.THE MOIINIXG OREGONIAN, MONDAY,
NOVEMBER 1. 1920
county is 145,981 or 29.4 per cent of!
iiPOLITICS CHAOTIC
night issued a statement relative to
the reported assertion of Mrs. Doug
las Robinson that her brother, Theo
dore -Roosevelt, "approved" the Lodge
reservations to the league of nations
covenant.
"The fact is, Roosevelt died before
the conference met to begin consid
eration of the treaty,' "the statement
said: "At that time the league? of na
tions covenant was not written, nor
was it even known that it would be.
' Mr. Roosevelt died January 6, 1919;
the Paris conference began three
weeks later, and the treaty was not
signed til five months thereafter.
The Lodge reservation's were not
drafted or reported by the foreign
relations com-mittee till September
and Roosevelt had - ben dead eight
months.
"As a matter of fact, severaTof the
Lodge reservations are in direct con
flict with Roosevelt's great address
delivered when he .received the Nobel
peace priue at Christiana."
A ROOSEVELT RE
PUBLICAN'S VIEW
OF CHAMBERLAIN
AS NATIONAL
FIGURE.
me Luiai v L ine eiaie. QeaiLie reg
4
istration is 119,754 or 24 per cen
the state total. These large re
tration figures make King county the
center, of Interest- for the state on j
SUliJVJIN.DE
election night, ana no crort ts Deing
spared by Robert M. Jones, county
chairman, to place the big vote in the
republican column.
i National and State Tickets
i Predicted Winners.
PETITION STARTS TALK
Application of Lady Khondda for
Seat in House Discussed.
Copyright, 1020, by the Press Publishing
Co. Published by arrangement. )
LONDON. Oct. 3L (Special Cable.)
Various Stands on League
Question Cited.
Commanding Ability and Unflinchiug
Courage Attested in Many a Crisis
High Testimony to His Great
Achievement in War.Wlnning Leg
islation. 4
Dr. Henry Waldo Coe. In Medical Sesiin.l.
No republican need fear that the
next senate will not be strongly re
publican, no matter what orofession
als may say between now and elec
tion. ! APATHY ALONE IS FEARED
RANDOM NOTES INTEREST
STUDENT PASTOR TO BE IX
ST.ULED AT COR V ALUS .
' CHURCH.
ir Vote Is Light, Forces of Rad
icals Will Triumph, Warns
State Chairman. -
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REPUBLICANS SIGHT
WIS1GT0MEEP
CLARES
Georgia Democrats Take Stand
Against Covenant; Borah
Indorses Gooding. '
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(Continued From First P. )
IMPORTS. DRIVE SUITED
1
T SEATTLE. Wash.," Oct. 31. (Spe-
; cial.) Sweeping victory for the re-
publican nationaC and state tickets
next Tuesday was the prediction of
Charles Hebberd. republican state
chairman. With reports fronj vir-
1 tually every precinct in the state.
Hebberd declared that only apathy,
on the part of the republican voters
can defeat an overwhelming vote for
Senator Harding for president, Louis
F. Hart for governor and other state
I, and congressional nominees.
With a full party vote out, Mr.
Hebberd said Washington will easily,
return its present congressional del
egation to the national capital.
. Chairmen of other parties also pre
dicted victory .for their tickets.
Indifference Only Danger.
"There is just one element of dan
ger to republican' success, that of in
difference," said Chairman Hebberd.
"If the voters will respond Tuesday
with a full expression of the will of
the people, Harding', Hart, Jones and
'. the full congressional and state tick
ets will be elected by substantial plu
ralities. "If the vote Is a. light one, the
forces of radicalism may prevail. I
X have, however, full confidence in the
decision the voters of Washington
will render Tuesday.
"The national issue Is the over
v throw of Wilsonian autocracy with its
;" war-breeding: league and the aimless
"i" drifting of the last two years in do
l znostic and foreign affairs.
' State IiKne Clean-rat.
"The state issue is clean-cut be-
tween Americanism and radicalism,
,' between republican achievement and
farmer-labor promise. The candidate
for governor, who leads the farmer-
, labor forces and leases his farms to
" Japanese labor, has gathered -to his
: eupport all the radical forces, of the
state, including socialists, non-parti-'.
san leaguers and the I. W. W. The
voters of Washington will not- prefer-
Bridges, Duncan, France, Peace and
; Klmer Smith of Centralia to Senator
Jones, Representatives Miller, Hadley.
I Johnson, Summers and Webster, Oov-
ernor Hart, Clark Savidge and other
I able members of the republican state
ticket. .
"I know that loyal democrats will
east many thousands of votes Tues
day for republican candidates, na
tional, congressional and state.
J Karl j- Vote tfrged.
"5 "My earnest call to all good citi-
'tens is to vole early and then see that
their neighbors and friends go to the
;. -polls."
Expose early in October of the offi
; . . cial record on file in the King county
-'auditor's office ehowing that Robert
. " Bridges, the farmer-labor gubernato
rial candidate, had, in the face of the
denunciation of such practice by the
Washington state grange, leased to
Japanese his two farms in the White
River valley, near Orillia, proved a
startling shock to the adherents of
the third party and one from which
neither 'Bridges nor the organisation
recovered throughout the campaign.
The bad situation for the new farmer-labor
party thus created was fur
ther complicated on October 11 by
Bridges in Spokane, where he de
clared himself for unrestricted immi
gration. Under a Spokane date line
on that day the Seattle organ of the
farmer-labor movement printed on its
first page the following dispatch:
"Bob Bridges, farmer-labor candi
date for governor, asserts he is op
posed to any legislation' to keep the
people of Japan or any other country
from America
Discrimination Hla Belief.
"I do not believe that natives of
any country. Irrespective of race, col
or or religion, should be discriminated
against," declared Bridges.
"We would consider ourselves In
sulted if other nations excluded us
from their doors.
"My view, of this Is as broad as the
world itself. I believe the people of
the world should be allowed to go
where they please. This does not
mean that we roust assimilate them,
but it does mean that I believe the
Japanese should not be dincriminated
against."
An immediate flood of adverse criti
cism from officers of the State Grange
and from the rank and file of the
party followed. Bridges repeated
these sentiments, on unrestricted im
migration in two or three other
speeches, driving from him the sup
port of a large anti-Japanese ele
ment on the west side.
Grange Secretary Protests.
Fred W. Lewis, secretary of the
State Grange and leading farmer in
southwestern Washington, unhesitat
ingly condemned the practice of turn
ing farm land over to Japanese.
He said: "If the practice of leas
ing farm land in Washington to Jap
anese becomes general, the American
farmer will have to come to the
Japanese level of living and working
n order to remain in business, some-
hing that neither the farmer nor
merican laborer can tolerate. The
rowing practice of establishing Jap-
nese farming in this state under the
leasing guise has been condemned by
the state grange. I am convinced that
Japanese farming is becoming a
menace to the agricultural progress
and prosperity of the citizens of this
state."
Views Sent Over State.
Following a storm of protest
Bridges committed a set of views on
oriental immigration to . print and
thousands of these have been sent
; throughout the state.
j In this circular "explanation" of his
V",. lease?. Bridges' said he leased his
A. , farm to Japanese after his sons were
r called tn th uorvic, r f thtk TTnited
States, in order that the farm might
aid in production in war time.
County records show, however, that
the leave was negotiated March 1,
llo, more than a year before the
United States entered the war.
i In King county citizens will be
called upon Tuesday -to literally "vote
iur cvci taunts lrum jfrcsiuaut lu uuu
stable." In addition to these officers to be
, named there appear on the ballot four
.special s.ate measures and one addl
" tVorra.1 measure in the city of Seat-
tie. !Thee are referendum .o. 1, the
Carlyon road bill; referendum No. 2,
the soldier's bonus bill, and two
amendments to the constitution one
- an eminent domain measure and the
other increasing the salaries of state
-officers. In the city of Seattle the
" voters will be called upon to express
their sentiments on the jitney lni
" tiafve ordinance, which. If carried,
would give the Jitney drlvdrs unre
stricted use of the streets.
1'hia total registration la King
h r-' i fit
i is? -i ,
I fc - (r i'r J '"fttj t
J.. Myron Dooser, D. D.
. CORVALLIS, Or., Oct. 31.
(Special.) On Wednesday even
ing, November 3. will be held
-the ' installation of L. Myron
Boozer, IX !., as student pastor
in connection with the First
Presbyterian church of Corval
lis, of which Rev.- J. E. Snyder .
is pastor. The services will be
under the aunpices of the Synod '
of Oregon and conducted by the'
committee having the work in
charge, together, with the com
mittee of the Corvallis church.
Kev. Harold L. Bowman, D. D.,
will give the address of the
evening and other well known
men of the denomination in the
state will be present. The synod
of Oregon selected Rev. Mr.
Boozer as moderator a year ago
and he has been prominent in
the counsels of the denomina
tions for many years.
T4ie Corvallis church has the
co-operation of the general
board of education of the Pres- '
byterian church and the (Synod
of Oregon in this work.
Viscountess Rhondda's petition to
the crown for the right to be seated in
the house of lords opens up one of the
greatest constitutional questions that
has been discussed in this country in
many years. The success of Lady
Rhondda's application -would mean
that some 25 pee-resses in their own
right would be entitled to sit in the
house of lords.
Peeresses in their own right, in the
English nobility, differ from . the
wives of peers in that the farmer are
entitled to all the privileges of peers
with the exception of sitting in the
house of lords, whereas the wives of
peers have not equal rights with their'
husbands, taking their titles only.
Wife Reads Husband Is Killed.
Mrs. E. Richardson of Vancouver,
Wash., read of the death of her hus
band yesterday and Immediately got
in touch with Marvin Forbes and T.
Brothers, cousins, in an effort to lo
cate his body. The etory told how
he had been working in the woods
as faller at a camp near Burley, .Or.,
and died when his skull was crushed
by the limb of a falling tree. Up to
a late hour yesterday afternoon they
had not been able to locate the camp
at which he worked or get any trace
of the accident. Mrs. Richardson was
frantic and refused to believe that
her husband, whom she saw just be
fore he went on the Job, had been
killed. He is said to have been work
ing but two" hours when, the acci
dent occurred.
Condensary L-imlts Operations.
CHEHALIS, Wash., Oct. 31. (Spe
cial.) Owing to the further demoral
ized condition of the market for con
densed milk the Chehalis condensing
plant of the Carnation Millc Products
company will discontinue condensing
milk for the present and will sepa
rate cream for butter. The result has
been that a considerable part of the
milk supply has been cut 'off and
dairymen- are obliged to dispose of it
to creameries and elsewhere. A num
ber of employes of the condenser also
find themselves temporarily out of
work.
Save your homes zoning' will pro
tect you. Vote 600 X yes. Adv.
RESULT OP PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION TO BE AN
NOUNCED BY SIGNAL.
The result of the presidential
election will be flashed over
Portland tomorrow night by
The Oregonian through special
arrangements with the Portland
Railway, Light & Power com
pany. As soon as the first
authentic report of tb.e vote is
received here, a system of sig
nals from the lighting circuits
of the company will tell the
waiting crowds which candi
date has won. The same serv
ice will be given In Oregon
City, Vancouver, Salem and sur
rounding territories.
The following arrangements
govern the giving of the signal:
Time of signal As soon as
definite returns are compiled,
or at 10 o'clock. In case the
signal is given earlier, it will
be repeated at 10 o'clock. .
Method of signaling By
turning out -the electric lights
in territory designated.
Code to be utilized:
Two dashes (two successive
five-second intervals of dark
ness) will indicate that Harding
has won.
Three dashes' (three succes
sive five-second Intervals of
darkness) will indicate that Cox
has won.
Four dashes (four successive
five-second Intervals of .dark-"
ness) will Indicate that the
election is in doubt. ' ...
Watch for the signal and
count the dashes.
going up to Wisconsin and making
speeches in behalf of an independent
candidate for senator who is a kind
of "yes, yes, man" for Senator La
Follette. Senator Borah of Idaho is denounc
ing the league of, nations all through
the east, 'while at home in his own
state the republican candidate, who
seems to be Borah's associate in the
senate, takes a position on the league
which merely mildly dissents from
the feature which gives Great Britain
six votes to America's one. And the
republican managers In Idaho are de
manding that Borah give his O. K. to
this very -mild dissenter from the
league in order to make sure of the
Borah republican vote in Idaho. As
a result Senator Borah Saturday tel
egraphed his indorsement of the can
didacy of Frank R. Gooding.
In Colorado, Tully Scott, nominee
of the democratic party and the Non
partisan league. Indorses the demo
cratic national platform declaration
and upholds Wilson and Cox on the
league of nations. At the same
time and In the same state Charles
S. Thorns, a good old tried-and-true
democrat, who now represeats' Col
orado in the senate as a democrat, 's
running for re-election as an Inde
pendent on a platform of thorough
going bitter-ender opposition to the
whole league of nations and all Its
part.
- Chamberlain Stands !.
In Oregon, Senator Chamberlain,
who has represented his state in the
senate as a democrat for 12 years, is
running for re-election on a record
of having voted for the league, for
the Hitchcock reservations and for
the Lodge reservations; while the
Wilson - faction of the democratic
party in Oregon is opposing him and
trying to elect in his place a demo
cratic senator of their own who
stands by the Wilson position.
It is surprising that some cartoonist
has not yet seen the possibilities In
a cartoon of Senator Harding, as a
benevolent and perturbed mother,
trying ot tuck into the same bed a
family of children who are rather
too numerous for the bed and too
belligerently turbulent to maintain
peaceful relations in any place whatever-
where they are within arms'
length of each other, Harding trying
to stretch the league of nations
blanket far enough to cover rather
more republican leaders than It was
evidently meant to cover, with the
naughty greed and belligerently
vocal Johnson at one edge, grabbing
enough of the blanket to make him
completely comfortable and thereby
leaving that chubby child, the less
aggressive Taft, at the other edge,
with his rotund person fully exposed
to the cold.
One who has been charged with the
business of trying to keep traek ot
the complicated agilities of all shades
of statesmen on the league of nations
finds himself at the end of the cam
paign, and with the end of this league
of nations chaos not even in eigl t
dwelling. almost unduly, almost with
the morbid apprehension that some
times with extreme fatigue, on the
story of a-snake that has lately been
the subject of a good deal of talk
among democratic leaders.
This snake, by all accounts, had
extraordinary qualities, one guesses
from the accounts one hears, that he
must have had" exceptional charm of
personality. All that is known of
him tends to picture him as endowed
with intellectual and spiritual quali
ties far above the average of his
kind. He has ambition, and the lust
to excel. In another Incarnation he
would have been an explorer of new
continents, or one of these gallant,
dashing youths who climb mountains
never climbed before, or, as aviators,
try for new altitude records. He was
youthful and lithe and , possessed of
exceptional suppleness in tortuation.
In the consciousness of prominence of
his capacity in this kind of activity
and in the spirit of youth and high
endeavor that marked him always,
this ambitious reptile attempted the
feat of following the tracks made by
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts in
his successive positions on the league
of nations. In the course of this ad
venture, and In the sight of all who
has gathered to behold it, he perished,
so the democratic leaders report, of a
dislocation of the spine.
DEFENSE FUND WANTED
SPEAKER URGES COIIiECTION
FOR I. XV. Wv MURDERERS.
Alien Accused of Violating - the
Espionage Act Declares
"Reds" Made Good.
Plea for a defense fund for the
L W. W .members now serving prison
sentences of from 25 to 40 years for
the Centralia Armistice-day outrages
was made in the socialist meeting at
Machinists' hall last night by Ragnor
Johanson, a Seattle, Wash., L W. W.
organizer, now at liberty under $11,
000 bonds pending appeal of a 20
year sentence to Leavenworth fed
eral prison for violation of the es
pionage act. Johanson, admitting he
was an alien and saying that he had
forfeited all right to citizenship by
his war record, spoke In broken Eng
lish of the year he had already spent
in Leavenworth.
- Pointing to improved conditions In
the Oregon and Washington lumber
camps, Johanson said that the I. W.
W. were alone responsible.
Albert Slaughter, Salem, Or., social
ist candidate for United States sen
ator, . interspersed his speech on
campaign Issues with slurring . re
marks directed at religion and the
churches. Comparing conditions in
side prisons and outside. Slaughter
said, "God knows, if there is a God,
and I doubt it, that conditions inside
prisons are bad enough, but outside
among the workers they are even
worse." .
HITCHCOCK ISSUES DENIAL
Roosevelt Dteclared Dead Before
Lodge Made Reservatolns.
OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 3L United
States Senator G. M. Hitchcock to-
UNITED COMPiST IS SESDIXG
SECRETARY. TO ORIENT.
Plan to Establish Or flees in New
York City and Chicago Also ,
Is Announced.
A big drive for the development of
a national business in the importa
tion of Chinese and Japanese silks
and similar goods by way of this port
is contemplated in the United Im
port & Trading company, which is
sending its secretary, Alfred C. Black,
on an extended trip to China and
Japan. '
At the same time, the company an
nounced that it would establish its
own offices and sales rooms in New
York city and Chicago shortly after
the first of the year, in addition to
the representation which It already
has in larger centers of the east.
Mr. Black will leave the middle of
the month on the steamer Empress of
Russia and will visit all the prin
cipal cities of the orient before his
return. His trip will be in the in
terests of the business development
contemplated by his concern.
. The United Import & Trading com
pany, which has offices in the Lum
bef Exchange bulldiing, was estab
lished in 1911 by Albert von der
Werth, who is president of the com
pany. In the past, this concern has
been a factor in the importation of
oriental merchandise.
Due tothe rapid return of pre-war
conditions and the removal of trade
restrictions, the company has in
creased its facilities and -has an
nounced its intention of entering into
the national markets on a larger
scale.
The trading company has the ex
clusive representation in this country
for several large and established
firms in the orient. The plans are
to specialize on the importation of
Chinese .and Japanese silks, hand
made laces, Chinese rugs and other
high-grade oriental merchandise.
Prior to his connection with the
United Import & Trading company.
Mr. Black was associated wh the-Wilcox-Hayea
company, importers
and exporters of this oity. -'-'.
ILLINOIS CAMPAIGN ENDS
Candidates of Bolli: Bis -Purlies
Confident of Victory, . .. .
CHICAGO, OcC 31. The' Illinois po
litical campaign .wound up tonight
with all the candidates, of both major
parties confident, of victory. '
Managers of ex-Senator -Lewis,
democratic v nomfheet'Jor governor,
predicted he -Would -carry the state
by 60,000.' . ,
Backers ' of Len Small, republican
nominee, were centain, however, that
their candidate, .who is"-' supported
by Mayor Thompson, would defeat
Lewis by at least 250,000 votes.
John Maynard Harlan, independent
republican, -also claimed" victory.
MACSWINEY IS LAUDED
Hearse Heads Spokane Parade In
Honor of I,ato Iiord Mayor.'
SPOKANE, Wash.. Oct. 30. Every
seat and every available standing space
in Our Lady ot Lourdes cathedral
was occupied this morning by a gath
ering, estimated at 1500 persons, who
heard an address by Rev. Father Car
roll of Gonzaga university eulogizing
the late Terrence MacSwiney, lord
mayor of Cork, Ireland.'
. Following the services and cele
bration of mass a parade headed by
a hearse containing anempty casket
and followed by hundreds of citizens
in automobiles and on foot passed
through the downtown streets.
U-BOAT, RESCUES PLANE
Aircraft Adrift Daring Night Is
Picked Up.
SAN "DIEGO, Cak, Oct. 31. A sub
marine chaser early today rescued
a seaplane commanded by Lieuten
ant T. Garnette, and carrying a
crew of four, and five musicians
as passengers, which had been adrift
all night near Oceansidie, 40 miles
north of h'ere. Engine trouble five
miles off shore compelled the sea
plane to land.
The plane left San Pedro Saturday
night and was bringing the mu
sicians here to play at a dance at
the naval air station.
Macewiney Memory Honored.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct." 81. A fu
neral procession followed by a low
requiem mass at St. Mary's Catholic
cathedral here were held today in
memory of the late Terence Mac
Swiney, lord jnayor of Cork. The
procession was led by scores of for
mer sailors, soldiers and marines in
uniform. The Most Rev. Archbishop
Hanna delivered the eulogy and gave
a brief history of MaoSwineys life
and of the efforts to obtain freedom
for Ireland.
Braiding, embroidery. Boojhs, Mor
gan Building. Adv.
To Assure the
Re-election of
Mayor Baker
Vote Only One
Choice
(Paid Adv., C. C. Hindmaft.)
How a Working Man
Became Independent
Each pay day for five years he
deposited a certain amount to his
credit in this strong, safe Bank.
Today he owns his own business
and has won the friendship of
powerful men.
YOU can do the same.
Begin TODAY.
Savings Department.
THE NORTHWESTERN
PORTLAND.
COWLITZ STRETCH DONE
UK A DING OK PACIFIC HIGH
WAY SOW COMPLETKI). '
Commissioner Hi He of Castle Rock
Keporta Mucli Progress Slade
in Work on Koarts. .
CHEHAX.1S. Wash.. Oct. 31. (Spe
cial.) County Commissioner Hille of
Castle Rock, 'who" was in Chehalis
yesterday, ' reported that grading of
the Pacific highway across Cowlitz
county has been completed. The rains
of September made- repairs necessary
in many -places, owing - to. the grade
caving in, but these repairs have been
practically completed. Gravel . has
been, put on the road..
Comnxlssloner Hille declared that
the 'graveling has proceeded so far
that with another two or three weeks
of ' favorable- weather .-the surfacing
of the roadway for the entire distance
will . have been completed sd as to
open the road to travel this winter.
This will mark the finishing of the
grade of the Pacific highway through
the southwest Washington counties.
Great progress has been made also
toward paving the - highway, this
work having been completed from
Lewis county's north line to Toledo,
seven miles-, from the Cowlitz county
line. ' Kxtending across, into Thurston
county from Lewis county's northern
boundary two miles and 4000 feet, the
pavement is also., completed. There
is about 15 miles between Chehalis
and Olympia that is not now paved.
Sunday Auditorium Music
Concert Pleases.
Selection of Manic and Musicians
Harmonize With Audiences.
MUSIC selected this season for ren
dition and the musicians who in
terpret that music make up enter
tainment and educational programmes
that fit In nicely to the scheme of
things at the Sunday afternoon con
certs, held in the public auditorium.
These programmes are not too
"high-brow," .out of respect to large
audiences that lo not include large
numbers of professional musicians,
but many family parties. Yesterday
afternoon's concert was another of
this excellent series, the programme
including organ solos by Frederick
W. Goodrich, violin solos by Mrs.
L. W. Waldorf and choruses by mem
bers of the Central Presbyterian choir
The THREE-MILL TAX measure is NOT A NEW TAX and
means NO INCREASE IN TAXES next year.
Unless it is voted this year the" same as it was a year ago, one
third of the fire stations must be closed because of lack of funds.
Police protection, playgrounds street cleaning and every other
city service must be reduced nearly one-third. There is no way
to prevent it. After election will be too late.
Reduced fire protection means higher insurance rates and
greater fire loss.
Vote 508 X Yes for the 3 Mill Tax
(Paid Adv. by Fire Prevention Committee, T. H. Williams, Chairman)
Ask for Air. Hoyt,
NATIONAL BANK
OREGON.
and Schubert club, J. William Belcher,
conductor.
Mr. Belcher and his musical associ
ates, all of the latter being his vocal
students, deserve great credit for the
enjoyable musio heard. The Central
church choir numbered 13 women
singers and nine men. They sang
with the precision, fine ton quality
and attention to light and shade that
one expects from a finely trained
choir, obedient to the least sign from
th.3 director and always answering to
discipline. "By Babylon's Wave"
(Gounod) was sung so thrillingly
and -dramatically as if It had btTen
sung by a choir of professional voices.
Mr. Belcher says that his choir mem
bership is on- an amateur-student
basis. The choir is one of the best in
this city and most ably led. Its soft
pianissimo singing is admirable, and
the tone volume was quite large for
a small chorus.
The Schubert club. 16 girls voices.
Is a splendid vocal organization, and
sings easily and impressively, the
best numbers being "Chaneon Pro
vencale" (Dell Acqua . and "Mister
Mocking Bird" (Hahn).
Mrs. Waldorf is a talented violinist
and plays with fine ability, one of her
numbers being "Legende" (Bohm).
Mr. Goodrich played enjoyable pipe
organ numbers, the "Irish Tune From
County Derry" and the Moskowski
"Serenata" being particularly enjoy
able. The attendance was 738 paid ad
missions. O jituary.
ASHLAND, Or., Oct. 31. (Special.)
William F. Songer, one of the old
est residents of Jackson county, died
at his home on Helman street Friday.
October 29. He was born in Indiana
July 4, 1826. -
In 1852 Mr. Songer came across the
plains and settled in Astoria, Or. He
came to the Rogue river valley in
1854 and was among the first set
tlers to locate here. Mr. Songer
picked Ashland for his home and had
resided here from the time of his
first Journey to southern Oregon to
the day of his death. He was among
the foremost farmers and stockraisers
of Jackson county.
. Surviving Mr. Songer are one
daughter, Miss Mollie Songer of Ash
land; two brothers, Dr. T. S. Songer,
aVso of this oity and A. W. Songer of
Kilmundy,' 111., and one sister. Miss
Mollie Songer, also of Kilmundy, 11L
Funeral services were held today
from the residence with Interment
in Mountain View cemetery beside
his wife's grave.
The City club. Civic League, Build
ing Trades council. Central Labor
council and many other civic bodies
and public meetings in all parts of the
city have urged adoption of the zone
ordinance. No. BOO on the ballot. Adv.
KIDNAPERS HELD FOILED
RKl'UTF.D K1CII FARMER TKLLS
POLICE OV KRCAPE.
Wife of Itancli Superintendent Also
Declared Made Prisoner-in Kf-
forl to Uct $2000 Hansom.
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-ST. LOUIS, Oct. 31 Joseph Alex
ander, reported wealthy ranchman
and farm owner of Fort Smith, Ark.,
and Mrs. Margaret Taber of this city,
wife of Alexander's ranch superin
tendent, today related to the police
how. they had been kidnapped In the
attempt to collect 20u0 frfom the
ranchman.
Alexander, according to advices, is
known as the "potato king" at Fort
Smith. He appeared at the St. Louis
county courthouse early today, bare
footed and sparsely clad and de
scribed to officials how he had been
bound, gagged, beaten and constantly
guarded by lus captors, Mrs. Tabor
told a similar story.
Alexander came to St. Louis last
Monday, he explained, in response to
a telegram bearing Mrs. Tabor's
name, reading: "Come at once; serious
trouble." Mrs. 'Tabor denied sending
the message.
After an all-day search the police
announced tonight they had failed to
find any trace of the men.
URGE IRISH INTERVENTION
Mass Meeting in Seattle Informally
Commemorates MacSwiney Death.
SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 31. Inter
vention by the United States in behalf
of Ireland was urged by speakers who
addressed a mass meeting held here
this afternoon to commemorate Infor
mally the death of Lord Mayor Mac
Swiney. Rev. William Quigley, who
returned to Seattle this week from a
four months sojourn in Ireland was
the principal speaker.
A formal memorial service for Lord
Mayor MacSwiney will be conducted
Wednesday morning in St. James
cathedral.
McAdoo Appeals for Cox.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 31. William G. Mc
Adoo in an address here last night at
a democratic mass meeting, made an
urgent appeal for the election of Gov
ernor Jamea M. Cox, whom he termed
the "only candidate pledged to do
everything in his power to make the
United States a member of the league
of nations."
o o
InS v ,a,r.,Sen touching the moral
Senftor Vh. .C,1eor,S E Chamberlain.
x!"?1" ha.m.b.erll is ow in the
of the VU '3 PUb,ic m' Tll
him i rm- however, will find
lifT isk?n! narro-inr years of
i. .t.ask.in tr relief from furthnr
FUUX1C duti
eg. Than
J""'" his place! He ha,
UonV Or.r,8hel probl" I" legisla
hlm' th ?" shou retain and use
further i6 ant,er term. He must
crowning 7 hi? .8tate- receiving a
life Jin recK;nition from his long
natiot, HU,Pv.6rb usefulness to state!
;'o"Ml. the, world- The glory will
oe Oregon s glory.
soh.f B h'story maintains. Mas
k"h"'e" a held in honor by
t.LZX 6 1ation for Ping in the
Oho-i 1 c5piul Daniel Webster and
Charles Sumner, characters of nail-
and lnternational fame. The
standing. of ny another 8tate ,a
upon a higher Diane h.on
man of superlative qualifications for
a very long time has represented such
states In the national assembly.
-.
It is a rare exception for a far
western state to have in the halls of
congress a man of ntirr,9i ,i i
national fame. Oregon, in her favorite
"n, oeorge ji. Chamberlain, United
States senator, stands today in this
regard head and shoulders above
every other state in the union. Sena
tor Chamberlain, who, by the way,
comes of a long line of physicians,
has by hard work, special adaptabil
ity for public affairs, keen insight,
patriotic instincts and, above all, in
vincible couraire. placed himself in
the foremost ranks as a legislative
leader and given Oregon a leading
place In -A merica'w hist ory of political,
social and governmental development.
He Is too much of a democrat to
suit the paid republican shouters and
professional politicians and those led
by them, and too much of a pro
gressive to suit the old guard of
cither party. He is. In fact, too much
of a non-partisan to suit some of the
members of his own party, who forget
that with a constituency one-third
democratic and two-thirds republican
which elected him, lie Iihm been
morally and politically obliged to
pursue a somewhat Independent
course or he would not have hern
representing the people who sent him
to Washington. This, too, has given
Chamberlain an element of freedom,
out of which It was possible for him
to pursue at times an independent
course when his country greatly
needed In the United Stales senate a
brainy man under a minimum of
party restraint. He was free to urge
and force direct action in moments
of greatest nrll to the nation to
which Chamberlain and all of us owe
first allegiance.
Had Chamberlain done nothing elso
than give, as he did, of his ripe expe
rience In the United States senate be
fore and In time of the great war.
prompt and invaluable advice, that
would have signalized him as one of
the greatest thinkers, analysts ami
statesmen of the world. His work
there lias added for all time a luster
to the fame of Oregon. But he has
gone far beyond this.
Although the writer is not a mem
ber of Chamberlain's party, it is clear
enough now that Oregon did herself
a great honor and the nation a great
service- when six years ago she re
turned Chambprlain to the United
States seriate. His long and efficient
service in that body had given him a
degree of prominence not before, per
haps, fully recognized in hisi own
state. At home he was "George." or
"Our George." lie was popular above
all others here. It was known that
If some constituent wanted any work
done in Washington city, if hard work
would bring it, "George" would be
successful for such constituent. In
this work, which takes most of the
time of a senator, he was strictly
non-partisan, trying to help every
Oregonian, whether he was repub
lican, democrat or what not.
The exigencies t J the pre-war mo
ment demonstrated what was in
Chamberlain." This modest, unassum
ing western senator, ever at home in
Oregon with the humblest of his con
stituents, suddenly showed himself at
ease in the presence of the great
statesmen and rulers of the world,
with whom he authoritatively dis
cussed world topics and helped carry
forward great world operations.
The administration at Washington
was democratic through and through.
Chamberlain was given one of the
greatest positions lr. tl.e government
because he possessed experience in
the senate,- and because he was a
democrat that of chairman of the
senate military affairs committee.
All who helped send him to Washing
ton six years ago may feel proud of
that fact today.
The writer had three sons in the
late war. He has, therefore, more
than a passing interest in the events
which led up to and carried through
the great issue.
Three men superlatively stood for
preparedness before the war was
upon us! It was a purely non-partisan
alignment. One of these was a dem
ocrat; one a standpat republican; the
third was a progressive. Two are
dead; one still lives to be honored by
Oregon in the name of Theodore
Roosevelt, Congressman Gardner and
Senator Chamberlain for what all
three did, and what all three tried to
do. Gardner died in a southern train
ing camp: Roosevelt, we well remem
ber his leaving. These three, a great
triumvirate, in a land of doubt and
uncertainty, were crying like John In
the Wilderness: Prepare! Prepare!
Chamberlain, alone, was In a position
to force the issue. He was the leader
of the greatest committee, for the
time being, in congress. While op
posed to war, he demanded that this
country should be made ready for a
situation which In time might force
us into war.
What he did, in this and a hundred
other situations, for me and my boys,
and for every other father and every
other mother who had a child in
service, is past paying for.
Without the work of George B.
Chamberlain, we all know that the
war would have dragged on many
additional months and doubtless have
added perhaps a million to the world's
death losses.
It Chamberlain had always waited
until some caucus had directed him
when and how to act, many a parent
happy today in the return safe and
sound of a son, would now be living in
a home of sorrow on account of some
thing that would be lying under a
white cross in a pop.,y bordered
graveyard in a foreign land.
(Paid Adv. Chamberlain Club, A. J.
Derby. Pres., 500 Journal bide)