and Manila with a general
cargo.
Read The Orerrnilnn r!filfid
LABOR NEED PUT FUST
SEXATOU CTJ3IMIXS BELITTLES
other problems.
Workers Must Be Satisfied If Na
tion Is to Prosper, Iowa Leader
Tells Oil Congress.
CHICAGO, March 11. The Covenant
of the league of nations and other in
ternational relationships shrink into
nothingness compared with the rela
tion, present and prospective, of the
government to labor in industry was
the statement made tonight by Sen
ator Cummins of Iowa before the Na
tional Petroleum congress at its an
nual banquet.
"The relation of the government to
ward Industry involves the most seri
ous questions which have ever en
gaged or will engage the thought of
students in publio affairs," said Sen
ator Cummins. "Unless the people of
the United States who work for a
living are well disposed towards
American institutions, unless they are
enabled through the compensation for
their labor to become good clUiens,
ill
Our Men's Furnishings
Years before this long-established store
ever sold clothing our furnishings and hats
were known for their superior values.
The same holds true today in fact
never .have we been so genuinely proud of
our business and of our quality merchan
dise as at present.
The best American and foreign makers
of men's furnishings and hats are here.
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127 Sixth St., Bet Washington and Alder .
Formerly
Buffum & Pendleton Co.
Established 1884
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