2
TIIE MORNING OREGONTAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1920
PLEA TO AID FARMS
DENIED BY
HOUSTON!
Revival of War Finance Cor
poration Is Refused.
BOARD HEARING SOUGHT
Agricultural Delegates Carry Out
Plan to Ask Preferential Re
discount Rate on Paper.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. Agricul
tural interests carried their fight for
amelioration of credit conditions to
day to Secretary Houston of the treas
ury department. Thv asked for re
habilitation of the war finance cor
poration to foster exports to Europe
and were told by the secretary that
It was not in line with good busi
ness for the government to extend
further credits to Europe which would
be the result if the request was
srranted.
Senator E. D. Smith of South Caro
lina and other spokesmen for the
delegates in urging restoration of the
finance corporation declared in favor
f extending credit to Germany.
Germany In Championed.
"Germany," th senator said, "must
live. "I see no reas..n why her bonds
should not be accepted."
Later the delegates carried out their
plan of asking a preferential re
discount rate on agricultural paper at
a hearing before the full membership
of the federal reserve board. They
characterized the situation facing the
producers djue to the falling market
as "alarming" and insisted that one
of the main purposes of the federal
reserve law was to furnish elasticity
of currency for the agricultural in
terests In such emergencies.
"I ask one specific thing," Senator
Smith said. "Give the agricultural in
terests a lower rate of discount In
this distressing time than you do any
body else."
Oenrrnl Mretingr Concluded.
The delegates emphasized their feel
ings at both conferences that if they
could obtain some agency for financ
ing the credits of Europe and In
crease the sale of exports, their
plight would be largely relieved. They
asked the reserve board to use its In
fluence in having the finance corpora
tion re-established for this purpose.
The general meetings of the agri
cultural conference concluded today
but a committee representative of
each of the 30 agricultural groups
will remain until the statement of
credit policy In preparation by reserve
banks and covering the whole credit
situation is made public. This com
mittee called tonight on Secretary
Meredith and the situation was gone
over again.
Uectalon Held Approved.
Secretary Houston explained that
the treasury was constantly In the
market to borrow money for the pay
ment of current, bills. He told them
that the war finance corporation
could obtain money only from the
treasury and that if It were to loan It
meant only that the treasury"s bor
rowings would have to be Increased
and the government would have to
call on the people continuously for
more money."
Senator Smith declared that If such
were necessary, it was the proper
course to pursue. He said ho had no
objection to another popular loan If
the exigency required.
Secretary Houston said the decision
of the treasury not to revive the
war finance corporation had been
approved by the president and "nu
merous prominent senators and rep
resentatives," and general opinion
was that the benefits derived from
restoration of the corporation would
not counterbalance the evil effects
It would have on general money mar
ket and credit conditions.
WILSON POLICIES RAPPED
(Con tinned From First Page )
lomatic service, he said, had been "de
moralized" by the appointment of men
' s-. me of whom had no other qual
ifications than that of being ve.-y
iarge campaign conti "tutors."
Nation, Facta I roblema.
1 he first task of the nation n
working for w.irid p.. ace. he said, was
to set its face toward an Interna
tional association "under which we
may be free to esprBS and rnaintun
our own nationalism but In which
mutual oommar.cial and trade prob
lems may be worked out." He alsi
outlined agMn his plan to put the
nation's foreign loans S negotlabia
to? m.
The candidate's Mexican policy was
out.ined to a cowil of several tb.au
rand at Somerset. Ky, and was re
rented in seve -a.1 later speeches. Ho
declared democratic campaign speak
ers were saying republican vic:rrv
mant war with Mexico, but idded
that "this campaign scare will not de
ceive America a seicnd time."
Confidence and tranquillity, he said,
would result from the programme he
proposed to inaugurate.
Referring to Governor Cox's sug
gestion that the voters be supplied
with copies of the league covenant,
the senator showed to the crowd at
Oneida, Tenn., a bulky print of the
SO, 000-word peace treaty and said
that even a reading of the English
text would be unsatisfactory, be
cause It differed from the French.
"Hfart" of Covenant Read.
"I hold In my hands," he said, "a
copy of the treaty or peace with Ger
many and the league of nations cov
enant. I got it out today because I
noticed In the morning papers that
the democratic candidate and some
of his ardent supporters are insisting
that the covenant shall be printed
and made available to all America.
"The president so interwove the
"Covenant Into the treaty that you
would have to print all of it, and even
then If you want to understand It
perfectly. It would have to be printed
In both English and French because
It was so written. I wish It might
be in the hands of all Americans If
they would only read It. But some
how I suspect you would be better
satisfied if you had just one little
section of It. I wiil read you Article
10. the heart of the covenant. And,
speaking for the republican party, I
am opposed to It for the United States
of America."
I'onna-stera Get Rebuke.
At Danville. Ky., the senator made
& speech from an improv'ieed wooden
stand on a football field. Members
of the Center college football team
gave him three cheers and a tiger
and then as he began speaking an
other group took up the yell with
"Cox" substituted for "Harding." Mr.
Harding waited until they had .fin
ished, and then, shaking a forefinger
at tho group, shouted: "I like young
fellows to be enthusiastic about their
leader, but I want them to be Ken
tucky gentlemen and not insist on
Interrupting. I respect the man who
has his convictions and I respect my
fellow Americans who have other
party convictions than I have, but
when you are real Americans you
listen to both sides of the case, espe
cially if the one who is speaking Is
a candidate for the presidency of the
United States."
The candidate made 11 speeches to
day. ""Our diplomatic service." said the
senator here, "has a vital effect on
our foreign trade. We have seen a
complete failure of the administra
tion either to gather or to give to
our business men and our people any
warning of the coming of the world
war. The impending conflict was be
ing discussed by European statesmen
and diplomatic clerks, but our own
state department gave American for
eign trade no warning. This may
have been due to the fact that the
democratic administration had de
moralized the diplomatic service by
removing from their posts in im
portant places practically every
trained man and replacing them by
untrained men, some of whom had no
other qualifications than that of be
ing very large campaign contributors.
State Department Rapped.
"Seldom has any information come
from the democratic state department
that did not first reach the American
people through the reports of our
newspaper correspondents abroad.
The consular service, built up by re
publican genius. Is excellent, but the
lack of any organization to collect and
digest information about the current
political affairs in other countries, has
been notorious.
"We can find out almost nothing
from our government as to the con
ditions, social and economic. In those
countries which need our he'p and
might furnish us with markets. It
would be difficult to name a time or a
place, a year or a state, which ex
hibited more of secret diplomacy. We
have tasted to the dregs a policy
which humiliates American pride and
represents the lowest possible ebb of i
government service to the upbuilding;!
oi commence upon which our foreign
trade must be founded, i
"I believe that our first duty, hav
ing rejected as we have rejected, the
impossible and dangerous betrayal of
America as expressed, for instance,
in article X of the league of nat'ons.
is to set our faces toward an associa
tion with the other nations of the
world under wiiich each may be free
to express and maintain its own na
tionalism, but in which the mutual
commercial and trade problems may
be worked out. I regard such a p-licy
as perhaps the greatest contribution
that can be made to create bonds for
the maintenance of world's peace.
w Policy Xfcrmiry.
"But this is not enough. We need a
complete new policy. The government
must serve the people and their in
terests; and at the present time its
service cannot be efficiently given to
assist in building our foreign trade
without a reorganization of our state
department and our department of
commerce. The American business man
is confused because both of these de
partments are doing over-lapping
work and are sometimes coming' into
conflict, so that the very person to
whom they might give help is re
ferred by one to the other and back
again. The policy of the state de
partment toward American foreign
trade may be one policy and the policy
of the department of commerce may
be another.
"There must be an early solution
of the difficulty. One possible plan
is to place under the state department
the determination of policies, the fur
nishing of information and the giving
of assurance of aid and protection
which affect American foreign trade.
Another possible solution is that of
a special department, sponsored by
the secretary of state and the secre
tary of commerce, so that we may ef
ficiently direct all our energies under
one definite programme."
iittiiltuiiniinintnuiutniiiiNiuniiitHitijjtiiHNuniiiiHnituiiUHWtitiniuiil
iitiiiiiiimiitniiiriunliiiimrmiiiimm'
Foreign Debta Considered.
Discussing foreign loans he said he
had no desire to enforce payment
"harshly or importunately."
"Nevertheless," he continued, "these
debts are, in principle, of the same
binding quality as those which were
incurred in the form of loans made
directly by the people and represented
by interest bearing bonds,
"It take it for granted, therefore,
that these debts will' sooner or later
be funded and paid. Meantime, it
makes for future misunderstanding
to have this matter in its present un
settled form. I shall regard it as one
of the first duties of the incoming
administration to take up the subject
of adjusting these great debts and
putting them in a form where we
shall know exactly what to expect."
VEIL- JLIFTED, SAYS JODXSOX
Covenant Shorn of Mystery and
People Disillusioned.
CLEVELAND, O.. Oct. 14. The
election of Senator Harding as pres
ident was urged tonight by Senator
Johnson of California in his second
speech under the auspices of the re
publican national committee. He also
attacked the league of nations and
the treaty which embodies it.
"Eighteen months ago. when' Pres
ident Wilson called the league of na
tions the greatest Magna Charta
humanity was ever given," Mr. John
son said, "and when all of us, with
the bloody war on our hands were
having a mental reflex, a psychologi
cal reaction that was necessary, we
welcomed it with relief.
"At that time it was treason to
denounce it, or to preach American
ism and nationalism, but thank God,
after a year and a naif it is respect
able to preach Americanism again.
"Gradually the mystical veil which
enveloped the document was torn
aside. We had expected war preven
tion, but, oh, the disillusionment!
The fourteen points of our president
were one by one forgotten or
Doctors Say Our Clothes
Look Fit and Do Fit
More than 400 doctors in Portland
and a surprisingly large propor
tion are trading with us. But is it
surprising? A doctor likes clothes
the fabrics of which are not doc
tored. Score one for us. A doc
tor's training develops a hawk's
eye for details; a surgeon's sen
sitive touch can tell wool from
shoddy. He notes the conscien
tious tailoring of our clothes as
evidence of a sound constitution
and -consequent long life. And,
finally, who is" better equipped
than a doctor -a student of anat
omy to appreciate the- niceties
of a perfect fit?
Portland's
exclusive agents
for SAMPECK
clothes
For young
men and
their fathers,
too
Washington at Sixth
nninniminininiiiiiiinimwimiiiimmininuitiiiniiiimuimiiHui
initi! m mm Miniums
abandoned to European and Asiatic
diplomacy.
"We were handed the treaty which
divided up the earth according to
secret treaties.
"The league and the treaty are the
same Instrument and inextricably
commingled. Where the treaty dis
posed the league perpetuates for all
time. Every wrongful, wicked, ter
ritorial disposition under the treaty
of peace, the league and its members
are pledged to maintain.
"The great question before us is:
Under which flag do we henceforth
march the polyglot banner of Europe
(and Asia, or the Stars and Stripes?"
COX DEBATE PLAX SPtTRXED
Proposal Not in Keeping "With Pro
prieties, Says Harding;.
ON BOARD SENATOR HARDING'S
SPECIAL TRAIN, Oct. 14. Republ'c
an managers on Senator Harding's
train announced definitely late today
tha: the democratic proposal for a
league-of-nations debate between the
republican nominee and Governor Cox
would not be accepted.
Senator Harry S. New, head of the
republican speakers' bureau, said he
had not yet received tre proposal Bent
him by Senator Pat. Harrison, In
charge of democratic speakers' Ar
rangements, and added:
" would not for a moment consider
a proposition so utterly absurd."
Neither Senator New nor other
members of the candidate's immediate
party would go into a detailed dis
cussion of the subject, but it was said
ttat Senator New's position accorded
viih that of Senator Harding.
The question of a joint debate Is
rot a new -one. although broached
formally now for the first time, and
during the campaign Mr. Harding fre
fluently has told his friends that he
did tot regard direct debate as a
course in keeping with the proprie
ties of a presidential contest.
The policy of the republican nom
inee, his advisers said, has been from
the start to develop his views !n de
liberate publ'c' addresses. They said
trn;ght they saw no reason now to
change that policy.
Steamer Service to Astoria.
Pay and Repay
There is probably no advertiser in America
with an appropriation adequate to the national
opportunity.
The adequacy or inadequacy of an advertising
appropriation has nothing to do with the finan
cial resources of the would-be advertiser.
Wrigley spends a large amount for producing
sales, and last year, after taxes, this gum com
pany made more than four million dollars profit.
John Doe, who may wish to compete with
Wrigley, should reckon first on what should be
appropriated for advertising, and second, on
what he can appropriate.
Perhaps he can choose a limited sales terri
tory and use some intensive methods perhaps
he may have more clever sales plans or perhaps
he may be willing to wait longer for his returns.
Whatever the necessities, start right by
thinking right in terms not of your ability to
pay, but of the public's ability to repay for an
adequate appropriation.
B U 1 1 e r i C k Publisher
The Delineator
($2.50 a Year)
Every body,'s
Magazine
($2.75 a Year)
The Designer
(?2.00 a Year)
O.-W. R. R
Portland. Ai
daily except
6 A. M. No
Saturday ni
Ascoria 7 P.
day, instead
& N. steamers now lr
ns worth dock, 8 P. M.
Saturday, arrive Astoria
boat from Portland on
ght. Returning, leave
M.. daily excent Sun.
of 7 A. M. Adv.
Boston Drunkenness Decreased.
BOSTON. Oct. 14. Arrests for
drunkenness here during the. .last
court year were 18,143 less than in
"o proceaing 12 months, according I
to tne annual report of the clerk of
th municipal court.
The
Royal
The cleaner for rugs
of any kind or tex
ture the wide Royal
nozzle saves time and
6teps the handy
finger grip is always
convenient cleans in
the hardest places
with perfect ease.'
FREE
DEMONSTRATION
Simply call ns by
phone. Make your
' own terms.
390 Morrison St.
Phone -Main 8048
A New Word for the
Dictionary
"Red-Rock
99
It's definition: The
best cottage cheese
that can be made.
You'll like
"Red Rock"
AGAIN!
Through Special Arrange
ments We Are Enabled
to Offer
25, 40 and 50-Watt
Tungsten
Electric Light
Globes 4 for $1
The famous "NILCO LAMP" of
standard 5 drawn wire Tungsten
Filament comes in 25, 40 and 50
watt and 120 volt. Each globe hand
tested and guaranteed. As an ad
vertising feature for one day only
we are enabled through special
price concession to sell a limited
number of these electric jrlobes at
the astonishingly low Q- ff
price of 4 FOR O-L.Ull
fjt Sione Sent C. O. D. Delivered No
-il Phone or Mn.ll Order Not More
Than Knar to Any One Purchaser
Bawmrat Section.
Here's a Timely Sale of
Men's Underwear
Standard Makes of Good
Quality at Lowered Prices
Wool Mixed
Shirts and Drawers
This Sale, Garment $1.98
Perfect fitting fine wool mixed
natural gray shirts and drawers
in all sizes, garments of seasonable
weight and standard quality in this
'ale at $1.98
Heavy Ribbed
Cotton Union Suits
This Sale at, Suit $2.49
Well fleeced warm, durable cot
ton ribbed Union Suits in heavy
weight and all sizes. Union suits
that wiil both wear and fit satis
factorily in this sale at.... $2.49
ARf,PAIRF'or Men' Black Wool
rjl Hill Mixed Socks made with
frrar heel and toe All U- First
quality,
9Qf PAIR For Men's Heavy Cotton
d.Ht r rtlll sock, made nlth block
top and white aole All sixes Kirat
quality.
TJi entire resources of thl store are
belns exerted to the utmost in the en
deavor to plaoe before you every saving
sdvants.se secured through our policy of
buying and selling for cash and the con
stantly changing- market conditions.
You will aivvays nnd our prices as low
as. if not lower than, any store in the
city.
"The Store That
Undersells Because
rt Sells for Cash"
Our wore and mora of nkllled and xrert
buvem are constantly nd keenly watch
ing even- chatiice in tlir wholesale mar-'
ket, quickiy taking full advantaee of
every opportunity to plare before you the
last word in price lower in jj. Therefore,
no matter what your ned inipht be for
the home or person, don't make a pinprle
purchase before you have investigated
our prices.
Prices Go Down to the Last Penny
In Our Determination to Assure This Store's Patrons the Full
Measure of Value in Every Purchase. This space is the voice of
the store speaking calmly and convincingly of the store's goods
and service, and the frequent opportunities to save money on
worth-while things for person and home. For Bargain Friday's
Sale we list these splendid offerings. Come and Profit.
Come Participate in Friday's Sale of
Women's Fashionable FALL SUITS
We Have Arranged a Special Showing
of Sample Suits and Odd Garments
From Regular Stock Lines and Re
priced the Entire Assortment at a
Third Less Than Regular. You Have
Unrestricted Choice at
When the economical woman looks about for a suit saving of the most advantageous
kind her interest will at once be centered in this unusual offering brought about through
a timely purchase of a prominent manufacturer's sample line and a readjustment of
our regular stock lines whereby one or two suits of a style or color are to be closed
out at an average saving of one-third actual value.
Materials are fine Serges, Tricotines, Velours both plain and checked and other
equally as fashionable fabrics in navy, brown, Copenhagen, etc. The popular belted
and ripple models with silk braid or embroidered trimming predominate. All sizes from
16 to 42 in the assortment but not in each style. Come early for first choice Friday
at $14.50.
$44.50
Yz OFF
IfP"on's Sweaters at $2.98
Choice From Our Entire Stock
At this low price we are closing out our entire stock of Women's
Slip-On Sweaters. Included are all popular styles and colors in
all-wool, worsted and zyphyr yarns they come with plain or fancy
yoke and in plain or novelty weaves. All sizes. All on sale at $2.98
Women's
Tuxedo
Coat Sweaters
Reduced to $3.00
In this assortment are to be found all the season's best styles in
tuxedo and coat effects they come with plain or bell sleeves
regulation or sailor collar with or without belt. Both Wool and
Worsted Sweaters on sale at $5.00.
Boys' and Girls'
Knit Waists 25c
Both Cub and M brands in
sizes 2 to 13 years perfect fit
ting, well taped waists on sale
at 25 each.
The Princess
UNION SUITS
For AVomen
SizesSl98 Sizes Sl69
Made of combed Peeler cotton
yarn with French band top
Dutch or low neck sleeveless
or elbow sleeve ankle length
shown in flesh color only.
Manufacturer's Discount of -i - f p ,
va Brings These bilkolme Comforters
To You at a Saving of Just $3.02
At Friday's Sale You Pay Only
See Our Third Street Window Display
The housekeeper who prides herself on her fine bed coverings will be especially well pleased with
these handsome silkoline comforters, for they are extra well made with fine white carded cotton filling
and standard quality covering in pink, blue and yellow in dainty flowered styles. They are of full size
for double beds and are just 3.02 less than regular at Friday's Price of $4.9.S-
None Sold to Dealers Limited Number to Any One Pur
chaserA Great Special Purchase Makes Possible This Saving
Wool
Mixed
Cotton Batts HWS1.95
These nice white cotton and wool mixed Batts come in one piece
72 by 90 inches and are two pounds in weight. They come in
cartons that keep them clean and fluffy not more than 2 to any
one purchaser at the above sale price.
Comfort Coveringsrd 25,
Brand new Cretonnes and Silkolines in pretty and flower styles
in medium colors; also dainty challies in desirable patterns espe
cially desirable for comfort coverings. All 36 inches wide and all
in this sale at the above low price.
New Ribbons!
In a Great Showing and
Underpriced Sale
s y
JUST IN BY EXPRESS several
hundred bolts of the most beautiful
new ribbons in styles and colors
that are in greatest demand a
wonderfully attractive lot of rib
bons secured at unusual price con
cessions which enable us to pass to
you unmatchable savings. And
with the holiday season close at
hand this is, indeed, an opportune
sale. s
Beautiful 7 to 10 -Inch
Ribbons This Sale 98c Yd.
An unlimited variety of styles
and colorings in fine quality Warp
Print Taffetas in widths' from 7
to 10 inches both light and dark
color combinations. High-grade
ribbons considerably underpriced.
Ready-Made Hair Bows
at 49c Each
All Colors, Plain and
Novelty
Bows of generous sizes in
wid? ribbons in plain colors,
checks, plaids, stripes and nov
elties. 14 to 1 yards to a
bow. This Sale at 49 Each.
Handsome 8 to 10 -Inch
Ribbons on Sale $2.79 Yd.
Handsome Jacquard Ribbons es
pecially adapted for making Bags,
Vestees and fancy work. 8 to 10
inch widths in a full showing of
.he most desirable patterns and
Morinrs. Strictly high-class nov
elties nnderpriced.
PARENTS Here Is an Out-of-the-Ordinary
Sale Children's Play
3
Suits
Suits for $1
Regulation Standard
Quality Blue Denim, Fast
Turkey Red Trimmed
Garments in All Sizes From 2 to 8 Years
Surpassing all our previous sales of this character, comes this special
offering of two suits of children's regulation styles, first quality Blue
Denim Play Suits for a little more than the former price for one. Every
garment cut full and well sewed with double seams and reinforcements
and neatly trimmed in turkey red and with pockets all sizes from 2
to 8 years. At this sale you purchase with our personal guarantee
and at an unusually big price reduction 2 SUITS FOR $1.90
None Sold to Dealers--No Phone Orders
$1.00
Will Have a Tremendous Buying Power at
Friday's Sale of Several Hundred
Remnants of Cotton Goods
Chambrays, Cheviots, Percales, Calicoes, Ginghams, $
Cambrics, Jap Crepes, Longcloths, Uannelette, unite
and Fancy Voiles, Etc., all go at
W S TV.
An early visit to this section Friday will give you choice from several
hundred Remnants and Short Lengths of all sorts of desirable wash cottons
at a sensationally low price $1.00 for choice from Chambrays, Cheviots,
Percales, Calicoes, Ginghams, Jap Crepes, Longcloths, Cambrics, Colored
and White Fancy Voiles, Flannelettes, etc None reserved. Purchase as
many as you wish as long as any remain at $1.00 EACH
Each
Remnants Selling
larly at 2 and 3
This Amount.
Rr pa-Times
17Hunch Towels
6 for $1.00
Good quality white Huck Towels finished with
fast colored red border, 17x32 inches, on sale
Friday at 6 for $1.00
Limit 6 to a customer.
17x34-Inch
Huck -
Towels
4 for $1.00
Fine White Huck Towels, 17x34 inches, finished
with medallion border for initialing, on sale Fri
day at 4 for $1.00
Limit 4 to a Customer.
Our Store
Now Opens
at 9 A. M.
The Most in Value The Best in Quality
Store Closes
at 5:30 P. M.
Saturdays
at 6 P. M.