3 DEBT C0III5SI1 TO GET LITTLE CASH I shape of damage done by American troops in Russia. That set-off can I hardly be admitted. American troops i were in Russia chiefly for the legiti I mate purpose of protecting supplies J sent by America to Russia at the re quest of the preceding Russian gov ernment. Moreover, there is all the difference in the world between Rus sia's obligation and promise to repay a loan made by America and any possible liability America may be under for damages. The heart of the present American relations with Rus sia lies in America's insistence that a contract is a contract and that contractual obligations must be re spected. The communistic philosophy seems to Include a negation of this doctrine. Until Russia accepts this condition Promises to Pay About AH That May Be Expected. REPORT MAY DISAPPOINT and gives evidence of compliance with it the present Russian govern ment is hardly likely to get the rec ognition it Is anxious to get from America. Great Britain and Czecho-SIovakla May Be Able to Meet Part of Bill, but Others Won't. AD CLUB FOLLIES TONIGHT THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1923 BY MARK SULLIVAN". . fCoprright br the New York Evenln Post, Inc. Published by Arrangement) WASHINGTON, D. C, April 19. , (Special.) Th commission whose function it is to collect the $11,000,000, 000 owed the United States by various European nations has organized. The next tep, necessarily. wJil be for this commission to give formal notifica tion to the European debtor govern ments of the commission's duties in the collection of these debts or in the making of arrangements for their col lection, and then to await such re sponses as the nations may decide to make. It is easy for all well-informed persons to guess approximately what these responses will be. Great Britain probably will pay e considerable sum on account of tl s accrued interest and express willing- j ness to accept 1 any terms that the ; United States may suggest about fu ture installments. Aside from Great Britain, it is difficult to think of any one of the other nations that is likely to make any payments on account. Cecho-Slovakia May Pay. It Is Just possible that the Czecho slovak government may be prepared to do something in a small way. This government is about the only one of the various new nations set up by the Paris conference that has conducted Its fiscal affairs In euch a way as to qualify as a solvent debtor. As a result of Czecho-Slovak economy and the sound management of its finances, it has recently been able to borrow several million dollars from private bankers in America and Great Brit ain. Other than Great Britain and the Czecho-Slovak republic, it is impos sible to expect that any of the other governments in debt to the United States will or can make any payment in cash. Some of them ought to be able to, but are not. France proba bly will say that she acknowledge.! thedebt and expects to pay It, but that she can give no definite assur ances until she has collected mor of her reparations from Germany or has secured assurance of such pay ment on a basis dependable enough to provide grounds for credit. Little Caea Is Expected. Most of the other nations will give one variation or another of the same reply. The net result of all thefe responses will not be very great in cash, and yet. Incidentally, some re publican leaders in the senate are pre pared to place so much confidence in the amount of these collections in the Immediate future that they have re vived the hope of financing the sol diers bonus out of them. It may be possible to do this in a small way. Probably what Great Britain will pay may be enough to finance a minute installment on the soldiers bonu That, however, is another "story. After the debt refunding commission has received its various answers, tho next step logically will be a report by the commission to congress. That report may turn out to be disappoint ing to congress and the country. S3 far as the country expects all of these debts to be refunded on a normal -basis, at a normal rate of interest and with installments beginning immedi ately, the country Is likely to be dis appointed. . Gold Advance May Be Asked. Beyond these three steps it is dif ficult to see further into the future By the time all this has taken place. certain other angles of the Kuropean situation will be more clear than they are now. If those of the Kuropean nations who have debased their cur rency should decide as a result of the Genoa conference to stabilize their currency and otherwise bring their fiscal affairs to a sound basis, there is likely to be a request by some of them for. an advance of a part of the Lnited States gold to serve as a basis for their new currency. At this point it is going to be necessary for America to practice a good deal of wisdom. If any of those Kuropean countries show an honest disposition to stop spending more than their Income and to stop print ing paper money, then it would be a wise and statesmanlike thing for America to lend them some Ameri can gold under proper reservations. Just why it Is disadvantageous for America to have such a disproportion ately large share of the .world's gold supply and why it would be advan tageous for America to devote some of it to enabling other countries to stabilize their currency is a more complex aspect of economics than fa commonly understood. Incidentally, one of the countries that owe money to the United States is Russia. Rus sia owes some hundreds of millions to the United States government and also owes some hundreds of millions to American bankers. " At the Genoa conference Russia has developed the theory that against these debts she has a set-off in the MIXSTREIi show to be held AT AUDITORIUM. I A Krly -Mt The proud possessor of a complete Billings and Spencer tool kit probably started with one Billings and Spencer wrench Dress Rehearsal Proves Parts Are Well Liearned and All Numbers Are Ready lor Performance. A good old-fashioned minstrel show with interlocutors and end men and everything: will open the Ad club follies to be staged tonight at the auditorium. There also will be pretty dancins girls, advertising stunts, comic songs and musical reatures. which, it is declared, will make the show one of the best amateur per formances ever staged in Portland. The closing number will be par ticipated in by a chorus of 100 voices. Charles F. Berg will have the posi tion of interlocutor in the minstrel show, and end men will be E. N. Strong, Tommy Luke, Clarence For- ( ter, A. is., iiougnton, Jfnii jenmnga and Tom King. The women also will be featured in appropriate dances and songs, and fancy costumes will be on display. The programme for the night in cludes the following numbers: Over ture. "Blackface De Luxe," "Funny grams,'" "Danceland," Jack Carter and Ethel Hutchison; "An Original Sketch," "Adland," and i'Melody Gar den." "Everybody Ready? She's In the air." Thus Jack Carter, manager, gave the signal for the rise of the curtain on the final rehearsal of the show at the auditorium- last night. Contrary to most full-dress rehearsals, every thing went off with clock-like pre cision. Wardrobes and costumes have been completed. New scenery and drops have been, painted and made ready on the auditorium stage.' Spotlights, flood lights and other electrical ap paratus, lent through the courtesy fo Portland show houses, have been in stalled. The cast has been hard at work for the past month on the parts, and an almost professional perfection has been the result. Even the 15-piece orchestra, assembled by George Olsen, has parts down to the point where the various bits of jazz and pleasing syncopation blend harmoniously with the cleer songs and dances that nu the birl to overflowing. COLOR BOOK OF VALUE NEW FEATURE OF THE OREGO NIAN IS WINNER. Parent Who Desire Good Pictures for Their Children Will Find Novelty Very Instructive. Parents who are careful to place th best of pictures before their children will find the Invisible Color Book, which starts in The Oregonian on Sunday, both attractive and instruc tive for their boys and girls. This magic coior book has been indorsed by women who have made a study of the proper sort 01 reaaing. material for children. better than anything I have ever seen in the newspapers ror cnuaren, saw Miss Anno Mulheron, city librarian, yesterday. "The pictures are'artistic and exceptionally well drawn. "The novelty of bringing out the colors by merely applying water to tVia T.,nt04 n,?( will attract the chil dren and at the same time iney wu. be absorbing ideas of value to them, travel rpnps look f asai nat i n sr and the pictures seem really construe j tive." UfaHlA ArtiTil TTarria of the Bovs' and Girls' Own Book shop of the J. K. Gill company believes in the Invisible Color Book so thoroughly that she will have copies accessible for the children who drop into the balcony department to read. 'T nnnoiAw ,1CA rf,flUf t Yl A hit of the kind I have seen and I think The Oregonian should be eommenaea fn,, Virins-ine- this feature to the boys and girls of Portland," she said. "It is nt just a passing fancy, but wnrth-tvhile series, which should prove a great joy to the children and :o their parents, who need have no 'ear in placing these pictures before heir boys and girls. They are of a iio-H eton.h and shotilri arfiiiRR the imagination of even young children." WOMAN IS CATTLE BUYER 25 Guernseys Purchased for Farm Billings fcSpencer Go Hartford. Conn. at IjOS Angeles. OREGON CITT, Or., April 19. (Spe cial.) A carload lot of Guernsey cat tle for the Adhor Guernsey dairy farm of Los Angeles, Cal., has just been purchased in Clatsop county and at Long Beach, Wash. Sirs. A. T. Hughes of Redland, Clackamas county, se lected the lot, consisting of 25 head. The carload of Guernseys will leave for its destination in Los Angeles the latter part of the week. This is the second carload or Guernseys Mrs. Hughes has selected in Oregon and Washington for the Adhor dairy farm. In the spring of 921 Dr. Rosenberg, superintendent of the Adhor Guernsey dairy farm at Los Angeles, purchased two carloads of Guernseys, one in Clackamas coun ty and the other in Multnomah county. RAIL INC0MEJS $20,042 Astoria Southern Company Files Report In Salem. , SALEM. Or., April 19. (Special.) The operating ineome'of the Astoria Southern Railroad company wa-3 $20,H2.70 for the year 1921, accord ing to a report filed with the Ore gon public service commission today. The operating revenues of the cor poration for the period covered in (the report aggregated J107.S64.72, while the expenses totaled JS4,471.62. The taxes were J3350.40. t The operating income of the Coos Bay Water company, with headquar ters at Marshfield, for 1921 totaled J 13,336.93 or J299 more than during the previous year. The operating revenue was $58,447.13, operating ex penses $38,939.12, and taxes $6158.13. Seven Passenger Touring oJitnm o u n ces er, a more beautiful With the advent of this new' Packard, we believe that a definite turning-point has been reached in the 'manufacture of the better motor cars. Packard resourcefulness in producing motor carriages of incomparable charm, and brilliant, dashing performance, has, in this instance, surpassed itself. But something infinitely more important and impressive has also been accomplished. The new Packard conveys an instant and vivid conviction of value so very great as to be almost epochal. We are sure that this group of eight inimitable cars will compel you to com parisons ; which are certain to give the hew Packard a position of overwhelm ing advantage. The price of the neva Single-Six five passenger touring it i2485 at Detroit The new price of the Txvin-Six touring US 3850 at Detroit PORTLAND MOTOR CAR CO. Tenth and Burnside A S K THE M A N W H O O W N ONE CITY SOON GETS TITLES $31,900 PAID FOR OUTLET FOB DELAY STREET. Buildings Which Canot Be Moved This Season Are to Be Leased for One Year. After long chain of legal pro cedure, the city of Portland "this week becomes the owner of the par cels of land taken from private own ership for the proposed opening of Delay street into Larrabee street, thus providing a direct outlet from the St. Johns river road extension to the Broadway bridge. The total assessment for "the acquirement of these properties was J34.9O0. and the last settlement with the owners has been made. Four parcels of land were involved and the owners of record and the amounts awarded were: Mrs. B. M. Schlegel and Mrs. M. A. Strahan, 5000 square feet, $1700; T. C. Tenneson, 5OO0 square feet, $10,500: A. S. Ben son, 33921 square feet, $4600; heirs of the Henry Weinhard 'estate, 2437 square feet, $2800. There is one three-story brick building and the others on these properties are frame structures. It will not be possible for the public works department to reach the actual opening and improvement of this new street area this season, -because of the full programme of public work already undertaken. For this reason the city council yesterday authorized the purchasing agent to lease the buildings for one year. The income from this source, it was said, will go into, the fund to pay for the permanent improvement of the street when it is actually opened and thus reduce the cost to the assessment district that will have to pay for the paving. Work on Drive Progresses. SEASIDE, Or., April 19. (Special) Work on the Roosevelt drive is progressing. The fill made alongthe Wahanna river, paralleling the rail road track, is about completed. At the special election to be held May 2 it will be decided whether the Roose velt highway will be moved from the west side of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle tracks to the east side of the tracks. This plan only calls for the road to be moved on the south side of Broadway. Tillamook School Head Re-elected. TILLAMOOK, Or., April 19. (Spe cial.) The school board re-elected Professor L. W. Turnbull as superin tendent of the Tillamook public schools and practically all the teach ing force were re-elected. Those who have accepted are: M. E. Johnson, manual training: L. N. Bennett, high school principal; Mrs. Bertha Hanson, Mrs. Flora Heyd, Miss Oeorgie Barry, A. W. French, J. S. (Join, Florence Heffley, Josephine Heffiey, Marion Hanson, W. S. Buell and Reta Martin. Some of the other teachers have not yet decided whether they will renew their contracts. Owing to the fact that taxation In this city has become exceedingly heavy, the school board reduced the salaries of the teachers, and it is the intention of the board to cut out several departments. EX-PROSECUTOR IS DEAD Dan . T. Chamberlain, 69, Suc cumbs on Marlon County Farm. SALEM, Or, April 19. (Special.) Dan T. Chamberlain, 69, at one time district attorney at Hastings, Minn., died! on his ranch near Shaw. Marion county, last night. Friends of Mr. Chamberlain said he also practiced law at Kalamazoo, Mich. About 10 years ago his health failed and he came to the Willamette valley. He afterward purchased a ranch- on which he made his home for the past several years. Mr. Chamberlain is survived by a son, Thorpe Chamberlain of Blue Is land, 111., and a daughter, Mrs. W. C. Smith of Minneapolis. The body will be sent to Minnesota for burial. Give pesinol tx loir xesi "rv it with Resinol Soao or that stubborn skin eruption. It promptly. aiiays l sure lasting relief I stops ncrang ana irritanoiibrinsSn ESIHOL Sooth inq and Heaiinq At all druggists a FROM COUGHS Colds, Croup Tickling Throat Whooping Cough Bronchial Cough Hoarseness, etc. For many yaara a atanJaro! amiljreoush mdlci na mi high, stmariu Contains no opiates. tVLU iVLlUVlaallll, .