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PORTLAND, OREGON. SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
I LET OTHERS ALSO
WIFE SAYS DR. BAAR
TOOK CASH AND FLED
PRO.MIXEXT PHYSICIAX SAID
TO HAVE GONE TO ACSTRIA.
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CURB ON RAPACIOUS
FIREBUG OF FORESTS
CAPTURED AT LAST
fJQISE TO HERALD
DRIVE FOR CHEST
USE OF HYPNOTISM.
BY COURT OPPOSED
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BANKERS PROMISED
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PRESIDENT HEARS FARMERS
TRUANT TRAPPER TO BEGIN
SERVING SENTENCE.
FREXCH GOVERNMENT OFFI
CIALLY CONDEMNS ACT.
ARE VICTIMIZED.
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NEARLY ALL DON
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Railroad Labor, and Corp'ora-
t tions Asked to Help.
DAY'S SESSION WARM ONE
Proposal for Repeal of Eight-Hour
Day Defeated ; Lease of Muscle
Shoals Plant Urged.
WASHINGTON. D. C, Jan. 27. The
national agricultural conference went
on record today. In adopting Its trans
portation committee's report, favor
ing participation by railroad labor
ar.d railroad corporations In the gen
eral price "deflation," after It had
stricken from another committee's re
port a recommendation for repeal of
the Adamson eight-hour law and the
bringing down" of wages of railroad
labor and other Industrial labor to a
parity with the return received by
the farmer.
The conference, which began its
five-day session bere Monday, did not
complete Its consideration of reports
and went Into a night session with
the prospect of taking a final ad
journment before midnight.
The debate on the question of wage
"deflation" today was long and at
times vehement. The proposal was
strenuously fought by Samuel Oom
pers, president of the American Feder
ation of Labor. Several farmer who
opposed reduction In wages and
helped to defeat the first recommen
dation, supported the proposal finally
adopted.
Waterway Project Favored.
The conference also indorsed a pro
posal that the St. Lawrence-Great
Lakes waterway project be completed
after one committee's recommenda
tion to this effect had been lost.
A resolution for reoeal of the 6 per
cent guarantee clause of the trans
portation act, defeated during the
labor debate, also received favorable
action on a later report.
The conference recommended com
pletion of the projects at Muscle
Shoals, Ala., and urged that the gov
ernment accept the offer of Henry
Ford to lease them.
Reduction of freight rates on farm
products, livestock and products of
allied Industries to the basls prior te
the Increase of August. 1920, also was
urged, as well as the restoration of
certain rate-making powers to state
railroad commissions. Readjustment
of rates affecting other commodities
should follow as Quickly as possible.
It was added. Legislation to prevent
the railroads from Including the "land
multiple" In making up their revalua
tions was further recommended.
Hlver Development Irg-rd.
Development of the Mississippi
river as an artery of commerce was
advocated with the adoption of a re
port which declared that "during and
since the war there has been a great
Increase In navigation In the lower
Mississippi river and on the Ohio
river."
Development of navigation on the
Missouri. Ohio and Red rivers also
was suggested In this report, as well
as Joint water and rail rates and
terminals.
The conference went on record as
opposing repeal of the Panama canal
tolls, saying "the people of the United
States have Invested a large sum of
money In the Panama canal."
Other recommendations Included:
Development cf hydro-electric power
projects to make current available to
amall consumers on farms and In the
villages.
Closer co-operation of railway,
waterway and highway transporta
tion. Appointment of a commission to
work out a national land policy. In
cluding reclamation. Irrigation, graz
ing and colonization problems in co
operation with similar bodies ih the
various stated.
Opposition to the opening of any
more land for farming purposes pend
ing readjustment of cases In contro
versy. Stoppage of forest devastation, de
velopment of effective methods of
fire prevention. Increase In reserves
and extension of research.
C'rr-dlt LecUlatloB Asked.
Enactment by congress of laws
providing Intermediate credits for
farmers through commodity financ
ing, continuation of the war finance
corporation pending such action,
amendment of the federal reserve
and farm loan acts, congressional In
vestigation of the subject of crop
Insurance, a constitutional amend
ment prohibiting issuance of tax-free
securities except bonds and other
obligations of federal farm loan
banks, re-enactment of an excess
profits tax and equal consideration
for agriculture with other industries
In any tariff policy, were recom
mended by the conference tonight
with adoption of the report of its
committee on agricultural credit
The report also protested against
enactment of any consumption, sales
r manufacturers' tax and urged rep
resentation by the United States In 1
iwuuuiudva us i'aee a, Culuiua l.j
Stocks, Bonds and Real Estate Are
Converted and Desertion of
F amily Is Charged.
The story cf how Dr. Gustav Baar,
prominent physician of this city, con
verted all his property In Portland
that he could Into cash In the sum
mer of 1920 and departed for his for
mer home In Austria after announc
ing that ha Intended to practice med
icine In southern California and es
tablish a home there for his wife
and child, was related In the divorce
complaint of Mrs. Vera S. Baar, filed
In the circuit court yesterday.
Mrs. Baar had no Intimation of
her husband's plan to flee to Austria
and only learned of the extensive
preparations for the desertion after
he had left, she asserted. The divorce
action was based on a charge of
statutory desertion. She asked lump
sum aumony to be, awarded as a
charge on some real property which
the physician left In Multnomah
county and which Is valued at $35,000.
Permanent custody of their child,
Richard Baar, aged 3 years, also was
asked.
The Baars were married In San
Francisco August 23, 1917. Dr. Baar
had a very lucrative practice In Port
land. In August, 1920, he left the
city after telling his wife and friends
that he expected to establish a prac
tice In southern California and have
his wife and son come to him as soon
as possible. But he went back to
Austria.
For several months Dr. Baar had
been steadily disposing of stocks.
bonds and personal property, convert
ing them into cash, and even got his
wife's signature to transfers of real
estate worth $25,000 which was sold,
according to the complaint. He had
an elaborate laboratory, valuable In
struments, an automobile and stocks
and bonds worth more than $40,000,
it is asserted.
The wife does not specify the
amount of lump sum settlement de
sired, leaving that to the discretion
of the court.
R0YALTY PROVES BURDEN
Princess Anastasia Forced to Give
Up Living In Athens.
(Copyright by the New York World. Pub-
ngnea oy Arrangement. I
ATHENS. Jan. 27. (Special.)
Friends say Princess Anastasia of
Greece the former Mrs. William B.
Leeds has given up living In Athens
for two reasons. The first is that,
as her health Is poor, she desires to
be within easy reach of a Paris doc
tor in whom she has great faith.
The other reason Is said to be the
Incessant drain on her purse arising
from her proximity In Athens to the
royal court. She has been extremely
generous to her royal connections,
but now has drawn the line. It Is said,
especially since the marriage of her
son. William B. LeeOs Jr. It is said
she Intends to visit Athenj occasion
ally. NELLIE BLY PASSES AWAY
'Woman Who Made Record World
Trip Dies In New York.
NEW YORK, Jan. 27. Nellie Bly.
newspaper woman, who achieved
fame by a spectacular trip around the
world In record time, died today at
St. Marks' hospital. Pneumonia, from
which she had suffered two weeks,
was the cause of her death.
Nollie Bly's trip around the world
was made for the New York World
to prove the possibility of Jules
Verne's Imaginative story, "Around
the World in Eighty Days." She went
Verne more than seven days better,
finishing the circuit In a little more
than 72 H days.
In private life Nellie Bly was Mrs.
Elizabeth C Seaman.
NAVY CUT IS , OPPOSED
President Harding Against Reduc
tion In Personnel.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 27. Any
efforts for a drastic cut in the navy
personnel because of the five-power
armament reduction agreement will
be opposed by President Harding, It
was said today at the White House.
The president was said to disap
prove of the proposal of Senator King,
democrat, Utah, to reduce the navy
to 50,000 men, holding that so sweep
ing a reduction might even go to the
extent of upsetting the ratios cf naval
sirength agreed upon.
U. S. TO BUY HOSPITALS
Veterans' Bureau to Care Direct
for Disabled ex-SoldhS.
WASHINGTON. D. C Jan! 27. The
veterans' bureau Is prepared to pur
chase modern up-to-date fireproof
hospitals situated In any locality In
which large numbers of disabled ex
service men are resident. Director
Forbes announced today. i
He said the bureau was anxious to
remove its disabled veterans from
contract hospitals to government
controlled Institutions.
EGGS DROP IN GOTHAM
Reduction of 10 to 12 Cents on
Dozen Is Announced.
NEW YORK. Jan. 27. The fresh
egg market broke heavily today, the
drop ranging from 10 to 12 cents per
dozen.
Wholesalers explained that heavy
express shipments from the producing
centers, made at pre-cold weather
trlcea, caused the decline.
TO FIX WAR RULES
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America Is to Select Time
- and Place.. -
GROUNDWORK ALREADY LAID
Conflict Both on Land and
Sea to Be Discussed.
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RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED.)
Commission. Presumably of Ex
perts, Is to Take First Step In
Revising Regulations,
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WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 27. (By
the Associated press.) The ground
work for another 'international con
ference to rewrite tho laws of war
for the submarine and other agencies
of attack on land and sea was com
pleted today by the arms delegates.
Under a resolution adopted by the
armament committee, preparations for
the new conference will -begin imme
diately upon the conclusion of the
Washington negotiations. The United
States, Great Britain, Japan, France
and Italy will be represented and the
American government will select the
exact time and place of meeting.
The first step toward revision of
warfare regulations is to be taken by
a "commission," presumably composed
of international law experts without
plenipotentiary powers, but the res
olution provides that after they have
agreed the five governments shall
confer aa to the acceptance of the
report and the course to be followed
to secure the consideration of Its rec
ommendations by the other civilized
powers."
Policy Likely to Be Factor.
It is taken for granted that ques
tions of national policy as well as
legal considerations will enter into
the final decisions reached and that
the whole problem of the submarine
will be. reopened--when the powers
gather once more about the council
tabled
The armament committee adopted
the resolution at a short meeting
called while most of the other ac
tivities of the conference were wait
ing on a decision of the Shantung
controversy. The far eastern commit
tee likewise met and adopted Its
previous declaration on the Chinese
radio -situation.
The Shantung negotiations still
hesitated just short of an agreement,
but the feeling seemed to be uni
versal that a day or two probably
would see a complete acceptance of
the settlement plan supported by
President Harding.
Breach Is Narrowed.
The breach between the Japanese
and Chinese was said to have been
narrowed to a-question of the extent
to which the former shall participate
In management of the Tsingtao-Tsl-nanfu
railroad during the period in
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Excess Interest Declared Charged
for Use of Federal Money in
South and Southwest.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. J7.
President Harding, it was said today
at the White House, will Investigate
reports that banks In the west and
southwest have been lending federal
funds "provided by the war finance
corporation at rates which are above
the legal percentages allowed, and
which have bee,, declared usurious.
The usual rate charged for federal
loans to farmers and atockralsera In
the sections mentioned Is 6ft per
cent. It was said, but the stockrals-
nave Deen cnargea m rj'"
from 8 to 10 per cent and in many in-
era have been charged rates varying
I stances a commission also has been
charged.
Secretary Fall, In the cabinet meet
ing today, it was said by White House
officials, reported the situation to the
president, who immediately commu
nicated with Eugei.e Meyer Jr., man
aging director of the war finance cor
poration, who verified the report.
Mr. Meyer, who immediately came
to the White House, toldt.'the presi
dent personally that of the loans
to atockralsers had een made to the
banks handling tei loans at the gen
eral rate of 6 "per oent, and that In
only a few instances had the rates
been 6 per cent.
Mr. Meyer also told the president,
it was said, that he had learned that
banks in the southwest had been
charging as much as 5 per cent for a
six months' loan and charging an
extra t per cent commission for each
renewal
The legal rate that banka are al
lowed to charge the atockralsers over
the federal rate of ihi per cent, it
was explained, la only 2 per cent That
rate is to cover the cost of Inspection
and the risk on the loans and other
sim-ilar charges.
It was not indicated at the White
House just what steps would be taken
against institutions found violating
the laws in that respect, but it was
sild the first move mig-ht be to refuse
further federal moneys to such banks.
President Harding, it Is understood,
received the reports with deep feel
ing, and promised action, saying that
the services for the lending of fed
eral moneys for agricultural and
stockraising purposes was supposed
to be entirely free and that the gov
ernment does not sanction usury in
any connection.
12 ASK FORORPHAN GIRL
Blue-Eyed Child of 10 Finds Good
Home Through The Oregonian.
VANCOUVER, Wash.. Jan. 27. (Spe
cial.) Miss Janet Worden was adver
tising for a home for a blue-eyed,
brown-haired girl of 10 yesterday, but
today she is contemplating advertis
ing for 11 children.
A little girl, an orphan, had to
leave the home she has had for two
years because the woman who had
cared for' her could no longer afford
to keep her. Miss Worden thought
The Oregonian would reach a large
number of people and asked for a
home through its columns. Today she
had 12 replies, all of whom wanted
the girl. Many requests were from
Portland.
The girl today was given Into the
keeping of a good family for tem
porary care. Later she may be
adopted.
Deputy Marshal Snow Rounds Up
Alonzo Dole, Charged With
' Setting Fire to Trees.
Alonzo Dole, tree expert and trap
per of Lane county, who has laughed
at the federal officials in their ef
forts to capture him and make him
serve a three-month's sentence for
setting forest fires, is at last in the
clutches of the law and on his way
to Portland to start serving his sen
tence. Dole was arrested last fall after
forest rangers in the mountains back
of Eugene had charged him with wil
fully setting forest fires. A sentence
of three months in the county Jail was
imposed. Dole pleaded that he had to
harvest his crops and Hal Lusk, then
assistant United States attorney, ob
tained a leave for Dole on the prom
ise that he would return and start
his sentence after he had harvested
his crops.
The day Dole was due Mr. Lusk
watched in vain. Several days passed
and no Alonzo. Then Mr. Lusk noti
fied United States Marshal Hotchkiss
and Deputy Stubling was sent into
the tall timber back of Eugene to lo
cate the delinquent. Mr. Stubling
had no success and returned home.
Then came a postcard to the marshal
In which Dole said the federal offi
cials were "too slow to catch cold."
or words to that effect
Frank Snow, veteran criminal
catcher of the Portland police depart
ment and now a deputy marshal, was
sent to the scenes of Dole's con
quests with the orders to "get his
man." Yesterday afternoon Mr. Snow
telephoned from 'Cushman, Or, that
be had been successful. and was start
ing, to Portland with Dole.
AUTOS, CAR STRIKE; 1 HURT
F. J. Osterman Suffers Skull Frac
ture; Machines Smashed.
F. J. Osterman, 40 years old, last
night sustained a fractured skull ai
the result of an automobile-street car
collision at East Broadway and Van
couver avenue. Officers said the auto
mobile in which Mr. Osterman was
riding was going west on East Broad
way and had reached a curve Just as
an eastbound St. Johns car swung
around it, the overshot at the front
end of the car striking the automo
bile. Mr. Osterman's automobile -was
caromed off the street car Into an
automobile driven by C. B. Madden,
217 Cherry street. Both machines were
badly smashed.
Mr. Osterman was removed to the
emergency hospital and later to St.
Vincent's hospital. He will recover.
It was said.
LITHUANIA FILES PROTEST
Officials' Arrest by Poles Reported
to League of Nations.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 27. The
Lithuanian government has protested
to the league of nations against the
arrest by the Polish government at
Vllna of a number of Lithuanian of
ficials of that city, according to a
dispatch received today by tAe Lith
uanian information bureau here.
The American. British, French and
Italian governments have been in
formed of the incident, the dlspatcl
said.
Unusual Spectacles to
.Start on Monday.
SIRENS ARE TO SHRIEK
Slogan to Be Unfurled High
Above Streets.
FIREMEN TO PARTICIPATE
Apparatus to Go Through Various
Districts, Announcing Open
ing of Campaign.
CHEST MEETINGS OF TODAY.
Noon. Multnomah hotel ball
room Flying squadron meets
to report dally progress of sub
scriptions. 1:30 P. M., Multnomah hotel.
Old Colony clubrooms on mez
zanine floor Colonel H. E.
Cowgill meets his captains.
BY BEN HUR LAMPMAN.
Be very sure that Portland on Mon
day noon will realize the onset of
the community chest campaign; will
know, by the din in Its ears and the
unusual spectacles of its streets, that
back of the purpose to raise the lid
and fill the treasure box is a Jubilant
but determined will to succeed. For
the special features committee of the
great civic drive has been inspired to
its tasks, and has exceeded its inspi
rations.
NoiseT And then some. Deep
throated sirens, capable of casting
their bellowing a full ten miles, will
shout from Sixth street at Alder and
Morrison streets, bidding the city re
member that it is committed to a
worthy project, and that the cry ot
the campaign ia "Sure, we'll help!"
As the sirens drone to silunce a band
will lift a lively tune and the cru
sade for the second community chest
will be officially in the field.
Patriotic Drives Recalled.
Members of the special features com
mittee, who in such manner will de
clare the chest open and receptive,
are W. J.Hofmann, chairman; E. M.
Welch, Walter F. Long, Harvey Wells,
Charles Milliman. Frank Tcbbetts,
C T. Burg, Clay S. Morse, Harry
Sr.oufe and E. W. Jorgenson. To each
enthused committeeman was dele
gated some particular feature for the
stimulation of the Portland spirit.
And so it is that the chest campaign
will be remindful, for its novel pub
licity and ginger, ot the patriotic
drives of war time.
The first feature of the many will
b. held today, undeV the auspices of
the Portland News and the manage
ment of E. W. Jorgenson, when the
children of Portland will parade with
their pets at high noon. Variety
will be the spice of this Juvenile em
prise, for pets are pets, and the world
knows that pets are various. Though
the common but beloved pup, of ob
scure lineage, will predominate in
numbers, it Is certain that such un
occasion will muster the strangest
wards ot childhood. Enough. The
fancy should dwell upon such possi
bilities and await the fact. Other
features may be more spectacular,
vivid or noisy, but the parade of the
pets surely may claim an award for
popularity.
Slogan to Be Unfurled.
When the sirens and the band have
announced the philanthropic project,
at 12 o'clock Monday, there will rise
at Sixth street, between Morrison and
Alder, the towering aerial ladders ot
the fire department swaying far
above the crowd to unfurl a message,
the slogan of the campaign. And
from each station house the trucks
and engines will swing out to circle
their neighborhoods, bearing ban
ners for the community chest. This
feature will be directed by Walter F.
Long and will be repeated each noon
during the duration of the campaign.
That night, that first night of the
chest crusade, the Boy Scouts of Port
land will hold at six downtown street
corners their "heart-warming" with
huge bonfires blazing as symbols,
with singing and with dancing and
with thl cruel but highly essential
auto-de-fe of the Jinx and old man
gloom. Scout masters will be In
charge of each unit, and the unique
programme la being directed by
Frank Tebbetts and State Scout Mas
ter Brockaway. To the private In the
rear ranks, with his honors yet to
win. the scouts are enlisted in the
service of the chest.
Aerial Bombs to Be Fired.
It should be said, lest some Imagine
that their city is under fire from
wheeling aviators, that not a noon
will pass without tha crashing de
tonation of aerial bombs above the
business district. Bombs that will
burst in peace and good will, how
ever noisy they are, and for no other
purpose than to keep us keenly aware
of the day and its duties.
One would say, offhand, that long
ago the field of original devices for
marking campaign purposes had been
exhausted. They would reckon with
out the excellent publicist and stunt
specialist. Harvey Wells, who has hit
upon a plan that will keep Portland
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Senate Pronouncement Is Provoked
by Approach of Investlga- '
tion of Magistrate.
PARIS. Jan. 28. (By ths Associat
ed Press.) Hypnotism as method
of extracting the truth from witnesses
was officially disapproved today by
the French government.
This official pronouncement, made
In the aenats by Minister pf Justice
Barthou, was provoked In anticipa
tion of an Interpellation in the sen
ate on a hypnotic seance held recently
by examining magistrate Richard of
Tulle, In an effort to determine who
had written scores of anonymous let
ters to prominent Inhabitants of Tulle
and had posted numerous posters,
loudly rattling alleged skeletons in
Tulle closets.
Some time ago Richard summoned
a hypnotist from Paris, who in the
darkened judge's room entranced two
women, with their consent. One re
mained speechless and the other
begged to be wakened from the
"suffering agony." A third subject
could not be hypnotized.
The seance was said to have pro
duced no evldenre.
CABINET VACANCY LIKELY
Secretary Fail Expected to Quit
and Run for Senate.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, D. C, Jan. 27. An
nouncement Is expected within a few
days of the resignation of Albert
Bacon Fall, secretary of the Interior."
It was understood that Secretary Fall,
who Is to return here tomorrow from
New Mexico, immediately will an
nounce his candidacy for the repub
lican nomination to the senate to
succeed Andreus A. Jones, democrat.
who oomes up for re-election this fall.
The Fall resignation. It was said,
will take effect March 4, the same
day that Postmaster-General Hays
will retire to take charge of the mov
ing picture Industry. It has been
known for some time that Mr. Fall
did not find the duties of a cabinet
Job as pleasant as his work in the
senate, where he served from the time
New Mexico was admitted to state
hood until he stepped out to Join
President Harding's official family
last March.
DEATH J3Y GAS SEGrtEED
First Executions of Hind to Take
Place In Nevada.
CARSON CITF. New, Jan. 27. Th
execution of the first two men In the
country to be sentenced to death by
lethal gas was aet today for some
time In the week endlnff April 2
The condemned men, HugrMe Sing of
Carson City and Oee Jon of San Fran
clsco, Chinese tong- men convicted of
the murder of Wong Lee at Mina,
Kev., were brought to the state prison
here today from the Mineral county
Jail at Hawthorne.
The statute provides that the exact
day of the execution Is left to the
discretion of the prison warden, who
Is to put the prisoners In the lethal
chamber for several days and turn on
the gas some night while the con
demned men are asleep.
CHANCELLOR VVIRTH WINS
Rclcli-stag Rejects Resolution of
Lack of Confidence.
BERLIN, Jan. 27. The Reichstag managin(r it.
today rejected a resolution of lack of u , true tnat ln tn0 Kpnt9 where
confidence in the government, on thecvnlc,8m la lt , ln a highly concen
declarations made by Chancellor .nrrn soma of It mnv derive
Wlrth in his speech of Thursday.
The motion was proposed by the
communists. The independents and
the nationalists abstained from vot
ing
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TEST AY'S Maximum t'omp.ra'ttn-e, 41
de?rec; minimum, 84 d-effreea
TODAY'S Occasional rain; winds mostly
westerly.
Foreign.
Use of hypnotism by court Is condemned.
Pse 1.
SucceMor of pope tm bis topic now. Pace 2.
National.
Regulation urjred for coal industry. Pare 2.
Vote on allied debt bill to be taken today.
Page 3.
Bankers extortlnj enres interest from
farmers to be curbed. Page 1.
Let railroad labor and corporations also
deflate, say farmers. Page 1.
New conference to fix war rules. Pare 1.
9eattn of Newberry Infamous aot. declares
Senator Reed of Missouri. Paxe 0.
Problem of houndng laid to high rail rate
on lumber. Pago 7.
Nearly all done aa Hughes urged at start
of arms conference. Page 1.
t Domestic.
Arbuekle defense closes case twice In day.
Page 4.
Warrant Isaued for arrest of A. C. Town
ley. Page 2.
Sports.
learned has rare tennis record. Page 12.
Nine star athtotea ot Illinois banned.
' Page 12.
Aggie five defeats Stanford. 17 to 24.
Page 12.
Commerrial and Marine. -
All grades of family and bakers' fleur will
advance today. Page ltt.
Stocks irregular with leasers tinder pres
sure. Page 19.
Westbound rates are cut agaro. Page IS.
Portland and Vicinity.
Noise to herald opening of chest drive.
Page 1. ' I
Dr. Oustav Baar said to have taken .fam
ily cash and gone to Austria. Page 1.
Mayor Baker recommends higher license
fee for cardrooms. Page 6.
Probe of institute for blind la begun.
Page 20.
Hood River apples are best fruit buy just
now. Page 10.
C.oser check en divorce eases urged.
Page 11-
1925 fair indorsed by hardware men.
Page 20.
Truant firebug of forests captured. Page 1.
Stepmother declared not cruel to girl.
Page 14.
High schools give diplomas to SC4 student a
' 6.
Arms Parley Is Consid
ered Huge Success.
INTEREST LAPSE REGRETTED
Dramatic Blow at Start
Makes Finish Slow.
ATTACK MOTIVES STUDIED
Efforts to Decry Conference Are
Attributed to Personal En
emies of Secretary.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.
(Copyrlirht, hy the New Tork Rvmlng
Poat, Inc. Puh lulled by Arrangement.
WASHINGTON. D. C, Jan. 28.
(Special.) The present lapse In in
terest In the armament conferenre
and In the appearance of Its Import
ance Jt is a case of appearance only
is unfortunate and fails to take
account of some things that are
about to happen.
For the lessening of Interest there
are veral caul!c8. j hllv. .iready
quoted Ring Lardner's remark on the
opening day, when the world was
thrilled over what Secretary llughta
had done. Mr. Lardner, having a
professional writer's sense of dra
matic sequence, realized that the laws
of drama had been violated and re
marked: "I'm going home. This is
going to be a bum show. They've
let the hero kill the villain In the
first act!"
Aaotker Forecast Recalled.
There was another well-known
journalist at the opening session who
also had a prophetic foresight. Hay
wood Brown, sharing the high exal
tation we all felt that day and
realising that success had already
been nine-tenths won by what Mr.
Hughos did, remarked: '
"The owl' thing that can now en
danger the success of this conference
is the cynicism of diplomats and
newspaper men."
As to the diplomats, I don't think
they have been cynical. It was only
from the diplomats of one country
alone, France, that any gesture came
which really endangered the confer
ence. Ordinarily, cynicism may be a
common attribute of diplomats, but
most of the diplomats of the world
re not cynical JuBt now. They are
too seriously concerned to be cynical.
For one experiment toward bringing
peace to a troubled world to fall was
bad enough. The diplomats realised
that If this second attempt should
fail the peoples of the world might
do things that would be excessively
uncomfortable for diplomats and
governing clases generally.
Newspaper Men Not All Cynical.
As to the newspaper men, they
are not all cynical. The very great
majority share the general spirit of
hope and helpfulness toward the
A present conference and have exalted
admiration for
me men wno are
added acid from certain personal
equations.
Some of the publicity that decries
the conference comes from sources
that years ago had occasion not to
feel warmly towards Mr. Hughes. Mr.
Hughes ln the course of his career
has gone pretty straight down the
middle of the road and has left scars
ln some quarters.
Wide Discussion Aroused.
This whole subject of publicity
which has seemed to have had the
effect of decrying Secretary Hughes
has .been a subject of very wide word-of-mouth
discussion In Washington.
Motive Is a thing very difficult to
be square about, but at least lt can
be Bald that there has been much
searching out of presumed motives.
Aside from however much there is
in Ihls sort of thing, many news
paper men who are not at all cynical
are nevertheless very tired. It has
been a trying pace. Also newspaper
men have seen their stories of the
armament conference, after occupy
ing the first page for several weeks,
pass back to the third page. This
very week they tiave seen their arma
ment conference dispatche take sec
ond place, behind the news of a con
ference on agriculture, Balfour yield
ing the stage to a dirt farmer. It has
a tendency to take the "pp" out of
the arms conference reporters
Some Writers Are Biased.
Arother reason for the decrying of
Mr. Hughes and the conference ln
some quarters is the bias of some of
the writers. Anyone who has reason
to be strongly pro-French and anti
Brltlsh, or vice versa, ln his leanings
tends naturally to reflect his bias In
his disposition to regard the confer
ence aa a failure or as a success. The
same Is true as regards Chir.u and
Japan.
There Is one sure way for the
reader to measure for himself wheth
er the conference has been a succes
or not. Carry your mind back to thr
opening session. Recall Mr. Hughes
speech. Recall the high exaltation
with which the Hughes plan wrts re
celved. Recall how you. yourself
felt thst Saturday ntgiit. Then tr
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