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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY. SEPTE3IBER 11, 1922 5I.2G0.000 DRIVE i GRQWING POPULAR Interest in Willamette Uni . versity Campaign Keen. PASTORS ARE ORDAINED Assignments for Xext Year to Be Made Today at Oregon Methodist Conference. SAX.EJI, Or., Sept. 10. (Special.) Bishop "William O. Shepard, on h eve of thn adjournment of the annual Oregon conference of the' Methodist Episcopal church, ex pressed satisfaction as a result of the interest manifested in the cam paign to raise an endowment of ap proximately $1,200,000 for Willam ette university. In a statement tonight Bishop Shepard said this was the outstand ing feature of this year's conference and the response had been more general than he had anticipated. The bishop said every branch of the conference had approved the move ment to raise the endowment, and that he had received many tele grams and letters indicating that the campaign will have the support of the people of Oregon and other northwest states. Headquarters to Be Opened. operates under the board 01 educa tion of the church, is now in Salem and headquarters will be opened here within the next few days. As outlined at a recent meeting held in connection with the conference the caniDaiscn will be carried to every part of the state ,through a general committee of 100 persons appointed for this purpose. In addition there has been select ed an executive committee of 12 prominent Oregon men who will work in close co-operation with the campaign organization. Subscrib ers to the endowment fund will be allowed to give their notes, which under a ruling of the campaign com mittee, shall be paid In 10 equal semi-annual -payments. If paid be fore maturity the notes will not bear any interest. 91,000,000 to Be Set Aside. Of the $1,200,000 to be raised, II, 000,000 will be set aside as a per manent endowment, $50,000 will be expended for a gymnasium and equipment, and $200,000 will b set aside for the use of the university oendins: the collection of the sub- ecriptions. It is proposed to raise the entire amount by December 20. The membership of the Oregon conference now totals 25,789 or a train of 1136 during the past year, This was announced by Bishop Shepard today. The Sunday schools of the Methodist church in Oregon have a membership of 31,011, or an Increase of 2586 when compared with the report submitted to the conference held a year ago. The Epworth League of Toung People has 3978 members, a gain or 64J during the past year. There are also 1102 Junior League members. Including children up to the inter mediate grade. Churches Are Improved. Church improvements in Oregon during the past year aggregated $77,595, an average of approximately $500 for every charge in the state. Old debts in the amount of $69,950 have been liquidated, and the total benevolences, apart from all local expenses aggregated $88,231. Dr. C. A. Edwards, for the past five years pastor at Ashland, was designated by Bishop Shepard as field representative for the confer ence board of conference claimants. Reports submitted by the district superintendents showed that new churches have been built during the past year at Toncalla, Lakeview, Pratum and Bend, and a new com munity house at Livesley. A num ber of other churches are included In the programme for the coming .year. Today's sessions of the conference were featured by two services held In the state armory. Bishop Shepard gave the sermon at the morning service, while Rev. J. M. "Walters, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Eugene, preached in the evening. Ministers Are Ordained. Preceding the morning service the conference love feast was held under the direction of Rev. J. T. Abbott. Ordination services for new ministers was held this afternoon, followed by the devotional meeting tinder the direction of the Epworth league. Rev. Ralph Thomas, pastor of the Methodist church at Turner, presided at the Epworth league service. An open air evangelistic "meeting preceded the night service. The address was given by Rev. Charles McCaughey. Because of holdover business and a number of resolutions yet to be considered the conference sessions will continue until tomorrow. Bish op Shepard announced tonight that he and the members of his cabinet will meet tomorrow morning when they will consider the assignment of pastors for the next year. Thesa will be made public just prior to adjournment of the conference. The bishop said there will be only a few change's in the present loca tions of pastors, and that practically none of the larger churches of the state will be affected. Most of the visiting ministers and laymen are planning to leave Salem for their homes tomorrow night. KIPLING RAPS AMERICA (Continued From First Page.) through fourteenth century mul lioned windows upon a world that never seems to change. Revolu tions may alter the fate of nations, kings may come and go; nothing alters the serenity of environment. Old World Ieiritalizlnir. The old world ia devitalizing to effort. One's dreams seem to fade and the importance of work re cedes. No wonder my father is not progressive; it is difficult for people in this environment to ac cept any new thoughts. It Is typi cal of millions of English homes where there is no want, and yet no superfluity. It is the down pillow of the world. And my mother, in her sunbonnet. has forgotten all about New York. On June 10 I motored with my children to the Rudyard Kiplihgs for tea. They live in a sixteenth century house that stands in a hol low at the foot of a steep hilL It has lawns and flower borders, a clipped avenue lines a square sunk fish pond and a flagged terrace full of rebellious stone crops that sur vive the foot tread. The children made one rush toward the pond, and Kipling, disregarding his ma turer guests, sailed a model sailing ship with the children, and by hold ing on to their coattails prevented their immersion. Presently I noticed that Dick. alone was sailing the toy boat and that Rudyard was seated on the grass, engaged in animated conver sation with Margaret, my daugh ter. She is of age not to resent it, I dared to "butt in." I asked him about his recent visit to the battle fields of France in company with the king, which had resulted in a poem called the "King's Pilgrim age," which appeared some tima back in the New York World. 1 wanted to know what he meant by the last verse, and especially by the last two lines of that verse: All that they had they gave they save In sure and single faith. There can no knowledge reach their grave To make them grudge their death. Save only if they understood That after all was done We they redeemed denied their blood And mocked the gains it won. I said to him, "Xou are not a rad ical, a socialist, nor a pacifist why do you say that we mock at that which our men died for?" He looked at me as at one who has been long absent; he looked at me wonderingly, and after a mo ment's silence: "How can you ask? Is It possible that in America they do not understand?" i America Is Censured. He went on in unmeasured terms. saying that the war had not been fought to a finish, that justice had not been done, that Germany had not been made to pay, and the pos sibility of future war had not been eradicated. America, he said, had come into the war two years seven months and four days too late America had forced the allies into making peace at the first opportu nity instead of insisting upon fin ishfng in Berlin. America quit, the day of. the armistice, without wait ing to see the thing through. I listened to him without inter rupting, my surprise increasing as he warmed to the subject and let loose the whole force of his relent less. Imperialistic. pro-French bit terness, a bitterness engendered perhaps in no small measure by the loss of a beloved and only son. Debt Is Humiliating. The Americans, he went on, could have helped, but they just did not understand. Why should they? They are so rich, so prosperous, and they have all our gold. They lent us money at 8 per cent, and made good business out of it. It was humiliation to recall that the allies owed them two thousand million.' He, for one, would sell his house tomorrow if by doing so he could help to repay that debt of which they reminded us every two min utes. We must strain every effort to pay back every penny as soon as posslbl "They have got the gold of the world," he said. "But we have saved our souls. Do you think that any one of us who have fought the war who have lost children in the war would change with one of them, for all their happiness and prosperity? "Would one of us be anything but what we are today?" Eyes of sorrow looked out ever so proudly from beneath the fiercest tangle of bushy eyebrow. French Industry Cited. "Go to France," he said, "before you go to the rest of Europe. See the great open wound. See the cause, before you judge of the effect. There you will see such Industry and work as America even cannot boast. Go and see those new towns springing up and the people coming back to their own living anywhere, every where, in holes in the ground, but living working. Go and see." Bolshevism, he agrued, was the result-of German propaganda. Ire land was the work of German prop aganda. The anti-French sentiment here and in the United States was the result of German propaganda. Those who adopt the attitude that Germany is "down and out" and cannot pay are again the victims of German propaganda. He described it as the war still going on, but un derground, as the result of its not having been fought to a finish. Germany, he insisted, has a well fed, well dressed population, a good sized army, reduced taxation and the minimum of unemployment. Visit Is Described. I have heard Kipling described as the best propagandist the French have got. He unconsciously ex plained himself when he described his battlefield visit with the king There is much psychological revela tion in a person's attitude toward a tall hat, and also by his attitude to ward a king's figure. Kipling admitted that it was hu morous to stand on Vimy Ridge on a baking hot day attired in a tall hat and all the clothes that go with it. He described how he had to stop his car and drag his suitcase hur riedly into a farm house and change into his tailcoat on receipt of the news that the king was unexpected ly near. I failed to comprehend the im portance of the thing. "How could you?" I said. But Kipling loyally upheld the tall hat tradition. "How else could I stand next to the king?" he said, and added, "My king" which utterly silenced me. At this juncture he leaped to his feet and rescued his best fishing rod from the hands of Dick, who was (dying to throw a fly over the sailing boat to bring it back to port, after which he resumed his recum bent attitude on the grass and we went back to the all-absorbing American topic. Real America Dead. "Before 1860 America was a na tion," he said, "but at that time Abraham Lincoln went Into a war to determine whether the negro should be worked or not, and lost 2,000,000 of the best. Those 2,000.000 were the pick of Europe. They were the people whose ancestors had braved the long journey in sailing ships, they represented the courage ous and the strong. After the war, steamships were invented and in stead of 80 immigrants, 800 came in every ship and in more ships. Amer ica was flooded with aliens of the wrong type. America the real American died in 1860." He said that John Hay had once given him, when he asked for it. the explanation of the standardiza tion of industries, clothes and opin ions in the United States. It was the result of foreign immigrants who got together and lived and thought in herds as a protection against their loneliness and their Isolation. "But what I want, to know," I said, finally, "is whether Europe still lives." "Go and see," he said. "Go and see it all for yourself; you will learn much. But begin with France.'" NIGHT SHOW IS ADDED Attraction One of Features of Coming Linn County Fair. ALBANY, Or., Sept. 10. (Special.) A night show will be added as an attraction to the Linn county fair, which will be held here October 3, 4, 5 and 6, the fair board decided at a meeting last night Several companies have made offers to stage this show. Manager Callister announced. At the meeting F. H. Pfeiffer, president of the board, reported that the demands for exhibit booths is greater than ever before and the space is going rapidly. It will be a problem to place all the exhibits In the available space. Many concessions have been let by the board. PHONE CASE COST PLACED AT 52000 Rehearing Is Expected to Consume Month. EXPERTS PREPARE DATA Service Commission Plans to Hire Outside Engineer to Help Present Evidence. SALEM, Or., Sept 10. (Special.) - Based on the cost of conducting LUB 1UI III i 1 lU(CDU5auvu j m. - - i rates of the Pacific Telephone & I Telesrranh company In Salem in July, 1920, officials today estimated that the expense pf rehearing of. the case, which is to open in Portland October 2, will not be less than $25,00 or $30,000. If the city of Portland and other municipalities of the state intervene In the pro ceedings the cost may be increased to $50,000. The rehearing of the rate case held here ia 1920 consumed 40 days, and the cost of conducting the pro ceedings was estimated at $50,000. Of this amount the state expended $15,000, the city of Portland $10,000, other municipalities $5000 and the telephone corporation $20,000. The witneses at the former hearing included a number of the most prominent engineers in the United States, three of whom appeared on behalf of the public service commis sion. Engineers Prepare Data. It was said here today that engi neers regularly employed by the public service commission had been at work for several weeks investi gating the -telephone rates now in effect, and that a mass of data will be ready for presentation when the rehearing gets under way. This data will relate particularly, it was said, to the alleged financial tribute being paid to the parent corpora tion by the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company. An effort also will be made, offi cials declared today, to show that the revenue now received by the telephone corporations under the In creased rates, aggregates more than & reasonable return on the Invest ment as allowed utility companies under the statutes. Attack also will be made on the service, which the commission will contend is not up to standard. Outside Expert to Be Hired. Although the public service com mission has not yet completed all its plans for the rehearing, it is likely that it least one outside engineer will be employed to assist in pre senting the evidence on behalf of the state. As yet the commissioners have refused to divulge the names of this man. Because of changed conditions and the increased rates now received by the telephone corporation under the order of the old commission issued February 28, 1921, only a small part of the records used in the previous investigation will be available for introduction at the rehearing of the case. - It was predicted that a month will be required to complete the rehear ing. If the telephone company should lose its case, attorneys said there is no doubt, butthat the en tire proceedings will be carried into the courts for final determination. Portland Firm Employed. SALEM, Or., Sept 10. (Special.) The public service commission, at a conference held here last night, accepted the services of Attorneys Joseph, Haney and Littlefield of Portland, who will represent the commission in the case brought by Robert Duncan and others of Port land to set aside the order of the so-called old public service commis sion issued on February 28. 1921. JJIPJUI AFTER BANDITS 300 MEN DISPATCHED INTO CHINESE TERRITORY. Natives Declare Mikado Foments Disorder to Bar Removal of Troops. BY JOHN POWELL. (Chicago Tribune Foreign News Service. CopyriKht, by the Chicago Tribune.) TSING TAO, Sept. 10. Japanese military authorities here today dis patched an armed force of 300 men into Chinese territory in a final ef fort to rid the territory adjacent to Tsing Tao of armed Chinese ban dits, who are menacing the city and handicapping the evacuation of forces, according to the "Washington treaty respecting Shantung. An armed Chinese bandit force of more than 3000 men is hovering about the city waiting for the withdrawal of the Japanese forces In order to start to pillage the rich district, which was built up by the Germans and Japanese, and now is being re turned to China. Chinese authorities, due to the muddled political situation, are un able to rout the bandits. They al leged the bandit force is secretly being armed and financed by the Japanese in order to make the Jap anese evacuation impossible, ac cording to the terms of the Shan tung treaty. YOUTHS AND STILL HELD Raid and Arrests Made Seven Miles East of Baker. BAKER, Or., Sept. .10. (Special.) Tom Calder and Ernest Eades are in the county jail and county offi cers are in possession of a com plete still, -14 60-gallon barrels of mash and ten gallons of finished product Calder and Eades, both youths, pleaded guilty of illicit pos session and transportation of liquor before Judge Allen today. They were arrested after a six-mile chase. The still, seven miles west of Baker, was raided later. It is the opinion of District Attorney Levens that the youths operated the still, but such a charge will not be placed against them, he said, late today. Sentence on the bootlegging charge was deferred by the judge until Monday. 1-MILL SAVING PLANNED Tacoma Proposes to Sell New City Hall Annex. TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 10. (Spe-! cial.) A plan whereby the Tacoma jj municipal light and power depart-1 ment will purchase from the city the new city hall annex, formerly the headquarters building, of the Northern Pacific railway, for which the city pledged itself to pay $50, 000, will be presented to the council tomorrow by Commissioner of Pub lic Works Harrison, when the first reading of the city budget will oc cur. Commissioner Harrison's plan, if accepted, will curtail one mill from the city tax levy, according to his estimates. It will relieve the city of $11,425 in annual cost of opera tion, $2700 in interest and $10',000 annual payment on the property, making a total saving of $24,1. If the plan carries part of iie building will be rented to the pub lic safety department, which now pays $3000 rental in the city hall. Commissioner Harrison also pro poses to cut off the $40,000 which has been laid aside by City Comp troller Roberts to be used as a pay ment of the $272,000 bonded indebt edness of the city to the emergency fleet corporation In connection with the construction of the municipal street railway. 'J GET TS 4,000,000 DECLARED AFFECT ED BY CAMPAIGN. Vice-President of Feminine Or ganization Gives Out Report on Year's Work. (By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept ,10. Discriminations affecting more than 4,000,000 women have been removed since the beginning of the "equal rights" campaign .in 1921, according to a detailed report of the "Woman's Party activities, prepared by- Alice Paul, vice-president, and made pub lic today. This report was prepared for sub mission to the conference of state and national officers called by the executive committee of the party, to meet in "Washington November 11 and 12, the first national con ference of the party's leaders since the reorganization of the "Woman's Party in February, 1921, when the "equal rights" programme was un dertaken. The conference will not only receive the report of its exec utives, but will also pass upon a detailed programme for. the coming year, including the decision on what legislation shall he introduced at the regular session - of congress meeting in December, and at the session of state legislatures meet ing in January. A summary of Miss Paul's reDort of the party's campaign pointed to legislative victories in nine states, jviame, .Delaware, wiscortsin, Lou isiana, Mississippi, Virginia, Mary land, Massachusetts and Georgia. ' 204 Attend Poultry Meeting. ALBANY, Or., Sept 10. (Special.) Poultry culling demonstrations in Linn county during the last two weeks were attended by 204 persons interested in betterment of flocks. The demonstrations were conducted under the supervision of the county agent, assisted by the extension de partment of Oregon Agricultural college. Fifteen meetings in all were held. Shedd, Thomas, Rich ardson Gap, Orleans, Millersburg, Scio, Grand Prairie, Kingston, Fox Valley, Albany, Harmony, Foster, Brownsville, Crabtree and Harrls burg all supported the work. Lumber Company Elects. LA GRANDE, Or., Sept 10: (Spe cial.) At a recent meeting of stock holders of the East Oregon Lumber company in Kansas City a new bdard of directors were elected and they in turn chose new officers. H. C. Campbell was elected president, , superseding Duvail Jackson, who has been at the helm since the com pany was first organized. Mr. Campbell Is a resident of Kansas City and has arrived in Enterprise, the headquarters of the company. Hop Picking On at Sheridan. SHERIDAN, Or., Sept. 10. (Spe cial.) The hop-picking crews are at work in the various yards about Sheridan, and growers report one of the best yields in recent years. The vines are loaded with large hops of a. good quality. BEBE DANIELS WALLACE REID CONRAD NAGEL JULIA FAYE -in- NICE PEOPLE wherein the jazz mad maid of tpday is shown up for what she really is. DON'T FORGET the Price Benefit at the Peoples theater tomorrow nigh t only few seats left. I TO D AY' I gJQBsssssssssSsalsssBBsjlsOsss His on MYSTIFY MAGICIAN Humans on Other Planets Thought to Send Signals. VISIONS OF FACES SEEN Inventor of Unique Apparatus Says He Is Astounded by "Su pernatural Influence." NEW TORK, Sept 10. (Special.) Unexplained rappings that come like the dots and dashes of a telegraph code have been "picked up" through an apparatus invented by Howard Thurston, the magician, and these, he said, have convinced him that so called spirit phenomena are founded on something tangible. Either those in the spirit world, have produced the rappings or he has, he belierVes, caught the first faint signals from some far-distant planet Mr. Thurs ton said he was not ready to give a description of the machine he Is using, but that electricity entered into its working. He has been un able to read the alleged message, and Sir Conan Doyle, who witnessed some of the experiments, he added, also could not interpret them. Visions of Faces Seen. Mr. Thurston said that what had convinced him more than anything else that spirits were the source of the knocking was that he sees visions of faces silent faces that look wistful and obey his wish that they move to the right or left, but which fade away when he seeks to find out what message they, bring. Because he-was able to duplicate the work of mediums in his own profession, Mr. Thurston said, he had scoffed at their claims for years. "However, my latest experiments," Mr. Thurston said, "have convinced me against my will that we are being approached by some unearthly force which seems to be trying to impart to us or receive from us some information. During a recent series of tests I was astounded by the unmistakable presence of some very definite supernatural influence, which seemed to be attempting to give some sort of message to me or through me. I believe if these dis tinct impressions were not com munications from spirits they must have been communications from other planets. "I have not been converted to the same sort of spiritualism professed by Doyle, Lodge and Hyslop, but I believe that any highly sensitive persons with an ability to concen trate can at times receive the so called spiritualistic communications. I feel sure there is a direct connec tion between occult force and radio power." Get Edlefsen's best coal. Adv. ONLY MORE DAYS William Fox's DRAMATIC WONDER PICTURE Directed by Emmett J. 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