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THE MORNING OREGONIAX, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1920 5 WILSON MAKES FIRST MOVE IN C1PWGM League Statement Issued. Irish Issue Evaded. WESTERN TRIP RECALLED Executive's Kcply to Loiter From California Man Dodges Main Point at Issue. PERFECT OREGON AUTUMN DAY GREETS CROWDS AT BIG FAIR Young Married Couple Appear on Grounds Proudly Wearing Harding Hatbands Gresham Lad Takes First Honors. BY ADDISON BENNETT. STATE FAIR GROUNDS, Salem, Or, Sept. 28. (Special.) This has been one of the most lovely days that has ever greeted any of our state fairs. Nature could not produce a finer day. I heard one young man say that the air had the aroma of wine. Perhaps he was thinking; of ancient state fair days when Salem every day had a stronger aroma of something stronger than wine. ' But those days have passed. I sup pose 9S per cent of the men and 99 per cent of the women of Oregon would vote against the return of the old days, when the aroma of whisky hung heavy over Salem. The trip from Portland here today was like a jaunt through Elysium. I believe the Elysian fields are supposed to be the front yard of heaven, but no matter WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. The first public document in the Dresent presi dential campaign to be issued at the where they are the road in the Wil- White House was made public today. It dealt with the league of nations and was in the form of a letter to K. M. Schwartz of I.os Angeles, writ ten by Secretary Tumulty at Presi- j dent Wilson's direction. The White House letter was in re- j ply to one to the president in which Air. Schwartz had declared the I forces supporting the republican ticket were contending that if article 10 of the league covenant was rati fied the United States "would be hound to support England in holding Ireland under subjection." j The letter to Mr. Swartz follows: "In reply to your letter of Septem ber 20, 1 beg to Bay that the identical questions contained in your letter, with reference to article 10 and the right of self-determination, found in the covenant of the league of nations were placed before the president while he was on his western trip la&t year and fully answered by him. "The president directs me to call your attention to the following ques tions and answers given by him to the press at that time which I think satisfactorily answer your inquiries. The questions and answers are as follows: . ABmTem Referred. "Q. Under the covenant docs the "ration obligate itself to' assist any member of the league in putting down a rebellion of its subjects or conquered peoples? "A It does not. "Q. Under the covenant can this nation independently recognize a gov ernment whose peoples seek to achieve, or have achieved their inde pendence from a member of the league? i "A. The independent action of the government of the United States in a matter of this kind is in no way lim ited or affected by the covenant of the league of nations. "Q. Under the covenant are those subject nations or peoples only those mentioned in the peace treaty entitled to the right of self-determination, or does the league possess the right to accord a similar privilege to other subject nations or peoples? "A. It was not possible for the peace conference to act with regard to the self-determination of any ter ritories, except those which had be longed to the different empires, but in the covenant of the league of na tions it has set up for the first time In article 11 a form to which all claims of self-determination which are likely to disturb the peace of the world, or the good understand ing between nations, upon which the peace of the world depends,, can be brought. Wilson Dodsrea Question. "Q. Why was the case of Ireland not heard at the peace conference? And what is your opinion on the sub ject of self determination of Ireland? "A The case of Ireland was not heard at the peace conference be cause the peace conference had no Jurisdiction over any question of that sort which did not affect territories which belonged to the defeated em pires. My position on the subject of self-determination for Ireland is ex pressed in article 11 of the covenant, in which I may say I was particular ly interested because it seemed to me necessary for the peace and free dom of the world that a forum should be created to which all peoples could bring any matter which was likely to affect the peace and freedom of the world." lamette valley between Portland and here is, on an autumn day like this, equal to them, fully equal. A great poet wrote about a day in June. I think he asked the question "What is so perfect as a day in June?" We of Oregon answer that by saying "A day in autumn." Air Filled Willi Autumn. Then we can go a few leagues fur ther and say a. typical autumn day in Oregon is beyond the pen of poets to write of. I today first knew it was autumn when I saw a full-plum-aged denny pheasant, arrayed in his robes of green and gold and blue and scarlet. With head erect, he strutted majes tically across the field, while by his side, arrayed like a little Quakeress in somber robes, his mate. Then I noted the fading tassels on the corn, the hops ready for the har vest, the leaves radiant in color, fall ing plentifully over the sward the honeysuckle vines dying by the sides1 of porches., wisteria in bright array on the lattices; the apples on the trees were taking on their colors of buff and brown and scarlet. Oh, a thousand things told me it was autumn. The soft west wind whispered it, and the air told us through many senses. And we. who were thankful, filled and filled again our lungs with ozone, and thanked God for a perfect day in autumn in dear old Oregon. "Jope" Is at Home. Autumn and the state fair come hand in hand, side by side, knocking at our doors every year. Sometimes often Jupiter Pluvius, comes with them, and musses things up. But lit tle things like that don't discourage us; we just go ahead and do the best we can, and "Jupe" will remain at home the next year. He must be home now, and we hope he' will not sneak out for another week. Of course "Jupe" is the farm er's friend. He is supposed to send the needed water to give us the crops. Without him we would be lost. But we think he sometimes uses bad Judgment, and is entirely too liberal with his water supply. One of the first things in the way of an item I found at the fair, was in the barn where the boys' pig clubs have their exhibits. The exhibits had been judged with the other animals, the Judging for the boy's club competition to come later, and the first in the junior class of Chester Whites, a lad from Gresham took the first prize, the blue ribbon. There were many entries in the class and our little Gresham boy was by many years the youngest, but the blue ribbon is his. I wish every boy and girl In Oregon could read this, and read the name of FAIR PRIZES ARE WON (Continued From First Page.) the fortunate lad. So I will give his name and residence and the award and ask the compositor to set them in short lines, center them and then put a rule around them, like this: : Lester Lynch, Gresham, : : First Prize. Junior, : : Chester White. : : At Oregon State Fair, : : 1920. : I saw something else today that pleased me greatly. You know you can find lots of things to please you when you start out to be pleased. Those who own and nurse grouches miss this pleasure that thrives upon pleasure, while a grouch only ac cumulates more grouches. In my search I saw a fine young man with a red band on his hat. and on the band the name "Harding." With him was his wife, and she had a "Harding" band on her arm. Next month he is going to cast his first vote, but his wife will not attain her majority for more than a year. They were neatly and finely dressed, as fine as you often see the most suc cessful merchant and his wife In Portland. Girl Entourages Hutband. I sidled up rather close to 'them as they were looking over a fine Jersey cow and her calf, and 1 caught their conversation. It disclosed that they have five good Jerseys at home, but they wanted this one. "I have offered $S50 for the cow and calf, but he says the lowest pr.ee is $1250." "Tom," said the wife, "you must buy them. Of course $1250 is an awful lot of money, but get them as low as you can We can manage it. We will not buy the machine we talked about until next year. I can do without the new suit I was going to get, and I am going to learn to drive the tractor;, and help you out. so we can cut out the hired man. Tom, we must have that cow and calf. Go right away and buy them." There are verses In the scriptures about helpmates and helpmeets. I suppose they are the same. Inferen tiully only the scriptures mention hin dermates and hindermeets. The for mer are the greatest blessing vouch safed to man. The latter but let that pass. I would like to be here a quarter of a century from now and learn how that couple succeeded. I will make a guess and say that they and others with the same sense who stick to the farm, and scimp their backs a little to put more money into land and pure-bred stock will "be the leaders of men and women in Oregon a quar ter of a-century from now. Six Aerea of Automobiles. I have not been all over the fair grounds yet. I did not get here until afternoon. But I saw here the big gest Tuesday crowd I ever saw; I saw the best swine exhibit ever as sembled here; I saw the best county exhibits ever shown at any state fair in the west, and I think I saw I feel almost sure I saw the second day's proceedings of by far the most successful session of the fair ever held. I went out to look at the array of automobiles driven in and parked on the grounds. I will tell you how many there were; I will tell you exactly. There were six acres of them. Maybe not if parked as close as sardines are packed in tins, but if thrown in loose, like shelled peas in a kettle, there were precisely six acres of them. Portland, Theasants of Albany and Hadiators of . Eigene, arrived here during the morning hours. As fast as each delegation entered the city they were met by a reception committee of the Salem Cherrians and escorted to the fairgrounds, where formal greet ings were extended. Many of the vis itors were accompanied by their wives, and to welcome these a group of well-known matrons kept open house during the entire day. Among these women were Mesdames P. K. Fullerton, L. B. Davis, O. A. Olson, J. C. Perry, Lee Gilbert, O. J. Shei. E. A Kappapan, Elmer Dane, M. L. Meyers, L. W. Gleason. Gertrude Hartman, Lee Canfield, W. J. Kearth, W. J. Busick and Misses Gertrude West and Loleta Davis. Included among the Portland Ro tarians here was Estes Sntilecor, president of the International Rotary clubs. At a banquet held at noon in honor of the visiting booster clubs Mr. Snedecor gave an address in which he reviewed the growth of the organization and its many achieve ments. Booster Clubs Drill. Featuring the afternoon programme were competitive drills between teams entered by the visiting booster clubs. enlivened by stunts and other events pleasing to the thousands of onlook ers. Two hundred dollars was dis tributed among these organizations. the largest cash prize going to the best uniformed body. Other cash prizes were awarded for the best booster yell end best booster song. A banquet, followed by informal parties, dances and entertainment features, closed the day's festivities as far as the programme pertained to the visit ing clubmen. Judges were still at work making awards in the livestock and other departments of the fair this after noon, and in most instances the win ners will not be announced before Thursday. The automobile and har ness races held this afternoon were pronounced the best for many years, and the crowd in attendance was larger than on any second day in the history of state fairs in Oregon. Every seat in the grandstand was eold and standing room was at a premium. Machinery Is Demonstrated. Other attractions during the day Included practical demonstrations of automobiles, tractors and trucks in machinery hall, viewing of the floral exhibit, judging of county exhibits in the agricultural building, profession al and amateur automobile polo con tests, demonstrations by Miss Roberts featuring the value of home nursing, moving pictures demonstrating meth ods employed in child welfare work and a meeting of the old Oregon state fair agricultural society. Ending tonight's programme was the opening performance oX expert horsemen and women in the stadium, the event being the Initial horse show. Among those entering was Mrs. Wayne W. Keyes, formerly Miss Ber nice Baker of Tacoma, who brought her remarkable trio. "Hildare," "Sir Sidney" and "Lord Nelson." Animals Famous on Coast. These animals were the bright lights at the horse show held recently in Portland and have won admiration in all sections of the Pacific coast. Another splendid feature was the ex hibition of J. D. Farrell's champion harness horse, "Old Glory," and his famous hunter, "Premier." These ani mals were not entered in competition, however, as Mr. Farrell is a member of the state fair board and not eli gible to participate in competitive contests. The appearance of a genuine Irish jaunting car, the property of Mr. Far rell and which had its origin in uorK, driven by an Irish coachman and con veying a group of Salem soloists singing old-time songs called forth prolonged applause at the hands or the audience which taxed every avail able seat in the spacious stadium. Boxes along the arena were occupied with parties composed of local and out-of-town society folk. Many Portlanders Enter. Other entrants in the horse show in cluded A. C. Ruby of Portland, Miss Jane Honeyman of Portland, Mrs. W. J. Barnes of Portland, Mrs. Z. L. Riggs of Salem, Mrs. Natt McDougal of Portland, C. H. Wheeler of Portland, Oliver Newton of Donald, J. N. Grant of Vancouver, D. F. Burge of Albany, Fred Woodcock of Salem. James Mc Cleave of Victoria, B. C; Miss Marion Bowles of Portland!, Miss Nell Osborne of Portland, Mrs. F. G. Andreae of Salem, Miss Clementine Lewis of Port land, Matt Ennis of Walla Walla, Mr. and Mrs. W. U. Sanderson of Portland, Claude Starr of Portland, James Nicol of" Portland, H. M. Kerron of Port land, J. B. Cornett of Shedd, J. H. Lemon of Portland, Miss Helen West of Portland and George Lauer of Spo kane. Animals entered by these exhibitors participated in the ladles' and gentle men's saddle class, combination classes, green hunters, heavyweight jumpers, jumpers, and draft teams. The horse show tonight far sur passed in elegance that of a year ago and will be repeated each evening until Saturday. Elks' Day Today. Tomorrow is Salem and Elks' day, and with all local business houses closed it is predicted that the crowd wilT be the largest for the week. The visiting Elks will arrive during the morning and will be met by commit tees of the local lodge and taken to the fair grounds. After luncheon the lodge men will parade, the line of march terminating at the grand stand abutting the race track. Other events 'tomorrow include harness and running races on Lone Oak track, completing of the judg ing of livestock and other exhibits, announcement of awards, examina tion of children between the ages of six months and six years under the direction of the county children's bureau, stunts by visiting Elks and a reproduction of the battle of the Argonne and other pyrotechnic fea tures under auspices of Capital Post No. 9 American legion of this city. The sham battle will be staged in front of the grandstand and with the horse show will furnish an elaborate and entertaining programme for visitors at the fair tomorrow night. Fair Board Lauded. At the meeting of the old Oregon state agricultural society held here tonight resolutions were adopted lauding the members of the fair board and A. H. Lea, secretary for the ex cellent manner in which this year s event has been handled. Regret was also expressed ir. the resolution of Mr. Lea's intention to leave the fair board at the conclusion of the present event. Fred A. Young, of Portland, walked away with three first prizes in the floral display while Clark Brothers, also of Portland, was given the higli award in another division of this ex- 9it ihe Gloamiticv Jit! On the tide of an old-time son&, the happy memories come crowding. Old dreams awake a&ain as the Cecilian plays some simple melody for you. All tlie solace, all tlie pure delifckt that music offers is yours -when there is a Cecilian in your home. For this rare instrument offers you all of the world's music, old and new, and best of all it enables you to do the playing. Let us show you the Cecilian. Come in and play it yourself. Then you will understand why there is "nothing else quite like it." Player-Pianos Mads by BUSH ft- LAKE Bush & Lane Piano Co., Portland, Oregon : Without obligation on my part kindly send me Cata logue of Cecilian Player-Pianos. Name . . Address PORTLAND STOBE Bush A Lane Bnlldlna;. Broadway at Alder Wholesale ' IHannfactnrers Retail hibit. Mr. Young won first prize for the best collection of greenhouse ferns and best display of carnations. Clark Brothers obtained the high award for the best collection of cut flowers. First prize of the best col lection of roses went to Martin & Forbes of Portland, while the blue ribbon for the best collection of hardy plants and evergreens was won by John Zimmerman, of Tigard. Prunarlana Win Prise. Prizes in the Booster competition were announced tonight as follows: Prunarians, Vancouver, Wash., larg est attendance from longest distance, 25. Radiators, Eugene, best uniformed organization, $25. Hubites, Albany, largest booster or ganization on grounds, $25. Prunarians, Vancouver, ash., best booster yells and songs, $25. La Pansa, owned by W. Tryon of Sacramento, easily won all three heats in the 2:2 trot, main event on the racing programme ct Lone Oak .track. In the 2:25 pace, Jessie Kidwell. owned by H. H. Helman'of Salinas, Cal., took the first two heats and sur rendered the third to Little Alexis, owned by Fred Johnson of Calgary. Yakima Owner Wins. The four-furlong running event was won by Gertrude B., owned by Ruth Parton of Yakima. Time, :48. In the match race of three miles, the fastest event in the automobile races, Fred Horey, dirt track champion, beat "Putty" Hoffman. Horey's time was 2:51 2-5. The five-mile free-for-all was won by "Toots" Reynolds in 5:02 1-5. An auto polo game between a Ca nadian and an American team was a tie at two goals each. American Yellow Fever Victim. VERA CRUZ. Sept. 28. Dr. Albert Hedrick, a clerk in the United States consular service, died last night from yellow fever. EXTRA! Orpheum show tonlght. KXTRA! Orpheum show tonieht.- -Adv -Adv 6 i We Are Advertised By Our Loving Friends" Observant Girl, Who Undoubt edly Reads the Daily Papers, Hits the Nail on the Head! An Actual Occurrence Last Monday at a Portland High School. History teacher (quizzing1 the class on current events) : "What two institutions in the United States are doing the most to reduce the high cost of living?" Girl student (promptly) : "BEN SELLING and HENRY FORD." More nearly correct, perhaps, than you might think at first blush. The young lady used both a na tional and a local illustration. True, not all of us ride in Fords, but we've got to wear clothes before we do. 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