Morning Oregonian., February 21, 1922, Image 1

VOL. LXI XO. 19.112 Entered at Portland Ore-,n
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PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ALIENS "BOOTLEGGED"
SHIP AT ..SEA
CHEST ASKED TO AID
MRS. ASQUITH POKES
FUN AT McGORMICKS
GIRL' ENGAGEMENT TO RID
ING MASTER HELD FUNNY.
SCHOOLS PERMITTING
SMOKING BLACKLISTED
INTO UNITED STATES
MANY IN SUFFERING
RAIDED BY PLANES
SMUGGLING OF MEN IS MORE
PROFITABLE THAX LIQUOR.
PITIFUL CASES ARE FOUND
NEBRASKA MOVES TO DIS
COURAGE TOBACCO HABIT.
THROUGHOUT CITY.
EDUGAT QN COSTS
1
IT
HARVEY PISES
.BALFOUR'S WORK
1ST
on
Nearly
Half of 1921 Taxes
Spent on Schools.
EXPENSE- PROBE RESUMED
State Levies Increase 521.1
Per Cent in 11-Years.
DELINQUENCY IS RECORD
Investigation Commission to Study
Water Power and Irrigation '
Bond Situation.
TAX INVESTIGATION COSIMIS
SIO.V FINDINGS.
Education and roads are the
two big expense items ia taxes.
For educational purposes $18,
703,477 was raised put of a total
tax for all purposes of $41,117,
367 In 1921. ; . "
State taxes have Increased
from 1910 to 1921 a total of
521.1 per cent.
Delinquent taxes reported in
December, 1921, amounted to
$4,078,656.20, or 9.9 per cent of
the total tax levy.
Commission Is not seeking
new sources of revenue, but is
trying to equalize taxes. Com
mission does not want to raise
more money so more money can
be spent.
Commission will recommend
that water power be not tied
up by speculators, but that en
couragement be given forlegitl
mate development.
Investigation of state's moral
obligation in irrigation bonds is
to be continued.
Commission may recommend
doubling of corporation fees and
turning of inheritance taxes into
irreducible school fund
Cpmmission wants to hold
down state millage taxes.
Oregon is so strong for education
tlat almost 50 per cent of all the
taxes levied in 1921 went for educa
tional purposes. Education cost $18,-
703,477 of the $41,117,367. Tire sec
ond biggest expense is roads, which
amo'untcd to . $6,086,266, and Include
the market roads, special road dis
tricts and the like.
This was one of the many devel
opments at yesterday's session of the
state tax investigation commission,
held in the Board of Trade building.
Members of the commission have de
cided tentatively to probe a little
deeper Into the educational feature
of the tax sheet, particularly with
respect to the institutions of higher
learning. Also the commission is pos
itive on one point millage taxes
must not be increased, and if there is
any way of decreasing them the com
mission wants to find it.
Tax Redistribution Aim.
The commission is endeavoring to
mako a redistribution of the burden
t of taxes, such as 'Will bring a def
inite relief to real property. The com
mission holds that toe tax-spending
bodies must retrench, government
must economize as individuals are do
ing. The commission is definitely op
posed to any change- that will provide
more money for tax-levying bodies" to
spend.
A survey of state institutions, rang
ing from the hospital for the tuber
ular to the home for the feeble
minded, convinced the commission
that these establishments are can
ducted close to . brass tacks.
"Not much use of trying to econ
omize in these state institutions," ob
served I. N. Day, chairman. "It would
be a case of shearing a hog not
much wool."
Higher Fees Suggested.
However, there are various' possible
means or increasing revenues. For
example, fees collected by the state
corporation department brought in
$597,483 at the last report Walter M.
1'ierce thinks these fees should be
doubled. Also he favored the in
heritance tax going into the irreduci
ble school fund, but as other members
were not prepared to. vote on this
for the present the plan is in abey
ance. Henry E. Reed will make i
special study of the corporation fees
lor tne commission. , The state of
Washington plans doubling its fees in
thi department.
Oregon has 3,443,980 horse ' power,
according to statistics submitted to
the commission by P. A. Cupper. Un
developed projects Investigated by
vne state amount to 2,662,350 horse
power; other power possibilities
amount to 2M, 900 horse power and
there are developed and partly de
veloped 489,730 horse power. The re
port shows there is actually developed
200,250 horse power, or less than
per cent tne total norse power
listed.
j.ucio io ounyiuun in me minds
of the commissioners that manv
power sues have been filed on
speculative purpose and these are pocket An explosion and fire envel
held by the payment of small fees, j oping the automobile followed.
The commission probably will recom-i Two other children, badly burned,
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Hundreds of Illegal Entries Being
Made From Bahamas and Cuba,
Secretary Davis Declares.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 20.
Hundreds of alienB are being illegally
"bootlegged" into the United States,
Secretary Davis declared today on
leaving the White House after a con
ference with the president. The sec
retary, who declined to state what
the subject of his conference with the
president was, declared that the en'
actment of a law requiring all aliens
to register was the only solution of
the situation.
Bootleggers, the secretary said,
wer finding it more profitable to
bring in immigrants who are banned
by law than to handle liquor. Buch
illegal entries, he added, were being
made from the Bahamas and Cuba
Into Florida, across the Mexican bor
der and from Canada,
There are from 6000 rto 25,000. un
desirable aliens in the country who
should be deported, the secretary con
tinued, because of penitentiary sen
tences, diseases they have contracted,
or because they have entered .the
country illegally. He estimated also
that there were 40,000 Chinamen in
the United States illegally.
HIGHWAY CLEAR IN HOOD
Crews Cut Last Ice Blockade Near
Camp Benson, at County Line.
HOOD RIVER. Or.. Feb. 20. (Spe
cial.) General satisfaction was ex
pressed today when the Columbia
River highway was cleared In this
county, crews cutting the last ice
blockade near Camp Benson. A num
ber of motorists toured west as far
as' Cascade Locks.
Jubilation featured the meeting of
the Commercial club tonight, when
Senator Nickelsen was commended
for the dispatch with which he has
pushed the work. The road had been
closed since Saturday, November 19.
Motor traffic, until the Multnomah
end of the highway is opened, will be
diverted by ferry to the North Bank
highway at Stevenson, Wash.
OIL STORES HELD HIDDEN
Japan's Resources Believed Greater
Than it Admits. ' '
NEW YORK, Feb. 20. Charges that
propagandists have concealed the ex
tent of, Japan's oil possessions are
made lri a statement issued today by
the American Institute of Mining and
Metallurgical Engineers at the open
ing of its annual meeting.
"Japan possesses much more oil
than her propagandists have tried to
make the world believe she has," the
statement says. 1 . '
At the present rate of consumption,
according to the statement, Japan has
three centuries of supply, while the
United States has only 20 years of
probable oil reserves.
FILIPINO MARRIES WHITE
Vancouver Justice Refuses to Of'
ficiatc, But Minister Does.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Feb. 20.
(Special.) After Frank E. Vaugrhan,
justice of the peace, had refused to
marry a divorced white woman to a
Filipino, Elder A. D. Skaggs, retired
Christian minister, performed the
ceremony today. . ,
The woman was Mrs. 1 Bogart,
nee Pittman, a native of OWgon. She
gave her age as 33 and h'er address
as 490 1,4 Washington strSet, Portland.
The Filipino was Placido Abad, 24,
seaman, who was born in Manila,
P. I. He gave the same address as
the woman.
NEW GEYSER REPORTED
Mud and Steam Shoots 200 Feet
High During Two Days.
GREAT FALLS, Mont.. Feb. 20. In
formation through the fqrester at
Black Leaf, Teton county, received
here today at the Jefferson national
forest headquarters, states that a
geyser, or volcanic eruption occurred
at Mount Blackleaf canyon ten days
ago, mud and steam shooting 200 feet
u:l- .t
uigu iui iwu uajb ajiu men BUUSiumg
to a steady putpour of hissing steam.
During the first outbreak the noise
of the eruption could be heard several
miles and a number'of farmers visited
the spot.
DEATH ENDS SEPARATION
Secret ot Unhappy Marriage Car
ried to Grave by Both.
GENEyA, Feb. 20. A couple named
Stalder, separated for 30 years, have
been joined in death at Kussnacht.
near Lucerne. For reasons they never i
told, they parted a month after mar
riage, bowing to each other on the
street, but never speaking.
recently tne wife died. The hus
band wrote a note asking to be buried
near her, and an hour later he was
found dead. Doctors found no indica
tions of suicide and friends said he
died of a broken heart.
GAS POCKET KILLS THREE
rarents and Girjt in Automobile
Enveloped by Flames.
FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb.20.
Mr. and Mrs. W, H. Kelly and their
6-year-old daughter were fatally
', burned near Desdemonda last night
for when their automobile -struck a gas
British Schooner Seized
by U. S. Operatives.
NEW CAMPAIGN IS OUTLINED
Squadron Operates Out of
Miami and Other Towns..
11 AIRCRAFT ARE USED
11,500 Cases of Whisky Are in
Cargo Complications May '
Arise From Action.
MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 20. The British
schooner Annabelle was seized late
Sunday off Jewfish creek,, about 40
miles south of Miami, with a cargo
of 11,500 cases of whisky aboard, by
airplanes of the prohibition squad
ron operating out of Miami and ad
jf.cent coastal towns, it was learned
today from officials here.
The entire crew of 21 men was cap
tured without resistance when the
flying machines, with their machine
guns pointed at the schooner from all
directions, swooped down on the ves
sel. Eleven airplanes, painted a battle
ship gray, gradually made their way
down the coast last week, it became
known here today.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 20.
Prohibition headquarters awaited the
night reports from Florida of what
was said to be the first dry law 'air
raid at sea with the inauguration of
land, water and air warfare against
rum "smugglers along the southern
coast. ,
i , No Report Yet Received.
Commissioner Haynes said he had
not as yet received a report from
Miami of the seizure of the British
schooner Annabelle with a cargo of
liquor off Jewfish creek by airplanes
of the prohibition forces, but added
that advices of the squadron's initial
flight might reach- headquarters to
morrow. . - "
Mr. Haynes and other high prohi
bition officials were reticent concern
ing the mobilization of air forces to
combat liquor runners, indicating that
they would prefer to discuss the new
plans when they know that the ma
chinery for the concentrated cam
paign is working smoothly.
It was learned, however, that pro
hibition headquarters had been quiet
ly preparing for some time to bring
to bear simultaneously, airplanes,
submarine chasers and reinforced
ls.nd forces In Florida upon the illegal
.liquor craft said to be infesting
southern Waters.
With airplanes as swift raiders to
swoop down on rum runners, stealing
toward the coast, the prohibition au
thorities were understood to plan a
patrol of submarine chasers from
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IT'S GOING TO BE HARD
I ' . : " Wife, f ' l
ll t t r ,, .j
Unemployment and Sickness Lead
to Misfortune and Raising of
Quota Is Imperative.
Instances of dire need that ring
the changes on distress and suffering ',
throughout Portland continue to pour
in at community chest headquarters,
whose merciful agencies alone are
equipped to defeat distress and mis
fortune in the city.
Unemployment and sickness are the
twin elements in most cases leading
to unfortunate conditions and the
necessity for relief. One case reported
yesterday by the public -. welfare
bureau was that of a family . with
three children under ten, the man and
wife both being sick and the head of
the household has been unemployed
all winter. He had borrowed to the
limit on his life insurance and his
credit was exhausted so that milk
could not be obtained for the children.
Even then it fell to the lot of
neighbors to report the case to the
welfare bureau and assistance was
accepted only with extreme reluc
tance, this family never having been
in need of -relief before.
Another instance vAs that of a
mother whose son is at the point of
death from tuberculosis. All her
resources had been exhausted in
seeking the son's . return to health.
Finally the mother, much against her
will, was forced to accept relief from
the welfare bureau, but Secretary
Gebhart said she did so with falling
tears, as she said she was left no
choice.
Another pitiful case is that of a
family of three children whose
mother has been sick for a long whife
with cancer. The husband has been
unemployed all winter and the family
has borrowed money twice on their
home, which was paid for. The con
dition of the mother is grave and
unless the man gets work at once
there will be no other resource than
to accept relief from the public wel
fare bureau. '
Community chest officials point out
that in all these cases the families
are essentially self-supporting, and
have never needed help before. They
prove the unusual demands upon
chest agencies and show -how im
perative it is that the campaign
budget be raised, it is declared.
The last report or subscriptions
announced, by chest officials showed
that approximately $288,000 was
needed to complete the desired chest
quota of $798,777.
MORE FARM LOANS MADE
$63,000 Advanced to Washington
and $85,000 to Wyoming.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 20. Ap
proval of 170 advances for agrlcultu
ral and livestock purposes aggregat
ing $4,570,000, distributed among 25
states, was announced today by the
war finance corporation. .
The advances included Washington,
$63,000, and Wyoming, $85,000.
SUNDAY VISITS HARDING
Evangelist Dines With President at
m White House.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 20. The
Rev. W. W. (Billy) Sunday called on
President Harding today, and later
took .lunch with him at the White
House.
TO HITCH UP WITH HIM JUMPING AROUND THAT WAY.
Only Americans Can Live With
Foreigners is Declaration of
Visiting Englishwoman.
CHICAGO. Feb. 20. Efforts to pb-
tain a statement from Mrs. Edith
Rockefeller McCormick today on the
engagement of her daughter, 16-year-old
Mathilde McCormick, to Max Oser
of Berne, Switzerland, again met
with failure. Servants announced that
Mrs. McCormick has nothing to say."
Mrs. Mar-got Asquith, wife of the
ex-premier of England, who is visit
ing Chicago, was one of the interested
commenters on the international
romance.
"Your American girls will marry
anybody," Mrs. Asquith told inter
viewers. "That's because they're eo
adaptable, I presume. Our English
girls, as a rule, don't marry outside
their own country.
As to Mathilde McCormick, I never
beard of her outside what I've read
in your Chicago papers. A daughter
pf a multi-millionaire, you say?
Granddaughter of John D. Rocke
feller, the richest man in the world?
Yes, yes. I know of him surely.".
To Mrs. Asquith this romance is
only another phase of American life.
"So much like the movies," she said,
"always eo swift."
'International marriages are silly.
she continued. "Nobody but an Ameri
can girl could get on with a foreigner.
don't know why our girls prefer
their own breed, but they do. You
say this livery stable keeper is old
enough to be her grandpa? Really,
that's amusing, Isn't it?"
Suppose she is one of your Ameri
can flappers perfumes ner nanas,
wears her skirts up to her knees, and
all that sort of thing. Well. I have
never seen anything "attractive in the
American flappers. To begin with,
they haven't pretty ankles. Our
English shop girls have lots mqre
style,
Miss Mathilde McCormick, daughter
of Harold F. McCormick, president of
the International Harvester company,
passed today in bed, resting from the
excitement attendant to obtaining her
family's consent to the wedding.
From the old Cyrus Hall McCormick
mansion where Miss' McCormick is
llviifg with her father, who moved
there following his' recent divorce,
further details of the romance were
gleaned today, i '
' First and foremost, the family fixed
Mr. Oser's age at 40-years, contradict
ing statements of Emil Burgy, a Chi
cago interior decorator, who claims
to be a cousin of Mr. Oser. Burgy told
newspaper men that Mr. Oser was 57
years old, 1 although previous, dis
patches from abroad had fixed his age
at 48.
Both guesses were wrong, the Mc
Cormick . family announced today.
Howard A. Colby, a friend of McCor
mick, who gave the facts to the Xsso
ciated Press, said:
"Mr. McCormick knows Mr. Oser
personally. He is only 40 years old
and full of mustard and pep. This
stuff about his being an old man is all
bosh. He Is really a young man, and
Miss Mathilde is a very mature young
woman. It isn't like marrying the
average 16-year-oia girl. Everybody
is much pleased with the engage
ment." . .
Miss McCormick, who was born In
1905, will be 17 years old on April
next.
The date of her return to Switzer-
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POLITICAL BATTLE
Election of Workers to
High Offices Is Aim.
CHICAGO CONFERENCE HELD
Farmers, Socialists, Unions
and Clergymen Meet.
TWO COMMITTEES NAMED
Non-partisan Political Action In
Elections of 1922 Is -Keynote
of Conference.
CHICAGO, Feb. 20. Unanimous
support of a new movement to install
men and women of the working class
in the nation's legislative halls was
pledged by farmers, members of the
socialist and farmer-labor parties,
labor union leaders and clergymen J
in a conference today, -called by a
group of railroad union men, headed
by William H Johnston, president of
the International Association of
Machinists.
Declared by Morris Hillquit of New
York to be "the most significant
event that has taken place in tht
American labor movement for a
generation," the conference brought
together leaders high in labor and
minor political party circles. Al
though - Chairman Johnston, declared
in his opening address that the time
wasnot yet ripe .for formation of a
new party, today's meeting was ex
pected to develop the germ of a new
political organization' which some
delegates said would be functioning
by 1924.
Non-partisan Action Keynote.
Non-partisan political action In the
1922 elections w-as the keynote of the
meeting. A dozen speakers pleaded
their support of a programme to in
dorse candidates favorable to the
working man. Committees on pro
gramme and organization will report
to the-.' convention tomorrow, - when
definite plans are expected to be
adopted.
By combining their efforts, work
ers of every class could build a po
litical machine which would elect to
offices "men and women truly rep
resentative of the people of the
United States," E. J. Manlon of the
Order of Railway Telegraphers told
the delegates, and both he and
Thomas Van Lear, ex-mayor of Min
neapolis, pledged their support to
such a movement. -
.Common Cause Supported.
Morris Hillquit, of the socialist
party, declared he was not at the
meeting to make "political capital"
and did not seek office for socialist
candidates there. f
"We are willing to give everything
we have as a party and ai a move
ment toward tho common cause," Mr.
Hillquit declared. "This is the first
time that the progressive' elements
of all divergent factions have gotten
together in one common action. I be
lieve'' it is the most eignificant event
that has taken place in the American
labor movement for a generation."
The Rev. Herbert Bigelo.w of Cin
cinnati made a plea to capture the
primaries in the established parties
by electing men representative of the
workers' interests tnd H. F. Samuels,
a farmer of Idaho, urged the unity
of all classes in achieving that end.
He declared he had "looked and hoped
for 30 years to be In such a conven
tion as this." '
Student Support Dtaounaed. i
Another clergyman, the Rev. Rich
ard Hogue of Philadelphia, executive
secretary of the Church League for
Industrial Democracy, pointed out the
opportunity to gather support from
the students.
. "A new tide of insurgency only
lacking direction," he said, was
sweeping thl schools and seminaries
of the country and its support Could
be gained by supplying leadership.
The organized farmers' attitude was
presented by A. F. Long of the United
Society of Agriculture, who empha
sized the necessity for obtaining the
actual 'facts on the value of their
production and demanding their share
of production.
The farmer-tabor party, represented
by J. G; Brown, national secretary,
was friendly to the new movement,
asserted Mr'Brown, who pledged his
support ''in any liberal plan of coali
tion." "We must depend on ourselves and
not on our political 'friends,' " he de-
clared. "We must develop leadership
within our own' ranks."
Same Idea Expremed.
The same idea was expressed by
James H. Maurer of the national ex
ecutive council of the socialist party
and president of the Pennsylvania
State Federation of Labor. '
"I am willing to go the limit -with
you," said Mr. Maurer, "to bring the
producing classes together for a com
mon political action."
Following the election of Mr. John
ston as permanent chairman and Ben
jamin C. Marslt of the farmers' na
tional council as secretary, the com
mittees w.ere named, as follows:
Programme Basil Manly, J. H.
1 Franklin, George F. Griffith, E. J.
Manlon. Herbert S. Bigelow, H. P.
Daugherty, H. F. Samuels, J. G.
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Teachers Forbidden Attending Uni
versities Where Reports Say
Co-eds Use Cigarettes.
LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 20. Instruc
tors In any of the state normal col
leges of Nebraska hereafter will be
refused leaves of absence to study or
attend the universities of Columbia,
Chicago and Northwestern, "because
the testimony of those who have been
Btudents and the news items in the
daily press, show that cigarette smok
ing is common among women in these
Institutions," under a resolution
adopted today by the board of edu
cation of state normal schools.
Any other educational institution
that permits such practice is barred I
to teachers in Nebraska normal col-1
leges, the resolution states. The i
resolution was Introduced by H. E.
Reische of Chadron.
"We want to discourage the tobacco
habit, as it is so great an evil that
it should be utterly discontinued by
every institution that trains teach
ers," declared Mr. Reische to the
board. "We want the world to know
that Nebraska is not in favor of this
kind of thing.
"The summer courses at these in
stitutions attract many teachers from
the Nebraska normal schools each
year, but this year the resolution will
compel them to make other plans.'
NEW YORK, Feb. 20. Columbia
university officials tonight character
ized as "regrettable" the action of
the board of education ot the Ne
braska state normal schools in ban
ning the famous New York college
as a summer training sehool for their
teachers because of the reports that
Columbiapraduate students smoke
cigarettes.
Charles T. MaoFarlane, controller of
teachers' college, issued a formal
statement taking issue with the an
nouncement by Miss Margaret Kilpat
rick, president of the Whittier Hall
student body, last week to the effect
that smoking in the girls' rooms was
prohibited, but merely because smoke
made the rooms too stuffy.
"Smoking by women in Whittier
Hall is forbidden for moral, not
aichitectural, reasons," Dr. MacFar
lane said.
"It is regrettable that a state board
of education should act upon stories
not officially verified. Contrary to
statements accredited to Miss Mar
garet Kilpatrick, who is president of
the student body in Whittier Hall, the
majority of girls do not smoke.'
"Since the publication of a state
ment, which denies saying that the
girls all smoke. Miss Kilpatrick has
received scores of anonymous letters
from all over the country tleplorlng
the moral standard of women today.
It has long been a rule at Whittier
that smoRing is forbidden', but it is
impossible for us to follow every girl
about.
"Besides, if a girl 'wishes to take
tea at a downtown hotel and smokes
there, as hundreds of women do, we
cannot prevent her, although we do
uot approve of it. Miss Kilpatrick
herself denies the statement tht
stnoking has been stopped in Wfflt
tier Hall because it makes rooms too
smoky."
RIVERSIDE FEELS QUAKE
California Town Shaken, But No
Damage Is Reported.
RIVERSIDE. Cal., Feb. 20. An
earthquake was felt here at 3:15 this
afternoon.
No damage was reported.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather,
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,
25 degree; minimum, 84 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; variable wind.
-- Koreiitn.
French, arms delegates not satisfied.
Page 2.
Many formalities required by princess1
wedding. Page 8.
Mexicans are deceived by stories of treas
ures buried during long revolution.
Page 7.
Irish republicans released from jail.
Page 6.
Harvey praises Balfour work. Page 1.
Ttutiooal.
Soldiers' bonus legislation facing defeat.
Page 3.
Treaty negotiations not recorded, Harding
tells senate. Page i.
Bonus financing still undecided. Page 2.
Aliens "bootlegged" by hundreds into the
United States, Secretary Davis de
Clares. Page 1.
Business is declared on point ot upward
trend. Pago 14.
Domestic.
Schools permitting smoking blacklisted.
. Page 1.
Rum ship at sea raided by planes. Page 1.
Movement launched to elect workers.
Page 1.
Mrs. Asquith pokes fun a McCormlcks.
. Page 1.
No pact can please all, declares Kato.
Page 6.
Pawtucket valley occupied by state cav
alry. Page 4.
8ports.
Jefferson defeats Franklin In close game,
25 to 21. Page 12.
White's burly fist lays Jackson low.
Page 13. .
Harper is conceded chance against Joe
Welling. Page 12.
Pacific Northwest.
Girl's stomach is taken to Seattle for
poison test. Page 7.
State files suit in Lake county. Page 6)
Commercial and Marine.
Power bonds offer high yields. Page 20.
Inquiries from Europe and orient for Ore
gon wheat. Page 20.
Chicago wheat sharply hieher on heavy
foreign buying. Page 20. -
Foreign bonds continue to advance.
Page 20.
Steamship Arabian due to load for Europe.
Page 14.
Trading in .stocks experiences spurt.
Page 1. . ,
Portland and Vicinity.
Education costs nearly half of 1921 taxes
, in Oregon. Page 1.
Chest asked to help many In suifering.
Page 1.
Oregon to receive 11,100.000 from govern
ment for roads. Page 22. -
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 15.
Head of jewelers says prosperity Is on
way. Page lo,
British Delegation Head
Is Welcomed Home.
AMERICAN. SPEAKER CHEERED
U. S. Ambassador .Predicts
Senate Ratification.
, - ,
PACIFIC PACT IS LAUDED
Lord Curzon Declares That War In
District Covered by Treaty
Is Impossible.
LONDON, Feb. 20. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) America Joined in the
praises of A. J. Balfour, head of the
British mission, at the Washington
conference . in his welcome to the
homeland, when the American am
bassador, George Harvey, addressed
the Pilgrims' society dinner tonight
at which 300 persons assembled. The
Duke of York Represented the royal
family, and the others included min
isters of the cabinet, civil and mili
tary leaders and official and un- ,
official representatives of the Ameri
can community.
It was a "personal welcome" for a
great Pilgrim, according to Marquis
'Curzon, In contrast to the official
welcome accorded Mr. Balfour at the
government luncheon Thursday.
.Mr. Balfour Eulogized.
The king by letter, which was read
to the diners, the Duke of York, Mar.
quis Curzon and Mr. Harvey Indulged
In eulogies of Mr. Balfour. Cheers
greeted Ambassador Harvey's predic
tion that the United States senate
was as certain to ratify the various
treaties as the British parliament was
to sanction them. v
"As a result of the Pacific pact,"
said Lord Curzon, "not a man in this
room can expect to see warfare in
that part of the world'."
With a modesty which character
ized and popularized his efforts at '
Washington, Mr. Balfour, In respond
ing, said that in all the years of his
career he had never attended an
occasion so moving and so difficult
to do justice to as this welcome.
Individual Parts Small.
Though for the moment he appeared
in the forefront of the picture, he
pointed out that the part of any
individual was but a small matter
in dealing with issu as great as
were handled at Washington.
The Washington conference, Mr.
Balfour continued, wasof unmixed
benefit to mankind. One or two
things for which he hoped had been
accomplished, he said, but the greatest
satisfaction was that nothing had
been done which carried the evil seed '
of future misfortunes. He did not
agree with the onlyv suggestion of
criticism of the conference he had
heard that the results were inimical
to the league of nations.
"The league could not have done
what Washington did," he exclaimed
emphatically amid cheers. "Tht
world is in such condition that 'all
machinery and every Instrument
upon which we can lay our hands
are needed to ralseit to its pre-war
level."
Satisfaction In Expressed.
Neither could Washington accom
plish, in his opinion, the work of the
league, for which other machinery
had not yet been discovered.
Concluding, Mr. Balfour said:
"The representatives of the nin
powers represented look back on the
16 weeks of their labors with un
mixed satisfaction. Every one ha-
gained by these labors; no repre
sentative will return to his home
land unable (to claim that he -furthered
the interests of the world, anl
thereby the interests of his particu
lar people. In all the great area of
the far east, of the Pacific, in all the
nations interested in maritime af
fairs. In every one of those lands and
in all other lands connected with
them, the findings of the conference
will produce' unmixed advantages to
the people of the world."
Lord Desborough Presides.
Lord Desborough presided over the
dinner and read a response from the
king expressing thanks for a loyal
message "in gratifying announce
ment of special significance, a united
expression from the hearts of Amer
ican anc( Brit'sh citizens met together
to do honor to the chief British dele
gate returned home."
The king's message said: ,
"Mr. Balfour In the discharge of
high and responsible duties displayed
his characteristic powers and ability,
thereby maintaining the highest tra
ditions -of British statesmanship and ,
justly earning the gratitude and ad
miration of the empire. I feel also
that It is not too much to say that
ho has gained the confidence and es
teem of these other great nations
represented in that historic assem
bly. . .
Parley Originator Lauded.
"With universal thanKtulness for
the great results achieved at Wash
ington, there must go forth feeling
of grateful recognition to the presi
dent of the United States. He was
the" originator of the conference, and
the world is Immeasurably Indebted
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