VOL. LXI XO. 19.Q98 V,,-' 1 4' PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1923 - " PRICE FIVE CENTS
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GIRL. 15. SAYS SHE
SLEW FDR MOTHER
Child Sticks to Story of
Man's Attack.
BOOTLEGGER DISTRICT
DEFICIT IS AVOIDED
ZION LEADER WANTS
FORTUNETELLERS
FAILURE IN COURT
STAR NOW CENTER
ELEVATOR CRUSHES
APATHY IRRITATES
CHEST WORKERS
UNDER MARTIAL LAW
ASTRONOMY TEACHER
WOMAN, 58,10 DEATH
MRS. BAIRD CAUGHT BETWEEN
INI S. EXPENSES!
RAID IX TEXAS BY AIRPLANE
. HERE'S CHAXCE FOR FLAT
WOMEX TJX ABLE TO PREDICT
JUDGE'S SENTENCE.
KESCXTS IX 61 ARRESTS.
EARTH PROPAGANDIST.
CAGE AND FIRST FLOOR.
FMURDE R PROBE
JUDGE DOUBTS CONFESSION
Mrs. Bertha Wilkes Accused
of Forcing Testimony.
JURY SENT OUT OF COURT
Little Co-defendant In Murder
Trial Ieclares She Was Afraid
to Tell Trutb at First.
4.-
EVERETT. WasV. Feb. 1. (Spe
cial.) "He was choking mother. I
thought be would- kill us both.
Mother kicked the revolver when it
fell from his hand and called to me
to get it.
-I picked It up. I squeesed it. He
came at me. his eyes bulging. I
squeezed again.' I threw it- He went
after it."
Fifteen-year-old Treva Pote today
made such a confession as she sat
quietly in the witness chair telling
what happened the night of Novem
ber . when Everett police officers,
summoned to the home of her mother,
Mrs. Bertha Wilkes, by a telephone
call from a woman, found Gus Dan
ielson. logging foreman, dead on the
fioor. shot three times, onca In the
rikht wrist, once downward Into the
neck, once under tha left shoulder
blade toward tha back.
Uaaahter Is Ca-Defeadaat.
Mrs. IVilkes has been on trial here
since Monday on first-degree murder
charges, accused of the death of Dan
leison. who was her suitor, a week
end boarder at her home and an old
friend ofher parents The daughter
haa been co-defendant, accused of
being an accessory to the crime.
The girl's confession denied every
statement made in the case before the
trial. Both mother and daughter had
alleged that Danielson and Mrs.
Wilkes had struggled and his revol
ver, wTiich was not In the mother's
rands at any time, had gone, off in
tha fight.
Sobbing and moaning, tha mother
rcsa to her feet today a few minutes
after tha girl's confession and after
scorching grilling: of the daughter
had started by the state.
Hysterically tha mother wailed:
"Oh, if I had known, If I had known.
She never told me. Why didn't you
tell me. Treva. My girl is Innocent."
Jary Is Seat Oat.
Judge Alston sent the jury out.
Tou bet she's innocent. ha pro
claimed. -You keep quiet. This lit
tle girl is aa Innocent aa she can be
and you know it. The real tragedy
was not at the home that night. It
Is right here. She's made this inno
cent little fir I testify to killing this
man.
"Little girl, you never had that re
volver in your hand, did you?
"I did do It." emphatically asserted
Treva. sobbing.
y The courtroom was in sn uproar.
Later In cross-examination which
demanded the greatest exactitude the
girl asserted again that she had
picked up the revolver-and "squeezed'
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Girl Saya She Was Afraid.
"Why didn't you tell ua this the
night of the shooting?" asked Q. A.
Kaune. chief deputy prosecuting at
torney for the state.
"I was afraid to tell the truth
then." ahe declared.
When the girl Orst went on the
stand this morning. Judge Alston dis
missed the jury.
"if you did shoot that man say so.
and if you didn't shoot him. say so,"
was the Judge's solemn warning.
"You've got your Ufa to live. You're
a little girL"
After this, with the jury back, the
defense attorney, S. A. Bostwick.
queried hes.
"Were you at home the night of
the shooting?"
"I was."
"Did you see the struggle between
your mother and Gus Danielson?"
-I did."
"Where were you?"
t.lrl IMwrlbea StruMl.
"In the same room, between the
bedroom door and tha dining-room
door."
"Did you aee a revolver?"
"Yes."
"Who had It?"
1i.u Danielson."
"What struggle, if any. did you see
between your mother and Gus?"
"They were struggling for the re
volver. He got her down on tha
couch."
"Did tha revolver go off?"
"It did."
"What happened T' -"It
fell on tha floor."
"What. if anything, happened
then?"
"Mother kicked it. Mother said for
ma to get it. She said. Uet it. for
God's sake, get it.' Ua was choking
tier."
Her confession followed.
Not until presented with the fatal
revolver and asked to show how she
held it when she shot did the girl
tkrfak down and cry.
"I won't tourh it." she moaned. It
ICuaciud.d a i'a ii, Cvluma i-j
of
MEXIA, Tex, Feb. J. Reports from
military headquarters at Teagua to
night were that raids by rangers, pro
hibition agents and guardsmen re
sulted in the capture of nine stills and
fl prisoners in eastern Freestone
county near the town pf Young today.
Lieutenant Taylor, pilot of an air
plane loaned to tha military for scout
ing and raiding purposes by a Mexla
newspaper, was fired on twice and a
party of three was fired upon eight
times in raiding a house. No one was
injured.
TEAGUE, Tex, Feb. 3. Raids by
state militia forces, directed from an
airplane, marked extension of martial
law in Freestone county today. No
sooner had martial law been extended
than an airplane appeared flying low
over the -wooded sections of the new
territory under command of the state
military. Signals were given from
the plane and state rangers, working
with the state guardsmen and prohi
bition enforcement officers, went al
most directly to spots where they say
they found nine stills and made 61
arrests.
The work Of searching for stills and
persons suspected of violation of the
liquor laws went smoothly and quick
it. n nen unidentified parties In a
thicket fired at the airplane it quickly
flew upward and out of range. There
tvas no interference with the work of
the raiders on foot.
ine eastern part of Freestone
county, in which the officers now are
working is rather sparsely settled and
the Trinity river bottoms are thickly
covered with timber. The topography
is said to be ideal for concealing stills
ana hard for a stranger to penetrate.
CITY THIRD IN COST CUTS
Portland Xcar T,pp in Reductions
In Living Costs.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU.
Washington, D. C, Feb. 3. Only two
or the 32 principal cities of the coun
try led Portland, Or, in the decreases
of the "cost of living In the period
rrom June. 1920. to December. 1921.
according to a 'report made public
by the -department of labor today.
Living costs in Portland decreased
21 per cent In the year and a half,
while Detroit, Mich, had a decrease
of J2.7 per cent and Cincinnati 21.J
per cent. Seattle's decrease was 1S.5
per cent, San Francisco's 1C.S and
Los Angeles 12.S. In the period from
September, 1921,. to December, 1921,
the cities mentioned showed the fol
lowing decreases: 4
Portland 1.4 per cent. Seattle 2.J,
San Francisco .(, Los Angeles .2.
Detroit .1 and Cincinnati 2.5.
RUSSIA GETS HUGE CREDIT
German Manufacturers Combine in
Big Commercial Deal.
WASHINGTON. D. C, Feb. Z. Ar
rangements to give a credit of 100.
000.000 marks to the Russian soviet
government to cover purchases by the
soviet trade department have been
made by a group of German manufac
turers, according to a report to the
commerce department today from
Commercial Attache Herring at Ber
lin.
The credit, the attache said, may be
increased later to 200.000.000 marks.
but German bankers declare that the
mount indicated In the public an
nouncement is nominal, and that the
initial credit will not exceed 600,000.-
000 marks.
The credit Is to be used exclusively.
ne added, for purchases from the par
ticipating manufacturers
FALLING TREE KILLS MAN
Silas Adkins of Mulino Victim of
Accident Xear Town.
OREGON CITY. Or, Feb. 3. (Spe
cial.) Silas Adkins, prominent real
dent of Mulino, was killed instantly
near that place this morning while
assisting in felling a large tree. The
tree lodged . against another and in
falling struck Mr. Adkins, crushing
his bead.
Mr. Adkins, who was about SS years
old. was in company with J. M. Mai
latt and Edward Berdine when -the
accident occurred. Coroner Pace
brought the body to this city. Mr.
Adkins is survived by a daughter,
who was making her home with her
father.
NOW TOBACCO IS BLAMED
Governor Shudders at Evil He Says
May Be Laid to Weed.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Feb. 3. Gov
ernor McRae, in a proclamation to
day, declared his belief that "the gen
eral use of tobacco by men and worn
en, from youth up, generation after
generation, is contributing to unmis
takable and certain degeneracy."
He set March 22 as "no-tobacco
day," in Arkansas.
"FLU" MAKES NEW MARK
1 1 S 3 Cases and 1 5 Deaths Record
Yesterday In New York.
NEW YORK. Feb. 3 A new hlgn
mark of 1123 cases in this year's In
fluenza epidemic was reported to
day by the health department. The
highest previous figure was 1052.
Fifteen deaths from influensa were
reported. Pneumonia cases reported
totalled :0(. with 72 deaths, I
Nine Stills Captured Airship
One or Party Is Fired On.
Soldiers in Control.
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DAWES RAPS RED TAPE
Praise and Criticism of De
partments Are Mingled.
SHOTS ARE SENT HOME
Xavy Purchased 18,000 Brooms
When It Could Have Had 850,000
for Nothing, Is Declaration.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. S. Pres
ident Harding, presiding today at the
second business meeting of the gov
ernment, announced that instead of
the deficit In governmental finances
forecast in December there now were
prospects of a surplus of receipts over
expenditures at the end of next June.
The president further announced it
had been possible to reduce the gov
ernment's expenditures from a scale
based on J 4.500,000,000 a year to the
scale of $3,974,000,000 and declared
"that even in its formative period the
budget system has justified our most
confident expectations."
More than 1000 officials from all
the departments and establishments
of the government met with the pres
ident and received the report of the
various co-ordinating efforts, trans
mitted by Director Dawes of the
budget bureau, whom the president
described as "the genius who made
possible the cut in expenditures."
Dawes Brandishes Brooms.
Brandishing "a broom in either
hand, striding rapidly from one end
of the platform to the other and
stamping his feet, until the echoes
rang in the hall, Mr. Dawes brought
home to the audience the appropriate
ness of his "hell-and-Maria" nick
name. For more than half an hour he
poured forth criticism and praise
alike of officials of high and low de
gree. Stopping suddenly in the midst of a
eitat.n.i of instances of lack of co
operation by governmental depart
ments with budget bureau coordina
tors, which instances he described as
fly specks" on the bureau's record
of accomplishments Mr. Dawes sud
denly shouted:
"Where are those brooms?"
Three brooms were produced from
under a table by an assistant.
"There," the budget director ex
claimed, pounding the floor with the
handle of one of the brooms, "is your
Concluded on Page 2, column S.
Prospect of Surplus
June Announced.
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Good Salary and Home . Promised
Man Who Can Rnn Coper
nican Fools to Shelter.
ZION, 111, Feb. 3. The astronomical
teachings of Wilbur Glenn Voliva,
overseer of Zlon that the earth is
flat, surrounded by a wall of ice, and
covered by a canopy in which the
stars, sun andi moon are hung like
chandeliers now need only a com
petent instructor to spread the doc
trine outside Zion, Mr, Voliva said to
day. - He is hunting for a man to
teach Bible astronomy in the Zlon
schools.
"I will back the right man up, give
him a good salary and a comfortable
home end we will print books and
pamphlets by the hundreds of thou
sands and will make these Copernican
fools run -for shelter," Mr. Voliva
said.
"Anybody that could believe the
earth is the shape of an orange, and
that one man is standing on one side
with his head down while I am stand
ing on the other side with my head up
and that the whole thing is rotating
on its axis at a thousand miles an
hour, moving in Its orbit at the rate
of 1,800,000 miles a day and every
thing is shooting off towards Her
cules, certainly is some chump that's
all I have to say."
QUICK WORK SAVES CHILD
Hole Cut in Girl's Windpipe Pre
vents Choking to Death,
VANCOUVER, Wash, Feb. 3. (Spe
cial.) Quick work on the part of
physicians in cutting a hole in the
windpipe of Pearl Richards, 2 years
old, nd inserting a rubber tube, to
permit her to breathe until peanuts
In her throat could be removed, saved
the life of the child, a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. -Richards of 1209
V street.
The child had eaten peanut candy
and some of the nuts lodged in her
throat. While playing last night they
were being forced out, but caught in
such a way as to choke her. After
the tube was inserted she could
breathe and the doctors got the pea
nuts out.
STUDENTS JN0T WELCOME
Morals Too Low, Declare Managers
of Dance Halls.
CHICAGO. Feb. 3. Dancehall man
agers here con t want nign scnooi
students as customers because their
morals are so low they have a bad
effect upon the regular habitues of
such places, Miss Jennie Binford, in
vestigator for the Juvenile Protective
association, said in an address before
the Chicago Women's club.
'I won't say it's true that their
morals are that low," said Miss Bin
ford, "but that's what the managers
think. They told me so when I sug
gested having high school students
attend a series of demonstrations of
Chicago dances."
Xote Sent Jurist After Imposing
of Penalty Says Blystics
Knew but Forgot.
Two fortune tellers. Miss Kath
erine Franklin and Mrs. Elizabeth
Moore, arrested two weeks ago by
Patrolman KLeliy and told by Judge
Rossman tha if they could predict
a sentence he would write out 'and
seal in an envelope before February
1 he would release them, failed to
do so yesterday in court.
They had been arrested after
Kelly sought Mrs. Moore, palmist, to
have his fortune read and was told
the spirits were unfriendly. Mrs.
Moore advised him to see Misa Frank
lin in the next room. Kelly arrested
both for violating the city fortune-
telllnsr ordinance, and Judge Rossman I
made his unusual decision to deter
mine if the women were real fortune
tellers.
Yesterday they appeared with an
attorney to argue the case, juage
Rossman was adamant and would not
listen.
He read the sentence: "Acknowl
edge your inability to read fortunes;
that Is, to tell the past, predict events
before they occur and reveal the
future. Also sit down, etudy toe for
tune-telling ordinance, and then prom
ise never to violate it again.
The two women went to the city
attorney's office to read the ordi
nance. Ten minutes later they sent
in a sealed envelope, which they had
forgotten" to give the judge. Its
contents were a slap 01 jpa-per on
which was written a similar sentence.
Judge Rossman waved his long arms
above his head in the vicinity of the
American flag which shadows him as
he dispenses justice.
"This is awful; this is bunk; this is
terrible. She might have cad a nun
dred written out in her pocket and
picked the right one after sne left
the' courtroom. Take it away. Can
you imagine that stuff?" he shouted.
RUBLE MINIMUM RAISED
Only Notes of 1000 or More Now
Legal Tender in Russia.
MOSCOW, Feb. 3. Five-hundred
ruble notes are no longer legal
tender in Moscow. A recent de
cree of the Moscow soviet announces
that hereafter street railways and
other government institutions will ac
cept nothing less than 1000 - ruble
notes. "
A 1000-ruble note is worth half an
American cent at the present legal
rate of exchange.
SUNDAY GAMES BARRED
Checkers and Chess in Massachu
setts to Be Curbed.
BOSTON, Feb. 3. Checkers and
chess may not be played in Massa
chusetts on Sunday without breaking
the law. .
The house of representatives today
accepted an adverse report on bill to
make these games legal.
New Actress Involved
Taylor Killing.
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DETECTIVES OBTAIN CLEYi
Inquest to Be Held Today in
Movie Murder.
SECOND WIFE IS FOUND
Victim Is Said to Have Deserted
Woman He Married Under
Assumed Name.
LOS 'ANGELES, CaL, Feb. 3. A mo
tion-picture actress whose name has
not been publicly mentioned so far i
connection with the slaying Wednes.
day night of William Desmond Tay
lor, film director, was the center late
tonight of the investigation of the de
tectives detailed to the case.
The true name of the motion-pie
ture director who was known as Will
iam Desmond Taylor and who was
found slain in his apartments here
Thursday morning, was William
Deane Tanner, according to a story
the Los Angeles Times is publishing
this morning.
That statement, together with one
that Taylor had twice been married,
was said by the Times to have been
obtained in Monrovia, about 20 miles
from Los Angeles, from a woman
known as Mrs. Ada Deane-Tanner,
who described herself as "the desert.
ed wife'of Taylor's brother.
Earl Tiffany, who formerly was
chauffeur for Taylor, was said to have
related in detail as he remembered
the incidents, many alleged facts con
cerning Taylor's friendship for Mary
Miles Minter, whom he formerly di
rected, and also for Mabel Normand
another film actress, and also for the
latest motion picture actress' to be
brought into the case in tonight's de
velopments.
Henry Fellows, Taylor's ' assistant
director and brother to Howard Fel
lows, chauffeur for the director at the
time, of his death, also was Questioned.
While he was closted with the detec
tives, his wife and sister-in-law im
patiently waited for him.
Few Details Given.
Fellows was understood to have
told the officers he could remember
few details that might aid them. He
formerly was chauffeur for Taylor,
but is said to have declared he could
not recall the names of some of the
persons- about whom the detectives
sought information.
Tiffany and his wife, both of whom
knew Sands, or Fitz Strathmore, were
said to have told the police the ex
butler probably would give them con
siderable information about Taylor's
life and friends.
According to Tiffany, Miss Minter
was a close friend of Taylor's, and
when she called at his .apartments
Sands would tell her Taylor was not
at home, even when- he was.
About this time, it was said, Miss
Normand came in for more and more
attention from Taylor, and still was
the director's closest woman friend
when Tiffany was discharged.
The movements of Taylor during
the last week have been accurately
traced, it was announced tonight by
police detectives who are seeking the
slayer.
Details of what the police learned
were not .made public, but it was
stated that the information as to
Taylor's goings ' and comings had
been gleaned through the questioning
of Howard Fellows, his chauffeur,
and Henry Peavy, his negro house
man. It was after the prolonged ques
tioning of these two men that the
officers announced it was of the "ut
most importance" that Edward F.
Sands, former butier for Taylor, and
sought for several months on a war
rant charging forgery, to which the
dead director had sworn, be found.
Some of the officers at work on the
case, it developed, were still of the
opinion that the revenge theory,
evolved soon after the director's body
was discovered, was stiil tenable.
Inquest Is Today.
While the coroner was perfecting
plans for the inquest at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning, to which many
men and women prominent in the
motion-picture industry have been
subpenaed, members of the motlon
picture directors' association an
nounced that the funeral would not
be herd until next week. ,
Final arrangements, it was stated,
would not be announced until New
York investigators had found the
slain man's daughter, Ethel Daisy
Taylor, believed to be at a private
school on Long island. It was thought
she would come to Los Angeles for
her father's funeral.
While the Motion Picture Directors
association was -in charge of funeral
plans, members of the Overseas club,
composed of veterans of British mil
itary forces, with which Taylor served
as an officer during the world war,
also were planning to take part.
It was stated that the director prob
ably would be given a British military
burial., '
Movie Actress Named.
The name of Claire Windsor, mo
tion picture actress.7 once reported
(Concluded, on Paeo 3, Column JL).
Accident Happens as Apartment
Dweller Hastens to 'Welcome
Some Arriving Guests.
Mrs. Mary Baird, 58, -as killed
instantly yesterday afternoon when
crushed in the shaft of the automatic
elevator of the Elmwood apartments,
Tenth and Hall streets.
A short circuit of the electric wires
had started a small fire in the ele
vator shaft. Mrs. Baird, who was a
resident of the apartment, ran the
elevator to the basement and there
summoned W. G. Kearney, the jan
itor. As Mr. Kearney was examining
the wires and extinguishing" the
flames Mrs. Baird stood with one
foot on the basement floor and the
other in the elevator. . .
Suddenly the elevator shot upward
and Mrs. Baird fell with half of
her body extending through the door.
As the elevator rapidly moved up
ward she was caught between the
cage and the first floor of the build
ing and crushed to death.
The police were called and doctors
from the emergency hospital rushed
to the apartment house, but they
found life extinct. The body was
turned over to Deputy Coroner Leo
Goetsch.
Mrs. Baird had been living with
her daughter, Mrs. Vfern French.
She came here from Battle Creek,
Mich, with Mr. and Mrs. French, last
August.
Mrs. French and Mrs. Baird were
preparing to entertain some guests
yesterday afternoon before the ac
cident occurred. Mrs. Baird had an
swered the telephone, from arriving
guests and was hurrying down in the
automatic elevator to welcome them
when she discovered the fire in the
elevator- shaft.
Mr. Kearney and Charles Fasel
were the only witnesses of the ac
cident.
Mrs. Baird's body will be taken to
Michigan for burial.
CRUELTY PROBE BEGUN
Humane Society to Investigate Re
ports About Starving. Stock.
SALEM, Or., Feb. 3. (Special.)
Following action taken by the Ore
gon Humane society. Dr. Andrews,
Marion county agent for thewociety,
left last night for Gates and other
rural communities where he will maks
an investigation of reports that many
horses and cattle are suffering from
lack of feed.
In case the reports are found to b
true the persons responsible for the
conditions will be arrested and prose
cuted, officers of the humane society
said.
ART PIECE BRINGS $50,000
Sale of "Eight Bells' Establishes
New Price Record for America.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3. Winslow
Homer's famous sea canvas, n-ignt
Bells." established a new price rec
ord for modern American art when it
was purchased by a New York col
lector for $50,000, the John Levy gal
leries announced today.
Eight Bells.V painted in 1886, rep
resents two figures in oil SKjns
shooting" the sun with a sextant to
determine the position of their craft
at midday eight bells.
NDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 46
degrees; minimum, a uugieea.
TODAY'S Rain; southwesterly winds.
Foreign.
Balloting on pope continues without re
sult. Fage a.
Britain outlines attitude on TurKey.
Fags 6.
National.
Freight rate cuts now impossible. Hoover
testifies. ri5
Pershing- bill cuts otticers by - oooo.
Page 3.
Financing of bonus to be studied at con
ference, rage o.
Debt refund bill goes to president Page 2.
Deficit is avoided in - U. S. expenses.
Page 1.
Arms parley over except for frills. Page 2.
Domestic.
Butler Is sought in movie murder. Page 1.
Plot disclosed to iransier ooany Dig
American inuustriea m uermftny,
Page 2.
Zion leader wants man" wno can teacn
Voliva astronomy. rasu x.
Bootlegger district put under martial law.
Page 1.
Second Arbuckle jury disagrees. Page 3.
Stokes measures voice by tights. Page 8.
Pacific Northwest,
Girl says she, instead of her mother, killed
Gus Danielson. Page 1.
Woodenware plant to be installed in state,
Page .
Sports.
Profits of Tuesday card to go to com
munity cnest. rage ji.
All-star balfbacK aamita oeing profes
sional, rage m-
Dundee retains title By defeating Joe
Benjamin. Jt-age i. .
Aggies beat Oregon oy 10 v score.
rage
Commercial and Marine.
Imports of wheat may be necessary before
season is over. raso i.
-Chicago grain market ' strengthened by
sharp advance in Argentine, rage zx.
Advance in wall street stock market gen
eral, rage iii.
Columbia-Pacific to dispatch 11 steamers
this montn. rage
Dealers in Boston contract for wool.
Page 21..
Portland and Vicinity.
Moorew1U suit based on $11,000 estate.
Page 11. -Farm
conference useful, says C. E. Spence.
Page 21. '
Egg price drops , again to 36 cent a.
Page 12.
Fortune tellers failure in eourt. Page 1.
Hearing of charges against Dr. N. E.
Wayson begins today. Page T.
Apathy toward chest drive irritates cam
paigners. Page 1.
Reputed slave girl freed of bondage.
Page 22.
Woman crushed to death by elevator.
Page 1.
Ministers' part in dance control uncertain.
Page 13.
Building laws called inadequate. Page 12.
Local firm beats monopoly charge. Page 6.
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STRONG CONTRASTS MADE
Working Girls Give More Than
Wealthier Persons.
FRIENDLY BREACH ARISES
High Command of Drive Has Task
In Keeping Resentment of
Campaigners In Check.
PROGRESS OF CHEST DRIVE.
Total budget of chest. .1798,777
Incomplete returns to
last night 344,242
Remainder to be raised. $454,535
BY BEN HUR LAMPMAN. :
The question of the hour concern
ing the somewhat laggard progress
of the community chest campaign, as
to why it is that Portland does not
make the task a short and shining
one, may find its answer in compari
sons. Such comparisons as colonels
cited yesterday at war cpuncll, when
there arose a strong antipathy to
apathetic and Insufficient giving on
the part of the prosperous. Such con
trasts as Uaese:
Wrapping girls In a local depart
ment store have contributed an aver
age $6 to the charitable and phil
anthropic fund, whilj office sten
ographers have elsewhere averaged
subscriptions of $13.
Many business and professional
men are giving less than either sten
ographers or wrapping girls,
"It is not the small giver, the per
son of modest means, the one who
gives for the sake of humanity until
it hurts, that is dodging behind the
Y. M. C. A. "or some other pet objec
tion!" exclaimed Colonel F. H. Ran
som. "These generous ones do not
ask where their money goes.
They "
"Print the names of the chest
slackers!" urged a dozen voices.
Anger la Voiced.
"Steady!" counseled' General Robert
E. Smith, "Let's keep our feet on
the ground. There are slackers in
Portland and we are not going to let
them get away. These people who
will not give must be made to feel
they have .-. civic duty to perform.
Every card of a person refusing to
subscribe will be given careful con
sideration. Just what will be done
with them we are not yet ready to
announce. I am not worried about
the budget. I "
"To blazes with the budget!" cried
an angered captain. "What we want
is justice. Is it justice that men and
women who are earning $60 to $100
a month should give freely and
happily and that men whose incomes
are $2000 a year and more should offer
the chest $5?"
"No!" rose the shout. "Publish
their names!" i
"We're in this fight to win," Gen
eral Smith Interposed. He got no
further with his olive branch.
Extremes Are Pictured.
"You bet we are," responded Col
onel Ransom. . "But I know persons
who have been spending some time in
Europe, as tourists, and their sub
scription to the chest is $1.. I also
happen to know a man, out of work
who gave 50 cents. Picture those
two extremes."
"They tell us," said another field
officer, "that they object to this
charity of this or that institution.
What Bort of objection is such a
statement? They are privileged to
give to any one of them, and there
are 45 beneficiaries on the chest list.
I pity that man or woman who is
so lost to human sympathy that he
or she cannot discover one charity
to approve of among that many."
At chest headquarters there has
risen a breach, friendly but marked.
between the actual field workers and
the high command. General Smith
and Adjutant Walker are urging the
hotheads to remain calm and rely
upon the merit of the chest appeal.
But with 6000 campaigners In the
field, and many of them stirred to
resentment by reluctant and meager
giving, the prospect of insubordina
tion grows with each day.
No Words Minced.
"We are trying to hold them in
line," said General Smith, at tha close
of the stormy war council. "We wish
to win without bitterness or person
alities. That we will win Is certain,
and the determination of our workers
is the guarantee, but it will be
strange if the temper of the field
forces' does n6t lead to incidents in
compatible with the headquarters
policy of logic and persuasion. I re
gret this feeling, while I cannot but
confess that it Is not unprovoked.
There are men in Portland, many of
them, who are shamed by the con
trast of their own subscriptions with
those of working girls and working
men."
Through the council, held at noon
in the Multnomah hotel, ran without
exception the blend that Is the fight-
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